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If you are the type to get munchies, I'd avoid it or try to find a strain that doesn't give you the munchies.

I typically never get the munchies, so I was only worried about coughing or an edible hitting too fast. I want to say I waited a month out to use my concentrate vape and had a half a Gummy two months out. I still worry about the dosage of edibles so I just stick with my vape.

I'm in SoCal, so it's so much worse other places, but I'm still sleeping with two heating pads, 5 blankets, and a 50lb puppy, and I'm still cold at night 😭

I dread my days off when I actually have to put together an outfit, nothing I own seems warm enough.

Facebook memories showed me this Christmas picture from five years ago. While not my highest weight, there's definitely a difference to be seen. So here's the five years ago pic, one from April of this year (5 months PRE OP), and one from today (3 months POST OP). I don't smile with teeth often, so hopefully that awkwardness doesn't show lol.

When people ask me what was the worst part immediately post op, I always say the gas pain. It makes you feel like your body is wrong and worry about the feeling being permanent. It goes away, I promise. I'm not saying this is a good thing, but I obsessively paced around my room holding a pillow for hours watching Lord of the Rings and the pain was gone in about 3 days. Probably not the solution but maybe walk a small area, with small steps, instead of all the way around the house. I think I also slept with a heating pad on either my back or stomach, which probably helped quite a bit.

21 minutes ago, kellyarw95 said:

Dudeeee I'm worried about the pureed diet. I'm huge on textures and pureed like textures make me gag how is it?

Texture in my mouth don't bother me, but it's the look of pureed meats that I'm like ehhh. They told me to make it "smooth, with no lumps or bumps" but my food processor wasn't cooperating, so my chicken salad ended up more like finely pulled chicken and tbh it's probably for the best texture wise and it's going down fine once I chew for a million years.

16 minutes ago, Slwhurst said:

Y’all I did it… I cheated on my post op! I am on purée and ate 1 1/2 hot wings… I have been craving them since the start…🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

I mean .. how'd it go? I ate the inside of a mozzarella stick yesterday at the movie theater and lived in terror the rest of the night but nothing bad ever happened.

13 hours ago, Sd14810 said:

My surgery was 9/26 so I'm 4 days post op... and I thought I'd be doing better at fluids by now, but I'm still only managing between 28-35 oz a day, that's with liquid, Jello Popsicles anything I can handle to try to get more down... I think I'm going to need to go to get fluids later today, has anyone els had this issue?

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I'm 24 days post op and on my best day I'm still getting maybe 54oz of liquids. I think it took me 2 weeks to get to 40oz. I didn't have to get fluids, but I do use electrolyte powder a lot to prevent dehydration.

1 hour ago, kellyarw95 said:

Also, how long did everyone have to stay on liquids post op? I have to for 2 weeks before I can move to purees.

3 weeks! Which made me kind of crazy by the end. I was so excited when I got to pureed this week but it already feels so tedious to me now lol. Before surgery, I'd to put away all distractions while I ate (intuitive eating strategies) and but now I have to play a puzzle game on my tablet while I eat because otherwise I'm staring at my timer like a crazy person, trying to take 30 mins to eat. Now I just take a bite every level. liquids were so much easier compared now lol.

9 minutes ago, SpartanMaker said:

I tried that with the Fairlife chocolate and it was rock-hard. No eating that thing!

The only way I made it work with the fairlife shakes was a semi freeze, I had to put a timer on so I'd remember to take it out before it got too solid.

9 minutes ago, kellyarw95 said:

So I'm packing to tonight for surgery tomorrow. I added two maxi dresses, one for there and one for home. My kindle. Phone charger. All my meds and Vitamins incase I'm there longer than expected. Toiletries. Comfortable shoes. Some crystals for healing and protection. (I'm Wiccan so it's not weird I swear lol) and my own pillow and blanket. Anything I'm missing??

I think your good? They told me to leave my meds and Vitamins at home bc they'd just use theirs but if they didn't tell you that then I guess it's better safe than sorry. Just remember you'll have to keep all your stuff together during all the transfers, unless someone is there to keep your bag till you're in recovery. I just brought a phone charger, a stuffed dinosaur, my glasses case, an belly binder, and spare undies. My aunt brought my kindle later but that was the last thing on my mind, ditto with my phone, I only used it to tell the time. I wore slides so I wouldn't have to worry about bending over for shoes.

