hi, first post, just had the surgery yesterday.
They don't tell you about the gas pains, but they're tolerable. My abdomen is very swollen- I can't see wearing anything but sweats or sarongs (guys can wear sarongs: traditional Javanese sarongs!) for a while. My poor GF is so scared of bumping me...
but I look at it this way: I didn't do this to cheat and screw up. I want to lose a hundred pounds and I think this is my best shot. Food has always been my big weakness (once I got over the desire for a new woman all the time), and this has effectively 'short-circuited' that weakness.