mousecat88

No, I was on Diamox so I felt permanently dehydrated and peed so much I needed to keep drinking to stay hydrated. If I didn't, my pee would start turning brownish, indicating that I wasn't getting enough in... because I'd keep peeing even if I didn't drink much. It was just natural to me to sip all day long, too. Never was told not to.

Yeah, I am very below my water intake because it is so painful with my ulcer. They are satisfied with my 40-50oz a day right now until my ulcer heals. I am so used to pounding water... I used to be at 120oz + pre-op and now I am like a raisin. Everything is just so sensitive right now. I do drink hot water, which helps. I try to get in broth. Popsicles and stuff hurt because of the cold. I recently found a shake I can tolerate, so that's some more fluids. I can't wait til this stupid thing is gone so I can drink more! For some reason when I drink water, I feel like I want to vomit or get very nauseous, and it feels... lumpy?

Tylenol sucks. It helps with absolutely nothing, imo. Midol Complete doesn't have an NSAID in it. The extended release does, though. Not sure if that would help.

How's everything going? Discharged, I hope? I *think* my ulcer is healing. It's so hard to tell with the Carfate masking much of the pain. There are definitely days where I really know it's still in there, gnawing away. I get nauseous after eating most things, but drinking it still the worst for some reason???? The doc *thinks* I should be healed up within the next 3-4 weeks, but I don't know.

I've noticed a bunch of people's stats lately and many of them show 100lbs or more down in under a year. (Most have starting weights around 300 or less). Is this typical? YES I AM COMPARING MYSELF TO OTHER PEOPLE. INB4 SOMEONE COMMENTS THAT I SHOULDN'T. lol. I feel like it's an impossible ways away!

But the BMR on this scale is not what the surgeon's scale says.. so it may not be calculating the metabolic age right. BUT... I'm pretty much just using it for weight/BMI/body fat tracking. The rest is just a random tidbit.

Yeah, it's an app you download when you get the scale. Metabolic age determines how efficient your body burns calories. It SHOULD be 2/3'rds of your actual age. So mine should be 20. O__O

Here's what it tracks.

Relatedly, I love my scale I got. It was super cheap on Amazon. And the weight is basically dead-on with the scale at the surgeon. The only thing that I remember that differs is the BMR, but whatever. It has bluetooth and syncs to your phone. It's a RENPHO scale.

I have one of these scales at home (and one at the surgeon's, of course). I can't remember what the one at the surgeon says, but looking at my phone tracker, my phone says I have 103.8 fat-free body mass and 97.6 muscle mass... which would be 44.8lbs of fat. But I have to lose 109 lbs to be at a normal body weight. I am 5'3 and 249.... someone who is 5'3" should be around 140 or less. It also says I am 58.3% body fat and normal is 26%. I wouldn't go by how much "body fat" it says you have, but whatever a healthy weight for your height and build would be. 86lbs would put you around 160, so that could be perfect for you coincidentally , given your build. I need to go a bit further than just the 44.8lbs my scale says. lol!

Just got off the phone with my surgeon... they said no Spironolactone until 1 year post-op because it's a diuretic. I still have 3 weeks left on the topical they gave me, but it isn't really helping. More just keeps springing up.

Update: Still bent out of shape. lmao. 1lb in 2 weeks now. The dietitian said to wait another THREE WEEKS before being concerned. FIVE WEEKS TOTAL? NO WAY. I am going to flip once I hit the three week mark. lmao. Sorry.

I am drinking about 40 to 50 oz a day due to my ulcer, but none of my labs indicate dehydration, but my mouth is dry nonstop. NON.STOP. It is actually driving me nuts. I think it's dry mouth and not thirst. Biotene helps a bit. If it continues by my next surgeon appt, I'm going to ask and will keep you posted.

I'm down 1 lb in 11 days and I am heated. lol! I'm stuck on bland purees for another 5 weeks and have already been on them 4 weeks. I want to enjoy some food progression with other people, and also not just lose 1 single pound while eating flavorless mush. So bent out if shape right now.

