Frustr8

Many on here have and I'm sure you can too. You may have to fight a battle more than once to win the war. But it can be done, go and consult with your bariatric surgeon, he or she will help you search your options.

I am sitting here sipping my strawberry kiwi Propel from a glass 2 oz shotglass, this is my favorite of all the different ones. Had to but a multipack of 18 just to get it, somebody else is going to Wal-Mart and taking the 12 count s.k. off the shelf before I can get there. Wish they would drink an other one and leave my taste treat alone!🍶I cannot abide pee-warm temperature plain water, never really could. Make it hot in decaf tea, make it iced and I'll drop some Mio, Crystal light or a mint leaf or two, prefer spearmint over peppermint, or another herb and let it infuse a little.

Not so much misery loves company as a burden shared feels half as heavy. Its nice to have bari-friends who understand.

Don't regain, smile, believe in yourself, maintain and sustain. Life is a funny old thing after all!

Nothing to take lightly, you don't want to get sicker, I would go back, sometimes you have to fight for yourself when someone says it's minor. Sing them an aria , make them listen to you!

Remember your bowels may not work right after, get your fluids in, it helps things stay soft enough for the day💩comes.

a thought for you ; let go of the old ME to be what I was born to Be. Remember if you keep your head filled with fears , it will crowd out all the dreams you now have, Let your dreams come true for you have worked so hard to get here. Smile now, believe in YOURSELF, and know that you will do just fine, Mary you have almost made it now, a week of sleep and it will be time. And there will be a future of Happy ahead, it's yours for the taking so reach out on your merry go round ride, and that is life.

Made myself some cheesy potato soup, made as low fat as possible, skim milk the whole process. 1/3 cup, will Precious Pouch stay happy and keep it down? I sure hope so, it's all pureed, no lumps, no bumps. Gonna wait 40 minutes to drink anything, we shall see how things go but I'm not nauseous, that is an improvement right there!😝🍜

Please take in enough protein, I didn't get enough p.o. & now I am on TPN, will be still be in my life maybe 2 months, it's not a fate worse than death but it can be rough having a tail. God doesn't forget so be careful what you pray for. I was a" lonely only" child, when I gave up on pleading with my parents to give me a sibling, I decided I wanted a tail, prayed for it every night. And not just any tail would do, I wanted a fluffy Persian cat tail, no specified color but since I was Caucasian, I assumed it would be peachy color or pure white. Needless to say my Wee Frustr8 prayers were never granted, well fast-forward 60+ years, I now got a plastic tubing tail, I think it's about 4.5 feet long, emerged from the side of my black pump-containing backpack, just right when I put it on a bedside table while I sleep but when I am up, back-pack wearing I have to coil it around my hand so I don't step on it, and yank my PICC line out, and oh the major pain that could be! God, Please cancel that order for a tail, this isn't what I requested! All life is a learning experience but I didn't willingly book this particular lesson. So take in your protein, you need it to rebuild your body, I didn't have enough to repair my ulceration, now I reap the folly of it all. And if you can't eat meat there are other ways of getting it, but Please get it, okay?

I didn't realize there was such a thing or that it has a name. Learning a lot on Bariatric Pal.😝

Sounds quite Yummy, maybe I will try it when I get back to food.

looked it up, very interesting, sounds like obesity does make it worse, didn't know the difference between folic acid and folate, just thought they were both Vitamin B9. Don't know any answers but I will be watching to see what your next steps are. And Good Luck with your surgery, I hope all goes well.

Well congratulations Grady Cat, that's a great start, I would guess with hypothyroid you would lose at a slower rate, but we are all built a little different, you might prove me wrong. Mine has slowed down because of my TPN. but I still lost 3 pounds this last month, I will be back down to where I was the end of November, the difference I am no longer deficient in protein or very malnourished, regained 12 pounds in the hospital, but they are leaving again the healthy way! And I am still a work in progress, my final outcome lies way ahead! Some people drop the weight and go into maintainable at one year, I will probably take 18 months, but March 2020 I am going to set the world back on its heels, and this will happen before I turn 75. Good Frustr8 Days ahead, oh it will be a struggle but I AM THE WOMAN FOR THE JOB!

