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Thank you!!

Hello I'm wanting to stay in contact with fellow April 30th! I am not good on this thing and don't know how to add friends ( if possible) etc so please help me do so so we can stay in contact.

Thank you for replying to this thread. You're the sort of sleever was hoping to hear from. Not just people who've been slightly nauseous or uncomfortable for a few days post-surgery!

Your welcome.....oh how I wish nausea and being uncomfortable we're my only issues. :/

I really hope you medical issues are resolved. I'm sorry you have had so many problems. Thank you for responding. Do you think some therapy might help you come to terms with your food issues.

BTW- this is not a judgement . I have read many posts about people with regrets and I am trying to understand. I am trying to understand the people who can not come to terms with their respective issues. As for me' date=' I no longer want to buy big and tall clothes, worry about fitting into an airplane seats, or have my wife endure comments or stares or try to justify or defends me because of her good looks versus my obesity.[/quote']

Thank you I sure hope my medical issues are resolved too. I actually was already talking to a specialist/therapist before my surgery about my disorder that caused me to gain rapidly and never let it go, and she thought this would be good for me too. I still see her twice a month. She can't believe how little I eat, and is worried. This just wasn't good for me to do, a regret, and I just have to deal with it. Might be great for others but I wish I woulda listened to my husband and kids and intuition and not gotten it. I did it thinking positive and that everything would be ok, but it ain't. And that's just my personal experience. I'm very glad for those like you who have had a better experience with it and hope it continues on that way for ya.

I'm sure not everyone is going to be happy with their decision to have surgery. What do each of you respectively regret so much? Especially those who say they researched the procedure for quite awhile and the ability to back out ahead of time.

I regret mine because I thought I would bs able to at least have a bite of food without vomiting. I didn't expect to not be able to drink Water. I didn't expect to mourn food so badly. I also didn't expect complications such as my hematoma I formed. Before surgery I never over ate much. I have several metabolic conditions that cause me to retain weight and store al as fat. One of which is too much grehlin. Soothe drs thought his surgery would reduce to none, well it didn't and I still am producing too much. I just wish I could go back in time an not have done this. But all I can do now is deal with it for the rest of my life.

I'm dealing with this now. I'm 5 weeks post and I feel terrible. I haven't ate in 5 days . Dr said if I can't get nothing down by Friday he is putting me in the hospital

I hope ya feel better and have no regrets. You sound like me when I was five days out except my drs didn't do anything!

I was sleeved on jan 28 2013 and the first couple days after surgery I vomited everything I tried to put in my belly including Water yes I called my doctor and was admitted to hospital and stayed for a week and yes I had a stricture' date=' it was awful and yes I had a lot of regrets but today I am 65 lbs lighter and loving my sleeve![/quote']

Hoping I too will get better and have no regrets. Thank you

Hang in there. You are still very early out...you will feel better in time. The first 2 weeks are pure h&&' date=' and then, the next two are just a tad better. ..but it does get better. I am 12 weeks out...I still struggle with drinking & eating, but not as much...it gets easier, just give it time. Once I was able to eat a egg & toast (3rd week by my dr guidelines) - I felt much better. Everybody goes through a regret stage - hopefully, you won't regret wls in time. Very few people do, I am one of them, but I am in the minority. Focus on Water til you feel better, and then, the Protein. You may not feel like it, but make yourself walk...you will be able to drink more easily.

Contact your dr if the vomiting and pain persist or becomes unbearable to be on the safe side.

Best of luck to you. Wish you the best.[/quote']

Thank you for your support And advice!

You need to insist on seeing your doctor. The ER is not the place to do diagnostic testing unless there is imminent need.

Yep I did and he said hats where they have the equipment for testing and to see him after I see er! What a waste of 100 in copay! I feel like Noones listening to me at the Drs.

They really should give you some anti-acid medicine for a while to help your sleeve heal. I'm sorry they aren't very responsive to you. Not a safe practice to let a WLS patient go without answering her concerns. Have you tried warming your Water or cooling it to see if it goes down better? I do better with warm than cold now.

Thank you for the advice, it seems cold Water does to down easier for me. I will continue that!

