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Is your blood sugar normal? Were you type 2 before the surgery? It’s hard to control cravings with these issues unless you are very careful about controlling carbs. Does the bariatric center you used have a post surgery support group? Can you schedule appointments to be followed with the dietician? Get yourself support especially from people who will help hold you accountable to yourself. I did not do this stuff the first time and regained. Now I’m getting ready for a revision and in hindsight I see what I should have done.

That is exactly what is hurting on me as well. The burning happens worse when I walk. He said its normal. But I don't think this much pain at 16 days out is ok. I'm going to look for compression wear but even pants hurt when I wear them. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App I know this thread is several weeks old and hopefully OP is feeling better by now I had left side pain for about 3 weeks that made it difficult to get up from my chair or bend to tie my shoes. It was burning and also constantly felt like I had a huge cramp in my side. I had to put pressure on my side in that area to stand up or bend over. Finally one day, I was getting up from my recliner and used my abdominal muscles to do so and felt this huge, sharp twang in the spot where I would have the cramp. Viola, burning and crampy feeling gone, never to return. I think they stitch something to your abdominal wall with a stitch that eventually dissolves and 'let's go' or I had an adhesion that broke free or something along those lines.

I recently read that you can not build muscle while losing weight. The article said you can tone what you have but not build. I'm not sure whether it is true or not but it makes sense. You have to have something to 'build with' - enough calories and Protein but it seems like our diets are enough protein to try and prevent muscle loss not add muscle. I too have had stalls starting pretty early, the scale does not budge for a month then I lose a spurt then stall again. It is frustrating but probably partly due to the fact that I'm turning 50, in perimenopause and also have PCOS. Surgery doesn't fix all those things so while it was nice to have the first 60 pounds or so melt, the next 15 were a lot harder to get off as I am sure will be the remaining 50 I'd like to lose. What is frustrating is to have the surgeon or nut suggest you may not be following the eating plan. I don't think PCOS cares how I eat. In the end I have changed my habits and feel better for it and hope the weight will keep slowly coming off. Once the crazy 1-2 pound a day weight loss stopped and I started stalling I too had the 3 D's but then just stopped weighing myself so often and decided I would just have to be patient.

Darn this place is so disorganized. I'm nervous just based on that. The surgeon I chose has an excellent reputation so I'm hoping he overcomes all. I had shoulder surgery there 3 weeks ago and it was an AWFUL experience - they put me in observation for two nights after which I did not realize meant I was not admitted. The care was lax, the pain meds did not really work for me, the ONE sympathetic nurse spent a whole 12 hour shift trying to get the resident come see me. It would have been helpful just to order my shoulder be packed in ice since I had to beg for ice every time and they would bring me one pack instead of the 4 I needed... The weight center, one hand doesn't know whatthe other is doing, a rogue psychologist (who was let go at 6 months) cost me 3 months by telling me she was required to require me to go to therapy - tried to make it sound like it wasn't her order, I do not need theray!!!!! She decided based on the fact that I had seen a therapist 25+ years ago that I need to see one now. I could not schedule an appointment until last week for follow up because the one psych that was left was booked due to having to take a this wingnuts patients.. It seems like a bunch of other things too..so 9+ months in for no good reason and I finally have an appointment with a surgeon but I'm losing confidence in this place. Anyone else have a less than organized experience here? Please tell me once the surgery part came it all fell into place!

Also, make sure you are taking your iron. I was checking by BP and BS with dizzy spells and they were always ok then I realized I had often been missing my iron supplement. It the beginning i was also not spacing my iron far enough away from my calcium so probably wasn't getting enough due to that either.

I was a little moody the first few weeks but then came this amazing energy and motivation. I'm not sure if I just feel better because my blood sugar is lower or what but I'll take it!

