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Would be interesting to know.

With an energy intake that low of course you can't.

I think meal planning is easiest when you're alone/only preparing for yourself. No need to pay attention to any likes or dislikes except your own. tupperware like stuff and the microwave are my best kitchen friends since a long time because I don't like to spend a lot of time for meal preparing. I steam batches of mixed vegetables and cook rice in the microwave and can store it in the containers I used for cooking in the fridge. I buy prepared mixed salad greens so I don't need to do the chopping and cleaning.

Don't get me wrong. I just wanted to point out that it's that uncommon in Germany that patients are not even asking for it if it's not offered.

@@Djmohr Seems to be different in Germany. I never even had a patient who asked for a local injection before an IV stick.

Me, too.

Never have seen this. I mean like - never. We use Xylocain before we insert sheaths of course but not IV sticks to administer contrast agents. I also never seen it at another hospital so far. Sometimes when it comes to little children they put a kind of cream on the skin that is supposed to dull the pain a bit. Don't know how good that works.

Yes, I don't like the AC myself that much when it comes to injections. The veins do (usually) not blow but the automatic injector regulates down the pressure rate and flow rate when the needle doesn't work properly. However, for cardio scans and PE scans the AC is a good place. The patient mustn't bend the arm though. In my experience the veins on the soft inside of the forearm seem to be more prone to blowing when it comes to higher flow rates but maybe I'm making things up in my mind, lol. In general I have to take what veins are left anyway. Usually the patients have already been sticked multiple times (several IV lines over the course of the hospital stay, multiple blood drawing).

Ok, I'm dumb and clueless here - what's this about lidocaine and IV starts?

Yes, our radiographers are usually only placing needles into the AC - and most of them need to see the vein to place the needle. Most of them also fear the hand and the bigger needles that are needed for higher flows and would never use the forearm. I always shake my head when they get one of the radiologists because the patient said "I'm getting chemotherapy", I get there and I see veins in which you could throw a needle into while still standing at the door of the room. They assume that all patients getting chemotherapy automatically have bad veins without even looking. Ugh.

Ah yes, placing needles (usually for administering contrast agents)- I could sing a song or two (or more) about this issue.

To make it even more complicated, it depends on the approach a nutritionist or RD follows if a certain food is considered healthy or not.

But if your abdominal muscles are still weak and can't contact properly (remember, there are several incisions there), the lower back has to do more work and that might be causing back problems.

What does "little weight loss" mean? I'm sometimes surprised at what people call "too little weight loss". WLS does not magically create turbo-fast metabolisms. To burn 1 lbs of body fat a certain amount of energy has to be expended, surgery or not.

Is the pain in your lower back? When doing e. g. squats you usually use your abs to stabilize. When your abs don't work properly yet, your lower back takes over.

I focus on the immediate outcome. Endorphins and/or relaxation. And if the day was really hard (especially on top of an awful being on-call shift the night before) the best exercise may be going to bed early.

Nothing wrong there. 33 lbs in 6 weeks means a weight loss of 5.5 lbs a week.

Indeed. I was quite surprised that at first I didn't seem to be able to get any real tension into the abdominal wall like the muscles have to learn to engage properly again.

That's about what I was told though they said I could do the stuff that doesn't cause discomfort. However, I got surgery about 10 weeks ago and only since a few days there is really no discomfort when engaging the abs so that's pretty much in line with the 12 weeks. No heavy lifting and no sit-ups to prevent hernia where the incisions have been.

Ok, it seems to be better already now.

How long did you notice the discomfort? It's still the same feeling I had when the gyno pulled at my uterus - just by far not as painful.

That's good your sister is satisfied with the choice. I took a bit of magnesia and a pain pill and will sleep a little bit on the sofa. Just called in sick.

*sigh* I'll just wait and see. Hubby says to be patient, it was like a "little surgery". I guess he's right.

I talked to a few women and they said the placement was not pleasant but after that they were happy with it - very weak periods if any. When taking Cerazette I had a bleeding maybe twice a year and it wasn't painful at all. That thing cost me 300 Euro (Mirena and placement) - hopefully this resolves today. Gyno said yesterday the body needs a bit of time to adjust to the foreign body in the uterus. I hope my uterus will accept it. The pain is not like "OMG, I want it out!" but it still is a pain. @ What do you use now? I thought about getting Implanon first but women seemed to be more satisfied with Mirena (after all 5 years of not bothering about this).

Oh boy, got my Mirena yesterday afternoon and it was pore painful than I thought. That pull on the uterus... BLAH! I'm still having pain that feels like "I'm having my period and obviously diarrhea on top" and that I was very familiar with before I went on the desogestrel pill years and years ago (well I have my period, so...). Hopefully this resolves today. I'm going to call in sick today. *goes to the couch with a hot cherry pit filled pillow on belly" I obviously underestimated this Mirena thing a little bit.