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Random question. I know that after surgery, pain is to be expected. One source of pain could be from gas in our smaller stomachs. I'm in my pre op liquid diet phase and finding that there is a lot of air when I swallow. Any ideas or suggestions? Thank you!

Amen. Good luck!

I had the same question/issue. I am scheduled for a roux en y. Was told that anything carbonated would take up a lot of room, even something like drinking water but with a straw could allow too much air in - taking up too much and then it would cause issues. I was told that caffeine is ok after six months, there is some evidence that it delays wound healing. Caffeine should leave your system in about a day. Maybe worth while to talk to the office. Trust but verify, eh?

I'm having surgery on July 25th!! It's good to see all the positivity even through some of the frustrations and delays with the surgery.

I think Jess is on point. I would imagine all doctors offices have someone on hand to do the prior authorizations. Mine has a dedicated person. That person is used to hearing plenty of "no's" from the insurance companies and knows what pieces of documentation or hoops you need to jump through. Example of documentation for me was six months of medically supervised weight loss (though with a doctor or PA, not a nurse), and example of a hoop was having a barium swallow because of my high BMI. These were done and surgery approved.

I'm having surgery on July 25th, definitely getting real!

Vitamin deficiencies, dehydration, infection? You sound scared. Better to be safe, worth touching base with the doctor's office.

Thank you both for the wonderful replies. Sherrie, I appreciate your honesty and reassurance. You're at half of your HW, that's wonderful, but it also looks like you've been doing good. Thankfully I have support, parents flying in, lady friend flying in, a friend who is off of work, and another who may take off work as well. Bonus points to you for having to tough out at least for first steps by self. Marieac2, thank you for your reply as well. Your progress as well is to be lauded, congratulations! I know myself, and I understand that my relationship with food (and drink) is for every social occasion - celebration and eat some cake, sorrow and raise a toast to a lost love one, boredom, etc etc. I feel with the medically supervised weight loss, I've been able to put a dent into that mentality. I feel that my medical knowledge is somewhat ironically my double edged sword: I feel like I can understand what I need to do quickly, but we are trained to nitpick details (example, when my surgeon says something, what are the pros and cons of a recommendations. I can't turn it off, so I choose to ignore it. And FYI, Medicine uses different levels of evidence, as detailed through this link: https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/Page/Name/grade-definitions#grade-definitions-after-july-2012 )

I have my surgery (roux en y) coming up in a little more than two weeks. More and more thoughts running through my head. I am excited and scared, but looking forward to coming through surgery. Frustrated in myself, I'm a physician and I should have been able to avoid coming to this point. I want to be able to sit in a coach seat again and travel. I don't want for my prediabetes to turn into diabetes. I'm trying to ignore the 0.9% mortality rate and the 3% major complication rate with the roux en y that my surgeon speaks of. I hope they don't go through my belly button. Do I really have to be on a diet for four weeks after surgery when other sources say anywhere from 1-3 weeks? Scared of giving myself slack so early after the surgery, going to try and follow everything precisely. Convincing myself that not following directions will make me double over in pain or have some dumping syndrome at a most opportune time. I know I'll miss cake, I wonder what kind of mexican food I can still eat. I feel like it's easy to find recipes for bariatric diets, but hard to know if a recipe is for roux en y vs sleeve vs switch. Moving about 6 weeks after surgery... that might suck. I have eight doses of hycet for postop, I hope that's enough.