7 days post op, shoulder pain greatly lessened, 9.5lbs down!

Congratulations!

Thanks Carla!

Sounds like you're doing great!!!   I was fortunate and never got that horrible shoulder pain.  I didn't even have a lot of gas pain!  I think I had no pain cause the gas was COMING OUT OF ME!!!

BOY  O Boy was it ever!!!!

LOL! That was a blessing for you, believe me; I suffered a great while, took a long time for that gas to get out, and I tried everything. I walked, drank ginger tea; finally got me some peppermint extract and that was the terminator! I'm going to do this and get back in all my cute, sexy clothes; definitely bringing sexy back to my life!

sounds like you're doing well.  I'm 48 hrs post op, and just not getting enough fluids in.  Horrible sore throat from tube removal.. and just starting to get rid of some of the gas today.  I htink there is some settled in my shoulders too.  any suggestions are appreciated.  keep up the good work. 

Sorry to hear about your sore throat; it can be hard getting in all the fluids. I had a horrible time with the gas and shoulder pain. The second night my mom melted 2 peppermints in about 4oz water and that started the gas moving. I also recommend ginger tea, and I bought some peppermint out of the health food store to put in my water which greatly helped in moving the gas. The shoulder pain has been helped also with my heating pad. Not to delve too much into it, but I also lost a lot of gas pain about day 6 after "movement" for first time since before surgery. Keep up the good work and stay in touch

congrats on your weight loss !!!

Thanks! I know it's the beginning of a long journey, but we gotta start somewhere

 aHUGE congrats on a great job ...... hope you r patting urself on the back ...... thats awesome