No I do not mean the pain docs treat the patients as criminals. I mean everywhere else they go, once they say they are under management of a pain doc they often get put into pretty crappy situations. When I had my rotator cuff surgery in the fall, the pain meds they gave me were not touching the pain and I asked for fentanyl. just knowing about fentanyl apparently makes them suspicious and I had a horrible experience because they treated me like a drug seeker and I had two horrible nights in the hospital without pain control for one of the most painful surgeries. Bypass surgery in November - I explained that morphine does not work for me, they started me on diluadid which gave me side effects, the next step was fentanyl pump no questions asked. Less than 24 hours later the pump was discontinued and I was sent home. It is just pretty stinky that you can go for a drug test, get a false positive and then have to feel like you have done something wrong - when you haven't. It seems the go to position is to assume guilt until innocence is proven.

Wow. So a P-doc diagnoses a patient with ADHD and wants them on Adderall but is not allowed to prescribe it? So the patient with the pain doc has to go to the pain doc and convince them to gov them Adderall even though it was not the pain doc who diagnosed the disorder? Help me understand this. Seems bizarre to me....but I guess it is our system to treat pain patients like criminals and drug seekers. I have a friend who just came off fentanyl after 13 years as it was causing her pain to be exacerbated. She is lucky in that while her body was physically dependent on it, she was not addicted to it. I've seen how she is treated if she goes to the ER for anything, even if it is not something that would require any pain management. That in itself is criminal.

I am 16 days out and just had this experience a few minutes ago. I stood up from my recliner and felt a large twang in my belly by my main incision and now the incision pain that has been KILLING me is gone. *Happy Dance!!!***

I had shoulder surgery on September and learned the hard way to negotiate pain control BEFORE surgery. I found the treatment post surgery for rotator cuff surgery to border on cruel to the point i considered filing a complaint with the hospital then decided I'd hold off since i am still under the care of that surgeon and was lined up for surgery number 2 in November. I made sure to understand how they would treat my pain because morphine does nothing for me. They started me out on dilaudid then switched me to fentanyl when the dilaudid did not do the job. I will never again have anything done to me EVER without first understanding how I will be treated after the procedure.

I don't know what comes next. something changes at 3 weeks but I'm supposed to call my nutritionist and see what to do as my next appointment with her was scheduled 5 weeks out from my surgery. I'm not sure if it is pureed food or soft foods.

I'm doing great. I guess eventually the pain around that main incision will stop burning. I'm only two weeks out on Monday, I'm just impatient because I feel normal in every other way. I feel lucky. Still have chipmunk cheeks though. Real food ought to be interesting.

It should get better but as someone already pointed out this is probably the cursed head hunger as there is no way on a ketogenic diet you will crave carbs. I am one week out and I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't love some sweets myself but I am certain it is only because I can not ahve them as I was not much of a sweets person before. In the past, when I did Atkins (high fat and Protein, low carbs) my carb cravings were totally under control. I think the fat helped and we are missing the fat in this diet. But when I allowed myself a 'cheat' that was it, off the wagon I went. I second the idea of considering a therapist. If nothing else, everyone can benefit from one hour a week where someone has to sit and listen to you!

I had surgery on the 16th as well and I am very upset to be deprived of the gremlin in my belly but I also have the chipmunk cheeks several times a day! I also crack myself up holding it - my spouse thinks I've lost it. I feel pretty great overall...well except for that red hot poker stabbing near my main incision. Wait, maybe that's the gremlin and he is only equipped with the poker and forgot the feather. just my luck.

I had surgery last Monday. I felt pretty crappy the first few days, especially with the incision pain. Also, the first week I was very fatigued. Although I got up and moved/walked regularly (and it was an absolute bitch getting up and down from my recliner!) I fell asleep about every hour or two. I am not someone who ever can nap during the day so this need for sleep is quite unusual. I am starting to feel a bit better and am guessing by the end of this week I'll feel pretty good. Hang in there, the worst is over, now you just need to rest, make sure to get all your liquids and protein and things will get better.

