Something New

OUCH! I thought I was doing great! I finally got back on my hourly regimen after learning more about that from my support group, but yesterday I was hit with something new. I was doing well, feeling great, still able to get around, so I had two errands to run. I feel like I'm a prisoner, for the most part, having to stay near all my liquids in order to stay on track, but I know that's temporary. Any who...I ran my first errand, in and out of the bank with no difficulties. Came home, did my hourly thang, then left to run another errand after which I planned to take a nap, which still, by the way, is running about 2 hours. I drove to the store where I work part time to pick up a couple things and then head home. While I was there I started to develop pain in my left shoulder. I wasn't there very long, but the pain was developing into an oh my goodness level pretty quickly. Is this what it felt like when I get full? Is it gas? According to one of my bosses it is just an indication of abdominal injury, or surgery. No matter what, by the time I got home it was severe and as I went to lie down for my nap, there was not a comfortable position no matter what. I got up, took half a dose of liquid Tylenol, and managed to finally fall asleep in about 10-15 minutes.

Unfortunately, the story doesn't stop there. Last night, being a good girl and attempting to get my walk in, I gathered the grand daughters and headed out the door. Nothing major, just down the street and back up again, not even sure how far that is, but by the time we were half way back up the street it started all over again. I could feel pressure in my chest as well as this shoulder pain, and felt as though the deeper the breath I took, the more it hurt. I sat down and relaxed for a bit and when I went to rise from the chair, the shoulder pain slammed me! I went upstairs, attempted to page the nurse, never heard back, but finally it started to dissipate so I went into the bedroom, took a full dose of my Tylenol and attempted to get comfortable in bed. The impossible task. The pain was so severe, even ten minutes later, I broke down and took one of my pain pills. After that, I don't remember much, but I slept like a rock from 8:30 p.m. until 3 a.m.! Thank God I still have some of those pain pills left.

I have my post op appt. today followed by my nutrition class. But as I sat at the computer this morning I thought, GOOGLE THAT PAIN! So I did. And, of course, I found a bunch of info of people still experiencing this pain even four months post op! I surely know by then my pain meds will be gone! Then what? Most of the posts I read said it was still the trapped gasses used during the banding process, with a variety of ways to treat it. Again, lucky for me I have my post op appt. today so I can definitely hit her up for info! And you can bet I will!

Still, absolutely no buyer's remorse, as my husband calls it. NOT AT ALL!