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</p></blockquote> <p> </p> <p>I checked it out and you're right! According to Trademarkia, Dr. Kim owns Fortify Nutritionals (and the trademark), which makes BariEssentials. Wow.</p> Yeah, I flat out asked them when they said I had to order the shakes from his website. I had a good visit yesterday. PA said the pain is from the hernia repair. I had a pretty large one I guess. Also the gas pain isn't fun. I had lost 11 lbs since surgery on Monday which felt great! So, I've lost 37 since starting the weight loss process. I lost 13 on the shakes for 4 weeks.

What kind of shakes are you having? The BariEssentials protein shake that my doctor required (4 a day and nothing else of substance except for 1 c of chicken broth) for one week pro-op, was so vile that I couldn't keep it down. I was either vomiting or a breath away from getting sick. He doesn't let us pick what protein drink to have - it has to be either BariEssentials or Optifast. I called to see if I could have anything else and they VERY reluctantly let me switch to Premier, which I can tolerate without any nausea (at least the chocolate ones). Only 3.5 days to go. I'm looking forward to the surgery even more now since it will start my journey to being able to have stuff other than the protein shakes. I wish you luck! Lucky you! We obviously use the same doctor as he owns the company that makes BariEssentials. I had to drink those shakes for FOUR weeks prior to my surgery on May 5. Right now I'm struggling to get all my liquids in, still having quite a bit of pain, and oh the leg cramps. I see the dr again for follow up tomorrow before trying to get home to Kentucky.

Alicia, my surgery is scheduled for May 5 too! On Cinco de Mayo my fat's going BYE-o!

My doc has me on FOUR weeks of shakes. It seems that almost everyone has done 2 weeks. Is this an exceptionally long time? My husband just had the surgery 4 weeks ago and he didn't do any shakes but we have different doctors.