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Eeeeek! I am all about being adventurous and I LOVE hot dogs but being adventurous on a newly cut and stitched tummy isn't the best idea, in **my opinion**. Hot dogs aren't soft and eating off your diet after weight loss surgery is a personal choice, but not one I'd choose. . There is plenty of time for hot dogs later! I took precautions lol - very small bites and chewed until they were mush. Also.. I had all my Protein in and I had calories left over and my fat and sugar macros were on the lower end (that's how I decide if I can splurge.. I track meticulously on MFP. ) So I decided I could let myself have a treat I've also been tolerating other kinds of meat well (chicken, and fish - which are both on my plan as long as they're chewed well at this point) So this is only what I did lol not what someone else should necessarily do - only my own experience. But I admit I'm very adventuresome at times.

@@SiSSi829 I may take heat for this.. but two months of liquids is insane. If you think you feel malnourished and weak now.. I can't imagine what it'll be like in two months.. I know this because quite honestly I felt how you did and not really like a full human being again until two weeks when I was able to have pureed food.. the Protein drinks and Soups and the like just didn't give me enough energy. I would consider looking at other plans from other hospitals and picking something more moderate... - like a common one is 2 weeks full liquid, 2 weeks puree, 2 weeks soft food, then reintroduce new foods gradually. Like I said people may massacre me for suggesting to go against your doctor's wishes but I can't even imagine how on earth they would expect you to do two months of liquids.. most people struggle to do two or three weeks... You may find the need to educate yourself because it's better to be prepared and educated about what to do if you just can't handle it than wind up eating bacon again next time. This happened to me.. by 7 days in I was so sick of liquid I was either going to not get anything to drink that day or I was going to have some real food.. I just couldn't do it.. So I researched what I should try at the next phase (puree) and did the most gentle options (scrambled eggs with cheese, cottage cheese, and refried Beans pureed) it helped a lot and I know it was the right decision for me PERSONALLY whether my doc would have been okay with it or not.. And I was prepared for that because I'd researched what came next.. If this happens to you again.. and you have some research down.. then you'll know what you can have puree wise if you become desperate. Just my thoughts. Also.. don't beat up on yourself.. bacon wasn't maybe the best choice.. but all you can do is go forward from here.. don't feel depressed and give up! 20 pounds since June 15th is a LOT I'm losing slower than many people - 26 pounds total since my pre-opp diet began on May 18th and Surgery may 31st.. but I believe that even though I may be slow going... It'll stay off better if it comes off gradually. I'm losing enough to still feel successful.. think about what you'd be losing without surgery - it'd come off far slower than 20+ pounds per month. Hang in there!

Hm.. well I'm at the 5 week stage (so a week into soft foods) and I went to a fourth of july cookout last night and went ahead and allowed myself to have a hot dog since they were doing them over the fire which is the best way. I ate it with mustard and ketchup and no bun. Very slow.. It made me burp more than some foods but it didn't make me sick, stayed down, seemed fine. So if you feel like being adventurous you could try it.. I'd only have it to cut the craving though (like me) because they aren't very "healthy"

@@FocusOnMeNow - You might indeed! I love zofran. I haven't been taking anything for the nausea.. but I'm kind of wondering if I should be... it's very bothersome and it often sticks around for hours making it hard to eat and drink properly during the day because well.. who wants to eat when they feel like they're gonna toss their Cookies at any minute. I see the NUT on Friday and I'll ask her if she either has any suggestions or can ask the doc if I should consider taking some zofran on mornings I feel nasty.

Ugh well I've been using a mixture of collace and benefiber and go most days.. if I go 2-3 without I take a second colace and that does the trick.. Still not easy but.. at least it's helping.. the way I understand neither collace nor benefiber are addictive and your bowels don't get to where they "need" these to move right? I'm not at the stage in my diet yet to where I can add in many natural sources of Fiber (still soft foods) so I'm hoping this will improve!

Nope..not that I don't think.. I take my depression/anxiety/bipolar/ constipation cocktail in the morning and my bc/anxiety again/vitamins in the evening with food.

So it seems like ever since surgery I'm often nauseous in the morning - I wake up feeling -really- yucky. Usually a combination of eating something small and mild (i.e. a slice of cheese ) and drinking + 2-3 hours of time helps.. I'm not sure it's just needing to eat and drink though because I don't feel better right after.. I keep feeling sick for 2-3 hours whether I eat or don't eat.. then later in the day it begins to wear off and I feel normal again.. (And no. no chance I'm pregnant lol not possible.) Have any of you experienced this or does anyone have an idea what might be causing it?

