Frustr8

And are you getting close to going home? And how is 5his day going for you?😛

NSAIDS are not good on healing stomachs, that's why Tylenol is recommend insteadm

And I look so forward to purees and soft real food. My diet is bland, boring and it seems endless. My bud Ellie123 had her stricture dialated yesterday, no I guess it was Monday. if she had success perhaps I will also. I will give up hope!

😛ROFLMAO

I was asked by another poster to start this thread. You see, although I had studied, I prepared, I thought understood as well as any other layperson what surgery and recovery would entail. And I had every intention of having a wonderful surgery, a seamless recovery, and a perfect future. Well it is not necessarily so. Take me , a poster child for a lovely surgery. And it was, 6 tiny incisions criss-crossed with surgical tape, no nausea, no gas built up to expell. And although I was kept room-bound because of my age, I could walk, move around my room with no light-headness, oh Life was Wonderful.And I went home, still thinking everything is going to be fine. And then I had my follow-up appointment, surgeon saw no reason why I could not progress my diet on, but my new pouch did not agree, and she still does not agree . Purees came up and still come up. Six weeks tomorrow and I am on Stage 2A diet. I call it thus because some things on a regular stage 2 she will not tolerate.And Precious Pouch,something that dictates my life so completely needs a name, don't you agree? Well it was confirmed last Friday has a stomal stricture, no able to be dialated in one attempt, so a repeat EGJ,because the duodenum cannot be visualized I'd booked for October 26th, a week from Friday. I am losing weight like GangBusters,25 pounds since surgery, 40 since the end of July. But when do the Good Times roll? So how has your recovery differed from what YOU PLANNED?

Happy Birthday. 🎁 in Advance, what a gift YOU are giving YOU this year, this is something you cannot surpass!

And you're making your own kind of music , marching on your own trail toward your goal weight. I could tell you how much I have lost since my surgery on September 5th, and you might sniff a little, say that's not fair! But if you see any of my other posting where I say the amount, keep in mind. I am not uncomplicated a path, I am losing so much because I have a stoma stricture, no purees or solids get through, once that gets fixed my precipitous weight descent will level out and I'll be more realistic. Don't woryy, that's your surgeon and bariatric teams problem, let them guide you, they know your case better than we do. We will cheer with you when you reach your goals, promise!😛

Strangely this makes me more relaxed, it's as though I know I'm not the only one after all.

What is it going to benefit anyone to have your Operating Room smell like a cheap🐡 fish market? OMG I hope they have ventilation!

well I guess I could be nausea green but I was trying to state "Nausea Free"

Still not totally nausea green 6 weeks today.

And now it's in the range of 40 pounds gone, but don't do it my way, I would much rather be on foods than have a stricture that keeps you on liquids. 6 weeks today, my diet has only slightly advanced since I came home. And nobody talked that much about strictures, I started out So good and smooth and this happened. And now I am waiting for the 26th when Dr Noria will try again to dialate me. Maybe the second attempt will work in my favor.

Does anyone like low sodium V8 or any of the other V8 blends? I know they are a step up from cleats liquids but they have some Green Blends. Has anybody tried them?

Couldn't remember my last BM. My surgeon's partner said even on my limited diet, I should be going 3 times a week. Hit the MoM this AM ,about 3 hours later had results. Not a whole lot, but smooth and soft. My ?Question: why do I no longer have lower abdominal distress? The stuff could sit in there, collect and not colonic complaint. Now that I study on it , I have not had a spontaneous💩since surgery 6 weeks ago today. Am I weird,if that something my to be concerned about or will it smooth out once I am on a real food diet? 😞

And are you dancing your Happy Dance? I know I would be!

Yeah I have all these and add I think my armpits have a horrid BO, rather like onion, garlic and rotting veggies, like garabage that needs emptied. Keep scrubbing them, changing deodorants , maybe it is my fat going into ketosis, burning off, releasing hormones and gunk. I had a thick pad of fat, thought the moodiness was over, I m 6 weeks out today, had a major crying jag last night. What set it off? I saw the picture of "Jakesoldlady" going into surgery, all happy and triumphant. I realized my son took no pictures of me on THAT day and now I have no basis of comparison. Yeah I have lost weight, 40 pounds now, not that I didn't need to lose it, but the only pictures I have around then are ugly selfie types, like of my nose as I fell asleep, or drooling on my pillow. Not one that approached pretty, and for a Fat 72 year old I wasn't excessively ugly. But the time of joyess release from my fat caccoon, Gone Forever and never seen again. So I cried, raged against my son, would have walked out into the street, but with my luck the cars would graze me with their bumpers, can't even do THAT right. So I will continue to live and. hold to the motto SUCCESS IS THE BEST REVENGE! And that's how things are with me!

