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My pcp decided to do blood panel because I'm cold and because I'm losing my hair...he wants to be sure its not due to my thyroid meds being out of whack. So I will have a bt in feb

That's why we have horse races, Bionic. "This guy says the horse shows class." <grin> I just finished the 1 and 3/4 oz of egg I left over this a.m. color me 'learning' the ropes.

Hey,don't knock it til uve tried it. Had it with my eggs this a.m. instead of salsa and it was scrumptious.

I have the same problem and am convinced it stems from eating too fast. Started when I began chicken. Last nite I had turkey and then had some canned zucchini. Up it came...didn't really get a chance to go down. That makes two nites in a row that I've upchucked. I doubt its bulemia. But I have a tough time eating slowly and a tougher time underfilling the sleeve. I do fine in a.m. with a cheese omlet 2 eggs and a slice of vegetable pepperjack cheese (30 cal. 3/4 oz) and that goesdown well and stays. But then I skip lunch, usually, or I will make my main meal at noontime and after that I start burping all over. The vomiting helps me feel more comfortable but then I'm not getting all the protein I need. Today marks my 4th week out from surgery. I'm 35 # down and on the 15th I start to ramp up my protein intake. I think I need to re calculate what I'm eating: instead of 2 oz turkey...just an ounce of that and an ounce of veggie. Maybe that will help. Also, I notice that even tho I'm not hungry, I have a habit of starting to eat in the car after shopping. So I started in on the turkey while I was driving home. It made me feel like "everything is back to normal" until I upchucked.

I've been taking nexium 40 since day one. But thanx anyhow. I find I can't eat after the second meal tho I might want to...

Dear New, Possibly the doc thinks u know what to do from ur previous experience...what a lack of support. Id let them know u didn't appreciate it. My doc hd m on clear liquid for 2 weeks.the clear liquid included 6 oz of ensure plus low sodium broth, non caf tea/coffee, Water and crystal lite if I wanted. Last week gave me yogurt, thin Cereal, nonfat milk, cottage cheese (1%) and baked potato. This week added fish and eliminated potato and cereal. Next week get chicken/turkey and 4th week get red meat. Jan 15, I start eating a certain number of Proteins (54????). I'm not sure what happens with the 6oz rule on the 15th. My contact at the surgeons office is off this week, as well. I'm upset for u that they didn't give u clearer guidelines. Good luck!

I'm not able to feel hunger either nor can I determine fulness. Last nite I was still licking a sf pop when everything started to come up and I didn't even know it would happen. I messed all over my shirt, pants and the floor! That's the second time it happened. I was shopping and decided that I was going to buy food at this store becse I always bought Cookies or nuts or Jerky there before sleeve (12/5). So I bought a 2.6 oz bag of tuna in Water and sf Jello and sobe water. I fell into the tuna in the car and ate it with my fingers while driving. Also scarfed down a full box of jello. When I got in, was still hungry. Had the sf pop finished off another jello and the tuna bag, drank the sobe water and started to lick another pop when everything just came up on its own. No feelings at all. Maybe one or two burps. I'd bang my head on the wall, but that would be just to feel better when I stop. What the heck is going on? I don't call it head hunger. I call it mouth hunger. I actually salivate during these "attacks of the mindless belly" Comments? Suggestions? Please! I'm 28.2# since 12/5 so not exactly not working the sleeve but there must be something I can learn to stop this.

Yes! I bought LibbyLs taster desert footed bowls holds 2 oz and small taster forks and spoons. That helps, but I think there is a disconnect between my mouth and my stomach because I can feel something and still think if I swallow this, I will feel better...but I don't. Need to learn the signal but it eludes me each evening. I did better today during the day, tho. Well, tomorow I get to try again.

2 oz per meal. 6 oz per day. Yes, I am a wimp in the face of 6 oz food. That's why. Easier to fast than eat a little bit

Whooooooo. Had my first land workout with pers trainer today. 5 min on handbike and 5 on treadmill. Then 12lb bar with bicep curls and 6lb ball and bench marching and cross hand to knee. Yeow. Breathing hurts. Back in pool tomorrow. But ow ow ow ow ow! But not hungry any more Hear me? I'm not hungry any more.