I can't watch those shows because one of the few times I did, the guy died from a heart attack before he could have surgery. Heartbreaking.

I had both liposuction (2009) and a breast reduction (2017) prior to surgery. Between 2009 and current, I gained massive weight, first in the areas I didn't have lipo, and then in the areas I did. I am not losing weight now in the areas I had lipo any faster than anywhere else. I also regret having the breast reduction done... had I known I would be having WLS, I would have waited... but I didn't expect to and they were severely hurting my back. They will likely be quite saggy when I lose weight... but I have a LOT more weight to lose than you do.

I had an initial consult, 2 nutritionist appointments, 3 nutrition classes I crammed in one day, one set of labs, chest xray, and ecg, (which I did all in one day), ultrasound, 2 psychiatrist appointments, a sleep clinic consult, and a final consent appointment. Was done within 3 months. Would have been sooner but they were booked out. Surgery I had to push out a month even though they had an earlier date due to work. No weight loss requirements or anything. Insurance approved me within 4 days of the surgeon submitting my paperwork. Highmark BCBS.

lmao, I figured as much. I was like... why can't you just have a blunt like a normal person, dude. Thanks for almost killing me. lolol. He was like.. I didn't expect... that. X_X but then he goes on to tell me he has a friend that will randomly vomit after dabs. like... helloooo.

Yeah, that's why I thought it was very strange. I certainly remember cottonmouth from "back in the day" (I say that like I'm old, but I'm not, lol). I took a single hit off a dab. I didn't eat anything after smoking because of the vomiting... I started getting nauseous from all the spit within about 10 minutes. I actually quit many years ago because pot would make me hypersensitive to my arthritis pain. It would feel like my joint pain was amplified times 100, which I know is also unusual. Regardless, never doing that again! lol. Everrrrr.

You are so lucky to have a local Y! I used to drive 45 minutes just to go to one. When you're working with a trainer, you're so focused one-on-one that you really don't have time to notice anyone else. Plus, you never know what they used to look like, either. They could be former weight loss surgery patients, even! Now that I've had surgery, I've opted to set up a home gym so I can look like a half-naked hot mess and do Jillian Michaels DVDs in my underwear, but when I used to go to the gym, I just reminded myself over and over I am only there to get it done and there for me. If I didn't look at anyone else, they weren't looking at me. Kind of like when an iguana closes its eyes to pretend you aren't there.

Nah, I don't think so. I kept producing tons and tons of saliva, which started filling up my pouch and making me vomit. I can't even explain how much spit I kept producing. So bizarre. The pain from the vomiting made me start crying, since I hadn't vomited since surgery. I kept having to spit into a trash can because I could not stop producing saliva. It was nutso.

I had occasional acid reflux/heartburn (no formal GERD diagnosis or anything) and bypass was the only viable option I was given (which was fine because that's what I wanted anyways). I personally would not risk making something like that worse after you go through all the trouble of having major surgery. Since the bypass 5 weeks ago, I haven't had an instance of reflux or heartburn once. It's amazing. Would never have considered sleeve and the surgeon was pretty adamant that sleeve is not a real option for anyone with reflux.

From a totally flipped perspective and a word of caution for post-op...I am 5 weeks post-op and I was NOT a smoker (not for like 15 years anyways) and decided to smoke some yesterday... my stomach pouch hurt in a way I cannot even explain. I don't know if it was too soon post-op to try something like that but I ended up vomiting up saliva and mucus for half an hour and crying and dry-heaving. I was just *waiting* for blood to start coming up. I don't know if it's because I just was not a smoker and was sensitive to it, or if I simply cannot tolerate stuff like that with the new stomach. But I felt so horrific last night.

It's really different the full feeling. It's an entirely new sensation that can't really be fully understood until you have the surgery. lol. It doesn't exist pre-op.

If something gets stuck in your throat, like what totally happened to me Saturday with the spices irritating my throat, taking a small sip to clear it won't kill you or anything. lol. They just don't want you drinking with your meal, regularly. But... please... if you're choking... drink something. Haha