BPruitt1987

You are ready and I KNOW you can lose the weight to get this surgery. You have been there for and with me the whole time I have been getting ready for this and you know what it entails. You aren't going in alone and we are gonna do this together.

I sent you a friend request on Facebook to join the group. It's under Blair Pruitt. Thank you

Hang in there! This is what I tell myself every day for the last 6 days. Just keep thinking how great your life will be at the end of the journey. I'm scared of the pain also, but figured I had a baby naturally and if I can deal with that, I can deal with this. Both kinds of pain are temporary and each day will get better. On day 2 of my liquid phase, I would have given anything to suck the salt off a potato chip but I held strong and the urge passed. Yours will too, just keep positive.

Truer words have never been spoken. The pre-op liquid diet is a bi****. That's all there is to it. It's almost no calories... your body is entering ketosis... you still have to go to work every day... and you still have 100% of your stomach! SUCKS!
Post-op is very different. I wouldn't say "easier", just very very different. You'll still just be on liquids, but your life will depend on getting those liquids and you will need to work at it all day long like it's your job. The only "hunger" you will experience post-op will be head hunger and/or excess acid. Hopefully your surgeon will have you on a PPI for the acid. But if you are like me, every single food commercial will drive you crazy with head hunger. Even though you KNOW that eating those things in the commercial would literally put you in the hospital, you will see them and think "THAT LOOKS SO GOOD! I NEED IT RIGHT NOW!" It's going to take your brain a while to catch onto the limitations of your new stomach. But it will happen eventually.
For right now, just fight through this pre-op day by day. You will have all new struggles post-op.

I'm scheduled for April 13th and I'm really starting to get nervous. When I get thinking about it I get kinda sick stomach. I've never had a surgery before and I only have ever been put to sleep for a short time when having and endoscopy done for this surgery but that wasn't bad. I wish every one good luck who is having surgery soon.

Well I went shopping today for my pre op liquid diet supplies, which I start Wednesday the 6th. This week I have my final appointment with my surgeon on Monday and as well with starting my pre op diet on Wednesday I also have the pre op testing at the hospital. Then Thursday is my primary Dr clearance. I real busy week. Not to mention getting this settled at work before I leave for my surgery which is the 13th . I'm getting really worried on how I'm going to feel, during the week without really eatting, and having so much to do. I can't help but feel so overwhelmed with everything.

Hello..I want to start by saying that I have NOT had the surgery either yet but I am also in the process of my 7 month dietician program. I am completing my 6th month tomorrow along with the first set of blood work and then my last one January 25th. I started my journey in July this year and I have definitely had my ups and downs with the surgery, whether to get it or not. Can I do this and I CANT do this. I've cried in bed for hours wanting to give up because I want to eat or because I want a cigarette. It is definitely an emotional roller coaster but I can say that every time I cry and get it out of my system I'm ready to jump back on the band wagon. I've had a bad month this month with the holidays my scale says I've gained 9 pounds of the 30 I have lost. I had to mandatory lose 17 per insurance requirements. I know what you are going through and I have had all those same emotions. I think that we are just so scared that this surgery will not work for us and that we are going through everything for nothing but I know we aren't. We just have to remember why we are doing this and how excited we get when we think of how much better we will feel and how we won't have to be on all these medicines and the energy we will have the feeling of being able to walk long distances without our feet killing us and our backs. You CAN do this. I just started this community and this is my first post and I have been reading stuff on here all day and just the excitement people have and the good things people have said have made a difference in how I feel about it. We are all gonna do this together. YOU can YOU can YOU CAN do this!!!!!

You can do this. I think I had all those worries before I had my surgery but I know it is one of the best things I have ever done for myself. I have lost 93# since my journey started. On my last doctor visit they reduced my cholesterol medication and he said that maybe on my return visit in Jan. that I should not have to take any. My blood pressure is down. I am using less pressure on my cpap. I have so much more energy and am enjoying life so much more.