I just saw that you were sleeved on April 30th. You should be able to eat anything' date=' but not for a while. Small, small amounts is all you'll be able to eat for a few months. I am three years out and cannot eat 1 cup of food and in fact, my surgeon doesn't want me to EVER eat more than 1 cup at one time. You are only a month out, what are you eating. Be gentle, your new little tummy has been through a traumatic event!!! Measure and/or weigh EVERYTHING you eat. I was measuring my 1/8 cup of broth the first week and 3 years later, I STILL weigh and measure my food. I know how much I can hold, and I try and under eat my sleeve, it is a lot more comfortable. At your stage, I'd recommend nothing veggie wise and not even chicken, pork or beef other than maybe ground beef. Half a scrambled egg with a few sprinkles of 2% cheese. An 1/8 cup of 1% cottage cheese, tuna in Water, again, about an 1/8 of a cup. Steam some shrimp, good Protein and easy on your tummy. Skim milk, I start every morning and end every day with a cup of skim milk. This too shall pass, but make sure you are starting new habits, good habit. Don't drink when you eat, and wait for 30 minutes afterwards before drinking. Eat on a salad plate, I do this too. Weigh, measure and log your food. I use a seafood fork when I'm at home. Make these things part of your new life, it helps.[/quote']

Thank to for all your kindness and advice. I have been using fitness pal to track what little I'm able to eat and drink and I will continue. I guess what it ultimately comes down to is thinking I was ready to make this life change and I was not. I am mourning food. I may also have something wrong and will hopefully get to the bottoms of it soon when I can get the drs to listen. What's really upsetting to me is that I never did over eat much. I have several metabolic conditions that made my body store everything as fat and not release fat. That's why I did the surgery was cuz I produce an over abundance is grehlin and the drs recommended this surgery cuz I would reduce the amount and hopefully won't begin compensating and producing more in what's left of my stomach. So I still have a lot of grehlin and an hungry, yet can not eat much at all.

So confused!

Misty' date=' I'm fairly new to the forum but I've noticed what you said is true. What surprises me is the lack of serious research. I went to support groups and looked up the good and the bad. One can't be guaranteed anything in life, but you can be prepared.[/quote']

I researched for years and still regret my decision. And that is my right. I was prepared.

I think it's interesting how the "regret" posts come in clusters. They are all over this forum right now. It's like they feed on each other. I will get flamed for this but sometimes I wonder. Those posts sure do attract a lot more attention than " I'm feeling great and obeying all the rules" posts do. Maybe it's a weird kind of bonding or popularity? At least the ones that regret without any complications?

Well I regret mine and most definitely don't say so to "be popular or bond". That is rude of you to say. I have a right to say say if I regret my decision or not.

Oh and I do have Zofran for nausea but not many left. And no meds for acid reflux

Thank you ALL for your responses, I hope you all see this reply, cuz I dunno how to respond to each of ya separately. :/ but I for sure am not over eating. I have only vomited twice and each of those times were literally after just like three bites and I chewed WELL. I see, I couldn't eat even puréed food even till my fourth week! Took ALL day to drink four ounces of Water. Getting one Protein Drink in was an all day ordeal too. My Surgeon told me to go to ER for testing. The ER only checked to see I I was leaking which I knew I wasn't, for some reason they refused to do an upper GI test. I do have pcos which does cause me to scar tissue in abundance internally after any surgery. I wonder if that's what's happened is a stricture. I wish the Drs would help me! Thanks for listening and Sharing with me.

I regret mine very much so and I did have not one but two Pysch exams prior to surgery. They both said I was a candidate for the surgery.

What's a ppi and stricture? Thank you for your responses. I honestly don't eat much. I'm talking a few bites. I had a lot of problems in he very beginning and couldn't even drink Water without feeling like I had a ball in my throat and couldn't drink my Protein Drinks. The Dr said it would get better and slowly it has but still can t get all my water in daily. I also have a huge ball knot internally under the main incision hat is very painful. He says it may be a hamatoma that formed where they had to repair a hernia and removed my stomach. I go back to dr in a couple months. I just wanna be able to eat a small portion of food without feeling like it is in my throat, and without vomiting.

I was sleeved April 30 and regret the surgery SO much. I'm miserable and nauseas daily and can't eat barely anything. When I try I vomit. I thought this would be so different. I was told before surgery I would be able to eat anything, just less of a portion. I'm not able to even take a few bites without being miserable and it vomiting. It is depressing me and making me physically ill. Irreversable... What was I thinking.

I totally feel ya and regret mine right now as well. I did immediately and still do! I was sleeved April 30th. There are moments I forget I'm sleeved and then remember when I'm about to eat and I literally feel doom and either cry or want to cry. I made a huge mistake.

I had surgery April 30 and can barely drink my Protein Drink or Water and have bad very little puréed food. But when I do have any of the above I too feel burning and pain. Like a ball stuck in my throat, and acid reflux, heaviness. I regret surgery. I'm also having a very sore sharp pain right below mid middle incision internally and if ya barely press there you feel a big hard ball. Is this normal?