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Has anyone tried the Ensure brand protein waters, Wal-Mart , blast their greedy little souls deleted Protein20, but they still,have blueberry pomegranate and and a fruity punch flavor, almost $7, hate to throw my money into their gaping financial money-bag if it's no good. ?

oh I am sure you will be be just fine. THEY downloading all my recent bills.

'I,have both lonfs of pnrpmia shots ad well as the flu shot And every,joint,in,my,body,hurts tonight . I am,chilling and feel,generally,rotten. I have had a sore throat for 3-4 weeks, amoxicillin didn't touch it. Help,I ' sure,dea5h might,be a,promotion. If I sm,mp,better I guess I'll,have,to visit my,local,ER. And,i,had a bunch.of stuff,to Do,on Monday

You may show a loss at 2 weeks if you have lost your surgical overhydration water weight, otherwise at a month or 6 weeks you should have a pleasant surprise coming! Everybody is different, but that is a good rule of thumb. And as you go further out there may be even more varience, I know an almost surgery day twin, lost only 38 pounds, then there are people like me who are in the 60s, same surgery , our bodies just reacted differently, she's lost less but went down 2 sizes, I've only gone down 1, I'm still a little envious but she started out at a different weight point than me, Its still okay, when all said and done!

Mine were covered with criss-crossed hypoallergic strips like stereo-strips. Like one of the other posters, I was told it was okay to get them wet in the shower, just wash around them and pat them dry, the one in my navel,dropped off first, it was pretty caked with blood as was the "money" slit, Bypassers on the right , sleevers on the left, it took the longest to heal, was a little tender from it maybe a month, Dr Needleman. removed the rest at 2 weeks, the reason you're not permitted a tub bath or swimming is those contain chemicals and/ or germs, whereas. a shower is clean water just trickling over. I turned the pressure down on my shower because high pressure needles of water made them sting and hurt. At 5 months mine have faded into the surrounding stretch mark scenery, sure a surgeon or doctor could find them because they know where they should be, average layperson couldn', I just looked at my tubby tummy, only one still distictive is mine up between my slightly saggy "girls" it's visible only because my skin up there isn't stretch- marked but smooth. And FYI that is where the liver retractor went in, since I had been so successful with my liver- shrinking diet, he did not have to use the industrial- sized retractors and didn't bruise anything, it is tiny tiny, always has been, maybe 1/2 the size of the rest, and they weren't big to start with. My surgeon did a pretty pretty job, gosh I can only wish all my surgeons sutured as skillfully. He could have been a plastic surgeon. My exterior turned out as pretty as a 70+ body can be, it's. my innards where my Big Bad Problem is. I am very very allergic to Dermabond as I am most adhesive bandaging. Liked that about Dr N , he used what would be best for me, not what he was taught or comfortable using. Case in point, I had to have some breast biopsies, multiple so they were going to give me General anesthesia. I told the surgeon, reminded the nurses even stuck a post-a-note on one boob, what do I wake up with , Elastoplast, Whole no-one bright red blisters,part broken and weeping, itch like Hades, and when they finally removed the Elastoplast, I lost the entire top layer of skin, it had just melted away, my subcutaneous layer showing, had to go to wound management, where they take care of the trophic ulcers and burns, and when it healed at least my body made new skin so I didn't have to be grafted, but it still is a little shiny. Late Husband offered to kiss it and make it better, told him to keep those lips on his can of Pepsi and far away from me!???

Wow--- I can see why you like her. and those slides remind me of lovely lovely SummerTime!

I have already had both knees replaced but I am noticing increased ease of mobility as my weight decreased. Like you I also played basketball but I also played catcher on the softball team and baseball in my,neighborhood so a double threat to knee stability.

