Christopher

I have felt bad after meals when I didn't slow down what I was eating. Are you making sure that you eat a bite and chew chew chew, put utensil down and wait a minute, then repeat? Eating too fast makes me feel horrible. I try to make my meals of 2oz last almost 30 minutes.

First make sure you have a nice pill crusher, I got mine at Walgreen's. I usually make all my meds into a fine powder and then mix with vanilla yogurt in a medicine cup. It's still not the greatest but it's tolerable. The yogurt is sweet enough to help cut the bitterness. I take a Flinstones Complete chewable vitamin and a sub-lingual B-12 first by mouth. Then I crush up a Pepcid AC max, my BP pill, Actigall, and biotin and then mix into a medicine cup with as little amount of yogurt as possible, make sure to leave a couple little baby spoonfulls of plain yogurt to help cut the bitterness after you finish off the crushed meds. Hope that helps, been doing this for 5 weeks. Good Luck!!!

That's awesome!!!

Wow, you're looking great!!! It looks like you turned back the clock, and are way younger than the first picture. WTG!!!

I took about three weeks, but I think I could have come back after one week. I felt great, there was little pain from the surgery itself. The only hard part is getting the timing down between all your vitamins and calcium and your meals, drinking your water and getting in your protein shakes in a timely fashion. It felt like that's a full-time job in itself keep up with things. Good Luck!!!

I just tried Tyson chicken breast tenderloin strips on the grill both yesterday and today and it went down fine, but I felt full after trying 1 ounce with gravey to keep moist. Today is my 1 month surgiversary.

Good Luck!! , I'm 3 weeks out today, and I was really surprised how fast the body recovers!!! I feel great and the surgery was a lot easier than I thought. I hope that you will have the same, Keep us posted.

My Surgi-vacation is over after today!!! I'm little worried about how things are going to go in the working environment. There's a lot to keep up with at the beginning of my journey as far as the vitamins calcium, meds, meals, protein and getting all your fluids. Does anyone ever get out of whack as far as getting all your nutritional needs, meds,fluids and protein down when you are at work? I've done great at home, but it seems like it's a full-time job just to keep up with everything. So I'm a little nervous about adding my real job into this mix. I am an MRI technologist, and we don't normally get scheduled breaks or even lunch for that matter. We normally try to just eat whenever we can if there's a small break.

If you haven't read the book "Weight Loss Surgery for Dummies" by Marina Kurian, it is a great reference book and goes over bypass and sleeve surgeries. I would highly recommend this book!! Each surgery will have there pros and cons. I choose the bypass because many friends went that route and had great success and my surgeon had an excellent record for performing the procedure. You may want to research the surgeon that would perform the procedure and find out how many bypasses vs sleeves are performed at their facility and ask for a record of complications for each surgery. Good luck with your choice. PS: you can get an e-book version of "Weight Loss Surgery for Dummies" on the Kindle or on the Kindle app for iPhone or Android phones also.

Sorry to hear that you're having problems. I'm about three weeks postoperative from RNY. My surgery went pretty smooth, I never felt the twisting sensation that you described in your prior post. I definitely would make a few phone calls before making the trip.

Prays are coming your way!!! Stay strong !!! Keep us updated.

My doctor has strict guidelines of no alcohol for eight months.

Pensacola, FL - Sacred Heart Surgical Weight Loss Center - Dr. Jeffrey L. Lord, MD, FACS, Bariatric Surgeon