Heather Meyer

Oh Gawd! My mother is the food ****. Thank god i dont live with her. She is always looking at every single flipping package of whatever i am eating at her house and saying "oh my god heather..this food has ---- many grams per serving. Even when she orders pizza and cake for someones birthday. This coming from the lady who drinks green smoothies in the morning and salads with egg on top but comes home from work and eats Hawkins Cheesies and licks the icing off of the cake board and knife! Oh and lets not forget the cookies downstairs that she eats before bed..

According to my surgeon..you are allowed to take NSaids(with food) only if NEEDED. In other words..if you dont need it that badly dont take it...but if you really need it..then take it..but sparingly

You know what i do? If someone asks me...i rub my belly and say "why yes...six months along..arent i looking great?" If they feel my stomach, i simply breathe funny and make my tummy bounce and say "did you feel that?" ...Later on when they see me again and ask about the baby i say " oh i am months overdue..like 12 months...dont know what is up with that baby! Just doesnt want to come out!" Seriously..i have learned to play a joke on them by using their own idiocy. It doesnt happen very often but when it does..why should i be the one crying? Its their issue not mine. I knew Drama club would pay off!

Eeeeekkk...what a rough 48 hours...some kind of intestinal bug going around...guess who caught it? I did! Guess who sat on the toilet for hours? I did.. Guess what came out? Liquid! Why? Oh i dont know..maybe its because this stupid pre op diet is liquid only with no fibre at all. I THOUGHT protein shakes were supposed to be constipating????? I broke my pre op diet to give my body a night off in order to try amd recover...we shall see if it helps.. Crazy to think August is over in 4 Days! Bring on September! Anyone getting nervous yet? I have a fear of flying so this shall be interesting flying to mexico for surgery..Someone punch me out so that i can not worry.

If you really need NSaids but cant take them orally..you can go to a hospital ER or medical clinic and ask for somthing called : Toredol..Its an anti inflammatory injection you can get prescribed. I had the injection for a week on every second day. Just ask your pcp if he can wrote you a script for it..to get it in the hoapit

Im asking for help to stick to this pre op diet. Ive been on a high Protein low carb liquid diet for the past 8 days and i have 2 weeks to go.. tMI: im due for my period within the next week and i am craving chocolate soooooo bad right now...like really bad..i just want to binge on oreo Cookies right now BUT i cant.. i shouldnt..i must resist temptation.. but lately ive been worrying about whether or not i will be able to eat an oreo cookie again or another sweet like a piece of cake without experiencing dumping??? I guess the last minute food funeral has kicked in a little late...it kicked in after i started my preop..and ive been good for 8 days with the exception of a dill pickle on day 3.. I promised my OA sponsor when i felt this way..i would phone her..but her cell phone broke yesterday and i cant get ahold of her now and she doesnt use a computer... So someone..anyone..help! Before i make a stupid mistake

Today is day 1 of a 3week pre op liquid diet with Protein shakes, sugar free beverages and sugar free popsicles and ive failed already... i got through Breakfast shake and lunch=shake+chicken broth and then caved an hour later and ended up eating tequitos and a double chocolate muffin...How in the frig am i supposed to do a liquid diet for 3 weeks to shrink my liver? If it was slim fast plus regular juice i could do it...but I hate hate hate(gag) my Protein Shake powder..it tastes like koolaid thats chalky thats been overly sweetned...think Syntrax protein juice in strawberry kiwi..it is sooo disgustingly sweet...i hate it and i have a large tubb of it! How do you survive this? How does anyone? I feel so "empty" in my stomach all day...and how do you survive when you have a husband and child that eats anything in front of you and buys junkfood?

What are all these supplements im hearing people talk about? I didnt get a list of supplement vitamins im supposed to take after surgery? Are there vitamins im suppossed to take after surgery? Am i going to be deficient?

Bleh! Meh! Day 8 of my 3 week preop liquid diet.. Its odd..I have lost all desire to really drink my shakes or do anything else...in fact even wuen i look at real food..it doesnt bother me right now...its soo odd. In fact i end up having one protein shake for breakfast and end up forgetting to have another shake until dinner...ive been going 7 hours without drinking my shakes....i just dont feel hungry anymore...i feel an emptiness but not hunger.. Guess my body loves low carb. The funny thing is that i havent stepped on a scale for an entire week. Usually i weigh myself everyday but right now.. i have no desire to weigh myself..perhaps its because it doesnt matter wuat the scale says..i still have to be on this diet.

I hear ya on that one..I was just diagnosed with FM and been up and down on doses of gabapentin to treat the pain. I hope against hope that this surgery will improve the quality of my life and rsduce if not eliminate the pain...lets not forget the fatigue. My wprld turned upside down..used to be a university student taking three courses while being a mom..would study till 4am somtimes and now i cant seem to stay up past 10..11 is pushing it and any later then that and i feel achy and sore and sick to my stomach and exhausted

Yes, yes... I know i just said October..but that was the soonest I could do the surgery due to my husband's work schedule. Is there anyone else scheduled far ahead like me? It would be nice to talk to others while waiting...such a looooong wait..I mean..not as bad compared to a 5 year wait out here in Canada when covered by Insurance. Someone talk to me before i lose my marbles!

Port Hardy, British Columbia, Canada

Okay..confession! I brush my teeth twice a day and use mouthwash and i chew gum a lot...and yet my poor hubby has been complaining that my breath smells....GROSE! No matter what i do..ever since the second day of this pre op diet.. i have had the nastiest taste in my mouth and my breath smells like i was a dog in my past life... So how do you deal with this Keto breath? Any thoughts on what to try? Short of chewing gum till my jaw hurts.

Might be worth a shot

Insecurities my friends...insecurity in a relationship is a killer...somtimes as a spouse we do not know just how insecure we are or how insecure are spouse is...pre surgery we may have built a relationship with someone on top of some buried insecurities...we go through marriage feeling secure...thinking life is great and there is nothing that could shake a marriage up...then suegery or major change or transition and all of the sudden we see a transparency in are spouse and in ourselves regarding our own personal beliefs of who we think we are and who we love..love truly is blind my friends..it makes it harder to see true colors until its shaken..