Right away - the day after surgery I was cleared to take all my meds including capsules and large pills.. but since I have meds for mental health (which is a cocktail of three) plus my BC plus the pain meds I felt like I had had a full meal once I got all of them down but I was determined not to need liquids lol

Six which I didn't know how many I'd have so I had no idea what to expect beyond that there'd be multiple incisions.

Yes.. I know you're not supposed to drink while you're eating. Yesterday I had a bit of a schedule mismatch because I got so busy that until 6:30 pm I drank a lot but forgot to eat anything but 4 oz of cottage cheese all day. Yes. I am aware this isn't good for my body.. it was an accident. I'm only 4 weeks out so I'm still getting used to "scheduling" meals (especially when I'm busy) because my body doesn't tell me to eat anymore and I'm sooo not used to that - before my stomach would never let me skip a meal.. So I don't have it down to a perfect science yet. So basically let me prefix this with.. I don't need scolding or warning that that wasn't wise.. It was a mistake based on still being new to this.. Anyway - because I ate so little.. I thought I would try drinking a little Water with my supper so I could try to fit in a little more food because.. I did need it.. I had been told drinking while eating was a bad idea because it lets food go through your stomach faster so you can eat more. But it seemed like the opposite happened to me.. It seemed like because I drank I had even LESS room in my stomach to put food in there and got full twice as fast as I normally would. Can anyone explain why my experience was so different than what I'd heard about?

Nope.. lol I've posted about this before but though they did a good surgery and the nurses were great during my hospital stay, my bariatric team definitely let me down on preparation and on responding to my concerns post surgery. I sort of got stuck with the surgeon and the team I had because of insurance requirements so I really didn't have a choice but had I had a choice I think I'd have gone with someone else. But.. I had six pre-opp weigh ins that weren't even at the place I was gonna have surgery because it was an hour and a half away. They were with my PCP instead. I went to a seminar that had so many people with so much range of knowledge (from knowing everything to asking if they could have a big mac in the hospital after surgery - literally that's not a joke) that it was a gong show. I had one 30 minute consult with my NUT about 8 weeks prior to surgery that left more questions than answers. I met my surgeon two times probably a total of 15 minutes if that before the procedure and one of them was when he came back to say hi to me in pre-opp just before they took me back so that was about a minute. My surgeon dissed my plan for weight loss using Water exercise and told me it was a waste of my time and I can't lose 130 pounds doing that. (I plan to prove him wrong and let him know after I hit goal that I did it all in the water) There was no discussion of nutrition or how to eat if you need to make your own meals.. they gave you three options of meals to eat on each diet (liquids, puree, soft foods) and apparently you're supposed to repeat those same three meals without any variation throughout those entire stages (yeah right..) Instead of teaching you what to eat and why they just gave this very limited three meal menu and said stick to this - I think to save time because there were so many of us.. in the seminar - which was just people being sleeved in the same week I was there were about 30-40 people. I won't see my NUT again until July which will be 7 weeks post opp (and mind I haven't seen her again since 8 weeks pre-opp) because they couldn't work with my schedule (which is pretty dang open.. ) because both their NUTs were going on vacation back to back so their schedules were very busy and the one slot they had for me was the same time as one of my counseling appointments that I didn't feel I could miss for personal reasons so since I couldn't take that EXACT time I was shunted out until July - which is fine with me I can research what to eat on my own but did make me feel not cared about.. I wasn't given very limited reading material that stuck to the anatomical descriptions of what happens and what to expect during the healing process with basic wound care info and that was all. When I called in with a question post opp I had to wait 5 hours for a nurse to return my call. They never talked to me about bodily changes like possible constipation or pain management after I went home or how to handle these things or even mentioned that they might happen. ------- Now I'm not posting this to diss on my surgical team.. I'm merely posting it because the OP asked if we felt prepared and I wanted to show how... bad.. frankly it can get in terms of bariatric teams not preparing you. In my case my team is a very busy team.. every step of the way with getting insurance clearance if I didn't call and bug them almost every day it wouldn't get done. I know because my initial referral sat there for three weeks without them doing anything with it or calling me to schedule to come in to start doing testing for insurance clearance.. and everything else was the same way.. I'd call and ask and they'd say "Oh that hasn't been sent off yet / done yet.. I'll get right on it" and then it'd take another 2 weeks with me calling twice more in the mean time. This hospital mixes bariatrics with general surgery so it's always cram packed, extra busy, and no one who specializes in taking care of the bariatric patients.. you're just left to compete with everyone else having surgery to get your needs met so you have to be your own advocate. I'm sure if I hadn't called as much as I did even though I started in October of 2015 I probably STILL wouldn't be scheduled for a surgery date.. However, I feel that no matter how busy your team is there's no excuse for the minimal amount of pre-opp care I received and no excuse for the dismissive care post opp. If you're going to offer a procedure to people you need to have a more structured schedule with real time put in for these things... Thankfully, I know how to research and I did.. I looked up binders and handbooks other hospitals give out to their patients, looked up different diet plans for after, found recipes, read and posted as much on this forum as I could, read medical journals.. but I will say that this forum did more of a job preparing me for my surgery and life after than my bariatric team did... which is a little sad. I worry about the people going through the program who came to the seminar asking if they could eat a big mac in the hospital post - opp.. because left to their own devices they're never going to come out okay and they clearly haven't researched on their own and the team won't prepare them any better than they did me soo

