sassypants

Good glad you feel perfectly ok laying guilt on someone for making a life changing decision and telling them that they shouldn’t have bothered and for saying more people should bash others for slip ups or mistakes it speaks volumes to me. I have no personal guilt and you trying to lay some on me won’t work but thanks anyway! I was defending others who most of the time won’t speak up. Maybe you do have guilt as you are defending your posts just as much as you say I am. Either way I wasn’t only talking to you. In any case I am not getting into a massive argument over it I have said all I have to say take what you want from it what you will. I am off to smoke a cigarette, have a good evening!

No this isn’t my question I wouldn’t ask a question about smoking I spoke to my consultants about it and I have all the info with no scaremongering about it so I am good thanks. I am not bashing op at all just reading several smoking threads it gets annoying and builds up till i feel the need to say something.its no wonder people freak out when they smoke given what they read being told they wont heal and get ulcers it’s the same with coffee drinkers they all post and freak out when they drink it or want too. Not everyone cheats no I know this but drinking isn’t healthy either no one bashes people for that but smokers oh my god! Telling someone they should second guess having the surgery because they smoked a cigarette is really bad in my opinion telling them basically they shouldn’t have bothered to get it if they smoke disgusts me frankly. This isn’t the only thread things like this have been said to smokers and no one says anything about it the smoker/s back down and say yes yes you are right well no no you are not! You can say you don’t agree in a nicer way without chastising the person and saying they never should have got the op its belittling in my honest opinion. This is a weightloss tool let people deal with that/ get a handle on that and how we eat and drink now before they choose to stop doing other things. This is a hard enough process as it is there is no need to make people feel guilty/bad whatever for things they do. I feel the same way when people post nasty comments to others who eat or drink something they shouldn’t, there is no need to judge people to that degree.

Just tell them then its up to them to decide or be prepared in OR. I was never asked to stop and I smoked right till the op well the morning of the drive to it. They need to know if you smoke because you can throw problems in the OR like needing different or more medication to keep you under etc You can bleed more so they need to know and you can also take longer to come around after. They need to know for oxygen levels in your blood so best advice is to tell them and let them decide if the slip up was too risky and they push it back or if its not too much of a problem and go ahead with the op with all the information and any problems it might kick up while in the OR.

For all the smokers out there I am gonna say something on our behalf. We the bad bad naughty smokers bite our tongues on this subject a lot never daring to say they still do because we get told off any time its brought up or we admit we smoke still. We get told we never should have got the op if we are just gonna keep on smoking. Well to be frank its utterly annoying to constantly hear! People cheat all the time on the new healthy life people keep going on about and bashing smokers with. they drink coffee/tea/soda eat candy/ice cream/chips/fast food/slider food, they don’t work out they don’t take meds they drink alcohol and the list goes on and on! But everyone comes down on smokers like we are the antichrist for daring to not give up or if they do for picking the habit back up. I didn’t have my sleeve to stop smoking I had my sleeve for my weight problems that were effecting my health, it has nothing to do with me smoking my sleeve was not because I wanted to become a vegan health nut who was a purest and only lived a green healthy life. I had my sleeve like pretty much everyone else as a tool for weightloss. I was never told to stop and still aint now. You don’t know a persons smoking habits it could be 1 a day or 500 you take in more crap form car pollution a day than you do if you smoked 1 cigarette a day so anyone jogging out there in the road suck up a nice lung full of smog while you do it. I smoke roughly 20 a day out of anyone’s interest with an extra filter tip I add on and the lightest you can smoke 1mg of tar 0.1mg of nicotine and 1mg carbon monoxide in each cigarette. Yes I am annoyed and no I am not feeling guilt for smoking if I did I would never post I do smoke I am actually smoking while I type this! I am annoyed the smokers are jumped on by everyone but other smokers (and I don’t mean ex smokers) and spoken to how they are some times by some people. This isn’t a quit smoking forum or an antismoking forum give it a rest!