Does anyone else who grew up obese have sad little realizations like this?

I'm 22 days post op and yesterday when I weighed in I realized I weigh less than I did at the end of 8th grade, 13 years old. Which is cause for celebration but also makes me a little sad that I was an obese child and no one really tried to do anything about it. My stepdad would just tell me I had to stop eating junk food but not really give me an option (it's not like I was doing the grocery shopping), and my mom had a RNY when I was 12 but didn't try to change my diet with hers. I weigh less than I did at that age, but I'm 30 and still in the obese range, which makes me feel really bad for child-me. I also noticed when I lay a certain way, I can feel bones I've never felt before, which is also kinda sad. I've never seen my hip bones because I went from cute cubby baby body to fat kid body really fast. Idk that's just kind of crazy and sad to me.

I have my weekly therapy session today and we're going to tackle these feelings, but I just thought I'd post here amongst people who might have felt some of the same things.

I'm currently in a drug study for HS, the research is gaining a lot of steam now so maybe you can find a dermatologist in your state that can vouch for you.

5 minutes ago, Garfield1987 said:

Right nothing in throat. At literally base of the tummy- pain and gurgling. I was like is this hunger?? Pain?? Gas?? Im not sure.

This video also made me feel better!

2 minutes ago, Garfield1987 said:

So today for the first time since surgery (9/20) I think I felt… hungry? I woke up with stomach pain- really bad. But not like from the soreness or incision. I drank Gatorade Protein and it went away. Then throughout the day it was the same. I’ve never had acid reflux so I am hoping it’s not that. Coincides that today is my first day away from Clear Liquids. I had a Protein Shake, a yogurt, and a cup of baked potato Soup (only the liquid no chunks). The pain came back a few hours later and I had a cup of skim milk for dinner and it went away. Hunger pangs or GERD?

I was worried it was GERD too, but for me this was excess acid! Nothing in the throat, right? Just a very very painfully hungry gurgling? Your stomach doesn't know it doesn't need as much acid anymore. My surgeons office okay'd me taking a Tums but I only needed to for a few days and then it chilled out.

18 minutes ago, TheLosingGame said:

i had surgery 9/22 and two days later the pain is almost over. i feel like i have just a little bit of gas left over in my belly.

the only thing i’m struggling with is my Vitamins and medications. what do you all use to track everything? i keep getting confused since some of them should only be taken as needed while others we have to take

I tried a couple apps for managing my vitamins/meds and the easiest one for me is Medisafe, has options for a set reminder and you can set some medications as take as you need. Putting everything in was a little time consuming but all the apps were like that, and I figured that's the trade off for later convenience. I have the app remind me about my Vitamins at certain times, and then I can go in and easily select "add dose" to add my as needed pain med for example.

19 minutes ago, nymisc said:

I started pureed 2 days ago. I have never been so excited to have egg salad and cream of wheat. Everything has gone well.

I can't tell you how jealous I am of y'all with plans that move to puree after a week or two, my plan is three weeks of liquids. I'm chomping at the bit for next week when I can move on lol.

1 hour ago, Slwhurst said:

How much has everyone lost so far?? I feel like I am on the low end and maybe not doing something right! I started pre op diet on 8/31 and sleeved on 9/12 and total loss is 26lbs… should it be more???

I wouldn't worry to much about it. The first week is usually a bunch of Water weight and other things getting flushed, then your body restores all that and makes it look like you aren't losing anything, but you totally are. Your body is trying to balance itself. I've heard that people who lose on the pre-op diet will have a less dramatic drop after surgery, because your body is already doing the water cycle thing or something like that.

Also, the lower the number you are, the slower you may lose. I was sleeved 9/6, day of surgery 212.4 and I've only lost about 14lbs, 13 of those were from week 1. My plan still has me in the liquid phase too, and I just introduced creamy Soups, so I know it's not what I'm eating. A little disappointing sure, but I'm not gonna stress about it, I can tell my clothes look bigger on me and my family keeps telling me my face looks thinner, so something is happening.

