DoctorWu

Hi,
Just wanted to introduce myself, I was sleeved on Monday. That first day, right after surgery was tough. Had to keep getting up and walking every couple hours and it was really really hard at first. Only had to spend one night in the hospital though and am home now. That first night at home I had a lot of pain in my arms but that has subsided and I still have some pain in the lower left part of my belly which I understand is the location of the largest incision.
When I started this journey, I weighed 472, after the first two weeks of the pre-op diet I weighed in at 455. I say first two weeks because I ended up having to be on the pre-op for an extra week because of my EKG results - turned out the tech at the hospital switched the leads on the ekg and made it look like I had a huge heart problem. So my original surgery date got delayed, I got another ekg which was fine and a heart sonogram just to be sure and that was fine too so I was able to get rescheduled the following week. The day of my surgery I weighed in at 449.
The reason I made the decision to go with the surgery was primarily due to the lymph edema in my right leg. I've been hospitalized twice in the past year for severe infections and my doctors keep telling me that the only way to clear up the lymph edema completely is to lose weight. I had tried lost of other diets before but just couldn't control my appetite. I have a good feeling that this is going to work and I'm looking forward to loosing a lot more weight in the coming months.
Anyway, have been reading a lot on this sight and finally decided to join.
Thanks,
Cliff