I first went for the stool softener but the one I have is a liquid filled gel cap so not splittable. What do people use?

I had surgery last Monday the 16th. On Friday I felt the same way, it was just "right there". I used a ducalax suppository, worked like a charm. I have a feeling I'll be doing the same today or tomorrow.....

Everything went great! The surgery was actually at Memorial hospital thank god! I've always had good experiences at Memorial. I went in Mon the 16th for surgery and everything went very smoothly. I woke up in recovery in the most pain I have ever experienced in my life, someone was right there asking me how my pain was and I swear they took care of that in about a nanosecond. I was kept in recovery for a while to make sure I tolerated the pain meds as I had told the doc up front morphne does not do much for me, oxy makes me itch...they put me on dilaudid and watched me for a while and I started to itch so they switched me to fentanyl and kept an eye on me for a while. So, I was very happy it was not at all like UMass where I was treated like a drug seeker! They brought me to my room which was a really nice room. I had a roommate but the rooms are great in that the beds were at opposite ends of the room rather than side by side. The rooms are quite large so you are a bit away from your roommate so don't hear every snore or gasp or their TV like it is right in your ear. ALL of the medical.caretaking staff were fantastic and very responsive. I still find the weight center at UMass be be disorganized but it is manageable. You just have to be patient and proactive. For example, I'm supposed to do this liquid diet for 3 weeks yet my next NUT appointment is for 5 weeks out. So, I'm supposed to call her around the 3 week mark and tell her how I'm doing and :see what she says". I constantly feel like I slip through the cracks somehow over there. It's the best thing I've ever done though. Not one second of regret!

No pre-op diet. Liquids yesterday including protein. This morning I can have clear liquids up to two hours before I show up to check in at 11 am.

Me Too. Good luck everyone!!

Good luck to you both!!

I'm bummed. I'm up 10 lbs from my last weigh in which was probably two months ago. Since then I have stopped swimming 4-5 miles per week and have had rotator cuff surgery, was in a sling for 6 weeks and am in third week of PT so very little physical activity. I have eaten more carbs than usual the last few days and in the process got glutened which also causes me Fluid retention. In addition I am also premenstrual, worth 5 pounds alone. So, it seems the perfect storm...my preop workup is Monday so I'm hoping some of the gluten or premeunstral fluid is gone by then. I have not gained anyting since the surgery and then all of a sudden BOOM. I hope fluid retention does not cause a delay to my surgery, if my pre-op were on Wed instead I'd probably have shed that whole ten pounds. I've never been given specific instruction about having to lose a certain amount of weight or anything. Through this whole process 'i lost some then gained a pile right after surgery which must have been related to the surgery because 5 days later I was weighed and it was gone. I just have a tendency to retain fluid. But WHY does it have to be now?????

I had an epiphinay yesterday. I started blood pressure meds and then doubled the dose last week. I think that is part of the problem as I went online and see people complaining about the weight gain. It just doesn't make sense why I suddenly have so much extra but I'm down 5 this morfing so go figure. Maybe it's a conicidence but yesterday I only had half a dose lef and my wight is down. Hopefully the remaining 5 will vanish by morning! I don't think it's salt, I don't eat much salt and drink a ton of Water. Sorry, this probably should have gone in the support forum instead.

November 16th here at UMass in Worcester MA.

I know this is an old thread. I'm approaching RNY hopefully by the end of October and have these concerns. I also swell and break out from nickle and hypoallergenic ear rings. I had a screw about 15 years ago as part of an ankle repair that had to be removed 2 years later because it was moving aroind and enlarging the hole in my bone. I later read that this type of issue can be caused by the body rejecting the metal. I've read of rare cases of allergy to staples, one where the woman just had a lot of random symptoms like joint aches and such. My body seems to develop intolerances to everything if exposed long enough so I'm nervous. I've been wearing medical grade titanuim earrings for 4 months with no issue although if I do not take my antihistamine me ears get itchy....not sure what to make of that.