5 hours ago, Hope4NewMe said:

Whoops double post

5 hours ago, Hope4NewMe said:

For those who have had the surgery already, what does full feel like? I'm so scared of eating/drinking too much and ruining all this hard work. I'm still taking the pain meds so I don't know if that is masking the signal but I'm not sure what I'm exactly looking for. Before surgery I don't know if I really ever felt full without it being over full. Like thanksgiving stuffed equaled full. I don't want to over stuff myself ever again but its hard to know when to stop.

Similar to what others said, for me there's kind of a pain, but it's really more a pressure near the top of my stomach and if I take a sip or eat a "bite" after feeling that pressure, I get pain. I unfortunately get it with everything, even Water and thin fairlife shakes make me feel this way and I have to measure out my servings. It's been that way for me almost since the start.

24 minutes ago, Hope4NewMe said:

I'm back from my bypass.

I'm sorry to hear about the first night but I'm glad it got better!!!

Had my two week check in with the surgeon! It was over the phone so very basic, he just asked how my incisions were healing, what my weight was, if I was taking my Vitamins, and how fast I could consume 4oz of liquid. He said everything sounded like I was on track. I asked him if I could try thicker Soups like split pea or butternut squash, he said yes but they had to be a runny cream consistency and I have to wait for eggs, cottage cheese, ricotta till the puree phase, which I was kind of hoping he'd let me start a week early, but that made me feel like the answer would be "no" lol.

It's probably for the best though, because I went straight to the store and bought some creamy split pea Soup and wow after maybe three small bites I was like "yeah, this feels different" and it took me an hour to get through 4oz. I'm both surprised and not surprised; on one hand it is an actual food as opposed to liquid, but on the other hand, Greek yogurt and pudding is allowed on my liquid diet and they are heavy but take me about 30mins to get through 4oz. Funny how my body knows the difference between a vegetable and a liquid, even at a similar consistency. My dietitian didn't have me follow the 30min before 30min after rule with yogurts, but I'm definitely doing it with the peas soup.

My next check in with the surgeon is in 4 weeks, hopefully it'll be a good one too.

They make just cheddar soup! Campbell's makes a reduced fat one.

3 hours ago, HMM1216 said:

Newbie here Gastric Bypass surgery scheduled for Wednesday 9/21. I’m on day 2 of the clear liquid diet and todays been harder then yesterday. I woke up with a Migraine and it won’t go away! I can only have plain Water, apple juice, protein2O, Jello, popsicles and low sodium chicken broth to drink/eat and the chicken broth doesn’t wanna stay down. I also only told certain family members and someone got lose lips decided it was her job to tell everyone and there mother so I have a lot of negative opinions being voiced to me. Someone even contacted my fiancé with a long list of complications and all the stuff that can go wrong and how there uncles wife’s sisters daughters cousin died from the surgery and now he’s even more scared something is going to happen to me! I guess it’s just the pre-surgery craziness 🤦‍♀️

Luckily most people I told were very excited and supportive, but the ones that weren't and also had some distant relatives friend due, I just said "people die getting their appendix out too" maybe a lil dark but can't argue with the fact.

38 minutes ago, Cassandra Maughan said:

First post-op appointment this morning and I found out that 1.) they inserted the drain tube 6” too far and 2.) this makes it not work well and ups infection risk. So I have been in such incredible pain because I now have a seroma and a site infection where the drain was. Getting that pulled out was 11-10 on the pain scale. So if you’re having a lot of pain 7 days post op, beware—there could be something else happening:(

Oh wow, I'm so sorry, that sounds so awful. What are they doing about it?

6 hours ago, nymisc said:

Are you all taking calcium citrate right out of surgery? I am getting really conflicting information on it and have not heard back from my Dr's office. Also, I had some bad news today and I was really surprised how emotional I was getting. Does anyone feel just emotionally raw? I guess we don't have food anymore as a comfort.

My plan had me start my Vitamins as soon as I could, but I'd wait for your doctors okay first. I'm sorry about your bad news! You did just go through a stressful major life changing surgery, have stress about your post care, AND hormones are stored in the fat, wls can make them go crazy.