I have a fitbit. I got it while I was on my liver diet - so about 6 weeks ago now and I love it.. I have the flex which is the simplest model and the only one that is Water proof. I talked directly with customer service from fitbit about it because I wanted one that was for sure safe to use in water as my exercise method is aqua aerobics.. and they said the flex was fine to use in water up to a certain depth (which unless you're going snorkling or deep sea diving shouldn't be an issue). It's easy to use and because it's so small it's comfortable to wear and pretty bendable and stretchy (except where the tracker is in of course) it's easy to sync to my phone and it syncs with My Fitness Pal so if I exercise a lot I earn extra calories on MFP for the day (though I don't usually use them but it's fun to see "You have earned 200 extra calories from exercising today!" pop up!) I'd definitely recommend the flex.. now if you don't want to go in the water or don't need to go in the water I really like the looks of their brand new Alta as well.

Not wanting to talk to my surgeon isn't a matter of shyness. It's a matter of his lack of bedside manner and just him and I not jiving on a lot of points it's been an ongoing issue for months where I haven't felt happy with the treatment (and attitude) I've gotten from his staff. To be frank, I was never even told by him or anyone in my program that I could experience this issue at all or what to do if it happened. So returning to them after multiple disappointments on my care beyond necessary follow ups just isn't realistic if I want to get actual answers. Thankfully I do have a great relationship with my pcp and if I can't get it to improve on its own using colace and benefiber (so glad to hear it's not the way I feared ) I'll reach out to him next week. Also, I'm kinda skeptical my insurance will pay for skin removal down the line anyway usually they rule that cosmetic and very few people (unless they were much more overweight than me) qualify for insurance help to get medically "necessary" skin surgery at least that's what I've been told by my surgeon though it wouldn't surprise me a great deal if he wasn't giving straight info about that as well. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Mostly because I'm ultra sensitive to the flavors in liquid medicine and often throw up after taking any kind of liquid meds.. especially cherry but it happens with other flavors too. So it's usually better for me if I can take a flavor-less pill. Like when they did my gastrographen x-ray after surgery to make sure I didn't have a leak I wound up dry heaving for over an hour just because my body didn't agree with it. So to avoid losing Fluid.. it's better not to take the chance.

So the herb lax I took helped significantly (if it's not TMI I had about 4-5 stools since taking it) It was gentle on my body which was what I was hoping for since it's a combo of all natural herbs. BUT My stomach is still super sore and queasy.. like it's hard to eat or drink because it makes me sickish and sore and I still dont' feel completely emptied :\ is this normal? I expected to feel back to normal after taking it but I've been feeling pretty yucky all day.

So what is this colace? Is it a pill or something you mix with food? Or is it tasteless?

Ahem.. That Sound of Music meme is the best. Possibly because I'm trying to imagine Maria von Trapp speaking like that and just can't picture it XD!!!

Nope. I was not told or prepared for any of that. I learned it might happen or was coming here on the forum.

I did! I lost about 11 pounds during the 6 month diet but most of it creeped its way back on.. I don't think it was anything specific I did just.. the nature of wanting to eat until I felt full and not needing that many calories. Luckily I'm now down 20 pounds at 3 weeks out and couldn't be happier You're not a statistic and you can beat this thing.

