4 Weeks Post Fundoplication --- need help!

Hi,
I am new to this site, however, I have read a lot of these posts since having my Nissen Fundoplication and Hiatal Hernia repair and it has been very useful ... So thank you.

I am 4 weeks post op and went back to work after 3 weeks off. However, I am still in pain, I have to hold my stomach when walking as it is so tender. Has anyone else had this pain around the inciosion areas? It feels like my stomach wall is bruised and the more I move around the more it hurts. It's really beginning to get me down now. I visited my GP last week and he said I had returned to work too soon and should be taking it easy.

Also, I feel hungry all the time? Is this hunger or is it pain in the actual stomach?

Any help and advice would be much appreciated....thank you in advance.

Thank you for your reply. I think my surgeon down played the recover side although she did say it would be 3 months until I can return to my gym classes....body attack and weights class, so this I am prepared for. However, I was hoping I'd be able to return to the gym after 6 weeks to swim and use the treadmill, bike and cross trainer, I think this is looking unlikely at the moment.

I do have an office job and sitting at my desk has been causing pain, my chair doesn't recline and I've found myself sliding down my chair to try and lean back to ease the pain. I have, however, gone off sick from work to see if total rest for 5 days will mean I can return next week. My company have realised they need to support me in my recovery as initially they sent me a letter telling me I could have 3 weeks off on full pay post op then SSP thereafter. Well, I can't afford SSP, particularly this close to Christmas, so I had no choice but to return to work. Because of this, the pain has been getting worse every day.

I'm hoping to return to work next week on phased return (working mornings only) so long as go signs me fit.

I was not prepared for this, I really didn't think it would be a big deal at all and that the issue would be the stomach not the incision area.

this recovery is tricky, lots of baby steps, some forward, backward, and sideways. listen carefully, to your body in regards to exercise. at 4 weeks, i added my recumbent back, at three months elliptical trainer, started easy, than slowly, overtime picked it up. weights did not feel comfortable, till almost, 1 year out, and even still the key word hear, is, DO NOT STRAIN, and being a former athlete it was tricky, but the thought of, having a do over op, made it a no brainier. [once was more than enough for me]. hunger is good, follow your diet, and DO NOT OVER EAT, unless you want to enjoy, some hours of serious pain. it will get better.