Swelled soft palate and uvula

Hi everyone,    Just got home yesterday evening .  I had my lap band of 7 years taken out and the  RNY done. I was in surgery for 4 hours an recovery for 2 hours. My surgery date was Nov 12th.

1. Has anyone had a swelled soft palete and uvula?

2.  I can hardly ge****er down, but soup goes well. Anyone experience this?

3. Any tipa will be appreciated.   Thank You,

Cheryl

Did you call your doctor?  

You should call and ask your surgeon but it may just be from the tube they put down your throat during surgery. The warm soup may relax it making it easier to go down. If it's not better in a few days do be sure to contact your surgeon again.

Like the others said.  Try warm and than try cool and see what feels good.

The water issue is most like from trauma from having the band removed and the RNY in one suergery.  This is much harder on you than getting the band out and waiting for the second surgery.  I was upset when I was told I had to wait in between.  I am finding my surgeon is right as those here doing it in one have more issues. 

Good Luck with your RNY.  Wishing you a safe and healthy recovery and weight loss.

My anesthesiologist said this could happen.  After I whined to him about how much throat pain I had after my band placement surgery, he promised to be extra careful with me so this time I had very little pain, but he did tell me that at least with the sleeve they have a number of tools they insert through the airway to measure the new sleeve, etc. so some throat/mouth trauma isn't at all uncommon.  However, if it doesn't go away after a few days, or seems to be getting worse rather than better, def call the doc!