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I have found I have become rather lactose intolerant since I started this process. The gas was unreel (room clearing) until I cut out the milk.

Your top is too big

That is exactly the reason I told very very few people. You still lose all the weight through diet and exercise, the surgery just allows you to do it in a more efficient and effective manner.

"Easy way out", HA, that's gotta be the funniest thing I've heard in ages.

Welcome

It's day 7 for me and it's rough but it will get better. I keep having pains in my stomach but I think it is more gas and indigestion rather than hunger. I have been eating cream of chicken soup that I have run through my mini-blender and am trying to cram in as much Protein of any kind when I can and that is suppose to curb any hunger. Also what I remember the doctors and reading told me that they cut out the part of the stomach that generates a hunger hormone. You can do it. Good luck.

Things to look forward to, keep up the good work.

MorganO87, can't give a good reply right now but look up my posting on the matter. Search... "Vicodin Haze" and you should find it.

They are most likely doing the 330 question evaluation you do on the computer before you see the shrink. It will ask the same questions over and over again in a slightly different way. They are looking for patterns in your answers to see if there is something odd going on with your personality. Some of the questions you'll think are nuts and they pretty much are. Don't worry about it too much, the shrink is not the final authority on whether you'll be successful after surgery.

The name is dumb but I like the concept. I'm a big fan of containers. I am keeping WLS on the down-low so I'd rather not advertise I might have had some work done. Otherwise it's a good idea.

Looking good!

Damn Girl

I had surgery on Friday and so far so good. Most of my pain at the moment are in the six spots where the incisions were made. I have been trying to go longer and longer without pain meds, mostly taking them before I go to bed. I may actually go and log-in to get some work done so I do not burn up any more vacation time. Getting up and walking around the hospital made the process of dealing with the pain a little easier. There are certain ways if you move will feel really bad so I learned the best way to get out of bed and do other things. At this point, now that the pain is subsiding I am trying to figure out how to eat again. I used to guzzle and gulp Water, juice and soda all day long, now I can only sip and do my best to limit how much I drink at one time otherwise I get air bubbles that inflict instant punishment. I think I am catching on and on my way.

I am glad to hear what the next 3 weeks have in store for me, I'm in the middle of week one. Keep the updates coming, we all appreciate them.

The way they have you hooked up to all those machines how in the world would you not have sleep problems. When they did my sleep study they said I had zero minutes of REM sleep the entire night. I remember that night as being quite miserable. At first I didn't like the idea of using a C-PAP machine but at this point I don't want to sleep without it (or I can't sleep without it). It has given me much better quality of sleep and has actually helped in improving my overall health since I've had it going on a year and 3 months of use.

You look good and only after 3 and half months, that's very encouraging. Keep up the good work.

I ordered a case of BeneProtien powder on Amazon and am adding it to whatever I can. They said you could add it to juice but I quickly found out that it just turns into a glob of grossness so I need to be more creative in my approach. Isopure might be a little expensive because it is a ready to drink product but it is vital we get in as much Protein as we can especially in the early days on the liquid diets.

Looking good

Good luck to you!!!

Just stay out of the "Guy's Room" I made the mistake of reading something in the ladies room and I fell off my barstool in horror.

I was wondering why I didn't see many people posting right after surgery. I am known for live-blogging my life as it happens particularly when I travel. This time around, I had no interest in telling anyone anything. What a weekend!!! I arrived at St Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates (burb of Chicago) and found a very friendly staff and on my bed I found a bear named Bari. The room was green which I guess is calming but they were running late so I am not sure the paint had the right affect. Various doctors and nurses would stop by and I told them all my life story, if you looked official I talked. Finally I was taken back toward the operating room. The injecting the first part of anastesia to make me loopy and at that point everything was "awesome" and I had to point it out to everyone who would listen. Once in the OR they put the mask on me to shut me up. I have no idea if they ever asked me to count backwards from 10. The last thing I remember was when they blew up the bag I was laying on to make it easier for them to transfer me to the surgery table. Next thing you know I was somewhere else. I don't remember much from the recovery room other than moving over to a recliner from the bed and also being in quite a bit of pain. After a couple hours in the recovery room they wheeled me over to my hospital room for the remainder of my stay. I liked my room, there was a tree outside my window that was a gathering place for a couple hundred small birds tweeting away about their day. I found out that they leave the tree at sunrise (go to work, run errands, etc) and return right before sunset. It did not look like anyone worked from home. I really enjoyed the birds every evening and morning. I thought they'd might be a little annoying but at some point they collectively decided to all be quiet. The first night was rough. I could not sleep for various reasons but mostly because it was quite loud, bells and whistles going off on random intervals waking me through the evening. The most annoying alarm was all my fault the first night. We discovered I have inherited a heart abnormality from my mother that drops my resting heart rate to below the alarm threshold. I'd doze off and that damn alarm would go off. The nurses were confused so they called the doctor on call and had the alarm threshold lowered. They were impressed with my resting heart rate, they said that will benefit me as I lose weight and get back into marathon running shape. Day 2 and 3 were about the same, the 3rd day was better than the 2nd. The nurses were quite accommodating and I became a bit of a fixture due to me doing laps around the 2nd floor every few hours. I became progressively better as the hours went by and by Sunday afternoon I was ready to go home. My home sickness was not due to being away from familiar surroundings or even the cuddling power of my 2 cats, I wanted to go home because the cable channels were anemic. I got home Sunday night just in time to watch "Live from the Red Carpet" and then the Oscars. Was it funny, I'm not sure, I was pretty hopped up on pain meds so everything was funny to me that night.

Surgery went well yesterday. I'm working on the gas, that seems to be the main source of nagging pain unless I move or try to sit up and that's just terrible. They say I am doing well.

Look who I found waiting for me when they took me back for surgery.

Thank you and indeed.

Damn Girl