barbi1281

I've had the same thing happen. I am seeing my size change though so just keep going. I lost 9 pounds my first week and then I've lost 2 pounds since (I'm 3.5 weeks out) - absolutely nothing during week two. At the same time I've gone from an 18/tight 16 pre-op to a loose 14/snug 12 now so something is definitely changing .

LOL I know exactly what you mean! My new stomach makes those noises all the time when I eat! Sometimes I can't help but laugh at how noisy it is now . I think it's just digestion and nothing to worry about. As long as you don't have any strange or bad feelings you should be ok... if you do, call your doc .

I was sleeved the 16th so I'm about 3 and a half weeks out. The one pic was taken about two days post op and the other was today at work . Please excuse the faces I was making at my husband

I'm pretty sure it all depends on your doctor and how well you're healing... I'm 3 weeks out (yes I'm an anomaly) and I've been given the clearance to eat any kind of meat as long as it's lean and I chew, chew, chew. I've had pork tenderloin, steak, various types of fish, chicken, turkey, and ham and no problems. I have a sleeve buddy who had the same doc and she said he made her wait a bit longer for solids so I know it definitely depends on your body also.

I take Protonix and I drink all day but I find it difficult to get enough to drink because of the straw thing as strange as it is. I actually don't like drinking directly from a cup and for some reason I won't drink unless I'm forcing myself or unless I'm using my favorite cup which is a double walled cup with a straw. It's a very strange quirk of mine - I have a bunch .

No advice but I have the same problem. I wonder if it has to do with having less to lose (just speculating). I had 80 total to lose and seem to be in the same boat all the time. I just try to keep my snacks healthy and stay below my carb and calorie count and exercise. I'm only 3 weeks out but that seems to be the only way I'm going to survive.

Yep, it's been a while... a crazy month but here I am... almost a month since my last post and a full week post-op! So, I'm going to try to give the short version of my month because I'll be up typing all night if I don't (it's currently midnight!). In my last blog, I believe everything had just been submitted... I got denied twice! Yep you read it right... twice! I guess those idiots didn't know who they were saying no to! They tried to tell me that I wasn't sick enough and that I didn't do my nutrition... blah blah blah... at one point I actually cited Maryland law which requires them to cover the procedure based on my issues . I am known as the queen of arguing but they didn't know that... neither did the chic from my doc's office that kept givin me the run around til I emailed her boss LOL. Long story short... I was sleeved on the 16th even with two denials! So... after my approval... I tried to do my pre-op diet... really I did, but I had less than two weeks between approval and surgery and I seriously worked over 80 hours a week to make sure everything I was responsible for was done before I went out and the stress of that combined with no food caused major migraines so I ate. I ate significantly less, but I ate. One week to the day before surgery, I had a miscarriage... I didn't know I was pregnant until I lost it (I have an IUD so this was not supposed to happen)... I also didn't know you could mourn a child you didn't know you were pregnant with (I learned several things that week)... A visit to the ER explained that my IUD slipped out (it's in but out so not providing protection which is how I got pregnant) and I have a major fibroid . The miscarriage only caused minor problems with my sugery (the anesthesiologist refused to move forward due to my positive preg test from the week prior even after I explained the miscarriage - the staff OB/GYN cleared me for surgery and we moved on). I was terribly stressed prior to surgery due to some of the things people have posted on here... I cried all through pre-surg prep b/c of this. Apparently my surgery was text book despite my having failed miserably at the pre-op diet... do not use this as your idicator though... I believe I got lucky (God feeling I've had a bad enough month)... I did not get a pain pump post-op and the first nurse was being stingy with drugs. Also, my body does not like to pee after anesthesia so I could not go without pushing which was not fun... especially with limited pain meds. I also kept getting horrible hiccups that made me want to die but I survived the night. I didn't sleep much yet the time passed. I left the hospital the next day around 3 p.m. My post-op diet involved 2 days of clears and now I'm on full liquids. I've been healing well so I'm tolerating shakes, yogurt, soups, and I'm hungry pretty quick. From posting and reading, I know this is normal but that doesn't make it suck any less . As for the TMI section of this... farting post op was really hard to do! It really helped to walk to move the gas and to get on all fours if it wouldn't pass (sounds weird but I found this on google when it was hurting bad and it worked LOL). I'm a week out and I still haven't done anything beyond pee in the toilet... tonight I drank a laxative tea and am hoping it works... I know I'm putting stuff in there but I'm wondering what's happening to it . Last thing and I'm signing off... It's 12:20 now so I'm doing awesome! I know I've lost weight... I've weighed myself and I've already seen one physical change. I have my first official post op appointment tomorrow though so I'm going to wait until then to update my weight on here so stay tuned. I'm also hoping to get to move on to mushies early tomorrow since I'm starving and tolerating things so well (he said it was a possibility before the sugery). Good night fellow sleevers and those lurking as I once was .