i don’t think I have 10 but I have 1 or 2 that I can’t drink much! Like its such a chore to drink Water is still not good and I really kinda hate drinking tea, it feels nice but I never was much of a tea drinker so drinking 4 cups a day really annoys me would much rather a ice filled drink even if it was water but I just can’t handle lots of it even when I force myself it takes me hours and hours to try and drink 1 pint of room temp/cold/ice cold anything. Yeah I think drinking is my biggest pet peeve I don’t really have others not being able to even do 4oz at a time doesn’t even bother some pain doesn’t bother me any more not being able to just chug down a drink really bugs me! Its warm I am always dry mouthed and just want to chug something other than decaf tea and it be ok!

i was still in liquid stage ate 2 weeks out week 3 is when I was told to go to full liquids not even pureed food. I followed every week as they told me and still by the time solid food come around I had a very hard time so was told to go back a few weeks and work my way forward again. Your stomach takes 6-8 weeks (sometimes more) to heal you should follow what you are told to do and don’t go by what other people did or tell you to do, listen to your medical team who have all your notes and know what’s best for you. It gets boring but in the long run they are telling you to take the stages in order for x amount of time for a really really good reason.

i asked about juicing and was told not for the first 2 weeks and then after mix it half n half with water. So make sure your not hurting yourself by drinking straight juice.

i think some of them like to shock you my doc tuts at me for drinking so much tea, its decaf tea!! She still says that’s a lot of tea! (I see 2 consultants the head consultant is the not liking tea person lol) They gave me tea and water only the 3 days I was in hospital and it wasn’t decaf trust me it was full on caffeinated tea but she always comments on the tea never tells me it will do a b or c just that’s a lot of tea and gives me the look. I only drink 4 full cups a day just the word tea seems to ruffle the feathers I think it’s the same for coffee they think its not plain water so don’t drink it!

i never quit my docs all know and never told me to stop I just take a extra fast tab for longer. They did say to me one thing at a time and when I want to quit speak to them and they will give me any help I need but I never got raked over the coals for it not pre or post op never even a mention of slow healing or issues like ulcers because of it.

I was taking pills before the op for reflux and acid problems for a couple of years nothing at all was mentioned that it might not be a good idea to have the sleeve because of it. After the op yes I am on fast tabs like a lot of us its fine. And I have lost over 100lbs to date.

Sorry to hear of your issues I suggest that you google the foods like bananas are good for b vitamins potassium etc so just try and cross reference food that fits them all. I googled some links to share for you to look over. http://potassiumrichfoods.com/potassium-rich-foods-list/ http://www.healthcastle.com/iron.shtml http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/10-foods-containing-vitamin-d/ maybe grabbing a juicing book and see if you can concoct a juice that’s high in most of what you need drink one a day and cut down on supplements. I feel for you I had extremely bad ibs pre op my body couldn’t absorb hardly anything no matter what I was eating or drinking. I was constantly having blood work done to check my levels it gets very frustrating!

I would have just taken it in anyway if they ask I would say I have medical issues that I need to be able to eat food when my body calls for it and I can’t eat fast food and drink sugar loaded drinks! They will assume your hyperglycaemic or diabetic and leave you be.

You also might have that subconscious thing of I CAN NOT HAVE IT SO I WANT IT thing that a lot of us have done in the past when on a diet. Your also going to deal with your normal habits I too as a chip person I would eat them over sweet stuff any time so I get it. This is a test run you say so don’t beat yourself up about it just work through why you feel you need them so bad is it because your telling yourself NO or is it because you really did eat them all the time so withdrawing from them? You could also be craving salt on my pre op diet I had to have a salty drink everyday which was a gravy stock cube with hot water like a cup of beef gravy stock lol So it could be as simple as needing salt and that’s your go to salty product.

