Other than the gas pain in my shoulder, I'm feeling pretty good. Today is all clear liquids and I've had no problem with keeping anything down. I've had Unjury protien jello, Unjury chicken broth, and mock Unjury hot chocolate. I've had sugar free popsicles and water and just had some beef consomme.
I'm hungry. I didn't expect to be hungry so soon.
I've been walking around the house. I actually did two loads of laundry. But no relief for the shoulder pain as of yet. Does Gasx help?
Thanks to everyone for the well wishes. I really appreciate this new family I've gained. I'm looking forward to all the positive changes that this will make in my life. I can't wait to share this journey with you all!
What a good idea to make it into Unjury hot chocolate - I never thought of that! :-) (I feel kind of stupid it took me several beats to figure that comment out, lol!) I have heard some people say Gasx helps, but you are ahead of me, I'm not yet banded. I also heard someone talk about chamomile(sp?) tea being helpful.
ReplyDeleteNow you have me wondering though, I might try to research it a little. I don't really understand how laparoscopic works/where the gas (or air) goes, and if something you take orally (gasx, tea, etc) would get to where it would help? I guess I'm confused since everyone seems to feel the pain in their shoulder...if just time and pain killers can help that? Normally gas pain is in your tummy, you know? But normally a person isn't inflated for surgery!!
My surgeon told me not to bother with gasX...that it would only help gas that was in the intestinal tract..and that wasn't the same thing as the gas pains from surgery. Fortunately, I didn't have the gas pains. I have read from other people that gasX helped them.
ReplyDeleteI second Rockband Barbie. I personally didn't have any gas pains, but have heard other people say it helps somehow. Although I'm with Cheri in that I don't quite understand HOW. LOL
ReplyDelete(And are you aware that you require commenters to do a captcha? If you are willing, it would be awesome for us if you would take it off.) :-)
Okay, Luka Beth, this blog I wrote today is because of you! :-)
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So glad you are doing well. I had the gas pain, too. Although, I don't think it was gas. I think there is a nerve that the band pinches that you feel in your shoulder. I feel the same twinge (on a much less painful scale) every time I push the band a little too far. It will go away soon. Ice packs helped me.
ReplyDeleteI took tons of gas-X for the shoulder pain, and looking back, I don't think it helped a bit. I think you have to just wait it out and hope the pain meds help with it. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteUGH, you have my sympathy...the shoulder pain was the WORST. I was in tears, and laying flat in bed was the only thing I could really do to make it feel better. I started feeling relief exactly 1 week and 2 days after surgery...and I've heard that the gas pain sticks around longer if you're also having the hiatal hernia repair, which I did. So if you didn't have that done, hopefully that means your pain won't last that long!!!
ReplyDeleteI was told that Gas-X nor pain pills would help, it's basically a phantom pain. My doctor said the gas gets in your diaphram and your body interprets that as shoulder pain. The only thing that helped me was a heating pad.
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