PrettynSpirit

January 9th
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Good luck, by now you should be sleeved and up walking trying to get rid of those gas pains. You'll feel so much stronger knowing YOU did this!!!!! When I go in for surgery my husband won't be able to go either as we have 2 kids he'll have to take care of, so I'll also be alone. You can do it ????
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Sorry this is a bit old, I hope it's in time to help. When I had my EGD the anesthesiologist asked me if I use marijuana and I was honest and told him yes. He told my surgeon and she told me she'd test me the morning of surgery, and if I was positive she wouldn't do the surgery. I found out she doesn't always drug test but because I told the anesthesiologist I did use marijuana, she would test me for it. This was a month before my surgery. I weighed over 300 pounds and smoke pretty much daily. Marijuana is stored in the fat cells. There was no way I could do that (although I tried). I tested myself before and was still positive. I had to substitute urine because I wasn't going to let something out of my control stop me from getting a surgery I desperately needed and that I had done everything required of me for months. Not only that but I have bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression, and ADD, and marijuana helps me with those. I'm on a couple different medications but consider marijuana one of my medicines. If I lived somewhere it was legal I'd definitely be able to have a medical marijuana card. Anyways, my surgeon didn't end up testing me after all that!
As for the munchies, I'm not gonna lie, sometimes I get them. But since the beginning of November I've lost 40 pounds(half of that time I was smoking daily.) My surgery was the 20th and I've lost 15 pounds since. I've started smoking again since the surgery as well. It's all about changing habits and not giving into temptation. I had to get out of the habit of snacking all the time, and that included times when I was high. If I feel like I have the munchies I ask myself if I'm really hungry and if I'm not I will tell myself "you're not hungry, you're just in the habit of eating.) I freeze zero calorie lemonade and eat that if I'm really feeling deprived. And I drink lots and lots of water! Sometimes I eat when I'm high but that's because it's dinner time. And I only eat the amount I'm supposed to.
Please no judgmental comments. I'm not saying that I was right or that anyone else should do what I did. But I did do what I had to do to get the surgery and I'm not sorry!
Anyways..based on other responses I'm thinking it just depends on the surgeon!
Also, it depends on when your surgery is, how much you weigh, your metabolism, and how frequently you use marijuana. If you do have to get tested you might be able to get clean in time. You can google how long it'll take to get it out of your system to get an idea of how much time you need.
Good luck to you!
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@@Rachel79uk
Why be scared? She did a good job losing almost 70 pounds dispite not being completely prepared for the reality of the surgery. She's had a set back. So what? Life is full of them. We have to learn to navigate our new lives around those set backs, and if we can't do it on our own, we get help so we can.
The reality of it is this:
You MUST change your lifestyle or it won't work. Period.
You MUST change your relationship with food or it won't work. Period.
You MUST find the motivation to keep going when life doesn't cooperate, or when we get 'behavior fatigue' or it won't work. Period.
You MUST feel enough self worth to know you DESERVE to be healthy and happy, or it won't work. Period.
The surgery is such a small part of the equation, really.

This hass really scared me about having mine done. It sounds absolutely terrible??? I really don't know what to say? You sound desperate xx
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Bariatrics to body building Lyss Remaly
http://http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/lyss-remaly-from-bariatric-surgery-to-bodybuilding.html
Not that I think her story should be anyone's goal. I'm inspired when I see what people have achieved

@@theantichick Yeah, I remember starving children in Biafra and all that. My mother, who I love dearly, would tell me in one breath to finish something so she didn't have to put it away, and in the next breath tell me I needed to lose weight. I wonder if that would qualify me for counseling?

But it ain't invisible. ~ Clint Eastwood in Pink Cadillac
I have seen a lot of people asking how to tell if you ate too much. Today I crossed a very fine line, and discovered it is indeed visible, or at least, palpable. I was preparing my normal 3/4 cup of food for lunch. I have learned that 3/4 cup is pretty much the ideal amount of food for my stomach, and it fills me up well. So I put just that much chili in a bowl, and stuck it in the microwave. As I was putting the vat of chili back into the refrigerator, I noticed a package of sharp cheddar cheese sitting there from the other night when we had company.
"Well, that would look good on top of my chili!", I thought to myself. Not much longer than it took me to form the thought, three slices (small squares, one serving) found their way onto my now steaming, but very small bowl of chili. I proceeded to eat at my normal, slow pace, while perusing my favorite fat person forum. By the time I got close to the bottom of my bowl, I noticed that the feeling of food in my belly was reaching the bottom of my esophagus. Those three little slices put me over the top. I finished it, and it was distinctly uncomfortable. I will be sure to subtract the volume of cheese from the chili next time before sticking it all together. Either that, or Jester the dog is going to enjoy a small treat.

