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Hi all! Not much to say, I'm a bit emo, that I posted in the other thread and was pretty much ignored. Tried to be encouraging but guess it was unwanted. It's difficult not to sound dramatic when trying to express a hurt, I'm not searching for sympathy, just wanted to explain my reason for going on my merry way as far as participating.

I'm not good at these forum things so I will just say best of luck to you all on your journeys.

Yep! That Constipation is a doozy! Glad you got a plan to deal with it now. I'm going to have to look into Miralax too.

Hope the next food stage transitions well!

So I've texted my fingers to cramping, lol! You all are so awesome!

I'm 3 days out, already in soft foods per guidelines here in Sweden. And do far have eaten cottage cheese, cream cheese on hard bread, a meatball and mashed potatoes. All went down fine, and chewing till it's liquid, kinda gross ate a while. I want scrambled eggs which is on my ok list but I'ma little leary as many have trouble with them. In waiting fir after 2 weeks, I can't imagine vomiting this early out. Getting in 1.5 liters of h20 is my focus. I can eat about an ounce or less of food then I'm hiccurping, hiccup/burp. Still gassy and try to walk around but in truly exhausted with most activity. Still self injecting a nightly heparin shot, they are stinging less now. I have no appetite and would rather not eat, but I have head hunger and cravings. Good I have no appetite to even want to follow thru on them.

Keep aiming for your goals! Until next time

So happy for u!!! Welcome to the losers bench! I can't wait to get there myself!!!

I must applaud you for your enthusiasm and support here! I am going to try my best to stick to the boards, so when your time comes round that I can cheer you on like you've been doing for all of us!

I may not respond or comment on everyone's posts here, as some get missed as it's hard to navigate by phone at times. But I try to read them, sometimes I'm feeling like bad and it's all I can do to just read and find comfort in everyone encouraging and lifting each other up thru the good, bad and ugly times.

Just wanted you and everyone to know I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart! Thank you all for being sparkly, sunshine faces! It makes the journey even better! :-D

Day 10 of preop RNY Surgery on the 14th cant wait.

It's just around the corner! You can do it! Excited for you!

My date is the 22nd !!!!!!!! Started liquid diet today super nervous but excited

Yay! That's coming up faster than you know it! You got this! Happy for ya!

My surgery is Wednesday 1/15/14! I'm excited and nervous and scared!!!! I am having an open RNY and have been on my pre op diet since last week, Sunday I start my liquid diet. So far on the pre op diet I have lost 11 pounds. I am so ready to lose so much more. I am taking my tablet to the hospital with me so I will be on this app since they have free wi-fi! I am determined to get up and move and walk as much as I can while I am in the hospital, of course they make you anyway. I am going to try to be proactive and walk more than they tell me to though. Apparently, I will be in the hospital a minimum of 4 nights since I am having the open surgery instead of laproscopic surgery. I had a lap bad in 2006 and it had to be removed in an emergency surgery 4 days later because they perforated my stomach when it was placed, so they had to remove it and repair my stomach. So I went through all of that for nothing! Nothing meaning I didn't get to use the lap band as it was intended! So now here I am almost 8 years later, having the RNY! I had the lap band because I didn't want to get my insides rerouted! My sister had the sleeve in 11/2012 and has lost 110 pounds and I have the same surgeon. I am ready to be on the losers bench as everyone says!

I'm excited for you! You've got the right mindset and positive attitude! Your determination and desire for this are definitely signs of your future success!

Don't over do the walking as you will get exhausted faster than you expect. I'm sure you're going to do great!

Best wishes for a smooth and speedy recovery! You've got this!

My surgery is Monday the 13th. I'm nervous because I have cheated here and there on my pre op diet. No judgement please! It's been hard having to feed my kids and not eat. I haven't went over bored just little stuff here and there. I was just wondering if anyone else cheated on their diet? I'm doing liquids only tomorrow and Sunday. That way I can clean my system out. I'm trying to keep myself busy and not think about it. Is anyone else nervous?

I cheated and planned the times to be honest. I knew I would not make it thru the holidays if I didn't allow myself to participate. No judgment here that's for sure I had 4 weeks liquid diet and I cheated with small meals during the holidays. I still lost 21pounds and shrunk my liver. I'm not saying it was good for me to cheat but if I didn't I'd most likely have binged non-stop for days once I got to frustrated.

Best wishes for a smooth surgery and keeping a spot warm on the Loser's Bench for ya!

I'm scheduled for next Wednesday, the 15th. I'm not excited but nor am I nervous. For right now I feel calm & I'm keeping a positive outlook on how everything will go. I just signed up for this site so I'm still learning my way around :-). Good luck to everyone who hasnt had their surgery yet!

Love your profile name and pic, it explains your calm I'm 3 days out and have been using positive affirmations/mantras/prayers to get thru the nit sui great moments thus far. When I worry I turn to positivity and it has gotten me thru. Welcome and I look forward to following your journey!

I am going to have a hiatal hernia repaired when I get my RnY next Thurs, Jan 16th. I am very axnious about the hernia, fearful it will cause pain and bleeding that will frighten me.

I want to have the hiatal hernia repaired but I wish the operations weren't combined, even tho I know it makes total sense to do them together.

Anxiety.

I have a gerat case manager nurse who has been pleasant all along but in the past couple weeks, she has stood out, really greatly. I just have to say "anxiety" and she listens kindly, patiently and tells me 'everyone goes through this." Do they? Like my doc had forgotten she told me in Oct that I needed a hiatal hernia and it was not on the schedule for nxt week. I brought it up cause I have questions -- I don't quite understand what it is -- but when I described to my doc what happens to me sometimes, she rushed to her office to get the rest of my file, to see my endocoscopy results and she said "good thing you caught it, you definitely need the repair, I'll have the scheduling put it on." Then I checked with my case manager later to see that it was added. . . but I am anxious that the doc had overlooked it. If I hadn't brought it up at the pre-op, I would not have gotten the repair. So then I anxiously wonder: can I trust my surgeon who forgot my hernia? She was the one who saw it in the endoscopy -- I can't see that. I knew something was wrong cause something happens. . . .. . .it's gross so I won't describe it . . .

