Sitting upright following Nissen?

Tarachriso

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Joined : Mar 2013

Posts : 88

Posted 12/29/2015 9:57 PM (GMT 0)

I was wondering if anyone else feels like since having the surgery they can not sit upright comfortabally. I feel like since having surgery the only way I am comfortable is when I am sitting and leaning towards the right. I also feel like I can only sleep on my right as well. I was wondering if this was common or if it was just me. I am going for a redo next week or the following and I was wondering if anyone else felt this way.

Gragegrl

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Joined : Nov 2015

Posts : 29

Posted 1/2/2016 6:33 PM (GMT 0)

The first week for me sitting upright was excruciating because of her shoulder pain. That part took weeks to go away and I took all the Vicodin I had to to deal with the shoulder pain caused by the diaphragm's nerve being irritated and referring pain to the left shoulder.

tde44

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Joined : Dec 2014

Posts : 58

Posted 1/4/2016 5:58 PM (GMT 0)

I could not lay on either side for a couple of months and was not a happy back sleeper...but you get through it.

Best thing for getting rid of the shoulder pain for me was a lot of walking. Given weather and how I felt this was basically 5-10 minutes of loops around the house at least 4x day.

aero1

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Joined : Oct 2015

Posts : 230

Posted 1/4/2016 7:14 PM (GMT 0)

as Gragegrl and tde44 said, as well as myself. it takes awhile, to find comfortable. but it does come back.

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