How long before you felt pain
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The majority of my pain at first was muscular. My abdominal muscles were really sore. Still are in some instances (I'm 5 weeks post op). The first time I felt any pain that I could tell was not muscular but due to something I ate was when I moved from liquids to puree 2 weeks post op. I made myself and egg and ate too big a bite. It hurt all the way down (which was only about to the center of my sternum and then hurt all the way back up again. Aside from muscle pain and gas cramps, I haven't felt any pain in my lower abdomen and woudn't expect to.
I don't know if I've ever felt pain in my pouch. I've had some abdominal pain/cramping at times, but I think that might be more in my small intestine than my pouch. If I've ever felt pain in my pouch, it would probably have been many months post op.
I didn't start to get a feeling of fullness until about three months out, the same time I started feeling hunger again.
Kelly
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Ok that sounds good. I was thinking surely I'd feel pain on the left side on the inside by my stomach since its been all cut up and rearranged but I haven't. The other day I was thinking maybe the dr just went in and come back out without doing anything! My boyfriend thought I was crazy for that even though I was only kidding! Feel better now though! Thanks
I never felt any pain in my pouch. I felt a LOT of pain from the muscles since I had open RNY, though!
I was one of the minority of people who could feel full VERY early after surgery. I have no reason to doubt it when people talk about nerves being cut and needing to reconnect, but I absolutely could feel when I was full by the time I got to the second week post op (which is when I was allowed to progress from soft foods to more solid foods (my surgeon did not require a period of liquids or purées post-op), so sometimes I wonder if it has more to do with when people start solid foods than it has to do with nerves reconnecting.
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
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I felt very little pain--never took so much as a Tylenol after I left the hospital. It was a little difficult sleeping--spent the first three weeks in my recliner instead of my bed, but even that wasn't pain. I am three months out and I do get hungry--this probably started about two months ago. The difference is it now takes very little for me to feel satisfied. Then I stop--don't need to feel full anymore.
I'm three weeks out. I had almost no pain. In the hospital, I used the pain pump three times total, then one pain pill when they took the pump away. That was the last time I took anything for the pain. I think I have enough pain pills to last me the rest of my life! I was able to sleep on my sides in the hospital, although sleeping on my left side was a little uncomfortable. The night I was released, I woke up on my stomach. I was worried about that but my care coordinator said it won't damage anything, that it just depended on your level of comfort.
I, too, felt like they cheated and didn't do anything once they were in there. I was walking the halls almost normally. The first time I was a little slow and making the full circuit was tiring. It got a lot easier after that. Even the nurses said it was like I didn't even have surgery.
I felt full from protein drinks in the hospital. Clear liquids didn't do it to me, but the protein drinks did. It was a lot more noticeable once I moved to pureed food. I almost threw up one time with pureed. I was drooling and everything, which didn't help. I managed to keep everything down, though.
I think you wouldn't feel anything in your lower abdomen (under your belly button) since they don't do anything down there.