I surely didn't, I thought I had crossed every T, dotted every I, followed their handbook they had given to me. Yeah usually get,like Eeyore the Donkey in Winnie the Poo , standing in swamp up to my fetlocks, all depressed. But no THIS TIMEI actually thought things were going my way. But Surprise Surprise here I sit, a little after 8 am my time , 23 weeks from surgery with a double lumen 48 cm tube running in my basilic vein and up through the gradually widening Venous tree,until it is lying 5 cm from my Right Atrium in the Superior Ven Cava. Did I forecast THIS, no way Jose! Been in since 29th November, a possibility of 2 more months. And a battery operated pump is pumping a Total Paraenteral Nutrition solution in and will for 2 more hours, then I will flush my lines with 2 saline syringes, cap both lumen off with sterile plastic caps, I will be free for in theory for 12 hours, although I hope to start my 12 hour feeding a little earlier this evening. Had 2 medical type appointments yesterday, 11 am for my weekly blood draw, my lines were not being cooperative, had to de-clot them, this time took multiple hours, I can infuse with great impunity but the blood wasn't drawing out. They put a declotting drug called Altaplase in there, they say there are no side reactioons, I beg to differ, it makes my heart fibrailate a little.I know that's a misspelling but I don't have my other phone here to go to my search engine for spell check.Wednesday I had to go to the East Side of Columbus for a MRI, my Cardiologist is in a different hospital group than my Bariatric Surgeon, actually I have been to 3 different hospitals this week alone. My Thoracic Aorta Aneurysm is stable at this point, I have a check list of things to look for, going to have to ask Primary Care if I should be on a blood pressure med to protect it? Anyway that part was okay but I have a Renal Cyst, they tend to be benign but still called my Urologist office to bring them into the loop. Then after all that , I had a DEXA scan to assess the status of my skeleton. Do I need to start on an Osteoporosis med? SO My Life has got complicated, still I am more healthy and in basic better shape than before my surgery. I am down over a 100 pounds since my highest weight in October 2017. I have lost 60 of that in the last 5 months, although my weight descent slowed when I was put on TPN I'm still losing 3-6 pounds a month at this point. Before I had the PICC catheter put in I had become malnourished and very deficient in Protein, I have ulcerations in my jejunem, the second part of my small intestine, and my pouch opening has strictured down until only liquids can get through. I have been non a liquids diet since August 1st when I went on a liver-shrinking one. That makes a little over 6 months, rather cruel isn't it? But in the Final Days I will get as good as everyone else, at least that's the Promise I was given.

My surgeon is an uber-busy dude, I got My surgery date on July 17th for September 5th, so had to wait about 6 weeks, if yours is like that I would say yours will be 1st- 15th of March, my most fearless prediction is March 12thmaIn my surgeon's case, he also does gastrointestinal surgery, a full professor at the Medical C9llege and I also hit vacation times, so yours might still make this month, I just doubt it. But no matter when ,we will be cheering you on, you're now one of the B.P. family and we're loyal to our own.???

There is a condition called Dermagrafia, where you can take a pointed object and write something on your arm and it raises welts. Once my mama got angry , I must have done something to displease her, she slapped, me, raised a c welt so bad and lasted so l9ng she got a visit from Child Protective Services. In her defense, although its pretty indefensible, she,had a raging menopause as did,her,mother, my grandmother. Finally the doctors were c able to to trade hormone replacements. and bring n her down in increments . And Praise,God, I was not,a Stormin: Norma and I did not subject my,own 3 to such shenanigans. And FYI it does itch like the,Fires of Hades, finally had to take antihistamines, better to be a little sleepy than to be miserable. And it broke the legacy of child abusing pretty well. I guess hrrboen,mother threatened to commit suicide If the children, especially my,mother went to school, going to throw b herself out a second floor window, now this was in the 20s, no medical help, they lived 6 or 7 miles out in the country, and no one cares to secure her some,help. The Good ole Days could be bad old Days, not bragging, just stating some facts.

Potato chip clamp on the back of neck, kind of makes cringe insidem a Maybe you could also pull all your hair into Pebbles Flintstone upsweep. might pull all the skin up and tighter.Yeeouch!?

I have a strange quasi- NSV. Now you all know I never lose inches , at least I had myself convinced that way. Doubting Thomas must have had a cousin , I'm Doubting Dora. Anyway I decided to put in my earrings, I'm triple- pierced,one for each child. I had a pair with very short posts, seldom wore them because they were not comfortable, well they are kind of pretty so I decided to put them in, my gosh when I started losing off my fat ,my earlobes must have lost weight also because the shorties fit fine.