Well you will end this month with a bang, won't you? Best wishes for a successful surgery and a wonderful healing-up. May it be all you've dreamed of and more! Update us when your surgery is over, I'm a grandmother-type -I worry about everyone until I know they're safe. 😪 😌Just the way I am

And when you make it there, look behind you for I plan to make it there someday.

Oh it really is, I never smoked myself, but my nearest a dearest did, my father, father-in-law and husband all. And the second-hand. smoke did a number on me anyway. Daddy and Daddy-in-law quit Cold Turkey when my youngest who grew up to become my beloved Tomkitten. It was soon enough for my Daddy. but not for my Daddy-in-law, he died 9 years later of lung cancer, my husband would stop and start again, just couldn' t stay away from it. Tomkitten and never smoked, neither did his older brother who is now an angel, their older sister probably does. Rotten Daughter and I don't speak that much, by her decision. Door,is always open here.

But,i pray you will grow better and better daily, I will celebrate when you can say" Bye Bye Felicia" and be free forever and ever and pack,away all the diabetes paraphernalia. Gonna happen, I do believe and you should too!

Barrett is nothing to mess around with. Let me tell you a story, I had a cousin named June-Ellen, a few years younger but we were friends also. June told me she was having such indigestion, it went on and on, finally her children told her Mama you better get it checked out, our local hospital told her change your diet and gave her some antiacids, she next went to one of the Columbus hospitals, our nearest big city, 50 miles away, they were pretty inconclusive so the kids took her to the Cleveland Clinic, world class hospital, my June Bug, my pet name for her, did not have simple reflux or indigestion, she had esophageal cancer, they attempted to go in to repair it, she arrested on the table, and they were not able to bring her back, she was only 68, had a life still ahead and I will always miss her in my life. A first cousin, when my gastroenterologist discovered the beginings of Barretts, I knew RnY would stop it in its tracks, that's why I never even considered a VSG, my cousins death was a wake-up call, this way her death would not have been in vain. And she knew how hard I struggled with weight, for most of her life she did also until her kidneys failed and she needed a transplant from her daughter. She lost weight with that, but now she had seemed to be doing well, looking forward to a future she will never have. But Junie would be very proud of me, lost 60+ pounds since my surgery,last September, it's like I still can feel her hugging me and saying "You did it kiddo , you did it!" but alas never on this earth. again.😪and I do cry for what was lost.

Well congratulations to you, there have been others, I'm sure they will weigh in soon, saw someone just about a week ago, so I'm sure she'll find you. Are you hoping for a little boy or girl? I'm sure between your OB and Bariatric surgeon they'll they'lovely you get the proper nourishment for both of you, it's a little more difficult, that's why they often say wait 18 months so you fully recover, but it is what it is, and God just may have planned this special blessing for you! Hope to be updated as you progress along, God Bless you and the Little One,in the meantime!

So how are you doing this fine Sunday? 6 days out,you probably are a mite sore, but it will pass. Every day, every way you're gonna get better and better! And you'll come to terms with your new belly, learn what is easy, what is hard, but gradually you'll firm a truce and go forward. And you have friends out here who have been through it all! I was an RnY but we still share a lot of the pains, sorrows and joys with the sleevers. So still ask me, I'm full of answers except of my,own case, parts of it still mystify me. But I'll get through, so will you, and the future will be bright ahead. 😝💓😝🍀

TheGoodLyfe is in God's Country, South Dakota, of course I'm in the Northern Bible Belt so I think He owns it All. I'm in Central Ohio, my city is Mount Vernon, approx.19,000, 14 miles from Ohio's Geographic Center , Centerburg, where my Late Mama graduated from in 1935. My family has been here from the early pioneer days on, never lived farther away than 50 miles from here, don't whether. we were too chicken to move anywhere else or just satisfied with location. Mama was the least fertile of the family, I am an only child but my 11 paternal aunts and uncles and my 6 maternal had at least 3 each,so I have a flock of first cousins, some real winners , some pains in the wazoo, if you're on here very long you'll hear about them. Quite a varied bunch when all said and done. Been to Florida once, spent a week in a condo on Sierra Key, lot,of good memories. And I'll talk on most any subject, if I don't have a subject already I'll think of something. But basically I am having fun with my pist-surgery life although it has been bumpy, I feel often like I have been re-born! So pull up a chair and let's chat, got a pit of decaf tea on!

Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go, don't invite them to stay for dinner. What scares you most? Never being the same? Well that's true, but the trade-off is still worthwhile. For me , I found it an improvement Pain? It is not THAT painful, I have had surgeries more painful that took longer to heal from Anesthesia- shoot when I was young all we had was Ether, that stinker did make you SICK, what they use these days is very easy, very smooth, your anesthesiologist are super skillful, I just had a minor procedure on Friday with temporary loss of consciousness, all I was was a little sleepy rest of day and it turned out I came through fine. Which kind of surgery should I have? Well that is up to you and your surgeon, sometimes health conditions mandate one or the other, for me I HAD to have an RnY but many of my friends do well with a VSG, commonly called sleeve. Both very good albeit life-changing surgeries. I'm the wrong age? I'm 73 years old, was still 72 when I had my surgery last September, so never think you're the wrong age. I'll have to give up all my favorite foods? Well, many you will no longer have a desire to eat, the rest may go on a short vacation, when they come back either you'll eat smaller amounts and be satisfied. I loved cottage cheese before, can barely stand it now, peanut butter and bananas, used to,love eating them, now I throw them up but I might tolerate them later. At 5 m9nths I'm still a work,in progress. I won't lose weight? Well I thought that, tried every diet known to man and a few silly ones, like standing up while you eat, cabbage juice, grapefruit, diet candies, none worked. Well even with a metabolism like a sick sea 🐌 snail, I have lost 64 pounds since surgery, if I can most everybody else can. I might die? Well eventually we all do, but your surgeon is very skillful, you don't last long in the business of your not. He or she wants just as good an outcome as you do. One part ego, but they really want to help, and basically they are very nice people. Let me give you a quick example. My son, who I call on here my Tomkitten accompanied me to my pre-surgical appointment, my Dr Needleman got up and came over and shook my son's hand. He said " I promise you I will take very good care of your Mama" now he was under no obligation to do that, but he sensed my son's concern for me. They see the whole picture and my respect for him tripled right there! And still he takes time to talk this far out from. surgery. If I haven't covered your fear just please ask. I know we can help!

Stop it "auto correct" I tried to tell someone warmness, not darkness, if I could reach you I would strangle your" know more than Frystr8-ness " out of YOU📱

Nose Mask, I am high functioning Autie as well, full mask is too restricting, we have, many of us, sensory issues. I had lymphedema of both legs about a year or so back, they decided to wrap both legs in elastic bandages, liked to die,went into full- blown panic attack mode, oh those things were NOT GOOD. We are wired a little differently, I tell people we have a different but fully functioning MotherBoard, and we do brighten life in our differences.

I would head for 1. Center of Excellence Hospital 2. a State land-Grant teaching hospital, they tend to be most up to date with every thing, every nuance, I went to Ohio State University- Wexner Medical Center in my state Capital of Columbus, I received surgery an RnY , at the age of 72 years 8 and half months, a struggle close to what you may encounter, it is n9t an easy task, my high weight was 365 pounds, I now am 100 pounds lighter at 267 pounds soaking wet, 5 months out from surgery, still more to lose but I Shall do it! I would never go back to the tired sick person in constant pain and sure that I would die that way, no siree! It is not a walk in the park, a real struggle but many many your size have found success, you have youth on your side, you're naturally more resilant than a Bariatric Grandmother like Me. Please search, find somewhere, a surgeon and program you can trust, before you develop body breakdowns you cannot come back from, yes most programs will say lose weight but the right people will help you, they won't let you just "swing in the breeze". My program has Bariatric Surgery and Metabolic Weight Loss as part of their title, they don't just slash people open, they work on ALL the facets of Weight Loss. If Kaiser Permanente isn't a fit, I'm sure there are others, California has many medical options of other plans! My own surgeon is chief of Bariatric Medecine but he also is a full professor in the College of Medicine , this is YOUR LIFE, search for the Very Best you can find. And you always have a friend in me for I do know about uphill battles, fought more than a few. You have desire, if you can summon up that much courage, you will succeed and I will celebrate with you as the pounds come off, Promise!