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1 hour ago, ms.sss said:

snack time!

295 calories…ate it all.

Smoked Gouda, Prosciutto and cherries!

I saw this and remembered I had sliced gouda in the fridge. Melted on slice over some leftover Publix rotisserie chicken *Insert Homer Simpson Drool* so yummy and filling!

Hubby wanted a steak for Father’s Day. Made a yummy cabbage with bacon as my only side. His on the left mine on the right. What was left of mine below. I’m about to eat a little more steak as I’m up with the munchies.

Great idea about the pizza!!! I cooked a pernil Saturday and it’s still sooo good to me. I’m going to cut up the rest to make a Cuban salad (instead of sandwich) for lunch/dinner.

dinner was a lil taco salad.

Iceberg. Ground beef. Sharp cheese. A lil (😂 a lot really) of ranch and a lil Quest Protein chips crumbled on top. Finished it all. Ended up just picking out the meat at the end. Lettuce is a slider for me 🤷‍♀️. But I’d rather eat that than the 3 handfuls of Doritos that used to accompany my “salads”.

I really wanted some Cereal. So here is my “lower” carb take. Using pecans in place of grains. I am one of maybe 3 people on earth who loves soggy cold cereal so it was a little too crunchy for me but overall tasted awesome. I think I will swap the almond milk for a vanilla Premier Protein shake next time.

Prepackaged meals help me out so much 😩. Rotisserie chicken and salad is prepare from grocery store. I added ground beef to the baked Beans. 10 min dinner, ate it all.

This looks like a pregnant woman’s plate but I’m trying to cut down on trips to the fridge to keep me from “grazing all day”. This was the last of my Peanut Butter. Looking forward to trying PB2 or something “healthier”

Omg! I definitely thought it was a hot flash and I drink a Premier Protein with my coffee. I have been having 2 cups of coffee lately instead of 1 and I guess that coupled with this increased florida heat just finally caught up with me. I try to keep Water and Gatorade on me if I go anywhere. I’m finding it hard to find surgery free Gatorade in most of the stores around me. So I’m back to keeping a small one in my bag like I did immediately after sugar and just ordering a cup of ice to pour it on if I go out. This is my first summer post op.

Experiencing this now. It’s been worse Id say this past week when I was doing more activity. So I have fainting and dizziness accompanied by muscle cramps. And like most here I do NOT want a trip to the ER to risk covid. When I had muscle cramps before my doctor told me to increase electrolytes and drinking sugar free Gatorade should help. I’m going to ask if adding a salt tablet would be even better as it seems I am getting worse. Once again this community has helped me at least formulate questions for my doctor. Thank you all!

Update: had my surgery yesterday I am currently at home. The rest of the mass or whatever was removed and I now have a gastric bypass. I was so scared this time around but thanks for al the kind words. I hope this thread can help someone else one day.

20 hours ago, Losingit2018 said:

So if you now get the bypass, won’t that still leave that positive margin in the part of your stomach that will then be inaccessible?

Not trying to worry you even more. Just trying to understand.

I actually asked that question and yes it’s like what the above user described. That is what he explained to me but it sounds different from any gastric bypass diagram I have ever seen so I wasn’t sure.

Rick M- I will definitely call and ask that. Had pre op today and wish I had seen that question beforehand. Overall everyone is very optimistic that is refreshing.

Here is a diagram like what my doctor showed me at 1 week post op. The black is the positive margin aggressive cancer, the green is the tumor, the purple line separates what was removed. When they removed it they did not know how aggressive it was otherwise yes they would have done a bypass.

That’s the plan going forward I do pre op testing in the morning 😊.

On 8/23/2019 at 2:06 PM, mousecat88 said:

So they are leaving the tumor in there? I am confused. Can't it still spread? Could they have called in an emergency surgeon while you were under and removed it?

So during my sleeve surgery most of tumor was removed BUT there was still a “positive margin” around the tumor. There was no way for them to know right then at that moment that it was cancerous so they removed most of it and waited for the pathology reports. Yes he consulted with 2 other surgeons during my gastric sleeve procedure. This area tested very active and aggressive. He told me this at my 1 week post op and sent me to oncologist who has been doing additional testing before recommending any treatments. Basically they wanted me to see an oncologist before making the decision to convert me to a full gastric bypass.

What if they had converted me to a full gastric bypass and the tumor wasn’t cancerous? So many possibilities and scenarios and not many of them have been published in medical studies which is why I have been poked and prodded. This thing was so new that it didn’t show up in pre op testing 2 weeks before surgery but so aggressive that this “positive margin” around it warrants cancer targeting therapy or surgery to stop it from spreading to other organs.

4 hours ago, Mikeyy said:

SURGERY LITERALLY SAVED YOUR LIFE 😀😀😀

Literally. It’s like almost being hit by a bus but just barely being scraped. I feel blessed.

