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i went in wed at 10 am i went under  around 130 they worked on me for 4-5 hours the found a small hernia in my belly button so they had to get another surgen to fix it, it was my surgen who did my gastric sleeve dr. eisenberg, i'm doing good i got home last night i told them i was find so they let me go, i have to empty the 2 drains 3 times a day i go back the 3rd to get them out. i can't wait for that, they seem like they did a great job they pulled my skin real tight i walk all hunched over, you have to wear the vest around your waist real tight other than that i'm doing good everyone have a merry christmas   bobby

Hi Bobby,

Glad to hear that you are doing well.  How is the pain?  Continue to heal and rest!

Patty

 Congratulations on your successful surgery!

Congratulations..and happy healing..

Michelle

Great to hear everything went well for you. My WLS surgeon did my Hernia repair to, must be nice to double dip like that and make a living at it. After you get done wearing the vest switch to compression shirts if no one had mentioned it by now. I'm over 4 months out from mine and still wear one evryday to help with sewlling. Walmart 10 bucks has the best deal around far as I know.

Hope everything continues to go well for you and Merry X-mas.

Bubba

thanks for the info, they never mentioned that to me, i'm wearing 2 drains i have to drain them 3 times a day, and make a journel of the measurements, did you have to do that?

Know one ever mentioned it to me either, a guy in my WLS did so happy to pass it along. Look for the starter brand with 19% spandex the higher the % the tighter it will fit. It's almost like a security blanket at this point, wear it 23 hours a day. I started to wear it actually under my binders at week 4 so it was nice to have it to get a break from the binders once in while. I had 5 drains, with the last one being pulled at week 6 day before I went back to work and could finally take a shower again. I had a log sheet for the drains and emptied then twice a day, the whole time. At the end of 6 weeks I had drained 1.32 gallons to give you some perspective on how much fun I had. If you don't mind gettting your eyes burned out, I have pics in my profile you can look at to see my before and afters. With one showing my drains and how much fun I was having at the time.

If you have any other questions feel free to ask, I would be happy to help if I can.

Bubba 

thanks for the 411, when they take the drains out how do they do it? and is it painful