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Hi realtor, My niece stayed with me the first few days but she had to get back to her family. Since I'm older and essentially live alone I asked if I could have a vn. She was here for just 3 visits. Very helpful, too. I did have some excessive bleeding during the surgery and I had other pblms as well so I think it was a precaution, too. I'm just starting to feel some soreness in my lower abdomen. Is that something to worry about? Haven't had any abdominal pain that could be numbered.... Maybe doing things backwards. How are you doing?

Deigh, Wow. I was truly fortunate not to have to be on a liquid diet prior to surgery but because of that, I decided that I would severly restrict myself....it was easy when I didn't have to. But after all this talk and support, right now I'm content. I am determined to make it thru to the first check up and I am determined to get thru these diets, as well. Its been so interesting discussing this with everyone. I don't want to take it to a private chat mode because I think our experience will help others out there, too. I've had 3 btls of Water, my 6 oz of ensure and a couple of ice pops. I'm quite satisfied. Look forward to tomorrow when I pick up my doggie after nearly 2 weeks and that will be another challenge for me...she bites! Hugs to all Oh pdxman, for some reason the signatures don't show up on my android phone. I'll check it out later when I turn on the computer.

That's awesome! Pdxman. How long ago were u sleeved? Tell us all the particulars because "inquiring minds want to know" and "ve haff vays of making u talk" grin How did u.deal.with the time after you'd eaten your portion? Was it awkward? I'm guessing u were out with friends???

I hd no idea what a challenge it may be for us to eat out. My friends are leery of eating in front of me and I did offer to make popcorn while playing cards with some vistors but they demurred. I was curious to see what it would feel like to see them eating and drinking while I'm sipping. I wanted to test myself also with the smell. They simply wouldn't alow. Am I nuts? Nah just finding out what this new body can/can't do. I suspect your 'cheating' is of a similar vein. I see that you got back on track and I hope you are able to stick with it. I know when you do something for someone else's sake it can suck big time but as you tell me, it will be useful i n the long run to be able to escort your daughter down the aisle when its time and to be there for her thru her life and yours. I also am a people peeper: ooh look, someone bigger than me is what I always scanned for. Usually I would not find anyone who couldn't fit in a booth or needed other accomodations. I check people in the street, too and shopping. Most are 'normal' from what I can tell. But I am learning here (til the next blue funk) that comparison is not what this is all about. Its about me. Hello??? Am I home? What do I feel? How do I feel? What will I do today. What is there to think about? Scary. I never wanted to know and never bothered to inquire. Now, I am introducing myself to my new tummy and engaging in a veritable "organ recital"in my head. Perhaps now I will allow myself to bring it all together. That will be a huge victory. Hang in. Reel in those sticky fingers and engage in something creative...a bow for your daughter or something? Get them occupied. Play with her coloring and building and you and babe will grow up together. You must be awfully young to have a 2yr old on your hands. I'm so glad you caught yourself early on. You do know that sleeving will allow you to have nachos down the line, don't you? You won't be limited to mush and animal feed bags forever! Good luck!

Thanks for the lengthy reply. I don't regret it 24/7. In fact, I can't mark how many times I said, d*mn sorry I did it cuz they admittedly are few. But when it hits, it hits. I don't currently take an anti depressant because I don't think I'm clinically depressed. I do work with a shrink and that's not really an identified issue at this time. Up and down, yeah...always have been but the fact that talking it out with u and others is working for me a lot like therapy. S I say, I did make I to the gym and I'm goin to walk after "lunch" soon. Where do u find support groups not connected to your sugeon's office? My surgery was in a hosp 45 min away. Id go to something more local if I could find it. I'm so glad the folks here are in compliance and push for it. Especially when I get crabby, I need those hugs and encouragin words. I hope I can be equally supportive of all. Thanks for your rep. Good luck! Ps: why were u upset with eating out with ur bf? Can't u eat anything or what???

