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zakeeramoe · 06-27-2009, 08:35 PM

Hello everyone I live in York Pa and Dr.Monk is my doctor. I just found out on June 25 that I was approve and I got my surgery date. My date is on my birthday July 16. I am getting ready to do my liquid diet on July 5. I am happy but a little worry about the pain afterwards. Can anyone tell me how bad or not the pain is after surgery??

Ms. Readytobehealthy · 06-28-2009, 03:59 AM

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Originally Posted by zakeeramoe

Hello everyone I live in York Pa and Dr.Monk is my doctor. I just found out on June 25 that I was approve and I got my surgery date. My date is on my birthday July 16. I am getting ready to do my liquid diet on July 5. I am happy but a little worry about the pain afterwards. Can anyone tell me how bad or not the pain is after surgery??

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fisher1000 · 06-28-2009, 04:19 AM

My pain wasn't too bad after the surgery, well, not the actual incision. I was really sore from laying in one spot in the bed for a few days, and sleeping was a little difficult that first week. I slept in a recliner for the first few nights home from the hospital, as our bed is a little high and I could launch my fat butt up into it for fear of ripping my stitches! I took Lor Tab for pain, but a couple of days after I got home, I just used Tylenol. I thought it was going to be way worse than it was--more of a discomfort than actual pain. I was more worried about the Heparin shots I had to give myself afterward than the pain from the surgery. All pain was gone after about a week.

Good Luck with your surgery!

-Mike

PS. I used to live in Lititz and we used to go to a dance club in York...many moons ago!

Sherry_Lynn · 06-28-2009, 08:01 AM

Honestly, I thought the pain was very minimal. Now the gas pain............well that was something else! But not everyone gets bad gas pain. I had a very large air bubble trapped in my remnant stomach. By day 4 all was great, only took Lortab liquid at night, because getting comfortable is tough for about a week. Congrats on your date!

RIXterra · 06-28-2009, 09:01 AM

Welcome aboard!!

Marella · 06-28-2009, 03:44 PM

Welcome zakeeramoe, Fellow Central Pennsylvanian, to Thinner Times. Your surgery date is counting down - congratulations.

I worked it out like this: my knees, my back, my butt and my pride, hurt a lot more ever single day than a few days of post-op pain - which, since my RNY was an open, was amazingly very tolerable.

All my best!

mayflora · 06-28-2009, 03:54 PM

Hello. My pain too was very well controlled. I had a much easier time than w/ my gall bladder removal. Laying down was the toughest especially on my left side. But all is well. Good luck. Look back only to see how far you've come.

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poet_kelly · 06-28-2009, 06:05 PM

The pain is different for everybody, but they should give you medication that will keep in under control. For me, while I was in the hospital, I had morphine by IV. I could push a button whenever I needed more. It worked well. After I came home, I had pain pills. I took them for the first few days and then I was OK without them. I slept propped up on the couch the first week or so because it was uncomfortable to lie down in bed, and it was a while before I was comfortable sleeping on my side again. But the pain was not too bad.

Kelly

soon2bthin · 06-28-2009, 06:43 PM

Welcome and good luck with your upcoming surgery on the 16th. As far a pain, I had a killer shoulder ache from my position on the table, and an aweful sore throat and chapped lips. The first two days were the worst a far as pain. After that it was a cake walk. Ok maybe a poor choice of words with cake walk, lets see, it was a jello walk.

Good luck and congrats on becoming a loser!

Marella · 06-29-2009, 03:24 AM

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Originally Posted by poet_kelly

The pain is different for everybody, but they should give you medication that will keep in under control. For me, while I was in the hospital, I had morphine by IV. I could push a button whenever I needed more. It worked well. After I came home, I had pain pills. I took them for the first few days and then I was OK without them. I slept propped up on the couch the first week or so because it was uncomfortable to lie down in bed, and it was a while before I was comfortable sleeping on my side again. But the pain was not too bad.

Kelly

That's true, the sleeping part can be awkward. Some people did as you, slept propped up on the couch. Some people slept in recliners.

Me, I gave away my recliner the year before, and my new couch was horridly uncomfortable (and has since been replaced)... so I slept in bed. BUT I could not sleep prone. I used a 7" wedge pillow to elevate my upper body and it worked great. Because I had an open RNY I needed help getting out of my platform bed (a former waterbed with high sides), but other than that, I managed.

Compared to my C-section in 1994, this recovery was a piece of cake.