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So I've noticed such a wide difference in the way docs prep for surgery. I'm having a revision done for Gerd. For my sleeve it was a liquid diet 24 hrs before. For the bypass it's 3 days. I'm seeing some on here stating two weeks.

Some questions:

1.) have they stated how long your hospital stay will be? Mine states one night, for my sleeve I was only there 12 hours

2.) have you received your plan for eating after surgery?

I am also having a revision from sleeve to RNY. my diet and stay in hospital for both surgery's is the same 2 day pre op diet and 2 day hospital

depends on dr. Mine only requires 2 day liquid. Thank god cause i've seen some people on here talking about 2 or 3 weeks pre ops diets.

I had the sleeve done back in 2011. do your research if you have reflux. I am about to go in for revision surgery to RNY because due to the sleeve I now have severe gerds. I've been suffering from it for the past 5 years. Make sure you research each surgery. I think I read that if you suffer from acid reflux you should not get the sleeve. since coming back on here I have noticed a lot of people being revised from sleeve to RNY.

My date is February 25. I'll be a revision from a sleeve due to Acid Reflux.

Anyone else having their Surgery in Feb? I am getting a revision from VSG to RNY due to severe acid reflux. Anyone else in the same boat?

My son had just turned 3 when I had my surgery. I'm not a single mom ( but was with my first ) My son is a nut and doesn't stop all day, my husband works so I am home with him alone from 6:30 am - 8 pm everyday... I had my surgery on a Wed stayed in the hospital Thurs and Friday by Saturday most of my pain was gone and I was pretty much just sore, he was not a problem at all. There was no climbing on mommy but I would lay in the bed with him and cuddle in place of him laying on me while sitting up or sitting on my lap. I was 43 when I had me surgery, and think you will be fine, but it all depends on how you heal everyone is different.

Happy Surgerversary... you look great

I started at 240 i'm 5'3" goal is 135 and my current weight is 149

My doc also said absolutely no ibuprophin..

Same thing here, but in the hospital he gave me a Ibuprophin iv drip because the other meds made me so sick lol??????? Maybe it was different because I wasn't taking it orally ???

Thank you for all of your input. I am 5'2 and weigh 190 lbs. I'm not morbidly obese. But I have been this size for about 12 years. I"ve lost 40 lbs twice and gained it all back both times. I admit it : I do not have will power, I am hungry a LOT and I gorge myself. I overeat. It's not even that I eat the wrong stuff - I love high quality food - but I am never, ever satisfied with a half cup of anything. I've battled this for years and that's what made me start thinking about the sleeve.

Then I go back to telling myself that I'm crazy, I'm *only* 60 lbs overweight and I should stop being lazy and just find some stupid willpower and stop thinking about cutting my stomach out.

Then I think that I've tried this before and if I just watsn't hungry all of the time, I could do it...

So is it nuts to think about this with only 60lbs to lose?

Yes I am grieving the thought of not going to a buffet and gorging myself. Or a steak house and eating and entire ribeye. Or fried shrimp. I would hope that I would again be able to eat those things BUT with the tool of the sleeve - stop at a few bites instead of a dozen fried shrimp.

Is this accurate? My husband thought I'd be off food and on Protein shakes for the rest of my life.

We are going on a cruise in Sept. and I'm looking to get sleeve in June. Do you think I could enjoy ANY delectable goodness at that time? What about a sip or two of wine? These are the questions I have that are holding me back. HELP!

The best thing about this surgery is that you will eat normally again, you will have constant Portion Control and will never be able to eat like you used to, but you can eat what you want. in the beginning right after surgery it is important to eat in the stages your dr. tells you for healing purposes and the losing stage you follow what may seem like seem like a diet, but eventually you will bring normal eating back in I am 8 mos and eat everything I used to, just healthier if that makes sense lol.

One more question... I don't take many drugs, but when I do, it's Advil. It's the ONLY thing that works for mentrual cramps and headaches in me. I know I have to stop taking it before surgery, but what about after - after I'm healed? Can you eventually go back to taking some of these things once your stomach has healed?

My dr. allows me to take stuff for pain, that is why I chose this surgery, if may allow all or only certain ones so as always you should check with your own dr. call them and ask him, the nurse or the PA there is always someone there to help if you can't get your dr. himself

you like me will be on mushy's as soon as you have your leak test. I ate alot of refried Beans melt some cheese on it, Liz told me I could put some chicken in a blender and eat that, bake some ricotta cheese topped with some mozzerella cheese. it is so hard to explain how little you will be able to eat two bites from a baby spoon and I was done, so you will have to get most of your Protein in with shakes, she allowed me to have smoothies since we are on mushies I added greek yogurt with calorie countdown milk and sugar free Torani syrups for flavor, they allowed me to count my smooties or Protein Shakes toward my fluids also, yogurt went down real nice and didn't cause me any pain.