Hi all... I heard from the nurse: they are going to fax me the new diet for tues next week. I still don't know what it is but I hope low sod veg juice is on it as that is something I crave. I went to work out at the gym this a.m. and a brief side trip to the drug store. Visiting nurse was very encouraging and all my vitals are good. So I venture into the weekend a bit less timidly. Will probably update my blog, too. Only thing is, I have to do that on the big puter...can't from the phone. Thanks to all for the staunch and tangible support. It worked. I'm down another lb, too. Good luck to all of us Rosy

No caffeine and no nsaids of which aspirin is one.

You're funny. A sundae wouldn't even make me blink. A potatochip, maybe but not a sundae! I don't feel attacked and I don't know where I wuld be without th forum. We all need to learn to seprate the chaff from the grain and blow it off. Not everyone has the ability to respond but all who respond do care at one level or another. I can't believe I actually slept! Thanks.

Wow viking fan! The pill situation is partly what makes me resistant to taking everything the surgeon says to the strictest letter of the law! I'm not any type of scientist but I knew that nexium couldn't be crushed and shouldn't be opened but the doc said I should open the capsul and swallow it that way (mixed in liquids). It wasn't until the visiting nurse called the doc's office for me to report that those little round pellets were showing up in the excreta that they allowed me to swallow that pill whole. So tell me something: how come they didn't know what I knew by reading the package insert??? How come my report to the nurse in the doc's office telling the same thing didn't get a response? Why does what I say not carry the same weight as what the VN said for me? My friends are all "OH GROW UP AND LEARN TO BE COMPLIANT1. WHY DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO PUSH THE LIMITS?" But that ain't how I stopped them from giving me an IV shot of blood thinner after they said I would be swallowing my pradaxa that night. I'm self advocating. Doesn't anyone do that anymore?

Ps Lissa I did have a couple cups of reduced sodium chicken Soup that I thought was the answer to my prayers only to realize that reduced sodium is waaaaay different from LOW sodium : u wouldnt believe the guilt! I'm also down 11 lbs exactly...I can tie my shoes without sitting down and raising my leg to bring my foot closer. So I am hitting some important strides...just drives me nutz some folks can do it with one week of clear and one week of full etc. I don't know what this program has in store for me after I see the doc on Tuesday. So I can't anticipate nothing. Maybe he'll opt for another 2 week clear. At this point, I may walk out of the office and not look back....

Lisa, ocean and all, You are all correct and so am I! I think we all paint too rosy/easy a picture to people just researching this procedure. Yes, my reaction is emotional....yes, I read @ that before and no, I'm not surprised that I'm feeling like this. What surprises me is that I'm not feeling or behaving worse than this. The ketosis breath stopped yesterday. I don't know if that's common or not. Everyone talks about how much they run to void and I just have a major bout of voiding in the morning after my medication (I am allowed to swallow nexium, cardizem synthroid and pradaxa). It takes me 3 hours to get up and ready to leave the house. The rest of the day you wouldn't believe that I'm drinking 3 to 4 btles of plain Water or low sodium broth. I remember asking the q about having regrets an almost every post vsg'er said "only regret is not doing it sooner". Well, how can I go wrong, if that's the case? But truly all of u taking the time to respond: u don't know me from adam but you care enough to take the time to write an impassioned, mostly encouraging, reply. For that I am very grateful and thank you all for being here! We're a motley crew and I feel a deep sense of belonging....

Ps...I'm referring to blue diamond brand

The 40 calorie almond milk has fewer carbs than skim it tastes better and it doesn't cause phlegm.

No nothing except clear liquid and if I could have egg drop soup id eat I but it has to be LOW sodium not reduced sodum which tastes like sticking a rag in Water ad sucking that! U honestly think sugar free Jello is going to wreck a titanium sleeve? Or stretch the stomach? These post op diets are so blankety blank arbitarary, I'll bed u the rent that no doc actually know why they rx them as they do. Mine was made for rny but they say it doesn't matter what kinda surgery...no substitutions in great big cap letters. Wouldn't even allow chewing gum (sf). I do suck ice...sf ice pops and my lips are frozen. This isn't a joke and I don't believe stretching the sleeve or causing a leak is the issue. They are testing compliance. Its a hunk of bull bleep. I hate it. I regret it. I d not recommend it. I want a refund. Its a big mistake. If u are reading this pre op don't do it. Change your mind. I'm not hungry but I want something in my mouth

I'm 10 days out and didn't use milk pre surg. I wanted to ue the almond 'milk' I drink post surg but the office (that great arbiter of what goes into the sleeve in the sky) won't allow any changes in the printed 14 day post surg diet. I'm sucking my lower lip, for pity's sake and I can't even have sf Jello. Am I sorry I sleeved...yes, I am.

