Question:
What is it like when you wake up after the WLS????

   — ElizabethG (posted on June 22, 2005)

June 22, 2005
The first thing I remember was waking up in recovery and I was still intabated...I remember thinking and feeling hossible and wishing they would take the tubes out. Once removed I next remeber waking up and having little pain, I felt my lungs were sore and that bothered me more than the lap sites...I also kept telling m,yself this is tem,porary and the more I move the better I will feel, which is true!!! Good Luck
   — Erin M.

June 22, 2005
Confusion, at least for the first several minutes. Then the pain hit, then the meds hit, then I slept. It's been a long time, I barely remember much more than the fact that is was SO DANG HOT in that room!!!! I later learned that morphine makes you hot. LOL
   — RebeccaP

June 22, 2005
I had a tube down my throat and couldn't get enough air and couldn't tell anyone. I thought I was going to die, but each hour that passed it got better. I have no regrets!
   — Linda Brown

June 22, 2005
I remember that I woke up in recovery but that is all I remember. Pretty odd to know that yet have no memory of it. Next thing I remember is being wield into my room, I just all of a sudden said "cute room", everyone laughed. It was a triangle room and private, really nice. :) I had no pain, was sorta out of it from the pain meds. The worst thing was how thirsty I was, they only let me have swabs, but I let them soak up in the water from the melted ice then sucked it off there. hahah
   — TheresaC

June 22, 2005
I had my Laproscopic Roux-en-Y surgery on June 2nd and the first thing I remember was intense pain in my left side. They made me get me get up and go to the bathroom and then walk around the nurses station a couple of laps. After a couple of hours I began to feel much better after the pain meds kicked in and was able to get around more. Oh yeah, make sure you take deep breaths and get a relaxation cd to relax with. Also, the relaxtion cd will help you breath through any pain spasms from turning over and changing positions in bed. Good Luck and Blessings, Mattie
   — mrscarr76

June 22, 2005
Hi Elizabeth! I remember screaming that I had to pee!! Everyone kept telling me it was OK because I had a catheter, but I didn't believe them! So, I just kept shouting that I had to pee. haha After I finally got past that I started yelling because I was in pain, but then my hubby got them to up my morphine & I was fine! :-)
   — Binxalways

June 22, 2005
I woke thristy and pulling the oxegen out of my nose and putting it in my eyes. I woke up yelling for my brother because that's who was on my mind when I went in. Don't worry you will be fine. GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!! =)
   — mamita093

June 23, 2005
Hello.. I had my Lap RNY on March 18th of this year and woke up in recovery a little uncomfortable but totally pain free and no pain meds had even been administered due to my B/P dropping during surgery. I didn't think that I had my surgery yet and asked the staff in recovery if I had my surgery yet and they explained that it was all over and I was up walking within a few hours in my hospital room and down the halls. Good luck on your surgery.
   — LindaKM

June 23, 2005
Hi Elizabeth, I had a Laproscopic Roux-en-Y surgery on 1/18/05 and the first thing I said to the nurses was, "That was quick!" It felt like they had just done my IV and now I was in recovery already. Once I was taken to my room my family came to see me and then I went to sleep. About two hours later they brought me the worst thing you will experience ... Hospital Chicken broth!!! I still shudder at the thought. After my ummm meal, if you want to call it that. They took me for a walk and I was surprised at how little my discomfort was. I may have used the pain medicine pump twice the entire time that I was in the hospital.
   — Tiff's On a Mission

June 23, 2005
In a word ... freaky. In the OR, they put the mask on me and told me, "This will make you sleepy." NOT. It put me out like a blow to the head! Then, seemingly 5 seconds later .. POP .. I was awake, wondering where I was and what had happened! It was a surreal experience, but not unpleasant.
   — Jeanie

June 23, 2005
I woke up still intubated, but did not panic, the nurse noticed immediately asked me to hold on & the take a breath & it came right out. I remeber being asked if I was in pain, and saying yes that too was taken care of on the spot. Nothing to make me cry out though. Slept mostly, from what I was told I was in recovery for a long time because of pain management... I am clueless to that. Pain was not so bad though ( i did not cry because of it) as long as you stay on top of it... MaryLyn :) MaryLyn
   — Kriola

June 24, 2005
I remember pain, I kept saying pain, pain and then I remember the nurse saying okay honey, I am giving you something for the pain right now, she was a angel. Then I remember being taken to my room and everyone was great. I got settled in and then my family came in the room, my hubby said I was beautiful, and I knew everything was going to be good. I made it, had to stay two days in the hospital and they went fast, you will be fine, try to go into surgery taking deep breaths and thinking good thoughts, and you will be fine.
   — cindy

June 24, 2005
I remember waking up saying "ow,ow,ow".......lol And due to my sleep apnea I woke up with my breathing tube still in.
   — Saxbyd

June 28, 2005
Hi, my surgery was almost 4 years ago, but I can remember it vividly. I don't remember waking up in recovery. I remember waking up in my room, with a large tube shoved up my nose, feeling someone has stabbed me. It hurt, sorry. The worst thing about the couple of days out was not about pain, it was an embarrassing thing that happened while I was there. After surgery they had to orderly's come and get me to do a leak test, so these two younger guys came in and try to move me. One guy was at my feet and the other at my head and they tried to pick me up with the corner of the sheet, not actually touching me, and the sheet ripped and I fell though it. I was sooooo embarrassed!! That ripping noise and me falling through back on to the bed was a noise I will never forget hahaha!! It certainly made me forget the pain. Best wishes to you..
   — Carey N.

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