I still don't get all my Protein in there was days when I did but the majority of the days I didn't. you have to really concentrate on it, it can be done but you have to remain conscience of it.

I have a video of the hospital if you want to see it PM me your email and I'll send it to you...

We are allowed NSAIDs, but I would always check with your doctor. it's stil the same stomach just smaller. Didn't your doctor send you home with something for pain?

sounds great def going to try this, have the shirmp but not the bacon..

That is what I was wondering about, that first "mushy" meal after the surgery, I would think right after the surgery it would be pretty difficult to eat anything, I think the yogurt would be the easiest thing to swallow and it has the most Protein. How were you in the begining about getting all that Protein in, it is supposed to be 60 to 80 grams but after I made my menu's (yogurt, protein shakes, baby food gatoraide blah, blah, blah and etc) I heard it was gruesomly hard just to finish a small yogurt in one day in the first week post surgery much less the rest of the stuff and still making sure not to get dehydrated. Any advisements? I'm not worried to much in losing the weight super quick, I only have about 100 to 115 lbs to lose and I'm really doing this so my back pain will ease up, sitting at my desk all day gives me the worst tail bone pain so I opted for the weight loss surgery than the back surgery that is way more risky. Still I would love to fit back into my sze 8 Levis again by next Spring..(yeah, I'm a little vain on the inside, LOL )

Again your information is totally awesome!

yogurt will go down fine and it is the one thing I was able to eat the most of but I gotta tell you it all gets old real quick lol I got to the point that I couldn't even drink a Protein shake anymore it just wouldn't go down the taste and thickness of it just started to make me choke.. I finally order this stuff callled click protein it taste like coffee, alot of people on here will say it is the wrong protein, but liz ( the Nut ) was starting to get so worried about the amount of protein I was getting that she didn't care and told me to drink it even tho it wasn't whey... She also told me I could drink through a straw because I wasn't getting my fluids in and I told her I could drink more with a straw and she said fine then do it. She also allowed me smoothies shakes that I would make using yogurt, calorie countdown milk and fruit or I think in the beginning I was using the Torani Syrup instead of fruit and then moved on to real fruit later.

My surgery went great, but like a said I had a problem with the anesthesia so they kept me in the recovery room for a long time because my blood pressure shot up.. I got to my room around 10 pm at about 1 am my darling nurse came in to get me for my first walk, she came again at 5 or 6 am and after that I did the rest of the walks by myself and felt good. The first day home I rested walked down the block a couple of times and after that day, or once all the anesthesia was out of my systom I felt great, and seeing that scale move makes you feel even better lol I was back to normal by day 4, that Tuesday after my husband went back to work so 6 days later I was back to my regular schedule of taking care of the house and kids, i'm currently not working, but I think I would have been fine if I was, I had a desk job when I was working and got more rest at work then being home with the kids.

Hey New York Sleevers!!

I am having my surgery with Dr. Dakin from Weils Cornell/Presbyterian Hospital on 68th Street on 3/14/12 (just got my date yesterday, Finally). Nervous has heck but excited for the new change in my life. I have read alot of the blogs on this chanel and it has given me alot of information and encouragement. I was wondering basically how long of a hospital stay there will be, I have heard of 1 to 3 days, (I really don't like hospitals LOL). Good Luck everyone on your journey and I wish you all Great Success!

no more thing the next morning you will go down for the xray to check for leaks, obviously you wont be able to drink anything before that, but after that you will get gatorade and I think tea? I don't really remember I stuck with the gatorade for fear of dehydration, after that it's mushies, you go straight to mushies, I believe I had oatmeal, yogurt and Jello brought up to me, now obviously there was no way I could eat it all, as a matter of fact I wasn't even hungery, but just a note they want you to be able to eat mushies' before they send you home, don't be scared that it is going to slow down your weight loss it wont, as a matter of fact I think it helped because I didn't hit that stall that everyone else seems to have when they go from liquids to mushies. and don't be surprised when one or two bites fill you up, don't pust it or force it, I followed the nutrionist rules and stop once i get that feeling that i've had enough and I've never gotten sick from over eaten.

I also have, I haven't told Jill, the insurance intake person, because I thought it might delay my surgery and I have already had to delay it due to the H.Pylori virus they found in my stomach, that delayed me for 3 wks, so I hope they can work around the hernia, it hasn't bother me and I figure I will have that repaired next year after this surgery (I don't want to deal with 2 procedures in one year due to work).