I'm getting nastier and short tempered as I age. Might have been by excessive being beset upon. Might have been tempted to say "Takes ONE,to know One and besides You're Hanging with ME!" Ditch people who don't want to March in Your Parade! Any people that pfft! I had one who said similar, now that I have started losing weight she is taking full credit to our other friends. One of them laughingly told me She is going around say "Yes, I told Frustr8 this was SUCH a good idea to do this!" I wish I had the tape to play back!😃😛😃LOL for me--- Pfft for her!

A big HUG from ME, I may now remember so well, had to wear a pad on top of tampons to stem the flow, my GYn used to say " Its washing YOU clean!" yeah but who asks foe a tsunami in your underwear? And the rotten so and-so refused me a hysterectomy. An sidebar, years later the 1st Bariatric Surgeon I consulted Could Not Believe I had not had a hysterectomy. Keep saying to the future young surgeon he was training "I cannot believe she is Gynecologically Intact! " Since when has that been a precursor to Bariatric Surgery? He was a strange strange bird, glad I escaped his birdcage lair and found a better(dare I say ? More skillful Surgeon) our personalities did not mesh well.

Had 2 bags on the 1st while I fell after tripping, slipping or parsing out, son feels the first, I'm thinking the last because I don't remember tripping, bruised up my knee, the one that was first replaced, bruised my belly and tore my right arm open, a long skin tear, this week it's good enough to go without a dressing. So I am getting patched up, and someone passed along I was status post an RnY, now my local hospital is only a community one, so like a purple spotted giraffe EVERYBODY had to come see the strange animal. I had to end up doing a tutorial, a few had seen lao-band, a few had VSG patients but a bono fide Bypasser? Nope, never ever! I'm told my "BandAid Station" is adding Bariatrics 2019 or early 2920, they do have a new accredited and experienced in place, just doing general surgery at this point. But like Sgt Schultz from Hogan's Heroes," They Know nothing, They see Nothing" Finally I got enough fluid in that I could void, this pleased them and I was free to leave! Since then, although Dr Noria, my surgeon's partner that ❤doing endoscopies, told me not to be concerned about counts until my stricture is alleviated, I have endevored to be Q.S, on fluids and proteins , not easy on a restricted liquid diet , This morning my protein shake isvrepulsing me so I will heat up bone broth, good for me but I will need something else within 2 hours, never "sticks" with me. Oh I do yearn for purees and soft solids, just pho,euntil I am repaired, it All Comes Back Up and faster than I swallowed it.💦💦Anyone want to come to my Pity Party? Only passing out Regrets Today.

Well Dang RnYBeyhive, I distinctly ordered you a smooth post surgery sail⛵and it does not seem as though it is that way. I am 2 weeks ahead of you and not in a better state. I have a stricture and 5 new ulcers in my pouch and on the back wall of the jejunem. Dr Noria went down on October 12th, attemted to dialate, found the ulcers, could only so far, didn't want provoke bleeding, now on Carafate every 6 hours, 6am-Noon- 6pm- Midnight, doubled my omeprazole to 2x daily, kept me on my resistricted Stage 2A diet, said if I kept up my meds, vitamins , minerals, fluids and 3z daily Zofran I can do this without harm in the long run.Oh yeah keep my protein to 60 or above.And the 26th I go for another EGJ, hopeful this time I will safely dialate, if not the second week of November? I tried a little protein shake with my morning meds, not sitting well. And to top it off, either from so much vomiting because only liquids go through at this point or the endoscopy tube, I have laryngitis. Instead of croaking like a frog🐸, I sound like his cousin, the Toad. I have people I should be talking to ,trying to resolve my housing situation and my son has to do my phoning. If I do regain my voice temporarily it fades in and out. Ah Life!

Glad to make Your acquaintance, I live on Bariatric Pal. .One goes where one is comfortable!😛🏡😛❤

And August Loss is now November's Gain! Best of everything to YOU, you will have it all under control, and the Weight loss can only benefit your back problems.

And you are strong always and you will make a success!😛❤😛

popsicles, sugar free popsicles, the tropical ones. Still having a couple a day, much longer since my surgery but having to go slow because of a stricture. They please when straight liquid doesnt!

I started with Wal-Mart Equate Multi, pretty nasty even stirred in applesauce. Now I have BariMelts from Bariatric Pal store, pretty okay, appreciate not having to grind them up because of dentures, but mostly use my prenatal vitamins, pill is small enough to easy swallow and I appreciate only having to take 1 daily. Works out with all the other meds and pills, still using my liquid calcium citrate, glorious no having to chew something into submission.😛🏡