Boldilocks you've got me sniffling and smiling. Sniffling cause he actually came through for you at finals, smiling because your surgery is truly over and I am very proud of you. You were and are a very strong woman, and it is my pleasure to know you.???

Yeppers, when I had mine I went ahead and requested to remain awake for just that. Disnt want to wake up in the middle and have a . panic attack. Do you have rosacea? They call it the Celtic Curse and I do have it, have it, Praise God no flares recently. Once when I was in the middle of an attack I was accused of being alcoholic because my nose was red and face flushed, no just my Irish blood coming out. My 2 sons names are Kevin(now an Angel) and Bryan , only more Irish would have named them Declan and Dermot, and late husband would not have gone for that. Rocked Kevin to "Kevin Barry" poor Bryan just got " The Rising of the Moon" both lovely Irish tunes. Did you get pinched on St Patrick's Day because you faied to wear Green? My daddy would pull that on me, got peeved , told him Da, your people were Northern Irish, did not gain me any amnesty, learned to at least put a green ribbon in my hair!

Well I have had as far, as I lnow, still have a stomal stricture and ulcerations in my jejunem, the portion of the small intestine the pouch is connected to. Officially diagnosed October 12, 5 weeks post- surgery but I believe it started 2-3 weeks in, they kept saying I was merely swollen, I kept saying No Something is wrong! to shut me up , we'll by golly I was right. They might have the fancy,degrees, I have lived in this body for many many years, I had inate wisdom,on the subject. Why did it happen? They told me it was an unexpected occurance, no o e I KNEW IT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. You see my gastroenterologist had discovered gastritis and a small stomach ulcer I had named Hector while on Omeprazole therapy, he switched me to Dexilent and Hector went peacefully to sleep. Flash forward to September 5th 2018 when 8 had my RnY surgery, what did they started me on guess what, yep Omeprazole. I told them then We gonna have problems, it may be a lovely medication but it Is Not Gastroprotective for me. Nurse Practitioner stated the medical equivalent of Shut up and let me do what I do bestm So I was a good little patient, took what they gave me , and looky what happened! I have had 6 endoscopies, twice they have attempted to stretch out that opening, first time in late October it snapped right back shut, next endoscopy it was like Dr Noria had done nothing, okay last one I had January Senior Bariatric resident Dr Noah Switzer did it, he stated I dialated you part way but enough you can eat soft solids, ha ha diddly ha , both times I have had emesis , the first time I kept it down 15 minutes after still cheing it down to the smooth applesauce pulp consistency. And yesterday was the second attempt and it went worse than the first. I was so protein anemic and malnourished I had dropped 25 pounds in 3 weeks, and had my miserable self hospitalized at OSU for 6 days to try to build me back up, yeah at high 200s it wasn't GOING to be apparent to others but I was literally starving, they were afraid my body was going to start breaking down muscle to keep me akive, and guess what muscle they were most concerned about yeah , my ❤. The second day they put a PICC line in my arm and it remains there still. NPO, everything through the feeding catheter, immediately regained 13 pounds, but I was back on my road to healthy again. Lost 3 pounds mid December to Mid January, then dropped another 6 pounds in 2 weeks, on doctors scales, don't currently own a home one. I was to be rewarded with 1 token meal a day, odd days a Protein shake, do you realize I have been at liquid diet level since August 1st when I went on my liver shrinking diet? That is a LONG LONG time. Then even days homemade soup with extra protein powder, and if there are veggies line carrots I don't have to strain, just puree it in. But the vast majority of my nutrition is via TPN, 12 hours on,12 hours off. And every day or 2 I have a smallish greenish black sticky BM due to the extra iron supplement I routinely take plus I'm still on prenatal vitamins and there is iron in there too. Before all this I was fighting constipation, the one tiny blessing of all this, no more. And foods in the past came up so often I am not hungry anymore. I only ate yesterday because I was supposed to, not from any need. Have they checked you for C Diff? That's something your symptoms call to mind , my daughter has it and has been on Flagyl for flares. Is she on it? Can't say for sure, her code name in our family is RD for Rotten Daughter, she usually calls me when she wants something otherwise she doesn't talk, she will text her little brother when she's in the mood. WHEN I told her I was having major surgery, she said "whatever" and flat out did not care. Sure I still love her, she was my first child, but I don't much like her any more, she has hurt her little brother emotionally more than a few times, and that's hard to forgive. Eat as bland an diet as possible, and I hope you get some real answers soon, don't want you in the hospital like I was, it may be a good place for somethings but it is not HOME! Let me know what happens next, I do care.

