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You have been through a LOT! Physically and emotionally. Your body needs time to heal from all this trauma, so please try to not be so hard on yourself. You feel crappy. That's OK. Now just get better and heal. Your emotions will heal as your body heals. Find some fun stuff - puzzles, NetFlix binge, a good book, and hunker down and just baby yourself for a while. (But don't forget to walk!!!! You don't need a blood clot on top of all this.) You should be getting some nice weather about now so hopefully you can get out a bit and enjoy the fresh air. Hang in there!!!!

If you have no pain or no urge to go then you aren't constipated. Remember on this journey we have a lot of time with fluids only so won't need to have our bowels open, then after fluids we have a much much smaller amount of food going in so you won't or shouldn't need to go so often. Constipation is when you have stool in your colon and rectum (often backed up much higher) that makes you feel the urge to have your bowels open and is painful and difficult due to it being very dry. You often have a hard and painful bloated tummy too. Having a fluids only or reduced food intake reduces greatly the amount of waste product your body makes so you will go far less often. After surgery, it was a good 2 weeks before I went which is perfectly normal. Everyone is different though and if you don't have pain etc mentioned above then you aren't constipated.

My BP after the surgery has been normal with the medication. The Docs are afraid to take me off of the meds for fear that it would go up again. They want to wait a few months to see if it drops some more. With my weight loss stalled, I don't think I will be getting off the BP Meds any time soon this year.

I’m taking it slow since I’ve got a lot of issues going on. One thing I found is that some doctors expect way too high a protein consumption. Since excess converts to glucose in the body and I struggle with glucose intolerance I keep my daily protein between 50-60 grams. Mostly around 50 unless I just happen to get a little more. I started purée and couldn’t tolerate it especially meat, chicken, fish even softened and very wet, I’d get very slow nibbles in and my gut said no no no, so I stick to what I can tolerate until I’m ready and have some things sorted out with my doctors. I also got foamies on a liquid shake, I definitely drank very very slow. Out of nowhere it caused me to heave and feel the need to bring it back up. I think because I tried to drink a shake that had an ingredient I’m allergic to. Though could also have been due to the Dysphasia and the fact that I was doing loads of laundry and exhausted myself. My nutritionist urged me to try again and have some soft vegetables as well. I’m going to have to have a colonoscopy in a few days and endoscopy as well to find out what’s going on with my stricture. They say a sliding hiatal hernia isn’t a big deal except if there’s symptoms. There’s also a Schatzki ring. Like a band of tissue around the esophagus. One problem I have is drinking water and thinner liquids. I have a neurological form of dysphasia, it was coincidentally diagnosed after surgery. Thinner liquids make me nauseous, ready to hurl, my chest hurt, and put me at risk for aspirational pneumonia. I can’t get answers what the cause is but even if they knew there is no fix. Sometimes it’s error on the persons part, but sometimes it’s something that needs to be addressed with the surgeon or other doctors.

1st puree food was Carrot w a bit of parsley, 2nd carrot, parsley, sweet potatoe, 3rd carrot, parsley, sweet potatoe and diluted w bone broth, next time I added a bit of beef and so on. I added something new every 2 days to look out for things that might not agree w me. It has been working for me so far. Sent from my BLA-L29 using BariatricPal mobile app

Hi i just had grastic bypass surgery on Tuesday is it normal not to go to the bathroom since Monday night I've been peeing perfectly fine but that's it and my stomach feels bloated and my other question is can someone please give me idea's on puree foods what to eat because i feel like stuff is turning my stomach idk if it's because i haven't been to the bathroom in so long Please Help Sent from my LM-Q710(FGN) using BariatricPal mobile app

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Healthy_life, you are a sage, kind and positive and I truly 🧡 your personality and style!![emoji108][emoji108] Hope to have you to turn to when I need to. @ OP, listen to her!! You got this! Well done for being so vigilant and asking for help before things get out of hand!! Will also take a page from your book when I need to [emoji106][emoji106] Wishing you success!! Please keep us updated 🧡 Sent from my SM-N960U using BariatricPal mobile app

So I just started my soft foods phase two days ago, so far so good....and then... Last night, I had a waaaay too realistic dream (nightmare!) that I woke up to the smell of pizza, and next thing I knew I had eaten two slices of supreme-everything-on-it pizza, then suddenly it dawned on me - just as I was eating the last bite - that I had just had my WLS! I felt horrified that I had actually forgotten! I panicked, felt sheer terror, was freaking out, crying, hysterical, the works! It was legit terrifying but when I woke up and realized it was just a nightmare, I felt so relieved, and then I burst out laughing because holy crap my nightmare wasn't about monsters or the usual scary stuff - but ABOUT PIZZA. 😂 Has anyone else had any "oops forgot I had WLS surgery and just ate something I shouldn't" dreams? Maybe it's just me and I'm a total weirdo, but still, I'm laughing about it at least, lol. 😆

This is sooo good! I’m in my puree phase and found this to be so refreshing.