I'm almost a week post-op (sleeved the 16th) and I'm absolutely starving! I'm sippin, taking my ppi, and I'm starving! Not head hunger either... Someone help!

Glad to see I'm not the only one starving. I was sleeved the 16th and I'm ready to gnaw on my arm :-(. I have postop on Tuesday and am hoping I get to move to mushies b4 I bite someone.

My surgeon doesn't do one but he explained his process including the post op endoscopy and his method of checking for leaks. I'm confident and so far four days out I'm doing well (knock on wood :-)). Also, he explained that most surgeons are getting away from the bc of the risk of a "false negative" and then the person later has a leak but they look for everything else bc the leak test was ok when they left the hospital.

I was inpatient but only 1 night and I had afternoon surgery. I am low BMI but have severe asthma.

I just wanted to follow up since I'm 4 days post-op now. I really didn't have any problems with the anesthesia or the surgery. Only problem I had was that the hospital actually did not have all of my meds (as I said, I'm on a lot). They said not to bring any rx meds, but I had mine in my bag just in case (call them my security blanket). Coughing hurt though so I strongly recommend a cough pillow or a surgery pillow (I brought a firm rectangular travel pillow and it helped).

Let me add I've been getting the since last night when I'd been fasting 24 hours. I haven't had anything today but 1 cup of broth, a half cup of jello and water.

I was sleeved yesterday and I'm on clear liquids today. I've been getting mean hiccups since last night. I hold my breath and they go away but they always come back. Anyone else have this problem? What'd you do?

I'm up and anxious and even a little nervous! Scheduled for 12:30 but have to be there at 9:30. Heading out soon because DC rush hour is horrible. I can't believe how fast today got here! Can't wait to join you all on the losers bench!

That's awesome to see! You started at about the same BMI as me so I hope I do as well as you. I'm going on a cruise in late February and I'd love to be an 8 by then! My surgery is this Tuesday.

Can someone please help me? I posted a few days ago about the migraines that I’ve been getting on the pre-op diet and I’ve determined that they’re definitely related to a lack of food (this was figured out by process of elimination – i.e. my migraine meds have a good amount of caffeine so they weren’t from that and they weren’t responding to my migraine meds but they were definitely migraines and then once I ate rather than drank my meal the headache I was experiencing eased up and went away with meds). I called the nurse at my surgeon’s office to see if it was ok if I followed the guidelines of the pre-op diet (less than 1200 cal, less than 125 carbs, 70-100g of protein) but did it with the addition of lean protein and low carb veggies and his response was “if you can’t do this now what are you going to do for the two weeks post-op when you have no choice”… I explained that right now I’m working at least 15 hours a day so that I can take off for surgery and for the two weeks post-op that I’m on liquids I’ll be home and can sleep when I have the migraines which is not an option today. He told me that he could not advise me and to email my surgeon, so I did. This morning – two days later – I finally got a response which basically said the same… “what am I going to do post-op” and that he needs to talk to me so that we can discuss this. He did give me approval to add in lean/low carb foods as long as I stick to the guidelines but now he wants to “talk”. I’m concerned he’s going to tell me that he’s not going to do my surgery (which is scheduled for Tuesday) because he doesn’t think I can handle the two weeks of liquids post-op. Is it seriously as hard post-op as it is pre-op to stick to liquids only? If so, how did people who really struggled on the pre-op deal with post-op? Or do they just give up and die young (I’m 30 with 2 school age children and the weight made me sick fast b/c I was never overweight until about 6-7 years ago when my thyroid failed)? I’ve worked really hard to get to this point and I can deal with the headaches if I’m home in bed… I just can’t deal with them doing 15 hours of mental work…

I am so glad you said that b/c that's one of my biggest fears right now... it seems like everyone around me is sick! My coworkers are sick and my oldest daughter is just getting over bronchitis and I'm also scheduled for the 16th!