6 hours ago, RickM said:

I am another 1 in a 1000 case - found a cancerous polyp in the stomach 3+ years ago with a routine EGD. Fortunately it was confined to the polyp so no spread to underlying tissues or lymphatic system (T1a tumor) so all has been handled endoscopically and no funny drugs or radiation needed. RNY conversion was suggested, as well as a total gastrectomy as the overkill option, but no real consensus when consulting other onco surgeons or oncologists. Wait and see with monitoring seemed the best approach at this time for my circumstances. (That's one of the problems with being a rare case like this - US medicine doesn't really know what to do with you; in Japan or Korea where they screen for it, they are more experienced with early stage treatment.)

If we had gone the RNY route, they would have not left any remnant stomach behind, as that can't be monitored endoscopically - and that should be done to ensure nothing else develops later. Is that the approach they are taking with you (I assume so)?

Lots of worries then as tests were being done and things being defined, much less now that there has been a few years of history and tracking behind it. Hopefully you get through these first few months of them fiddling around with your insides and things settle down to a sane routine and you can forget about it after a couple years.

Good luck with it all!

Whew you just gave me hope. My EGD showed nothing but it was a few months before my surgery. I did have to do the radiation testing unfortunately.

33 minutes ago, FluffyChix said:

Aw man! ((hugs)) I'm so sorry to hear this, but so glad that God worked in mysterious ways to find it early!! Follow in faith. Do what the doc advises and now this time you know the ropes and can take measures to make recovery easier! I bet you won't have to do the pr-op liquid diet again? And you can get through the liquid post op phase quickly. Mine only lasted 2 weeks!

Gosh sayin prayers!!!

Thanks Fluffy! It’s def a fresh start .

@Lynda it’s either this or take Gleevec. It’s not a chemo drug but a step before chemo. My doctor was concerned about me possibly having a hard time conceiving because it is so powerful or even birth defects in a baby. My tubes are tied but he was still weary because I’m “young”. There are also other symptoms like Water retention, this medicine would possibly cause me to have to issues I currently don’t have aside from attacking cancer.

😕So during my sleeve surgery 6/27/2019 my doctor found a small tumor. It was cancerous and very active. It did not show up on any pre op work, he was literally in the right place at the right time. These past few weeks on top of healing from surgery I have been seeing an oncologist. My doctors worked together with me and decided that going to a gastric bypass and bypassing the part of my pouch that is cancerous is safer than putting me on powerful cancer targeting medicine that I would have to take for the next 3 years, Gleevec. The oncologist told me that my case was about 1 in 1000. Normally people come to him with a huge tumor that is beginning to spread cancer and at that point they have a gastrectomy. My surgeon has also never experienced this where a tumor did not show up on preop but he is against messing with the sleeve at all and would just rather cut all that part out if that makes sense. He said he has seen where making the sleeve smaller leads to more complications vs doing a sleeve to bypass. I flat out asked him if I was being punked.

I have not had any major complications from my sleeve, I did have to go to the ER almost at the 6 week mark for sharp pains (turns out I ate tuna too fast). They did a barium swallow and everything looked great with the sleeve no leaks or anything.

I regretted my surgery in the first week and I am a little nervous about having surgery again but I’m also glad they found this. If I had chickened out before having the surgery or dropped out of my doctors program like I had done in the past, I would never have known about this tumor growing. I’m feeling a bit meh and blah about it all just thinking about the liquid diet I will have to do all over again 😂 but I’m also trying to remain positive. This site helps a lot so thank you all for your updates, the t.m.i. (Looking at you poop threads,we all need you) , the highs and lows etc. My surgery date is 9/5/2019.

Never thought about diluting them. That would make a lot of them more drinkable!

Hey we had surgery the same day 😊 I had to switch to the Protein2O drinks I found a local station that had them 3 for $6 so I didn’t have to get a whole case from Amazon. They taste like watered down Kool Aid to me which is fine right now because those Clear drinks are wayyyyyyy to sweet.

Yes Ma’am! Get it girl, congratulations honey!

I am getting this done this Thursday. My gallbladder has been giving me problems for years, lchf diet triggered a few more attacks also I find everytime I lose about 15 lbs I have an attack so I just want it gone.

I feel like I’m in the same boat sometimes especially in the beginning. I was not honest with my pysch eval BUT I started seeing a separate therapist that has nothing to do with wls and that really helps. It’s so hard to have a house full of food, have to cook it, and can’t eat it. I felt my hubby was sabotaging me at first and I had a conversation with him to let him know how serious this is. Decades of fad diets have ruined body and this is something that will help me get better. I understand this is easier said than done especially when you live with these people....but anyone who does not support me getting healthier is simply not worth my time anymore and I try to avoid them (or at least meals with them).

I’m on day two and I wish somebody nurse would call me I’m going crazy lol how did the surgery go? Congratulations on not cheating!