Being able to live an active lifestyle and do hobbies people my age enjoy like white Water rafting or water skiing! Being able to show my dog in conformation classes without feeling like it's a major cardio workout Being able to shop in stores for young adults like Am Eagle and having the clothes actually FIT! Being able to look at an outfit I think is cute and know there'll be a size on the rack that will fit me instead of just having to settle for something that's my size even if I don't like it. Losing weight in my arms so they fit normal sleeves again Being able to go through the gates we have up for the dog for when she's wet from the lake without having to turn sideways/ shift my hips. Being able to stand and walk a distance without having pain and out of breath-ness Being able to say I want a thin and healthy significant other in my life without feeling like a hypocrite (and being able to attract one because I'm also thin and fit!) Being able to have pictures taken of me that I won't be embarrassed of for the first time since I was in grade school. Being able to change my attitude and mind about a lot of foods (it's already happening. Tried brown rice and kale the other day and it was delish. I never liked either before) Having enough energy to be able to come home from work and cook real meals and take care of a home and pursue hobbies instead of just having to flop on the couch. To not be tired out by the smallest physical efforts.

In addition to everything others have said here.. I prefer the sleeve over RNY/bypass because they use a different part of your stomach to make the sleeve which makes it less prone to stretching. Bypass uses part of the fundus - top of the stomach - which is a lot more stretchy and it also produces the ghrellin hormone which causes hunger.. the sleeve uses only the non stretchy part of the stomach and removes the ghrellin-producing part. I'm super happy that I chose the sleeve.

@@bellevuefreak have a look into Fairlife milk. It has 13 grams of Protein a cup so it is well worth the calories to drink it since you need to get in about 60 grams of protein a day. Sometimes I drink it straight and sometimes I add it to Soup or other meals that need liquid. And it doesn't taste any different IMO than regular milk.