I crave Chinese food after I go swimming I think my head just want carbs when I am done but for the past 3 weeks when I am just about done in the pool I suddenly think chicken chow mien or special fried rice with sweet n sour sauce would be nice lol Also not eaten rice or noodles at all so its strange! As for other cravings nothing other than in the liquid stage I wanted salad I craved crunchy fresh salad to just be different to the fluid I was taking. Also like my pre op milk diet I craved cucumber even rang and asked if I could just have a little bit got told NO! lol

It gets better! I broke out my skin was dry it was crappy for a couple of weeks, now my skin is much better and hardly any break outs infact my face has been pretty clear and nice skin looking for a couple of weeks now!

i wanted to add a few more examples on whats lurking in my freezer lol In my freezer I still have beef casserole which is mainly beef some mushrooms green beans and carrots, home made sweet n sour chicken and stir fry veg though that when defrosted is a touch dry its like a falafel I needed more sauce when I did it. There is even roast chicken dinner but potatoes hate me so that stayed in there like the roast had chicken veg gravy a potato (not a whoel massive oen a 1/4 roasted one) and some cranberry sauce all blended up. Oh lasagne I added only some of the top layer of pasta with the cheese and blended the meat and sauce with it. So pretty much if people are cooking or you are cooking you pick out the parts you can eat put them together and just blend them up you can add little bits and bobs to make it taste better like I did with the roast just take it into consideration when if your calorie counting (which I don’t)

Its pretty much anything you can shove in a blender/ use a hand blender on Think homemade baby food. I made soups and thickly blended them by using less of the stock. I did fruit purees my fave was peach pear and apple. you do have to cook them down with some water then blend them not just "raw" fruit You can do like chicken stew/casserole and blitz it so yeah pretty much anything you like as long as its healthy of course and if you do fruit like I did its not your all day food choice I did that and still do for a fruit options add it to yogurt or breakfast stuff it all depends. To make the food wetter you just add fluid like gravy, stock, milk, protein shake even. I mainly stuck to thicker home made soups because I had a hard time with all meats so it was easier to just blend a chicken or turkey and veg soup and that be my food.

Should have talked in the line like hope the cat feels better after these stool softeners good job you remembered the cat litter! lol

I threw away the vitamin drops they give me from the hospital utterly gross after the first time I had to allow 14 drops to fall on my tongue I physically had to try not to gag to do it again so I got store own brand asda in my case kids multi vitamins orange flavour chewable you take double because they are for kids and I love them! They are not gummy but my vitamin levels are fine I actually have slightly high iron I was told yesterday so I am good 270 in the thing had them for almost 3 month no issues!

Effervescent tablets are not the same as carbonated I am on prescription effervescent calcium tablets as soon as the tablet has finished fizzing and dissolving its not fizzy and carbonated its flat its just when its dissolving that its going made and fizzing as it breaks up I assume that’s what the zippy things are a effervescent tablet you dissolve in water.

I had a really easy sleep study but it was nothing to do with insurance or if I could or couldn’t have surgery. They put things around my torso and on my finger no mask no oxygen no sleeping pills just me and another chick on the whole ward. I watched tv for a bit in the tv room right by out ward section then knew because I sleep crap in hospital and coz everyone knew i had it just not confirmed et I went to sleep got up a couple of times to pee in the night but did my 6 hours. I found it a breeze. The woman opposite me however cried for 3 hours was on the phone and missed her kids she did settle down and go to sleep not long after I turned my light off and stuff I think it was a kinda your there its nothing bad the only other person in the room is going to sleep so maybe I should too. It sounds to me like you were fighting the whole thing sleeping pills should have had you going to sleep keeping yourself active to keep awake is just counter acting the pill. Speaking to people working yourself up its all ways even if you didn’t mean to, to keep you from just getting on with it and sleeping.

Here read this its what I found and read for more detail http://www.dbh.nhs.uk/Library/Patient_Information_Leaflets/WPR32630%20Bariatric%20Leaflet%20Pre-op.pdf

Your welcome, the clear liquid stage just means no creamy stuff no blended soups no bits. So even if it was onion soups you can have the broth just sieve it to remove all the bits. They say clear because you’re so sore and sensitive right now creamy or blended soups could give you pain or make you sick as its too heavy at this stage.

Yes you can just the clear liquid though put it though a sieve

That is pretty cool I would have liked to know how big the bit they threw away was lol