SouthernSleever

Anyone have an update on how she is doing? I'm sure her hubby is just overwhelmed with all this.

I'd tell them that unless they provide a signed copy of my contract where this is all stated then I will be taking them to court to recover the charges they put on my bill and any bank charges resulting from that.

I don't want to jinx myself but I'm feeling like my old self 5 days out. I sleep on my stomach, no nausea or fatigue. The only thing I'm doing a little different is I'm not drinking sugar free. I don't like artificial sweetners and I'm nursing my little one. I don't want him getting all those chemicals. I'm just sipping all day on Coconut water, gatorade, and fruit juices.

If he is a good man otherwise I would tell him "I am doing this for me, not for you. If you would like to support me that would be great. If not, don't say anything at all." You can get all the support you need right here from us.

Didn't hurt but felt like they were pulling a snake out of my stomach lol

It's not about him, it's about you. He better straighten his butt out cause after you have this surgery there will be no reason to put up with his BS.

My surgery went great. I had a hernia and Dr Aceves said that can cause some back pain. They gave me a muscle relaxer earlier and I've felt much better since. Keeping down fluids fine and most pain is gone! I'm excited to get home and see my babies tomorrow!

I had my surgery on Friday and here it is Sunday. The worst pain I've had has been in my back. I was rear-ended Wednesday before my surgery and I'm not sure if the back pain is from the VSG or from the wreck. If you have had backpain please let me know.

So I had my surgery today with Dr Aceves. I was the 3rd to go out of the 4 of us here. I had a hernia so he repaired that for me and they didn't give me a spinal block because of a previous blood clot in my lungs. When I woke up from the surgery I was in OMG so much pain. Neither ankle surgery, my csection or my homebirth prepared me for that kind of pain. Right in the middle of my chest my stomach just below and my back were terrible. I think I didn't have any painmeds in my system when I woke up. Here I am 12 hours later. I've peed and went walking twice. I have this little yellow pouch that I could have sworn was Morphine but it isn't dripping into my line. Infact it's hard as a rock when you touch it. Dr campos if they gave me too much at one time it would make me sick to my stomach. I wish it were later in the day so I could speak to a DR or a nurse who spoke english. So that's my story so far. I cannot wait todrink something. I'm nodding off again.

Thinking of you and wishing you a speedy recovery!!!

Arrived in Mexico today and everything has been great. I don't care for planes but they ladies that are being sleeved tomorrow, Ernesto, Dr Campos,and everyone else (I'm not great with names) have all been great. The preop testing went smoothly and the hospital is so clean. Seeing Dr Aceves in the AM and tomorrow night I should be sleeved! The hotel is wonderful and I can honestly say my last meal was the best meal I've had in months. I'm so excited for tomorrow!! BTW the Men here are amazingly attractive at the hospital!

I think page 118 is pretty much what we all know. Long term I wouldnt' drink full strength apple juice or orange juice since I dont' do that now. I mix it with Water but I wonder if it might be good for all the energy ppl are saying they are lacking in the first few weeks. From what I've read fruits are slow sugars and as long as you pair a food with a high gycemic index with a fat or Fiber it will keep your blood sugar under control. Of course that wouldn't apply till you could actually eat solid foods but I think at that point you rely less on artificial sweetners anyway and more on protien, veggies, and if you have room fiber foods.

Friday is my VSG...I cannot believe it. I decided to keep my son out of school today so we could all spend the day together (incase I die and all. Morbid I know). We were doing running around had just a couple things to pick up. We went to the Chinese resturant to eat lunch since that's where my son wanted to go and I was surpised at how many things I could eat. Opened my fortune cookie "Today is your lucky day". Went by starbucks and ordered my 3carb coffee decaf that I had been craving and went on my way when BAM a huge Dodge Ram truck slams into the back of me. Me and my husband go flying forward and then slam back in our seats breaking the seats (yeah I need to lose weight) and pushing the seats back on our kids laps. Hubbys headrest even broke he hit so hard. This guy was going about 35 and never hit the brakes. My car is totally smashed in but everyone is okay other than neck and head pain from everyone. Had to drive the car home and go get a rental which took 4 hours. I'm at home now and my youngest just fell asleep. That means I wont get to tell him bye before I leave at 5am. Infact I just nursed him to sleep and that might have been my last nursing him I'm packing and super nervous. Like almost in tears nervous expecially reading all these post about how many troubles people are having post op. Keep me in your thoughts please. I'm headed to Mexico in less than 12 hours.

Hey Deb, I had a PE in 2003 I was smoking, on birthcontrol, and had a left ankle fracture which left me in a wheelchair for 3 weeks not to mention my obesity. I was on Coumadin/warfrin for about a month afterword. I told Dr Aceves about this and he wanted me to take lovenox for 2 days prior to surgery and 10 days after to prevent another clot. Soooo...the long winded answer is you should be fine, they will want you to continue your bloodthinners.

Who is doing your surgery?

Hi surgery sister! Im having mine done on the 8th too by Dr Aceves! Can't wait to hear how yours went and follow your recovery!

It's not the taste of artificial sweetners I mind it's the fact that they are artificial I'm not talking long term drinking drinks with sugar in them but just for the first week or two it seems like it would help with energy and such. Even if I drank 3 vitamin waters a day in those first few weeks that would total to 375 calories and from what I've read if I can get in that much fluid I'll be doing awesome. Once I'm on full liquids I can see how drinking those might get out of hand as you can drink shakes at that stage too and those can pack quite a bit of calories. THoughts?

For right after surgery why are people drinking sugar free drinks/jello/popcycles? I hate artificial sweetners so I thought I would get some Vitamin water to drink Post-op but tons of ppl are drinking all this sugar free stuff. Is the sugar upsetting because surely you aren't getting enough calories from it to hurt.

OMG! Amazing! When I first started reading this forum you had just had your surgery. How time flies! Congrats!!

Your post made me tear up Joe. I wish the best for you, you really deserve it!

I never even thought about pills postop. I have all my vitamins in pill form and my calcium is horse pill sized. Can I take those as soon as I'm out of surgery? Yikes!

I've been counting total carbs and this is typically what I eat Breakfast 3 eggs, 2 pieces of sausage, 3tbs cheese, low carb torillia = 9 carbs lunch is a Protein (kind) nut bar 11-15 carbs depending on which one I pick dinner Turkey or steak green Beans and salad 4-5 carbs Snacks ceasar salads - the croutons I weighed myself Saturday evening and I weight at 276.6 and this morning I weighed myself at 271.6. The scale is kinda crappy and the time of day is different so I just cannot believe that I would have lost that many lbs in such few days. On another note, today is my birthday and I REALLY want a starbucks yummy coffee but it has to be low carb and suggestions?

You just have to push the view new content button in the upper right and corner and that's the "new posts" button. It's not bad just takes some getting used to.

I did Dr Phil's 7 keys to weighloss freedom and lost 40lbs in two months. I wasn't hungry on it and reading the whole book really kept me motivated. If you can stomach him maybe you could try that.

Great to hear from you!! Glad you are doing well!