It's a common thread I see running around this forum.. people asking why they didn't do this years ago. I'm even young and I'm finding myself asking the same thing. Though I'm only 25.. I wish I would have done it at 18 or 20.. admittedly, maybe I wasn't ready then.. maybe I still needed time.. especially because part of my story is finding out at 24 that I had bipolar II without the usual "standard" symptoms of women docs normally see in their 20's so I was very hard to diagnose and went through a period of about three years where I alienated everyone but my very closest friends because I was so hard to be around -- with a low of winding up needing to be admitted to a psych ward to get it all figured out. I definitely learned who my friends were (and who, surprisingly, weren't...) I am also social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and depression.. so I spent the last year and a half in counseling trying to get my mental self to match the well-put together self I present to the world thanks to years of being on stage growing up. I learned to show myself as put together - graduating magna cum laude and being responsible even if I was falling apart inside. So I needed to deal with all of that first before I felt ready to confront my weight. But finally I was ready. It started about 1 year ago. I had been feeling bad about my weight for a while. I was overweight during my childhood. My grandmothers both grew up during the Great Depression.. so for them.. giving me food was the same as giving me love.. especially high calorie foods. For them eating wasn't about hunger.. it was about enjoyment and thankfulness to have food to eat. (One was thin, one was overweight). But from them I learned to love all the wrong types of food and to love them in gigantic portions.. My stomach was already way stretched by the time I was 7 or 8. I remember weighing 85 pounds in 2nd grade because we did a math thing where we all weighed in front of the class. There was only one student, a boy, who weighed more.. during school I dealt with a lot, I mean a LOT of bullying because I was mature and just different - I'd rather read a book or write a story than go out for recess and I was reading Romeo and Juliet while they were reading Junie B Jones (For the Record I like her too even though she's a huge spoiled brat). Basically I had a generation gap with my peers since my parents were born in the late forties and early fifties and their parents were much younger.. so I was already -extremely- bullied. I didn't make my first non-internet friends until college.. and those were some of the people I found out weren't true blue friends when I went through my emotional break down a couple of years ago... So yeah.. and it didn't help that I was overweight.. that was just something else to give them to make fun of me about. As it turned out.. even though I wasn't doing even as good as I am now in therapy one year ago.. I was doing better than I had been in years and that gave me time and energy to turn my thoughts to the weight I'd been unhappy to be carrying around for years. Before college it bothered me.. but I didn't think about it a lot.. it was in early college when I hit 200 and started having trouble finding clothes that would fit me in your typical stores both like Macy's but also stores that people my age like - Aeropostale, Am. Eagle etc.. that I started to have a personal crisis about my weight and be super unhappy with it. Shopping became my least favorite thing because it was an exercise in taking whatever would fit rather than whatever I liked. And by a year ago I had started to notice I couldn't do or keep up with the same types of activities most people my age do. I love showing my dog Riff in conformation and was learning that I couldn't keep up with her jogging on our down and back (jogging beside the dog so the judge can see his or her movement properly) and that getting on my knees to present her not only hurt but was nearly impossible. I started to be even more unhappy because I couldn't do the hobbies I loved that people my age are doing. And in the meantime for the past 5-10 years I'd been trying every diet known to man.. I didn't feel like any of them were sustainable for a life time because I was unhappy with them. And rather than yo-yoing I just didn't lose. Didn't matter how well I stuck to a diet, I'd find myself losing maybe 5 pounds in 7 or 8 months of hard work.. and finally I gave up.. I was near the point of accepting I was just going to be overweight forever and that was how it was going to be. I knew my issues - I don't eat for emotional reasons, I don't eat when I'm not hungry.. but my stomach was super stretched from years of eating too much and I like big portions and the wrong kinds of things. I could go and polish off a huge plate of food enough for three meals and feel "Just about right" and I didn't have the self control to starve while I waited on my stomach to shrink naturally.. I just couldn't do it. I had heard things about gastric bypass that made me say no way never.. things like "You'll never be able to have any sugar again." or "You'll never be able to have fried foods again." While I'm happy to make lifestyle changes, things like "Never again" aren't something I'm capable of. So I ruled out surgery for a long while. Finally, a year ago I looked into it again and read about gastric sleeve for the first time.. and it was a fit.. not as serious as gastric bypass.. less prone to things like dumping syndrome.. and all about moderation rather than "never agains" more healthy choices.. less bad ones.. but I didn't have to promise I was never eating Pasta or never having a fried chicken leg again - which was something I knew I couldn't agree to. There was less risk of serious complications and it was a plan I thought I could actually live with and be happy and it went right to the root of my issue - shrink my stomach so I can get used to a normal portion size again without having to starve. Something I haven't had since I was 6-7 years old. Within two days of researching I was ready to commit. But of course getting my medicaid to pay for the surgery wasn't as easy as deciding I wanted it - even though I looked over the qualifications and knew I met them - I still had a lot of hoops to jump through. In October I started my 6 month phys supervised diet which only convinced my doctor and I that I needed the surgery even more. I ate 1500 calories a day and walked my dog most days for 30+ minutes (which was a significant step down from what I had been eating and step up from my sedentary lifestyle) and lost only 11 pounds in all that time. And part of it came back! Getting cleared psychologically was a battle too. They wanted a psychiatrist who didn't know me to evaluate me even though my own had already sent a letter of approval.. and the psychiatrist who I did see didn't really want to clear someone who was bipolar.. it was a battle, but finally I got cleared. That by itself took over two months and delayed my surgery which should have been in March 2016. I also had to have blood work, a number of physician check ups by my program's docs and so on. But finally all the hard work paid off.. on the first submission to insurance, I was approved within a week! How excited was I! And my surgery was set for May 31st 2016. However, the roller coaster wasn't over.. I had little contact with my bariatric program from the get go... they share a department, nurses, etc with general surgery.. so calling to talk to someone there is always a nightmare.. it's a 30 minute wait to get a human on the phone, calling to talk to a nurse means a 5 hour or more wait for a call back.. and it also means a very unpersonalized approach.. they're so busy and have so many people through their program that they want everyone to be a cookie cutter mold and don't want to offer people any individualized advice because "others in the program might want the same advice." Well number one - others in the program shouldn't know what -I- discuss with my doctors so how could they want it and number two healthcare isn't supposed to be about squeezing people into a mold and making the exact same treatment work for everyone... so I began to be unhappy with my program from early on.. especially when their psychiatrist and my psychiatrist got into a fight over the phone about whether I was going to get cleared. Their psychiatrist had met me only once and knew nothing about my case history while my own psychiatrist has been working with me for about a year and half.. who do you think was more qualified to say if I was stable or not? But aparently their program couldn't understand that.. However.. I was stuck.. Medicaid wanted me in state and this program was the closest to me and already an hour and a half away.. the only other options were double or triple that commute time (Chicago). So I just kinda had to stick with it.. I've gone on to be further disappointed by them at numerous occasions - namely when my surgeon said that Water aerobics is a joke of an exercise program and only for people who can't do anything else and that I couldn't hit my weight loss goal of 130 pounds doing water exercise of any kind (there's a thread floating around about that). Clearly he's never taken a hard core water exercise class or he would know that is so not true. I took my first one Friday and I was sweating in the water! Finally I did get to have my surgery though! Before surgery I had an 800 calorie diet for two weeks focusing on Protein and lean meats and veggies and reasonable on carbs. It wasn't too hard of a diet to follow beyond getting hungry because my stomach was huge. Surgery day came but I was excited rather than nervous. especially because all of us May 31st sleevers from the forum (there was about 10 of us) made a facebook group so we could keep in touch and that really helps to have other people who are exactly where I'm at in the recovery stage. I didn't have much trouble recovering from surgery. I never had any gas pain and even though I was in pain in general the first three days they gave me lots of morphine and kept me very comfortable. While my program as a whole is somewhat disappointing - I do have to say that the nurses who took care of me in the hospital couldn't have been better. They helped me walk. They helped me get up to go to the bathroom and helped me adjust positions in bed since I needed help doing all that for the first 2-3 days. I brought my laptop to the hospital with me and spent time here on the forums and doing other stuff I like -- even played some Sims. My recovery was uncomplicated and three days later I was able to go home. My internal swelling went down fast and by a week out I was so sick of liquids that I couldn't help but try a little puree and it worked just fine to help supplement and keep me from going nuts. One thing that's been very helpful to me is Fairlife Milk. it's heightened protein milk with 13 grams of protein for a cup. I drink it straight and also add it to my Soups. It helps a lot in getting in my 64 oz of liquid and my 60 grams of protein. I've been using an app called Plant Nanny which lets you grow plants based on how much Fluid you consume then you can plant them in your garden and harvest their seeds to get more diverse plants.. it makes drinking at least slightly more fun. I also wear a fitbit flex and it's synced with My Fitness Pal. I log my calories on MFP and my exercise syncs there from my fitbit automatically and tells me if I've earned extra calories from exercise (though I rarely use those). I was never given a calorie goal to shoot for but I set a goal of 800 for myself based on the pre-opp diet and what I can eat and get in 60 grams of protein without feeling too stuffed/ too deprived. I'm on my own for a lot of it because I've only met with the NUT once for 30 minutes pre-opp about 2 months and I won't see her again until in July so... I just read and do the best I can. So yeah I'm 3 full weeks out from surgery on Tuesday and also down 20 pounds since May 18th (the start of my pre-opp liver diet). I faced the three week stall at about week 2 instead of three and I was down to a new low for the first time in a week today so I'm hoping that it's broken and I'll have a bit of smooth sailing for a while from here. So.. that's my story so far. I don't know if people post in these to update but.. every once in a while I'll post back and let you guys know how I'm doing.