Oh no!...Glad they were right there to assist u..immediately!...See, those prayers working in your favor...Get it God!...show up and show out..Get some much needed rest....Joy comes in the morning...There still will be pain & discomfort...but YOU DID IT!..Amen!
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Simply say you need time off to have some surgery. First off, your employer isn't allowed to ask "for what?" because of HIPPA. Second, if she does, say you're not comfortable talking about it now, but you'll be fine and back to work in x amount of time. It's the truth, which means you won't trip yourself up, but doesn't reveal more than you want. If it's killing her not to know the details, that's her problem and hers alone.
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How did it go??
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Were you able to sign up yet? For awhile we blocked anyone from outside the US because people were signing up from overseas and spamming the forums. We've unblocked that again and I'm just having to be more diligent about deleting spam.
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Lol I think ima get a clear plastic gauge expander so it can just sit in there without actually being seen and keep my hole open
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Lol I'll look into another body jewelry store...Clairs will have my piercings extremely irritated
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I'm finally on the losers bench. Surgery went well.
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The heaviest I been was 225 and my current weight 196. I had surgery on 11/15.i guess I'm a slow loser but it's steady
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This was the choice we made. Why should anyone else feel guilty or alter their life because of a choice we made?
It sucks the first time it happens but you get used to it.

Getting my lapband removed and getting a sleeve with duodenal switch!
Prayers, good juju, positive vibes, happy thoughts, or whatever your thing might be would be gladly appreciated!

Katy W- Louisburg, NC
DS scheduled for 12/26

January 9th for me.
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There is always a steady supply for stories... I will warn you. This is a long one. If you decide to plow through this, you might want to get some food first to make it all the way through.
Today I had the privilege of gaining a good look at yet one more facet of our medical system, and so much that is wrong with it. An acquaintance of mine who has MS was in a car wreck a little while ago, and broke his leg in three places. For reasons not germane to the story, he needed a ride to his doctor this morning, and no one to take him, so I stepped in to do a good deed. And you know what they say about no good deed going unpunished…

I arrived at his house bright and early. It was so early it wasn’t even really bright yet, but his appointment was for 0830, and I didn’t want him being late on my account. I am compulsive that way. He has been getting around the house in a wheelchair, with a walker for those short bits where the chair won’t work. I ushered him out to my truck, and got him installed in the front seat. I offered to put his walker in the back seat. He said, “Oh, just leave it here! I’m not going to need it anywhere, and they have a wheelchair for me to use at the doctor’s office.” Now, I am a fan of having it and not needing it rather than the other way around. But even though I had room for about 50 walkers in the truck, I acceded to his wishes, and off we went to the doctor’s. This leaving the walker home will become important later on.

We arrived at the doctor’s office in good order. I parked the truck at the front door temporarily, and went in to procure the promised chair. I eventually got the attention of the vacuous looking young lady behind the counter, and got her to bring a chair out. As I was going out with the chair, some man came striding in who looked like he had no business there as a patient. This is a pain management shop, and he certainly moved like he had no pain at all. I discovered a few seconds later that he was the Doctor Himself, and he had already chastised my passenger for parking in the no parking zone. When he discovered the need for the chair, he was appropriately mollified.

I won’t go into the sordid details of sitting in the office with the TV blaring and the dedicated conversationalist sitting next to me. Suffice to say, it was not fun. But after a 30 minute wait, we were on the road again, this time to the pharmacy. He has two choices in his town. The one place is pretty efficient about filling his prescriptions, but rarely has his pills in stock. The other place usually has them in stock, but has created a whole bunch of extra rules to make things even harder to actually get your script filled. Think of the efficiency of the TSA and you will get the idea.

True to form, the first place did not have the pills, so we backtracked to the second place. It was there that we discovered that the mental giant at the doctor’s office had written the one prescription for ZERO pills. This is where the real fun started.

“I’m sorry sir, but we have to give this script back to you. We can’t fill it.”

Now, I am sitting in the drive through window, and since I am driving, I am the one who has to carry on the conversation.

“Can’t you just call the doctor?”

Oh no, we can’t do that!”

“Well how ‘bout we have the DOCTOR call YOU!?!?”