On my 3d week I have eggs, yoghurt, thin cereal and mashed potato and canned vegetables. Starting tomorrow I get fish for that week. Then I get chicken and turkey. The last week, I get meat (but I don't eat red meats) so that's my plan til the 15th. Then I have to start 50g of protein per day. I get only 6 0z food all day. That drives me batty.

Black... Am biting my nails waiting to hear how u are. Hope you didn't hurt anything and you'll bounce back from this.

ps; cc I can't have any more protein shakes at this time. I'm limited to the foods I outlined and the clear liquids from the last 2 weeks. After this week, I gotta drop the potato, too. Fooey. That's the one thing that sets me off real bad. Icrave the potato. I'm drooling as I type

I dunno if my rep went thru so trying again Box is 1lb of cottage cheese. Yoghurt is plain but I put walden farms calorie free dip in it. If u haven't seen these, u gotta check 'em out because they have 0 zip nada value but they make drek taste petty good! Anyway how do u bite and chew any of the above? Next week, at least, I get fish hoo hah but this mush is driving me insane. I want to find a shrink for bariatric surgery. Is there such an animal? I'm gonna call the hosp to find out now. My old shrink isn't helping much. Thanks for the encouragement and no,I've lost weight but I don't care cuz this is too hard for me. I want food. I can't find a substitute and I can't think about banything else. And yes, I am exercising!

growl. i'm trying to stuff my new sleeve. i am having a fit limiting myself to 6 oz of food per day. the new 3d week diet adds cottage cheese (i hate it but will eat the whole box) yoghurt (i bought plain and hate that, too, but will eat the whole box) canned veggies and egg. I do not know when I have had enough. I put the food in a dish and i put the boxes and stuff away and I still want more. I'm not finished. And right now, I am salivating thinking about eating lunch. Now, if someone could tell me how to change this 'habit' it would help a good deal. But if no one can, then what the heck is the use of the sleeve???? I was ok on the liquid only and made it thru 2 weeks and lost 20 lbs. Now with limited food, i am going crazy. i have felt hunger, too. grrrrrrrrrrr

Sgraff Only 5 lbs? I've lost 19 in 2 weeks. I started with an egg this afternoon and some yoghurt this evening. Think I'll bake a potato for breakfast <grin>. I'm glad I didn't experiment. Does anyone know who makes no sugar non fat yoghurt? I couldn't find any...

Hugs mimi, I'm totally pooped. Lost 19 lbs. 'Infection' is a bruise lowered by gravity from incision site off antibiotics. Strange new diet. Ate a hardboiled egg before. Are u feeling any better? My friend is out shopping for me now. I didn't have anything palatable in fridge...most had to be tossed. We went from doc office to a veg restaurant and then since they couldn't make a potato for me, we walked a block to 10,000 villages and shopped. We just came in and I lit the chanuka candles and said a prayer for you ...walked more than I ever dreamed I could. I hope you will have some miracles this season Xoxo

Deigh and all The first 2 weeks of as much liquid and as many ice pops (boy they are cheap to give away ice in th winter. I'm frozen here) are strange because except for the 2oz ensure 3x a day, there is no limits. Does the second 2 weeks come with limits as to how much yoghurt or soup we can have? I wonder if imposing limits or portion sizes is going to be a struggle. I went to the crafts store this afternoon and there was food there, too. I also salivated when I drove down routes with restaurants id eaten in or places id bought food to cook. When the heck does that stop? I need to keep a mop and bucket in the car! Hope everyone had a good weekend. I was just remembering that 2 weeks ago my friend arrived to drive us to the hotel across from the hospital for monday's surgery around this time. Wow. 2 weeks. Holy cow.

Ooooh! Scary story, you had no symptoms and no pain and there was a leak? So what do they think caused the leak. Does that mean you had to do the barium swallow again? (Hiding head under arm). I'm so sorry to hear about this setback. What actually causes leaks anyway? It doesn't seem rational to think a big swallow of Water will do that. Here u have these titanium staples and there is plain old h20. Nah! I think my lower abdomen is alwas warmer than the rest of me. The tenderness is scary and I can't tell if I'm swollen or not. Well, I don't have fever or pain or headaches etc. Trying to think positive...

