Sleeping after WLS?

I'm curious how difficult it will be to sleep after WLS? The reason I ask is that I currently sleep in a king bed with hubby (who will also have WLS this summer)...

We are traveling to Houston for surgery (I'm first) and have to stay in Houston for a while with my mom. She has a queen bed. I'm just wondering if I'm gonna go crazy trying to sleep on queen bed with a sore stomach and my hubby beside me! LOL

Does my question make sense? How sore does one get?  26 years ago I had the old style gallbladder sugery and it truly felt like someone had sown my knees to my chest after surgery...

It was always interesting for me to figure out how to get myself in and out of bed - never knew my stomach muscles did so much work for me! LOL

What have y'all experienced??

Thanks!  Cheers, Tee

I think you'll be fine unless both of you are tossers. I sleep on my left side, pillow between my knees, have for years so I was afraid I'd have to be on my back or something. But for the first cuple of nights as long as I had a pillow hugged up to my belly I was very comfy. I'm not a tosser, I stay in the same position all night.

As for getting into and out of bed, I used the old waterbed roll! We had a waterbed for about 35 years so putting one knee on the bed and just gently rolling onto it was second nature. Just reverse it to get up....swing my right leg out and onto the floor, pushing up with my arms, stand up and swing left leg onto the floor. Well...I guess you'd have to see it!  haha! But it worked very well for me. We now have a regular mattress but I still roll in and out, just feels better to me!

My soreness was about the same as if I'd done too many crunches at the gym. No pain, just sore but nothing debilitating at all. And even that was gone in about a week. I never felt like anyone had been stomping around on my guts!  haha!

Ok that makes me feel better then!! LOL  yep I sleep with a long king pillow that I body hug and use between the knees. BUT I am a tosser too!  But I'm also preparing myself to mentally just deal with it or get up and move to the couch! haha

I was just curious if I would experience the same level of pain in the stomach area that I experienced with the gallbladder surgery!

Here's a funny bit of history too:  26 years ago I had my gallbladder removed at Memorial City Hospital (was not Hermann then) and now I'm having WLS there now!

I was there when it was a 100 bed hospital! Talk about seeing a big change now! LOL

Thanks for the info!
Cheers, Tee

Wow...time sure changes things!

I can guarantee the pain won't be anything near what you had before. I also had my gallbladder out in the early 80's, an emergency surgery where I was split open from A to Z! These 5-6 little incisions and the accompanying bruising and soreness are nothing in caparison!

When I first came back from the hospital with my RNY, I slept at my mom's in a single bed, and I'm used to sharing a king at home.  I was fine, but I had to use a bunch of pillows strategicly placed for support.  I think you would be fine.  Even if you are normally a tosser, you won't feel like tossing around at night right after surgery. I also had pain killers and had to take benedryll for a mild reaction to the pain killers, which both made me sleep better too, so that helped.

im assuming you are having lap surgery this time as opposed to open? makes it so much easier. for the first week or so, sleep on your RIGHT side. I know it sounds weird, but i have had 4 lap surgeries for various female issues then RNY.  TRUST ME... (i had a nurse tell me this at surgery 2) laying on your right side does something to help wiht the gas issue and helps with the pain. Wishing you the best!!!!

You should be fine, I agree with others have lots of pillows getting them stratigically situated makes getting in and out of the bed much easier.  My pain was minimal, pain meds the first night home only because of the drive.

I've read about some sleeping in a recliner after surgery, but I just slept in my regular bed and did fine.  No trouble getting in and out, but I kinda slid my legs off and used my arms to help myself up instead of my stomach muscles.  I have a king bed, but a queen wouldn't have been a problem.  I didn't have much pain - just soreness like Dee said - like I had done too many crunches at the gym.  I walked a LOT though to get the gas out of my system.