It's not fun, I was sitting upright, didn't freak me out as bad as I thought. I had done it to lesser degree for my ENT doctor, and the numbing spray does help you not gag , it remember wondering how long that durn esopagus was anyway, I was swallowing in small increments, but I didn't reflexively cry as it was done, thought I might. To me the worst was when they removed the tube, because they pulled it out ka-swoosh, felt like a giant pencil being pulled out because at that point the numbing had ceased. To me the EGJ my endoscopist Dr Noria accidently left me awake for was a lot neater and less painful, I honestly think that tube is a thinner gauge. What happened to me was they gave me too little sedation , redheads routinely need more, I didn't go into twilight or complete sedation at all. If it had to happen, I would have been the perfect pstient, I have had cuts sutured without numbing , diverse seasonings why, this I would put on a discomfort,of maybe a 1 barely close to 2, the worst was when they removed the tube it was acswoosh and then a pop as it exited my mouth. I watched it all on the monitor with her, more clear and much better content than YouTube. And since then I gave been zonked out, upset them a lot more than ME, I actually enjoyed it, very informative, it says in the Bible we are " strange and wonderfully made" and I know now it,is the truth.

After 1015 minutes I started to feel some better, stomack, okay okay really lower chest, I always called it " tummy" until I got educated, right subcostal Pain which Dr Noria says is my ulcerations not my liver mourning the loss of my gall bladder, gosh that g.b. went away 35 years ago this month, almost to the day. Liver should have resigned itself to the fact,it's little buddy ain't coming back. Now I thought bypass pouches emptied a lit quicker than that, I'm a Med-Geek as everyone knows, too much knowledge for an unlicensed personage, 2 things cone to mind gastroparesis,or that lying surgical resident didn't really street h my stoma opening after all or its reclosed up, okay 3 things, have pity on a poor late middle-aged lady, my multiping capabilities went years ago and now I can't add as well. Just let my TPN sustain me the rest of the night, started on baby sippy Medecine cups of fluid maybe 1.5- 2 hours later, but that was BAD while it lasted even my meds came back,up undigested, a nasty vile scene, was almost tempted to go sit in the bathtub so I wouldn't mess up the furniture. So any feedback or clairity here?

Yesterday I had a violent vomiting episode. I call what I usually do urping because it's on the scale of "cat with hairball " rather gently rolling out. Yesterday after eating a small amount of food, 4 and hours it came out and it actually was projectile vomiting all over my clothing and blankie, yeah I was sitting up, if I had been lyoing down I could have aspirated, and that is scary. Before it happened I did feel very very nauseated, on the level of if " if I choke to death, God ,remember I'm yours!.

And once again my Evil Spell- Correct has done it, this time to Xapphirea's name. Very unusual name but rather pretty.???

You are the proof the Irish are never vanquished, many have tried, none have succeeded. From another Celtic Maiden , albeit several generations removed. I am very very proud to know you, even through this limited media we use. Like my Dutch Bari- Pal Sapphires I too will hug you if ever we meet, the difference? I'll dance an Irish Jig with you as well.????

Please do, we'll worry until we know you're okay.

It will be wonderful it will be great Big Changes but just you wait. Peacefully you'll go to sleep Happy you'll awake This commitment to your future Is the Next Choice You'll ever make God Bless and Keep You safe for your little ones.

Outstanding, May your whole recovery be that smooth.

And instead of Stars falling on Alabama , Big Things coming in Birmingham, just about a week to go until your renovation, that's scary and thrilling at the same time. Wishing YOU oodles of Good Luck for that day.

All I got was a black screen and pretty music.