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MrsBurn

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  1. Sleeved On November 9

    · MrsBurn · 11/19/2011 15:30

    Hello there. I am Gabrielle and I was sleeved on November 9, 2011. I've read lots of stuff about how wonderful people feel after the sleeve, but I am still wondering if I did the right thing. I started at 228 lbs. and was 215 on the day of surgery. I'm 5'6". No less then THREE people on the day of surgery (at the hospital) told me I was too small for the surgery. So, I lay on the bed telling myself to run while I still could. My surgery was scheduled for 1:45 p.m., and I got to the hospital at 11 a.m. The handsome young man that took me back and had me change into the gown expressed surprise that I was having the sleeve surgery. Then the young woman that came to scrub my tummy and add the plexi booties said the same thing. Then the RN that started the IV said it again! By then it was around noon, and I had to lay there for 1 hour and 45 minutes second guessing myself. Needless to say, I went through with it. When I woke up after the surgery, I was extremely nauseous and in pain only when I moved. The nausea lasted the rest of that day and most of the rest. I went home on the third day, and have not had any nausea since, except when I take the liquid vitamins. I have switched to gummy vitamins, although I'm sure I'll be scolded for it when I go for my post-op on Tuesday. What's strange is I was able to take the liquid vitamins without the nausea before the surgery, but not now. What gives?
     
    So, other than some major pain upon trying to get out of bed, and having to choke down the horrible protein shakes, I guess I'm making a good recovery. On Wednesday (one week after surgery) and Thursday, I could not stop crying. I don't even know why I was crying. Is this normal?
     
    Anyway...so far, I'm sort of regretting the surgery. I'm hoping this will pass and that I will feel better as I return toward a more normal life. I am hoping to return to work next week and I think that will help.
  2. Hello! I am two weeks post-op and I am so sick of drinking the sweet shakes. I saw the nurse for my two week post-op today and told her that I am only managing about 2 servings (30 grams) of protein for the last three days because just the though for drinking one more sweet thing makes me sick.
     
    It seems to me after reading several of the posts on here that some of you got to go to Phase 2 (the mushy, blenderized stage) after 2 weeks. The nurse today told me that one of the docs in the practice lets his patients do that, but my surgeon won't.
     
    So, will some of you who went to Phase 2 after two weeks please let me know what you ate and how well you tolerated it?
     
    I really want to follow the docs orders but I just don't think I can stand two more weeks of this. I'm starting to feel weak from not getting all the protein and carbs in.
     
    Please help!
     
    Thanks very much.

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