I didn't even know I had the Hernia so mine wasn't found till he went in, He said he did a partial repair, didn't want to start messing around with the mesh to much after cutting my stomach, he said he was more worried about me getting an infection then repairing the hernia at this point, besides he later told me if I decide to have body contouring after I lose the weight, the hernia repair could work to my advantage with insurance. My nutritionist is Liz I do exactly what you said get my info and go, but since the surgery I have not gone to see her in the office I do all my appts. by phone it's easier for my because I live in Long Island. I have one next month.

And yes I don't know if he is shy or stand-offish like you said but he is good and an artist as far as my scaring goes, my pain meds were making me sick and they were changed right away, it's a great hospital because it is a teaching hospital so there are so many people around all the time to help because everybody is teaching or learning, I like that I didn't have a drain, or staples or all the other stuff I read about on here and only a 2 day liquid diet muahhhh I love him for that lol....

The worst part for me was walking myself the the operating room lol they didn't wheel me in and my operating room was at the end of the long hall I remember looking back and waving bye to my husband and just felt so scared, like I was walking to my death, I started crying and everyone in that room was so sweet petting my head wiping my tears, they were so great. So the moral of that story is, don't be scared because now you know someone else that took that walk, and I can tell you that now looking back it wasn't that scary and that was actually the walk that saved my life and not the walk to my death...

Oh and I never posted a picture of my before until after I lost weight either. You can see pictures of my view on Facebook under the same name.

I am having my surgery with Dr. Dakin at Cornell Weill on 3/14/12. Seriously nervous but he seems like a decent surgeon and his office staff is awesome. Were you in the hospital very long?

I love him, I don't really care for to many other people in his office his PA and I had it out once over a prescription for prilosec that she didn't want to give, but after speaking to him the pharmacy called me and told me my prescription was ready, his nutritionist is kind of Condescending if you ask me, and the last time I went there they forgot about me and took 3 patients ahead of me. But again he is excellent, my hospital stay was awesome with great care from nurses and residents and beautiful views to boot. My liver was to fatty and he found an umbiblical hernia when he got in there so he couldn't do the single incision the the incision he made are so tiny. He used a size 40 bougie(?) I went in on Wed July 13 and left that friday. I got me a private room because I had some problems withanesthesia ( which is all me nothing to do with the hospital or him ) I am so happy to have had him as my surgeon. I will probably send you home with something for heartburn if you have it, a stool softner and pain pills, you will need a pill crusher.

My restriction was really tight in the beginning and I had bad chest pains from it which lasted about 6 weeks I don't know if it was just my body or the way he cuts so just a warning in case you chest hurts right after you know what it is, because I woke up in recovery scared to death wondering why my chest hurt so bad. At eight months out I can probably eat about 3 oz of food, so my restrition is still pretty tight, I am starting to get my hunger pains back so I am eating more meals thoughout the day, in the beginning I didn't have to snack and had to remind myself to eat my regular 3 meals now I need a snack between lunch and dinner and one after dinner.< /p>

I'm still losing but it has slowed down pretty much since 6 mos post op only about 1 -1.5 lbs a week before that I averaged about 3 lbs a week. I've lost 88 lbs so far and have 15 lbs till goal.

I had my surgery on the same day and i'm at 68 lbs so I would say your right on track, I know I couple of people that were a few days before and after and we're all in about the same range... Don't panic your doing fine

This is a pic of my lap on the airplane last week. No more extentions for me.

This is a pic of me in my "new" jeans (bought 6 months ago and never really thought I would be in them. I have NEVER had a "gap" before and about cried when I could see daylight. May be TMI, but had to share w/ people that can appreciate this type of NSV.

First and Last time I will ever say this.... Nice Gap

This is a pic of my lap on the airplane last week. No more extentions for me.

This is a pic of me in my "new" jeans (bought 6 months ago and never really thought I would be in them. I have NEVER had a "gap" before and about cried when I could see daylight. May be TMI, but had to share w/ people that can appreciate this type of NSV.

I have the same picture, Loving it you look great

quoted wrong person

My NSV's so far

1. flew on a plane and had 6" of slack in my seatbelt

2. I am able to cross my legs

3. feel good enough about myself to go to my husbands christmas party at work for the first time

4. bought a pair of OVER the KNEE boats with a heel ( yay baby )

5. wearing a size 12 or 14 jeans depending on make down from a 20

6. can walk 3 miles a day without pain

7. have room between me and the steering wheel in the car ( my stomach doesn't steer us anymore )

8. No more diabetes or high chlestorol

9. Guys are starting to check me out again lol

thats all I can think of right now, but I know there are more..

The second one is from my dr's office, I had my surgery at cornell lol