Thank u for the clarification...it makes a world of difference! Nobody in the surgeon's office has officially been identified as a nutritionist. The nurse who is serving in that capacity tells me she is known as "GI Jane" and she is very stern and strict. Although we are encouraged to ask questions, I personally would rather not get my head bitten off so rein any q's in. If it didn't say in handwritten letters "if it is not on this paper, you can't have it" I would've asked for the moon, maybe. Right now I'm finding that my lower abdomen is tender and warm to touch. I prefer 1/4 packet Water flavoring to a whole packet. I have not had any sensation of hunger, yet. And, I'm continuing to lose 1 to 1.5 lb per day. The ketosis taste seems to have dissapated (or I got used to it?) Tues is my 2 wk follow up. To quote Kermit: "time's fun when you're having flies." Enjoy

Capt derel, Yep. I personally don't think the boards are the place for definitive answers. We each bought a particular surgeon's program and that's the one we need to follow. When we go nuts (guilty yer honor) because of the set of restrictions we bought, we might take to the boards and seek to state our outrage at the dumb stupid plan our surgeons throw at us and hire military style rule enforcers to deal with our inquiries, protests and hissyfits. Each one of us is reeling after surgery and clutching our pre surgical logic driven means for survival modes of living to muck through this horrid scene we find ourselves in whilst our 'friends' chomp, slurp, and offer advice right to our faces. If you want to eat chocolate covered potato chips the first week after surgery I bet you can find the support for it on the forum! I'm sticking with what I bought. I still reserve the right to complain and to garner sympathy and beg for hugs. If you found a way to allow yourself to take the meds you want and are convinced that program knows better than the one that sleeved you, then I would say you are risking the "change horses at mid stream" move. If you're prepared for the consequences of your program discovering what you did (and they prolly won't) then o.k., do what you think is best. But if you want to practice discipline that attends compliance and sticking to it with what I started, then try to hold on just a bit longer. We won't be in our surgical program's thrall for ever. My mom and I used to say "we can get thru anything together." I'm here for the together part. I offer my support to you, too. And hugs if u want 'em, Reallyrosie

Mememeeee What an apt name! Perhaps YOU were placing too many restrictions on yourself. Perhaps my situation is a wee bit different. I was NOT asking folks to say what they can/can't do with bragging rights included. I was asking for support and empathy which most respondents provided. I did distinctly post thefact that id come to accept what my surgeon's office was offering. And here you're promoting your nutritionist's advice to you. Your solution is better for you. I'm glad she helped you. Have a good weekend.

It specifically says "if it is not on this list, u cannot have it!" That includes gum and sf Jello. They will send me the new diet Monday nite and I am not to start eating any of the new diet before I see the surgeon on tues. There is zero leeway in this. Zip. Zero...nada...zilch Nice try! But they aren't playing any games.

The nurse in my surgeons office said sf popsicles are unlimited. If it wasn't so darn cold, i'd be scarfing them down, too. What I've started doing is mixing two flavors together in a cup...letting them melt down to mush and eating with a spoon. But I am still on Clear liquids. I'm amazed your husband can eat wheat thins. Wow! (And drool).

That's an upbeat mssage...my doctor said the surgery was the easy part and the hard part comes afterwards but I assumed I knew what he was talking abut and didn't even think to ask...what does he know, anyway? Oh well. I'm down another couple of lbs this a.m. will get a move on the day as I have to pick up the doggie. I hope I'm equal to the beast coming home. Anyone want a rescued, biting, barking lahsa apso mix? What? No? But she's adorable! Free. Ok $50 to the first one to take her safely off my hands....$55???? Ps thanks for verifying exactly what I was thinking: the whole forum is a scam to get people into the surgery....paranoia will not be denied! <grin> Pps: I'm resigned to mucking thru the next 4 weeks. I am not looking for an alternative, at least I don't think I am. Does that mean I grew up? <bronx cheer>