My recovery has been pretty blissful beyond some annoying constipation - I did have a bit of tightening after my hiatal hernia repair which happened at the same time as my sleeve but they just gave me a few doses of steroids and it was fixed. Beyond that it was perfect. I had no gas pain at all. I was able to stop narcotics a couple of days after I got home and after a couple of days of tylenol I was off pain meds entirely. I was able to eat cottage cheese and eggs with cheese a week out from surgery with no problem at all. I was able to drive within ten days after surgery (could have sooner but really felt up to it at that point). I took my first aqua aerobics class on Friday and was able to keep up with them and it was a good work out.. I'm looking forward to doing it again tomorrow. My incisions are all healing well. I'm gradually introducing new soft foods and each one has been responded to well (except Peanut Butter for some odd reason - we'll try that again in a few weeks). I'm having only a little residual discomfort from my incision sites and stomach now.. I'd say within a couple of weeks It'll be back to normal in terms of having no discomfort and like I never had surgery in that regard. So this is a positive story from me Even though the first day after surgery was painful I remember waking up that morning already -knowing- I had made the right decision. And that was pretty cool.

Remember.. like they said on the other page.. Acrylics are super expensive.. a new set can cost upwards of 40-60 dollars depending on where you live... big picture it's worth it to take it off for surgery.. small picture YES I can see why OP is freaking out about it. In my case they said to remove polish but when they found out I just had French tip they told me I could keep it on because they could easily see my nail beds to monitor me during surgery. I was using Jamberry rather than acrylic but it would likely work similarly.