BeGuiled

Started with a referal to surgeons Dec 2011, I was aproved by surgeon May 2012, waited for insurance until Oct. 28 2012, was sleeved DEC. 11th 2012

Thank you all So much!!!

Thats quite allot of stuff there, should fill a good portion of any good will box , lol. I'd suggest, just dump most of them,get it over with and feel good about it, kiss the cash good bye and start a-new feeling even better with new stuff but not suffer over loss of those old clothes. Some time I will have a normal sized dresser drawers too. I'm just started losing and willing to hang on to my fatty clothes until I just can not wear them at all. Lot's of luck with the last few.
hmmm, or sell ???

Hope all goes well I'm getting sleeved on Wednesday i'll keep you in my prayers!

Good luck, you will do great!

beguiled-- Best of luck and hope to you on your surgery tomorrow. My prayers are with you and I wish you a safe and speedy recovery. Please keep us updated on your progress as soon as you feel up to it.

Good luck....keep us posted...

GOOD luck tomorrow

Good luck and best wishes, Beguiled.

Good Luck tomorrow!!

I'd just like to say thanks for leting me read along here and learn, it's been a great deal of help and help in coping ect.. I am now grateful many facts were available.
I can't wait to wake up afterward and finaly sleeved, no regrets now and hope none later the same and more so.

Not a post op but Good luck.

I was given Roxicet 5ml every 6 hrs and told to fill it now and have it when I get home. its a liquid.< /p>

Good Luck everyone this going to hard but amazing at the same time!

thanks that you more clearified this Oregondaisy, Yes, my surgeon said we would have to use one and he said if you smoke and don't use one you'll achieve ulcers that I don't want. But a point also would be that they can upgrade you to a higher dose if you are on one too I am sure so make the call.

it sounds like acid reflux, does warm liquid get up your pipe some times ? They told me mine should some time go away after the surgery but I also read that you can get a temperary case post op for a while, some times short temperary some times long enough for a med to be used. They give me prilosec now pre op and I have been on many over years, its a capsule though, I am unsure what med they would offer you but it might also be if thats the case you won't be using it long term but only while you need it too, I read that too.

My surgeon stated he would use a pre op liquid diet only if the patient was so large that the surgery tools would not work correctly, he went on to say after numerous surgeries he finds no real need otherwise.

Good luck Monday.

best of luck, the hard parts will pass by soon enough I think. I have surgery set on Tuesday 11th, can't wait to get that over with and kinda just want to be where you are with it al now.

Not a problem, that is OK.
I would say to buy a good low calories cookbook or visit website for recipes such as this:
http://www.emilybites.com/

Coming closer and closer, last weekend and thats it before you know it Tuesday morning, I'm getting more nervous. Not scared of surgery or pains or prissy about catheders and such, but I only know this is a permineant thing after the fact. I am spending time trying to look deeper into WLS cooking for the long haul.

Graphic video suregery,
I read in another post about his youtube for subscription videos, they are great; here is a surgery being done but it seems better when he narrates here: __ youtube.com/watch?v=DwjA_WqJ0Jg
there are more that describe allot about sleeve surgery.

Fiddleman, I use them now, I am pre surgery and use 1/2 teaspoon daily plus other things alike that with it and in blender drinks but they might suggest 1 or even 2 teaspoons. It supplements what I get for anti oxident amoni acids, kinda is just a good fat added to diet. You can buy or make snack bars with them in it too. I'd suggest you feel it out and use a little bit at a time until you feel you like what it is you do with it.
http://www.nuts.com/snacks/energy-squares/chia.html

It's perfectly normal! You need only liquids because your stomach is really swollen inside from the surgery. But the liquids flow through so quickly that you don't really feel full. I was sleeved on 11/12 and felt the same as you do that first week. Someone posted a link to a video by Dr. Alveraz that explained it all. It made me feel so much better knowing it was normal. I don't have that link but he is on youtube with questions of the week. Helped me alot.

buttrfli1, did you do a pre op diet ? also I heard allot that there is noise after, I'm leaning on the idea your diet was that intense, I'd hate to scar you, it must still be that your hunger will be lesser and craving too some time.I am still pre op so I don't have comparison for it yet but I heard it both ways here reading before, can't be a definative answer for the moment maybe. Hope it changes soon.