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I have surgery the same day. I bought woman's mega liquid vitamins from GNC along with a liquid B12 and a dissolvable bitotin that goes under your tongue. And a chewable Vitamin D from the Unjury site advertised on here. Hope that helps.

Prayers and wishing you a quick recovery tmrw. I report to hospital on Tuesday at 6am to get sleeved. Can't believe its already here.

I'm self pay and it took me one week to do all of the testing, blood work, egd, ect and I got my date once I passed the cardiologist part. I have a surgery date of June 3. So I am presently on my pre-op liquid diet.< /p>

I have surgery the same day. I bought woman's mega liquid vitamins from GNC along with a liquid B12 and a dissolvable bitotin that goes under your tongue. And a chewable Vitamin D from the Unjury site advertised on here. Hope that helps.

You look awesome! Congratulations!

I'm a self pay. My company's insurance does not have an "obesity rider" which allows for approval of the procedure for insurance purposes....early stage company with lots and lots of healthy people, so they felt they didn't need to pay for the rider. With self pay, the wheels do move faster, which I really appreciate. I'm maxing out BLIS insurance so all the various complications are covered for the max period possible. Having spent that money and my luck, all will go swimmingly. That's what I'm hoping!
Congrats to all June sleevers! Nice to meet you and share the journey!

Cannot even believe it's already been 10 days!! I was so freaked out about doing this and had so many buddies back out at the last minute and I just kept telling myself, I CAN DO THIS! I DESERVE THIS!
I will tell you that I had problems waking up from surgery. I was not taking deep enough breaths to get enough oxygen. I got combative with nurses and it took 3 people to restrain me. (Don't remember any of this)
I was up and walking 2 hours after I got into my room. I had manageable pain, and little problems drinking fluids. My biggest complaint was the large incision pain and the gas. I felt like my ribs were cracked or something. The tissue surrounding that area is still sore. After I got home I slept in my recliner for 3 nights cause my induction pain was too irritating. It was hard and still is hard to get all fluids and Protein in.
I started puréed foods yesterday and had no issues. I had a soft scrambled egg and it was amazing! I had puréed tuna with mayo today and it was divine. I do have what feels like gas resistance. when food hits my stomach. It's like pain, grumbling and gurgling. I was told it's just gas resistance and to take my daily acid pill and it will get better.
All in all it's been pretty amazing! I feel really good I look good and I'm down 21 lbs in 3 weeks!!
I hope this good experience continues. Just thought I would share.

First post...I'm June 10th! I just got the date today! I'm excited about the new journey. I'm trying to read the Emotional First Aid Kit book, it's very helpful!

I'm June 16th!

June 3rd for me ????

I'm scheduled for June 3rd

I'm scheduled for June 3rd

Cherrytree, I had surgery on a Monday and was out shopping by myself that Saturday. However everyone's surgeon's techniques, medications and postop routines are different. In my case my surgery was around 12noon and they had me out of bed walking @ 4pm and I walked and had fluids that whole night. I never received or needed any narcotic pain medication (I had a non-narcotic med I was given to take around the clock for 3 days postop and after that I took children's liquid Tylenol when I had pain). I was released the next morning and had daily visits to the doctor for dressing changes on day 3 and 4 and had a JP drain that was removed day 4 as well.
Hope that helps. Someone else's story may be very different
Jaylowe, I am most definitely nervous about maintenance down the road. Everything changes so quickly after the sleeve it almost doesn't seem real to begin with. This is not something that will solve all of our problems. Someone (stupid) asked me about my weight loss and when I told him my method, he said "oh, you took the easy way out" (refer to previous posts regarding people's commentary). I can only be hopeful that down the line this will be a tool that will assist me with being more healthy and maintaining a decent weight so I'm not excessively heavy like I was again.