Nurse manager says it's normal jitters. Is it?

First I will say the jitters are normal, however, when I'm going through them they are magnified at least for me they are.

Surgeons are busy and even still must be reminded. I don't think your surgeon is careless, as I've met 3 on this journey and will say they always were in a hurry. Maybe it's because they have a heavy case load or (which I lean toward believing) that due to the nature of their work"time is of the essence" to them. In surgery time is calculated and accounted for, maybe it ingraines in their daily natures too.

We also need to be our own advocates and double check for our own sakes. You are being proactive in your care and always question and double check. We are all human and can overlook, miss and make mistakes, doesn't mean we are careless just perfectly imperfect humans.

Wishing you well on your next segments of this journey. Just remember to take it a day at a time, write down your questions and concerns and continue to advocate for your health. You're doing great!

Hello all! Had my RNY 2 days ago. Feeling pretty good. Not much pain except for the gas. I did have one small complication. Apparently my intestines are super swollen where they were sewn back together. Nothing is able to go all the way down so I continue to vomit. I'm still officially NPO. I was told this happens to 1/100 people and it just happens. Now we wait until the swelling relents so I can start on liquids. If it weren't for the vomiting I would be feeling really good. Good luck on all y'all's journeys!

Glad you are in good spirits despite the complication. Hope the swelling will calm down soon. Wishing you speedy healing and that everything from here in out goes smoothly!

Hope all is going well kind Sir Just joined you on the Loser's Bench yesterday! Not much pain at all, a little odd for me. Just the gas is a bit of a nuisance, can't burp much.

Congrats! So glad it went smooth! What better way to under then by seeing some eye candy lol! 11 days to go can't wait to join you on the losers bench!

The time will go by fast especially the last week. I'll keep a spot on the bench warm for ya!

Save me some room on the loser's bench! This is day 8 of my liquid preop diet. I'm down 13lbs. I have to start my 2 day bowel prep on Tuesday. Surgery is next Thursday!!!

There's plenty if room come on over! Great job on your pre-op diet, it's not easy but do worth it!

So awesome that your surgery went well & you r feeling pretty good...it can only get better from here. I'll be joining you tomorrow...I'm excited/nervous.

You'll do great! Still not much pain but the gas is slightly uncomfortable. Best wishes for a smooth surgery and recovery!

Just popping in today I'm on the loser's bench! Surgery went a smoothlyand I have no pain so far. It hurt alittle as I was waking up in recovery. Had a different surgeon than expected, talk about eye candy! Lol! Hope all continues this smoothly! Hope you all are doing well today and congrats to anyone just post op and best of luck to those soon to be operated. :-D

Congrats to those who got their dates, hang in there fit those on the pre-op diet and let's do this for this having surgery soon!

I had my pre-op appt Wednesday, blood work, ekg and final weigh-in. I was of by 1 kg so I basically made goal.

I have surgery in 5 hrs. I tried to sleep but no dice. I had to take a double shower with Descutan an antimicrobial soap and will take one more before I leave to the hospital. Also had to give myself a heparin shot, the needle was nothing but the injection burned a little. Packed my bag, journaled and now just trying to sleep and wait. Oh and I will take 5 prophylactic antibiotics before I go too. I'll only stay one night and visiting hrs are dumb from 3pm-7pm. So I'll be alone majority of the time.

Not really afraid, just anxious to get it over with so I can start healing. I'm hoping pain won't be too bad as they don't give an Rx for pain meds, it's Tylenol after discharge home. Got all that, lol! Sorry it's so long...

Good luck Betsy and Eroper! I'm joining you all on the Loser's Bench Thursday!

You are working that pouch like a Boss! Super human willpower! Lol! I hope my post op will transition so smoothly. Keep up the heat work!

Still on preop liquids and that scrambled sounds like heaven!

I hope the bypass will resolve your bile reflux issue. Definitely a difference mainly with sugar and Vitamin maintenance. I'm sure you will do great

I'm going in on Thursday the 9th, and having ask kinds of thoughts in my head. But it's technically the 8th in theUS as I live in Sweden

You can do this! And so can I! It's not a light choice or a whim, it's for a healthier, happy body, to be around for my husband, kids and grandkids but also to participate in life fully. Be a better physical version of me with no excuses for not taking this chance to lessen my weight burden four good.

It's going to have its ups and downs, good, bad and sometimes ugly, however the end result will be worth it :-D

Don't know if this was what you were asking but I thought I'd give us both a peptalking to We got this!

Just ordered their chocolate Syrup, hoping it will help flavor my Protein Powder shakes. I saw they also make Salad Dressing and dips too thinking they might be good post op.

I'm just exhausted and a little gassy. I feel jittery when my sugar starts to drop and headaches. Not to bad in the bathroom department.

My insomnia is ridiculous I'm getting 2-3 hrs of light sleep with dreaming vividly, waking in between the bizarre dreams to fall back to sleep into more.

Day22 of 4 week liquid diet :-/ Surprisingly I have managed a loss of 17 pounds. Got 6 pounds left to lose in the next 7 days. The diet wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't during the holidays.

Thanks for sharing your updates. I'm going I will have smooth sailing like you. Getting nervous my time is coming next week and your witty updates are helping me not freak out too badly.