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Oh my gosh, your list is never-ending you poor thing! I imagine every single day is pretty exhausting for you. Great that you got the RNY because losing weight will at least ease some of the side effects like the pressure on your back, si joints etc. So how many years did your sister study to become a medical specialist lol I do really hope that as your weight reduces you get some relief from some of your issues

Which procedure have you had done and how much have you lost so far?

I'm confused by your post lol. She has had a sleeve and needs the bypass to remove the rest of the cancerous borders

Yep, blows me away how we are all told such different things! Even in the sample menu they gave me potato is in one of the meals! [emoji15]

Oh what a pain it is having weird and 'wonderful' health conditions. You will absolutely know for body the best and what works for you, i bet it's a pain trying to explain it to people too!

Wow you are doing fantastically. great motivation you have!

I would expect some diarrhoea at this stage with introducing foods as your bowel has been resting since pre op. Any food we eat now can cause peristalsis to kick in a bit fast and then cause diarrhoea. As already stated try again at a later date and you may well find once your bowel is working properly again you won't get problems the next day

no problem, I went to the shops yesterday, got half way down the 1st aisle felt hot sick and sweaty and went 'oh ok I'm not quite ready for this then!' So I am even taking my own advice haha

Hi you are only 2 weeks out from a big surgery (despite it being laparoscopic), it sounds to me like you might just be doing a little bit too much Take it a little easier, with regular breaks, it takes 6 weeks for recovery and even then more healing will go on for a while longer Just editing to say none of your wounds will even be healed yet, so if you are cleaning and bending etc you are straining the wounds inside so they will hurt. It's normal and pain is a sign that you need to stop doing whatever it is you are doing. Although by stop I don't mean lie on the sofa and do nothing I just mean your wounds are telling you that they aren't happy with how much you are doing. Normal for them to ache a bit at the end of the day, but def pull back a bit if you are getting sharp pains.

yep they can with a PICC line too

Sorry, you feel lonely it is hard I understand. Sometimes you just want that 1 person there to share with or have them look after you when you need it huh I know it isn't the same but do you have a good friend and family network to ease it a little bit?

Also stuck in a stall. VGS on 12th August Bypass on 20th August Lost 15kg=33lbs and the scale hasn't moved for about 4 or 5 days now Frustrating for us all because I think our poor brains are so wired to our past failures a stall can feel like we are failing again. Luckily we have all the long term members here who have 'been there done that' who can reassure us

@Lena809 Sorry you were conned by a jerk. I have no dating stories/hints/tips but I hope you find the right person for you. We all deserve to love and be loved. Are you happy being single though? I always find people meet nicer partners when they are happy in their own company. But this can be hard if you feel lonely. Anyway good luck

If you could incorporate some weights into your exercise routine you would increase your basal metabolic rate, so with your RNY you would have a much better resting metabolism I know easier said than done, I will have to do the same once healed and feeling human again. Doesn't have to be a lot just enough to increase our muscle mass and kick that metabolism in its lazy butt!

Oh that is great seeing it all set out like that thanks @FluffyChix

What is the rationale for a CVC? They are a huge risk for serious infection and sepsis. Could he not give you a midline like a PICC line? I ended up with a PICC due to severe dehydration etc (I ended up pretty ill after my first op on the 12th August). A PICC is less risky but just as reliable, I would ask if they would consider that instead

hey @Briswife15, how did you cope with the withdrawals? Mine were terrible I felt like I was trying to walk on the moon, I seem to be absorbing ok though as that horrible feeling has gone. Interestingly I had to come off Prozac to go on to Venlafaxine as I had been on them so long they just weren't helping anymore. Those few days in hospital were pretty hideous going cold turkey off them. Unfortunately, surgical teams don't liaise with medical teams enough in these situations!

They sound perfectly normal. Drain sites close from the inside upwards. If the skin healed first then the hole underneath would end up being a pocket called a sinus which would fester and become infected. A couple of steri strips and small dressing over them should be fine. Don't touch or pick them. They don't sound infected. It is normal for wound sites to be hot pink and tender and ooze. An infection would be very red, hot and very painful and the redness would be growing in diameter each day. Nothing to be scared or angry about, all perfectly normal

I have 'flavdrops' and the taste is amazing/intense only need a couple of drops.

I have been living on beef bone broth, tomato soup, cream of chicken soup, protein water, veggie soup

Hi, I went 2 days without my Venlafaxine (Effexor) which has hideous withdrawal effects. So I was started back on them on day 3. They went down fine but due to surgical issues I wasn't keeping them down. In hindsight I wish I had seen my dr and got the liquid version even if for just a weeks supply, so pls consider doing this if you can. Good luck

Oh no! I know they say our tastes really change but for it all to taste disgusting isn't good. Just a thought have you got oral thrush maybe? Because that can drastically alter taste.

hmm have they looked into why water is making you nauseous? You had surgery a while ago now so it doesn't seem right at all that things haven't settled a bit. Are you taking anti-emetics regularly? I am still on regular antiemetics and I had surgery on the 12th and then the 20th. Have they done your bloods and a scan?

What have you tried so far?

Morning Thanks for your replies! I had 1 scrambled egg with 1 dessertspoon of tinned tomatoes and mushed it all up well. It was amazingly scrumdiddlyumptious lol. I had no pain or nausea from it. I did exactly what the nurse said, a mouthful was the size of a 20 pence piece, I chewed 20 times, swallowed, then waited 1 min until the next mouthful. So 1 egg took approx 30 mins to eat and was cold by the end, but my tastebuds were singing with joy haha I am trying potato now for lunch and eating it exactly the same way as the egg, tiny amount, 'chewed' (a bit hard as I blended it with chicken salt and water so is like baby food consistency) and then waiting 1 minute until the next 'mouthful'. Seeing as potato is so starchy it may well trigger a 'dumping', but I have been dreaming of potato with mince and gravy for a month lol So I have fingers, toes, eyes, legs and arms crossed it doesn't make me dump, (i wish we had another easy word for dumping syndrome). I am going to go and get some ricotta later so I can make that ricotta bake that looks delicious. Because I initially had a sleeve done they had told me no puree food for another 2 weeks yet, so when I had my Bari Nurse check-up last night she remembered that I could start puree foods now seeing as I ended up with an emergency bypass! So the things I had planned on buying to try pureed I don't have in yet, so good excuse to have a little walk to the shop and get a few bits