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How are you doing Leena?

Practice drinking tiny sips. I have to quickly remember not to take the normal big sips I was doing before surgery.

I have two big bruises along the sides of my lower belly, one on each side, and 3 or 4 blood dots near them. Those could be from the Lovinox shots but I can't figure out what the bruises could have come from....... not anywhere near incisions. Do they use clamps to stabilize our bellys during surgery or something? I know when I had my robotic laparoscopic hysterectomy I had bruising but that's because we're put in a few positions but this wasn't done robotically. Anyone else have/had unexplained bruises?

Booooo Mamie. That stinks. It's probably a good thing though

Yay!! :-) of course in moderation. Can I just lick it now? Chew it, spit it out?? Lol!! Just kidding!!!

Thanks everyone. Ya, we can watch the Food Network all day and it didn't bother me but when that Little Ceasars commercial comes on.... oh man! Drooool. Lol!!!

I hear you Carmen. We are 5 days post op and this sucks. BUT every day is a little bit better. Hang in there :-)

Well I ever be able to eat a bite of pizza again?

Haddockseyes, I get you. If a colonoscopy or even an ekg was required for my surgery I probably would have backed out. My anxiety with medical procedures is off the charts and the less the better. It IS a psychological thing and its frustrating to live with. I've had a gyns finger up my ass one time in my 20's and never since by any gyn, even my reproduction endocrinologist. No way. If they want to cop a feel then they need to do it under anesthesia with me. Yes, it's a psychological thing. Irrational? Yes, but we are well aware of that too. We know what the consequences COULD be too.

My Dr does not allow pudding or dairy at this point. I would stop eating that and just stick with the protein drinks and water for now

That's what it said on the script insert. Mmmmmmm coffeeeeee. I just took it with a tiny bit of applesauce. Let's hope there is no repercussion. Fingers crossed!

Right but the protonix have to be taken with apple juice or sauce for the ph balance for the protonix. I still haven't taken it. I'm scared.

Not really. He's been kind of an overly sensitive grumpy jerk. It's not how I expected it would be. so I just mind my own business now. He can deal with it himself.

So my husband and I had our surgeries last Friday. He farts and I get jealous. It's this normal? Lol!!!! Hope you liked that little laugh. If it hurt I'm sorry. Lol!

Getting my gallbladder out was super easy compared to this rny surgery. I got gallstone attacks every week for about 7 weeks when I was pregnant with my twins. Couldn't eat anything w/o triggering one. Lived on Slim Fast drinks only. Had to get twins heartbeats on monitors before they would give me the demerol/phenergan cocktail, then wait two hours to get another dose for the pain to stop. Every. Single. Time. I wanted to die. 7 days after emergency csection at 33 wks (severe preeclampsia) the duct got blocked. 3 days later my gallbladder came out. The next day all three of us went home. Gallstones suck!! Good riddance!

How am I supposed to take the protonix granules if I'm not supposed to have the sugar that's in the apple juice??? So first I was afraid to take the Omaprozole capsule because it seemed too big and it did go down uncomfortably and now I'm afraid to take the protonix because of the sugar in the apple juice. I have sugar free apple sauce but worried about that hurting going down too. At the hospital the protonix was given via iv and they did give me apple juice and I drank one with no problem (i did dry heave that night though. Don't know what that was from) but the home "rules" from dr is we aren't supposed to have any juice. This sucks.

That's awesome! Congrats!!

Ditto ^

4 days out and I'm tired of the feeling like a chunk of meat is going down. And that's even when I'm not drinking anything. I don't know what it is. I take tiny sips. How long are we supposed to wait until taking another sip? We are supposed to drink 1oz every 15 min.

not good. Do they know why Leena?

Everyone is different. I had an emergency csection, extra wide, with my twins. Pain meds don't work on me so I have to just deal with the pain as I'm doing now 3 days post op from rny. Do you remember the tightness of muscles around the csection area? It's the same except mid section tightness instead of lower. Walking will help. Good luck!

We are eating two Flintstone multivitamins at breakfast and two at lunch and BA caramel calcium citrite 500mg 1x/day. At least I think that's the regime. This was our first day. I better double check. Lol

Hi all, surgery was last Friday. Got home from hospital yesterday. Doing ok I guess. Trying to get down the required 60g of protein. Can barely do 30g. And water too?? Ha. Every sip hurts like I'm swallowing a big chunk of meat. Pharmacy is out of protonix until tomorrow afternoon. I'm wondering what a good soup would be that is high in protein? Broth only has 2g. Thx

Pureed double quarter pounder, throw in some pureed French fries and a frosty. Oh ya baby. Lol! jk!!!.

I don't know how we're supposed to drink 60 mg of protein. Takes me a day to drink 11oz of 30g protein drink. And water too???