“Oh, no, we can’t do that either. You have to go back to the doctor and get it redone.”

“And I suppose it will take a second hour to get it filled when we return, right?” This pharmacy has a policy of taking an hour to fill narcotics prescriptions, under the guise of checking to see if the patient is trying to get multiple bottles of pills from different places.

“That’s the way it works sir.”

“Why?” People hate this question. Commoners are not supposed to ask WHY. They’re just supposed to obey!

“Because sir”, she replied officiously, “We need the time to check his public records.” Yes. She actually said public records, like that would end all discussion of the matter.

We just looked at one another and he shook his head. I asked him later on if there was a place we could go on the web where all the pills he took were listed out for the general public.

So back to the doctor’s office we went. I parked in the same place in front of the doors, on the chance that I would have to haul him in (their chair is one with the little wheels that the patients can’t use themselves) to get the thing fixed. As it was, they remembered me. But now there was a line. Some lady came in behind me, looked at it and said, “Is this the line!?!”

“Yes ma’am, and I hope you’re not in a hurry.”

“You’re joking, right?”

“Have you been here before?”

“Yes. You’re not joking.” This with an eye roll that would make a teenager proud.

When I got to my turn, I held the prescription up and explained that they had tried to fill it, but had no bottles for no pills. The woman there looked at me like I had three heads, but promised to get it taken care of “right away”. Right away turned out to be about 15 minutes. She got hostile with me when I commented about how this thing went through the hands of at least two or three people and no one checked the number of pills on it. In my head, I was thinking of the recipient as well, but who checks things like that? Isn't the DOCTOR, who insists on reviewing everything before he signs it supposed to do that? Finally, with our brand new prescription in hand, this time with an actual number on it, we headed back to the friendly pharmacy.

We turned it in and picked up the first one. We got a big insincere smile, and the assurance that this one would be filled in another hour, after the required background check. Because, you know, within that last hour, we could have been all over town with fake prescriptions for zero pills.

By this time we were hungry. There was a Dunkin Donuts next door, so we went to their drive through window. I decided on the turkey sausage, egg and cheese flatbread. It was awful. I had a few bites of bread, just to get some carbs into my system. It was some sort of multigrain slab, so I did not eat much. I removed the egg and sausage. The egg was like plastic. And, it had all the flavor scientifically removed. The turkey sausage had the same texture and appearance as one of the floor mats in my shop. The flavor had NOT been removed. It was truly awful. I do not know about the cheese, as it was glued to the bread, and was not coming off. But, it filled the tiny hole in my stomach with some sort of Protein.

At this point, my charge announced that he had to pee. He then allowed how it might have been a good idea after all if we had brought the walker with us. I had visions of having to hose out my truck.

“Do you think… would you mind… could we drive back up to my house so I can pee?”

His house is about five miles out of town, but we had most of an hour left to kill, so I said sure. Besides, I know what it is like to be in a spot where you have to go and you can’t. But all the while I was thinking about that walker, and how some cranky old man wanted to bring it along. We drove up to his house, took care of the needs of nature, and then decided to hang out there until the pharmacy notified him on his app that everything was done and ready.

He briefly toyed with the idea of just sending me down, so he wouldn’t have to go out again. I was fine with that. The temperature had risen all the way from 8 to 12 degrees, so it wasn’t exactly pleasant for him out there with a busted leg and no real mobility. In the end, he decided to go along, just in case the nice young lady with the demonic eyes decided to jerk us around one last time for the day. We completed the transaction, and I dropped him off after 4 1/2 hours into a projected 90 minute trip. And that was just the first part of my day. The rest has been just about as exciting, but that would make this story even longer.

Yes! I went on the pre op diet 3 weeks before my surgery and I did cheat one day per week for those 3 weeks. However, I still lost about 25 pounds by the day of surgery.
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I was supposed to do 7 days of full liquids before my surgery... Ummmmm, I only did 3 1/2 days Lolololol.. But my surgery went well thank goodness. It probably helped that I lost about 15-20 pounds before surgery too...

Well crap, I didn't even get to cheat...lol when I realized our insurance wouldn't pay and we had to pay out of pocket for mine, I saw the dr on a Monday and two weeks after on that Tuesday I was getting surgery, so on that Monday visit, he put me in the all liquid diet...lol
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Thanks! I think everyone's surgeon is different. Some people don't even have a pre op diet. My BMI was lower (38 or so) and maybe that's why he was more relaxed about it.
I'm 3 weeks out today and doing fine!