Ms.Cali

It's day two and I'm still in the hospital. I'm having trouble with liquids. I drink one table spoon of Water and I feel like I've swollowed a golf ball and it's ripping my stomach apart. Is anyone else experiencing that?

Thank you mezzane! I think that's my problem - I have to push the nurse button 6 times before one of them show up an hour and half later.

Been throwing up twice an hour - never felt pain like this before :-((

Sleeved - the throwing up hurts like crap. The nurses mentioned nothing about walking - I asked them but still waiting.

So tomorrow is D day! Only a few more hours for surgery! Yikes.

Thank you all - these are excellent choices.

Hello... Can anyone recommend a good protien shake that is low is sugar? Sugar is one of my migraine triggers and I find a lot of these shakes are very high in them. Thanks!

@thenewme32 - if you don't mind sharing what you took for your headaches? I'm in the pre-op stage and I can't take my normal migraine medication because of the aspirin content. They gave me a new prescription to take every 4 hours but the meds wear out after two hour. In migraine hell right now :-((

Prayers it will go well for you :-)

Going through similar situations where the drs aren't seeing the full picture/process and make no sense most of the time. So I learned to be my own advocate. Constantly reminding them of what has to happen and when. My surgery is now getting delayed 3 days as well. The diet sucks and knowing I have to do it three more days isnt fun - but the worse part is that I can't take my migraine meds because of the aspirin in it and the substitute meds aren't working. Yayyy fun. Only advice I can give is to focus on the positive and just know things happen for a reason and typically these reasons are in your favor. I tell myself it's Gods way to fixing a situation :-) Good luck with it all!!

Thank you!! Appreciate it ????

How did your surgery go with this dr?

Mine is scheduled for 12-12-12 as well. Love the date! But I got a call from my patient advocate yesterday saying we have issues with my insurance approval and my surgery may be delayed :-((

Thank you all - I feel better now.

My pre-op endoscope is scheduled for tomorrow - from learning about the precedure - I'm not looking forward to it. Any advise or feedback on your expereice? Thanks!

Exciting news! Keep up the good work!

I picked my date 12-12-12 - thought it would be a cool date to mark this change in my life.

I had my labs done a few weeks ago - surgery scheduled for the 12th - they withdrew the blood from my arm - like they do any other tests. They took about 11 vials full of blood - but nothing that was too painful. You should tell them you want it taken out of your arm vs wrist. If the lab technician is not trained to - ask for another that could. FYI... I have small viens - so I ask them ahead of time to use the children's size needle :-).

hahha! I'll try not to!

Thanks all for the feedback. It looks like the pre-op diet differs from person to person and dr to dr. But nonetheless it's all similar.

Hi All - I'm new to this form. My surgery is scheduled for the 12th of Dec. Starting to get nervous with mixed emotions!

My surgery is Dec 12... I only have to do one day of liquid diet.

I was told to eat no more than a 1000 calories a week before surgery. The day before surgery to limit myself to liquids. Does this sound right? My surgery is Dec 12th.