Fiddleman

I am wondering if 2 PPI is better than 1 to help with hunger. I get somewhat hungry after 2.5 hours from last eating and would like to eliminate that. I eat every 3 hours a small amount of protein (3-4 oz).

I took tramadol when n so much pain from a head staph infection. Tylenol wasn't touching the pain at all. I also used up the rest of my oxycodone on it.

I don't get ravishingly hungry, but notice I need to eat some protein every 3 hours. If I don't, sometimes I will start to get a little weak and feel empty.i started to notice this change at around 3 months out. I typically eat a small protein based meal of about 125 calories every 3 hours to keep my mood and energy stabile and my metabolism firing on all cylinders.

Let me clarify, I took the liquid form not the pills.

I took NyQuil and DayQuil when I had a nasty cold during week 3.

You crack me up

That's alright. I mainly asked the question the get a discussion going.

Stay away from the Bariatric Advantage chews. Nothing to se here. Move along. Seriously, the BA tablets gave me the heaves every single time. Then I switched to Celebrate Multivitamin because I heard some good things about the capsules. Gave me the heaves also. Now I am taking a trader joe high potency multivitamin tablet. Two actually to meet the WLS requirements. They taste good, are 5 calories and I no longer heave. Works or me!

I picked the sleeve over the bypass because statistically it had fewer complications for about the same amount of weight loss. The sleeve also allows a person more freedom in food choices and does not have the malnutrition artifacts like the bypass. I have been super happy with the sleeve so far.

Do you think that the WLS experience should be targeted and optimized for the obese in their 20s or 30s? Clinically, this age group may have fewer complications than those in their 50s, 60s and older. If WLS ever became socially acceptable and mainstream like getting glasses, do you think a person's age should have an impact on targeted WLS advocacy? In other words, should the health industry or government advocate addressing the obesity disease with WLS at an earlier age rather than an older age? Secondarily to the well being of an individual, it would save trillions in healthcare costs over time. In the future, I can see that either the obesity gene will be eliminated or government will mandate WLS to get healthcare costs under control.

I think more wrinkles and lines are to be expected because your face is getting thinner. You might try antioxidants, time in the sauna, mud baths or even Botox. There are lots of different strategies depending on what you are willing to do. Of course, I am generally ok with any wrinkles because I am a guy. Some others might have some more practical solutions.

How about minty MOM. Kill two birds with one stone.

It is good that people can find the humor in these situations. I say make lemonade out of lemons.

"Holy batman, I just sharted!"

Thank you everyone for your kind, thoughtful and practical responses. This forum is really great for support.

Well, 2 hours post melted cheese so think things will be fine.

In the beginning, there was light...seriously, in the beginning it really helped me to go through 1-2 oz of protein shake every hour. I did this for 3 weeks. 1-2 ounces an hour is a lot easier to handle than 8 oz servings. Keep sipping the water all day when you are not sipping the protein shake. It does get better, much better, in a few weeks. Remember to keep walking as that will help your body heal at a faster rate. I hope you feel better soon.

I will call mine essere schizzinosa nel mangiare ( picky eater)

My ancestors are from Glasgow, Scotland and I have always wanted to visit. Everytime I see a movie like Braveheart or Roy, I want to visit. Someday I will have money and time to visit...For now, I will just play some Scottish aires on my fiddle.

Yeah, my NUT was pretty adamant about it and she knows what she is talking about. I have found her to be very wise in my WLS journey so far.

I have not told anyone at work about my WLS. And I mean no-one. I am a remote worker for a very large company where the office for my team is headquartered on the east coast (I work their hours plus more). Since we have had a travel freeze, I have not visited them since Feb this year (9 months ago). This week I am going to be having a casual lunch with another coworker who works remote like me. She wanted to get together with me because it has been awhile. She will be bringing her husband and I will be bringing my wife. That is the setup. I don't want everyone in the office on the east coast to know I have had WLS because I guess there is still a lot of negativity around the subject coming from others and I really don't want to tell the same story to 40+ people.. I would rather say at the lunch that I have just been watching my diet and exercising. This is the truth, just not the whole truth. I don't want to lie to them either because everyone really gets along with everyone else ( rare in corp offices today). I am also a fairly honest person so feel uncomfortable about telling even small 1/2 truths. I am looking for a graceful way to handle this because the person I am meeting last saw me in Feb when I was 360 or so. i dropped to 335 lb by surgery date at beginning of July and am now 215 lb 4 months later post op. She is going to notice! And then I will have some explaining to do and then it will get back to the rest of the team. And then I will have more explaining to do. I don't want it to become gossipy or political as I really like my job and don't want to lose it should things get out of hand. We typically are not gossipy as a team and it is forbidden in the code of ethics. However, you never know. One other thing is that I have known coworker and husband for 6 years and we used to work together at my prior job. I would say we are really good friends when it comes to work activities, but not friends really outside of work. She is also in a higher ranking position then me and has established herself very well with management; she is more valuable then I if there were ever any need to choose. Do you think 9 months is essentially enough to attribute 25 pre op + 120 post op weight loss to diet and exercise when I meet her in a couple days? What would you do?