charob

After a week with no BM my dr advised I take Dulcolax one time and then Miralax every other day. This worked for me.

53??? I'm 68 and for some reason not worried about age. Having a band revision but this time doing surgery for health and not vanity. We older peeps will do fine👍

Hello all -
I know several of us are hitting our 1 month mark this week. Mine is today.
The body is an incredible thing, truly. It's a healing machine quite frankly.
At one and two weeks out:
-you wonder what you have done to yourself and you are pretty sure you will never feel quite normal again
-you can't imagine yourself ever sleeping anywhere but the living room recliner
-the thought of driving or going back to work seems like an unrealistic commitment you made Way Back Before Surgery
-you can get in so little Water and Protein that it dawns on you that THESE are the weeks that will cause Hair loss several months from now
-you learn what "sliming" is (ewwww)
-MyFitnessPal tells you repeatedly: "You are getting too few calories. If every day were like today, you would be DEAD in 5 weeks."
At three weeks out:
-you feel better but not really there yet
-you need extra naps on the weekend
-getting in your water and protein can be done with the effort of a full time job
-you have a strange painful stitch in your side that you've resigned yourself to bravely live with the rest of your life
-you accidentally sleep all night with the heating pad on your largest incision site on its highest setting
-you walk 20 minutes on the treadmill and then come onto this site and disbelievingly post, "WHEN did they say I should start exercising????"
-your body decides you must be on a grueling episode of Survivor and goes into starvation mode yielding the world's most devastating weight loss stall prompting you to decide that you are a failure and did this all for NOTHING
At four weeks out:
-you sleep in your own bed in whatever position you want
-the fire-hazardous heating pad gets put away
-you walk 2+ miles at lunch and think maybe you could have done more
-you have enough energy to really start cleaning the house again and get totally aggravated at hubby and kids for how little they managed to do for the past month
-you randomly feel happy, mad, silly, sad as hormones and emotions take their toll
-you have to pack up the first set of clothes which are now too big
-you feel healthy....dare I say...normal?
Yep, the first month is kind of amazing.

Charob

Being a survivor of childhood sexual abuse (impregnated at 12),
I managed to overcome many buried years of trauma. I keep telling
myself that I can do this, too.
It feels good to have power now, particularly after having a long history
of it being denied to me. Those pedophilic bastards!
I'm encouraged by the kind words of support so far. I hope at some
time soon (in this forum) I will be able to be more a giver-of-support and
less of a taker-of-support. For now, though, I will allow myself the guilty pleasure of
"receiving" until I can reciprocate, in a genuine way, all of the kindness offered me.

Oh I have been watching and studying this forum intently. Since I do see my Dr Needleman on Tuesday 7/17 at 11:15AM EDT I could easily be joining you July 30-don't get your feelings hurt but I hope it's sooner, I'd like this all over in July- August will mark my 3rd anniversary of seeking Bariatric surgery, a Mama Elephant could about had 2 baby elephants in that time! But life is as life is & I am grateful I didn't die waiting for this surgery, people my age do die you know. Still, for me, 72 is still young enough for surgery. If my story is not as quick and smooth as the 20year olds, it is still MT STORY and that is good and sufficent for me! 🏣&😷&😛

My surgery is Tuesday. Thanks for posting these lists. Wasn’t sure what I should bring. Good luck to everyone with surgeries on the horizon!

It does get better but not overnight. It took me 6 months before all the problems seemed to melt away and I reached a "happy state".
So back to basics. The three most important elements after RNY gastric bypass surgery are to meet your daily Protein, Fluid and Vitamin requirements. food is secondary because your body is converting your stored fat into the energy that drives your body. Thus you lose weight.
Weight loss is achieved after surgery through meal volume control. You begin at 2 ounces (1/4 cup) per meal and gradually over the next year and a half increase the volume to 1 cup per meal. With this minuscule amount of food, it is next to impossible to meet your protein daily requirements by food alone, so therefore you need to rely on supplements such as Protein Shakes.
The transition to solid food such as steak and chicken can be very rough. I found that softer foods such as chili and Soups went down much easier than harder foods, so that is what I primarily used. Also It has the benefit of being much more flavorable. So I made my own version from scratch packing in a lot of extra protein. I have provided recipes to these at the end of the following article. http://www.breadandbutterscience.com/Surgery.pdf
Also your inability to eat solids may be due to medical issues such as a stricture or an ulcer, which is a common problem after surgery.