Megan Sadler

I was there today looking. Nothing but frozen sugar on sticks 😩 I’m almost to 32 oz of water today!! I’ll make it before bed time!! They said if I can keep up the 32 oz each day and continue building up closer to the 64 oz I should be okay by the end of the weekend. Ellie for nausea I would suggest diffusing some ginger essential oil it should help I’m still figure out food my normal suggestion doesn’t work in our case because of dumping syndrome. Good luck!! I have a bunch of my nausea pills left maybe ask for another perscription for those??

I asked my nutritionist why 2 weeks and she said this “The 2-week guideline is to allow time for healing in your stomach. This is also the amount of time it takes for digestion to kind of return to normal. When people advance too quickly, we find that is when they have problems with nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea -- which then sets them back further than if they had just waited!” I can’t have jello. My support people have “better” things to do like play video games and abandon my kids for dnd 😡😡😡 so it’s just my husband and I on our own. I can’t find sf popsicles. Might have to check target tonight. I’m looking at what I can eat next week. I asked my nutritionist and am waiting for a response.

I’m partially dehydrated they have me monitoring my drain output and my fluid intake till 4 today. They want to see if I can sip my way back to hydrated and also make sure I’m not putting too much fluid out. I’m waiting till I’m 3 weeks out to go to out walking. I plan on doing that for a couple weeks then upping to work on a c25k program for a little bit. I want to build up to be able to do a mix of CrossFit and kickboxing each week.

I’m down for the count at the moment. Waiting for a call back from my pcp about a uti test which I think turned to a bladder infection (lucky me no symptoms till the whole thing started hurting and burning) we suspect that’s what put me in the ER yesterday.

So update (I’m 8 days post op). Went to my 1 week follow up with my surgeon—yesterday’s snafu May have been caused by a bladder infection or UTI that’s playing with me. 🤒. Not feeling so good today. But I’m getting rest so that’s s plus. Dr wants to leave my drain till Friday.

I’m pretty sure that’s not abnormal. I only came home 1 lb heavier and have lost a net of 9.4 lbs post op. Depends on whether or not you’re releasing the fluids- so I was walking and peeing and such which helped.

I had rny. (Surgery was 8/21). I’m doing a lot of resting at the moment. :(

Also didn’t lose any weight yesterday or today 😭

Ugh 😑 so yesterday I had the worst pain I’ve ever felt. It was so bad. I cried, I screamed in pain—the Er rushed me back and got me attached to an IV and then gave me some dilaudid which helped some. Got another dose and then a cat scan. They think that my intestines were protesting the surgery from last week. I was also a little dehydrated, so after they gave me a 3rd dose of dilaudid and then a bag of fluid which helped—honestly I’ve been trying to drink fluids but they just don’t want to go in. Went home and rested for several hours and then was able to take in another 17 oz of fluid pretty easily. Still not feeling good. They told me to pretty much be on bed rest for the next 2-3 days and take my oxycodone every 4 hours. :( why is this so hard?? Surgeon was in surgery at the time but ER talked to him. And I have an appointment with him in a couple hours so that’s good.

I gained 1 lb post op but have lost 8 lbs from my surgery day weight. I’m 5 days post op at the moment. But before I only lost 10 lbs on the preop diet. So I’m down 18 lbs total. Yay!! I’m seeing everyone say different things.

I’m 4 days out and I just swallow mine whole. My multis are liquid, my calcium is a chew, I have 3 different capsules and 2 soft gels and 2 regular pills. Oh and 1 gummy since I haven’t found a suitable replacement for it. There not that big. It’s liquid I’m having trouble drinking. I used to be able to drink 18 oz an hour now I’m like struggling to get my minimum in each day I haven’t gotten there yet. I’m getting better but omg this sucks.

So I’m thinking about getting a belly brace. But thinking of waiting till after i get my tube out. Also I’m terrified to shower. I’m thinking a ton about food. Guess I have an addiction. But started thinking about soft foods which I know are 3 weeks out but I want to be prepared—I use instantcart for groceries especially now—but probably gonna pay for shipt membership too since they have different stores omg my head is everywhere.

I haven’t got gas x yet. Found out I no longer like chicken broth 😩 but Campbell’s YES! Minestrone with kale (strained) tastes good and goes down easy.

I had my surgery on 8/21. The gas is worse than the incision pain. I’m home now and litterally just forcing the farts and it helps... walking around and trying to get my fluids in. Was supposed to start on my vits today but will have to start tomorrow because I forgot them. Oh well. Hopefully I’ll lose some weight this week I’m up a pound from surgery day... 😭

I had my surgery on 8/21. The gas is worse than the incision pain. I’m home now and litterally just forcing the farts and it helps... walking around and trying to get my fluids in. Was supposed to start on my vits today but will have to start tomorrow because I forgot them. Oh well. Hopefully I’ll lose some weight this week I’m up a pound from surgery day... 😭

I went to my pcm (i have tricare prime, and am on Carson) she sent out a referral for me to get gastric bypass. so now i am just waiting on the paper from tricare about the referral. Has anyone on here had gastric bypass at Evans Army Community Hospital on Fort Carson? How did it go? how was the surgeon--what all did you have to do between the referral and the surgery date. TIA

Went to the first appt with the psych evaluation. The fact is that years ago i tried to commit suicied. and last year i did have some issues, that were stressfull to me. BUT i have gotten the help i needed from therapists! instead of harmful ways of coping i am doing things like, talking to my husband, writign out my feelings on paper and walking. all things that are helpful to me. i am functioning better and and am in a more stable invironment. i have worked things out. But the psychologist basically wants to hold me back and keep revisiting the past. they dont want me getting my life back. I am trying to move on, after having sought out the help i needed, to get to this point. i put off even starting this process during that time. WHY do they need to put me back there again? I was open and honest. now i feel like maybe i should have just lied to them about myself. yes i have had issues in the past but i dont want my past preventing me from having a future. and they dont care. they told me "well people always start out with the best intentions but people just dont stick to it". GRR! This is making me angery. I want to be able to run after my kids, and not be in pain all the time. i want to feel better about myself and. i want to be healthy and they wont let me get there. i have tried traditional methods to lose weight and it just doesnt work.

I think i just figured out how to make this work! My depression is a symptom of PCOS.... study's have proven RNY Gastric Bypass can completely reverse PCOS and its symptoms! Between that and therapy, id be completely fine! They have to listen to that. thats fucking medical science on my side....

i hope. I am just so mad at them that they want to have me go live in my past again. Ive worked hard to get here. i do not want to go backwards. Im ready to move forward. why cant they just let me?

unfortunatly, they wont let me go back. not till they make their decision.

today is my first dr appointment. wish me luck. its in like 2 hours!

im pre-op still but i bought this cookbook http://tinyurl.com/n79l8xo its called Eating Well After Weight Loss Surgery: Over 140 Delicious Low-Fat High-Protein recipes to Enjoy in the Weeks, Months and Years After Surgery hope that helps. i cant wait to start eating some of those recipes.

well not weights. How long after my surgery (which should be in the middle of may or early june) before i'll likely be cleared to hold or pick up things that are heavy (ie. my 3 year old toddler, and my 2 year old toddler) assuming everything goes the way its supposed to? whats a general time frame--my mom is keeping the kids till im able to take care of them again after this.

so by like 5 weeks post op I should be alloud to pick my kids up?

How long after my surgery (which should be in the middle of may or early june) before i'll likely be cleared to hold or pick up things that are heavy (ie. my 3 year old toddler, and my 2 year old toddler) assuming everything goes the way its supposed to? whats a general time frame--my mom is keeping the kids till im able to take care of them again after this.