Thanks. The interesting thing though is that one of my migraine meds has caffeine in it (1 pill equals about as much caffeine as a can of coke) and despite taking 3 pills (a dose and a half) on Tuesday, it's not touching these.

I actually eat in my office so I'm alone... it's not as much that I'm hungry or bothered that others are eating as the headaches are killing me. I have to work up until surgery and I'm working at home at night and on weekends to get things done and I have a mental job (I'm a financial analyst) and I can't perform with migraines. I actually had to schedule my surgery/recovery around my deadlines so I don't have any flexibility right now .

My BMI is 37 but he gave me the standard diet he gives everyone and I don't drink or anything. Maybe I'll call the nurse and ask him.

I'm scheduled for Tuesday so I'm on my preop diet and I'm wondering if it's really that big of a deal if I eat solid food as long as it's healthy, low carb solid food. It seems that everyone's diet is different and the diet I was given didn't have a true list just examples that didn't include solids and guidelines to stay under 1200 calories, under 125 carbs, and to take in 70-100 g of protein. Day 1 I really stuck to consuming only the items on the example menu and I had the headache from he!! by 2:00 and was in bed by 8. Day 2 was yesterday and I had to work and I stuck to the list all day and by 2:00 I had another full blown headache (I get migraines when my headaches don't break so this is no fun)... I ended up going to the ER last night for an unrelated matter and not getting home until nearly 11 p.m. and at that point despite the 5:30 protein shake and 2 doses of prescription headache meds, I was in full-blown migraine mode. On the way home from the ER my husband stopped at McD's and got himself dinner and I ordered a grilled chicken sandwich with no mayo and then tossed the bun (so I ate only the chicken, lettuce, and tomato). Is that ok or a big deal? Today is day 3 and I brought a Campbell's Soup at Hand (100 cal drinkable soup) for lunch and a protein shake (I'm at work and I only get 45 min for lunch). When I went to heat up my soup, the entire thing had a freak moment and spilled all over the microwave leaving me no lunch. Since I only had 8 minutes left by the time I was done cleaning I didn't have time to go buy another one. Instead I went to the deli next door and made a side salad with about 3/4 cup romaine lettuce, 4 cherry tomatoes, 2 slices of cucumber, 2 pcs of broccoli, about an ounce of chicken and half an egg (white only) - also no dressing just a splash of balsamic vinegar. Once again, if the idea is to cut carbs and calories and up protein to prepare our bodies and shrink our livers then in theory, I didn't screw anything up, right? I seriously cannot have migraines every day and I cannot go to bed at 8:00... I know it's only a week but I don't know what to do. I can deal with plain salads and lean meat... it seems to be the no food at all that's giving me the headaches and I'm not sure why.

I'd love to come hang out at some point... I'm getting sleeved next week so it will be a while though . Right now I'm unhappily STARVING on my preop diet wondering why exactly I can't have lean Protein when other people can on theirs .

BTW - side note... I've been under general anesthesia three times and I've had the chronic obstructive asthma since birth (the cough variant is new after a bout of pneumonia this past winter). This last time was the first time I've ever had any problem and it really was a mild attack.

I have pretty severe asthma (think max dose of pretty much every med out there severe and I carry a portable neb) - both chronic obstructive and cough variant and I had general anesthesia for my EGD. I carried my rescue inhaler into the OR and explained that I had very severe asthma and it needed to be available immediately when I woke. I didn't have any major problems. I had some minor difficulties when they woke me but it was nothing that my rescue inhaler couldn't handle. I've had worse attacks at home with unknown triggers. As a fellow asthmatic, I recommend you make sure you take ALL of your asthma meds as usual leading up to surgery and you make sure to carry your rescue inhaler and inform ALL staff that are working with you (especially your surgeon and anesthesiologist) so that everyone is aware in case you have an emergency. Above all don't worry terribly - you're more likely to have an attack from emotions LOL than the anesthesia - or at least I am .