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Today I am 3 days post op. I am doing pretty good. No major issues as of yet. My surgeon dr nick nicolson was great. He's the best in the field in the DFW area but my hospital stay at Forrest park medical hospital was horrible. The nursing staff was rude and was no comfort to me at all. They all acted as I was an inconvenience to them. It was a horrible experience for me. But now I am home and doing pretty good I think after my surgery which was on Tuesday morning.

When I had my sleeve I weighed 265 and before that I was almost 300 lbs. Now almost 10 weeks later I have gone from a size 22/24 to 14. I feel reborn and like a new person. I'm so excited that I'm getting my old body back. I feel confidant and sexy and alive again, however my husband seems to have very little to say about it. I'm getting a slew of attention but not from my own attention which we all know can be dangerous. I'm I doing something wrong here. Don't I deserve to feel all these feelings. Any feedback would help. Anybody go through this?..

Defiantly sounds like my situation And good for you for standing up! Sounds like that's exactly what I need to do. Thanks for the encouragement.

@it's not u it's me. Thank you for your candid response and I do agree with you. I have no intentions of cheating on my husband. I'm just very saddened and disappointed. I went thru hell and back to get this surgery and had a very rough recovery. I even lost my job over it because I was not covered under disability at work. But I am amazed at myself to see in just 10 short weeks the weight I've lost and the transformation has been just awesome and so exciting. When my husband met me 8 years ago I weighed 130 which was my normal weight pretty much my entire adult life, wore a size 6 and never in my wildest dreams would have ever thought that by age 33 I would weigh almost 300 lbs after moving to good old deep fried Texas. But it happened. I watched my husband pull away for 7 years and again at one point told me that if i didn't lose the weight he'd leave, once again he never did physically leave but he checked out long ago. So here I am today wearing a size 14 and only 60 lbs away from my goa weight and what do I get from him....nothing...I don't understand...I am happy again, I'm ready to tackle the world, I'm pursueing my dream and enrolling in nursing school but all I get once in a blue moon is "you look pretty". And he says it with no enthusiasm. I guess I'm just not understanding. I did this for 2 reasons number 1 my health and 2 my marriage, to give not just me but my husband back the women he fell head over heals for. He always used to tell me how beautiful i was and took me places and romanced me, he was so in love with me. He says he still is and wants to be with me and makes things better but those have been just words, no action. So as I feel so sexy and alive again I can't seem to get my husband to respond to me. I'm not arrogant or conceited about the situation, just excited and happy son why isnt he. This is what he wanted....I'm so confused and he's stealing my joy...i just don't know what to do anymore. I feel stuck....

I am 3 weeks post op and I've only lost 20 pounds. All the sudden at 3 weeks the weight loss stopped. I am drinking my protein and not eating anything that contains fat. I have lost 2 dress sizes but it just seems like I should still be loosing at least a pound per day like I was. I did this surgery so I could get back in the corporate world and to be attractive again to my husband. Am I doing something wrong? If anybody has any feedback please let me know what I can do to go back to loosing the weight. I just want to feel normal and beautiful again. But i must be doing something wrong. Dr says I can't go back to the gym for 5 more weeks so I'm just walking. Any advice anyone?

I was sleeved 5 weeks ago. The first 5 days were hell and I cried and regretted having the surgery thought I would never get better. But by day 8 I was back to normal and have lost 30lbs. Good luck to u and keep us all posted.

Go on the internet and look up signs for leak after vsg. The pain I had was on my left side as well. It was horrible but its because that's the side they pull your stomach out of and my pain was from the surgeon cutting my nerves and that was a burning pain sensation. If u have a leak your symptoms would be severe abdominal pain, vomiting and fever. And when in doubt call your Dr or go to the er.

I say you are very lucky with things going so well. You should be thrilled. I went thru 10 days of pure hell. The only thing I would say is stop eating yogurt. You can cause a leak if u don't maintain liquids only. Even if your Dr said its OK I would not drink anything that does not go thru a strainer for 3 weeks. I new of a women who had one spoon of yogurt and caused a leak in her stomach and was in the hospital for 2 months on a feeding tube. But other than that its awesome u feel so good. I was sleeved 5 weeks ago and have lost 30 lbs. Keep up the good work but don't let the fact u feel so great fool u. You had a major surgery so just be careful.

Thank you roadmap

Thank you all for your responses. I appreciate it. I've read all these story's and watched a bunch of you tube videos where these women lost 100 lbs in 6 months. So I guess I expected the same thing.

I am three weeks post op. I woke up in the middle of the night and ate half a hotdog. Am I going to blow up my pouch. Has anybody else eaten something they weren't suppose to. Please answer. I'm scared.

I swear I'm not trying to sabotage myself or my diet. I already lost 30 lbs but I'm so scared. I was half asleep until I realized what I was doing.

Are u sure I'll be okay. Should I try to throw it up

I self paid. 4,000 to Dr and 8,200 to hospital. I'm in Dallas tx

So everybody , I made it. Dr nick Nicholson is one of the best and he said everything went great. So far the recovery room experience was the worst because I am allergic to morphine and that what they give everybody is a morphine drip. None for me so I think they were just figuring how much dilaudid to admin on the pump. I did great during the day I walked 3 times, I'm burping just a little so that can be pretty painful but I'm OK. I actually gained 5 lbs and the nurse said its because of all the liquids I'm consuming thru my iv and all the liquids they are making me drink. I cannnot have more than 1oz of fluid every 15 minutes. The worst part of the pain is the big incision they made where they pulled my stomach out of. Ewwww and painful. Other than that I'm doing pretty good.

I am 3 days post off and due to the gas pain I have had to sleep in an upright position. The 2 nights I spent in the hospital I slept reclined up and last night was my first nighth home and I slept on my reclining sofa and was very comortable that way. Laying flat in bed or on my side is not an option for me right now....

Tuesday is my surgery and all of the sudden the fear has kicked in. I am so scared to have this surgery and don't know what to expect when I wake up. Am I really going to be able to do this. Am I really going to lose the 100 lbs I need to lose. Just feeling unprepared emotional and flat out scared.

Thank you all for your kind words. I'm so glad I found this website. So happy to have a group of people to lean on.

Thanks Lawrence for the response. I've been so excited for the past 2 months and all the sudden I'm so scared. And yes I beileve in god and know he will watch out for me. Good luck to you on Friday and keep me posted on how you do...take care

Its 2:50am and I was starving for a pancake, so I made on pancake and used just a little butter and one tablespoon of maple syrup. So u think this will cause my surgery to be cancelled next Tuesday????

I have heard and seen so manybcomments from people saying that if we cannot follow the pre op diet then we will fail after surgery. I think that is all crap. Most of us have been eating whatever we want and whenever we wanted too, this is why we are having the surgery in the first place. I struggled the entire 2 weeks but it's a learning experience and we will learn how to eat after surgery. Changing your life takes more than a 2 week pre op diet. I know I am going to make mistakes but you bet your ass I'm going to pick myself back up and try it again. My only concern is today is that even though I stuck to my pre op diet as far as what foods I could eat, I did have days I ate over the 1200 calorie limit and yes I did cheat a few times, I have 3 days til surgery and I'm going to hunker down and stick to all liquids and not exceed 700 calories per day, I will be devastated if my doc has to cancel my surgery....