I am pretty much sucking my lower lip. On 10th day out from surgery and on clear liquids. I can't take it anymore. They don't even allow sf jello. I hate sweets and find sf sweet sickening. I'm not pishing as much as I take in (3 to 4 17 oz bottles) plus a few cups of lowsalt no fat broth. Ice pops freeze my mouth. I'm going nuts and I'm ready to take a bite of cheese or other solid food without talking to the doc or nurse. I hate this.

Think u might follow up and question the people who wrote the reviews????

I have no pain and bascally the burps are so much quieted down. My doc just gave the first two week part of the diet and I will see him on the 20th and discover the rest. Its all clear liquid. Low fat low salt broth and um sf ice pops the only respite from rhythmic sipping (which word will be excised from every dictionary near me, very soon!) My drain hole had closed but with me screwing around walking and trying my old exercises, the hole popped open again and a very pale pink liquid emerges. The nurse says common and don't worry. The only major pain in the neck right now is the taste in my mouth. Sounds like we're basically the same....I sleep sporadically but when I do fall asleep it is a very sound rock solid snooze. Are you working or retired (like me) or living off the fat of the land

Absolutely disgusting. We wuz robbed! This should've been discussed ....maybe. I dunno. Everything else is weird...I broke out with a rash...all over me and I wasn't told @ that either. My body has a memory for food related activities such that turing left here will mean desert there and my mouth begins to Water even tho the promise of help isn't there. I don't feel hungry. But my body knows that 8 days ago it could sink its teeth into someone...now my body has to be taught to heel and heal literally! Could this have been predicted? I don't think so. I don't even know if there's some way to avoid this. Are u driving yet? I have a sneaking suspicion that my surgeon forbid driving because of the ketosis which, I think, I will use as an excuse to be a zombie...just because I'm feeling mischievous. I need a new hobby!

Well, that is reassuring. Only 3 4 more weeks til then. I bought listerine strips and some gum.

ok. going to pcp for rash that developed on abdomen arms and thigh and will stop in store to pick up some listerine strips but i haven't seen those for years. hope i can find sugar free cal free breath mints. i want to divorce me. blech.

Well, I did go for the walk and I gotta say I'm doing pretty good in that I can walk more upright and don't have to top to catch my breath as often as before. I'm mousewashing with listerine less intense and I don't think my breath is stinky...it just tastes that way to us. Had warm broth after my walk and watched the news. It is the idle time that is the killer. Thank gd I'm not hungry. Can see food and ads on tv and they do not entice me. However, I am noticing more the direct relationship between food and anger. I was very uneasy this a.m. when some folks were congratulating me on the surgery and asking about it. I wanted to snap "none of your d*&^ bizness" but just answered each q with a forcefl, factual ans (I.e. do u feel hungry?" NO!) I also moved the car and am pretty sure I can drive as I haven't taken any pin meds at all. But where will I go? Shopping is ladden with triggers. Need to learn to knit or something. Thanks for sharing

My tongue is still pink. Thanks for the reassurance. I don't feel like I'm starving. Thank Gd for that! I don't know what to do with myself, though. Since last Monday its been constant support. Now I find myself alone for the first time and wondering what to do. I do have a hobby but it involves being creative and that doesn't happen when you want it. Oh, no. Old patterns coming to haunt me. No. I'm going for a walk...like or not. Ttyl

How do I know I'm in ketosis? Urine is pale and clear....

Kwikwits What did u do for bad taste in your mouth? I can't get rid of it. (Sleeved 12/5)