summerseeker

Big hugs. Contact your team ASAP. Do you have nausea ? vomiting ? You need your teams advice You may have a stricture. If it is, its nothing major and is a quick fix. Or you could be like I was, really very swollen internally. I struggled for about 3 months and survived. I ate and drank very little but as soon as I could make the goals given, I felt so much better. Try thinning your shakes, Add milk. just keep trying to do better every day. You will get there in the end.

Just try and stay calm today and you will be on your way to wishing you did this a whole lot sooner. BTW, I'm a Lanky too.

So I read in todays newspapers that a beautiful young girl of 20 went to Turkey for Bariatric surgery and became very ill on the airplane home. She paid Dr. Bayil of Global medical care, £2500. Eye wateringly cheaper than the out of pocket cost in UK. I paid £12000. two years ago. They diverted to Serbia but sadly she died. The surgeon had nicked the intestine. He is saying he did nothing wrong. He said 'It was an embolism caused by the plane. ' An autopsy found the intestinal laceration. I wish bariatric surgery was easier and cheaper to get in our own countries. RIP Morgan Ribeiro

Great insights. May I also add that we don't realise how much sugar is in our diets pre surgery and our bodies are really used to using this as energy. Take this away and oh boy the body slump is real. The symptoms can be extreme like the withdrawal from alcohol. Shakes, headaches, tiredness, skin irritation. I was allowed coffee and tea, I would have been a mess with out it. I just toned down the strength of it post op so that it was a little kinder to my new stomach. Doing the pre op diet can be as hard as pre op. Be kind to yourself

For smoothies I started with milk, added Greek yogurt or 0% flavoured yogurt. Some yogurts have lots more protein in than others. Fruit and some low sugar peanut butter. I never had any protein shakes.

Don't over think this stage. My taste buds were telling me that lots of my go to food was blahhh. I had an awful taste in my mouth which didn't help. I just ate protein yogurt, ice pops, strained soups and the tiniest morsels of hard cheese left to dissolve on my tongue. I was allowed coffee so had latte's and home made milk shakes, milk, banana and peanut butter blitzed. My doc was against protein shakes

Well done, I remember your early posts. We all get over the hump in the end. I bet you feel a million dollars now x

As you can see asking on here about pre op diets are pointless. Everyone of us were given a different one. You need to clarify with your team asap

Congratulations for jumping all your hoops. You are doing amazing. I hope you make every one of your goals You will have your day with your dietician but I might also have a word with the surgeon. He may not know how she made you feel. It may be that you will need the dietician and having no faith in her doesn't bode well.

Congratulations and I echo your feeling. I had a smile on my face all week. I was a oneabee all my life

I had a tough time too. My stomach took so long to heal. My stitch line was so swollen for months. I had to eat softer foods for ever. 300 calories a day were my normal until 6 months out. It took me almost 20 months to eat chicken. Lamb is still too rich for me. I can eat smoked salmon but not cooked salmon. Pasta is still off my menu. All the other carbs I can eat a small spoonful. I can eat a small slice of quality seeded bread as long as its toasted. These foods were my most favourite pre surgery. Very strange. Its not the end of the world for me because I love being skinny. I dont think I can try salmon again. I get the foamies every time I try and its turned my against it

I chose a Spire hospital. Its very local. I was so glad they took me on. Its been a life changer

I had my surgery in the Uk. My package came with 2 years support. They told me to get a B12 injection every 3 months at my local doctors. I get dobbing big Calci- D tablets on prescription and take one a day. I also get full strength multivitamin Gummies from Amazon, my team said to take two a day. Every team has different recommendations. Once a year I have nutritional blood tests to see if my levels are ok, they have been. Like @Arabesque, I did not bother with any supplements for my skin or hair. At my age It just would have been a waste of money.

Look at you ! I love these photo's. Congratulations. I will look forward to seeing your progress

I have a huge restriction, lucky me. At almost 2 years, I was only on about 800 cals a day. I had to eat so many protein yogurts to get in my quota of protein. After 2 years I decided to call it a day and upped my cals to 1500. This gives me a good number of cals and as I am not a great exerciser, could do more if I wanted more food. Counting my 3 week pre op diet, I lost about 90 lbs at 6 months out

I just postponed my life for a few years. Now I am skinny I can enjoy everything without guilt. Now if I want a cookie or a glass of wine its ok. This Christmas I had trifle for breakfast on Boxing day as I used too, hehe. I just had a smaller portion. It didn't bother my stomach this far out.

You are very welcome. I used to post my problems on here too. Its a very kind place. Very non judgy. Many people hiccup when full, this is defo your signal. You need to stop eating before you get to hiccupping.

Congratulations on your surgery and great progress. You are over the worst. The liquid and puree foods go through your new tummy really quickly. Are you remembering the no drink rules? Your tummies nerve endings have been severed and your full signals are missing. I would sneeze when full. So as they say on here just because you can eat it does not mean you should. When your new tummy stitch line has healed and you begin on real foods your restriction will kick in and oh boy will you know about it. Its like a long lost friend coming back but now it has rules of its own. Over eat at your peril, it feels awful for hours. This is what we mean when we say bariatric surgery is not an easy option.

Congratulations and thank you for great info.

You are doing so well and have many more months of weight loss in front of you. As a smaller person you will lose slower I lost weight for almost 2 years and then got to a size I was happy with. I increased my calories from 1200 to 1500 a day to find my maintenance calories. I don't do very much exercise but if I did then I would be able to eat more.

So sorry you have this to deal with. Post surgery regret is a thing. I never made my goals either. My team were a little more relaxed though. They just told me to do my best and eventually I got there. I had a lot of nausea and vomiting to begin with. It does seem like a never ending chore just re learning to eat and drink again. One day you just find you can do better. Then you begin to fly along. We all got there eventually, you will too.

Hello and congratulations on your surgery Nobody is totally prepared for this surgery. After all we learned to eat as a baby. We never gave a thought to the fact that we might need to re learn these skills. Add to this all the rules that we are told we have to adhere to and then we have remorse. It doesn't last long. Soon you will have it all figured out. Give yourself time to heal. Drink as much as you can, my intake was way off for the first month but as soon as I reached my teams goals, I felt much better. I had pain in the middle of my chest, not my stomach. I was advised on here to drink slower, try hot, cold or frozen drinks and do not gulp in air. If your pain is in the stomach area, if you are allowed try to, vary the temp of your drinks. Cold drinks sometimes cramp up your stomach. I never had gas pain but have read on here that it is usually in the shoulders. It might take you a while to eat all your fav foods but you will be able to soon, mostly. Over sweet, greasy and stodgy are all foods that are off my menu now. My pre surgery favs were salmon and mussels and I heave just thinking about them ! Why, I do not know. I am not bothered about the loss tbh. There are lots of foods to eat instead. I love that I can eat the tastiest morsels and leave the dross to others.

Me too.

I am sure the good people on here will help you out with finding a group. Lots of us have used this forum to chat and find advice. Its a wonderful group, we have all be through it and between us have had every problem going related to the surgery and recovery.