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I guess it is true that everyone is so different. I could drink about 4 ounces of mushies, just like I could drink clears. But once I started regular food, 1 1/2 ounces is my limit. Very tiny amount and I am satisfied. I can drink 20 ounces of clear liquid in 1 hour, sipping. Still must avoid big gulps though, or I hurt. Still have to burp a lot. And there are still lots of gurglings going on.

Rest, walk, and sip....take it easy....let us know how you are getting along! glad everything went well for you.

A back up plan is a great idea. I was almost glad that my insurance would not cover my sleeve...that meant I could just do it without any wait or hassles. Luckily I had been saving up the money.

Maybe your font is just shrinking along with you!

How's this? Font size 2. Turquoise for a change!

Testing a new color. Font size 3. (too big)

It sounds like this guy is a serious obstacle to your future. If you feel you don't deserve anyone who treats you better, I suggest some counselling to help you appreciate yourself more. You deserve better.

testing one two three I went into user CP and at the bottom of the page, select default text formatting. You can change your font, size, color, etc there...

That is wierd. Yours is about four times as big as mine, and it is in purple. do you see that on your screen? It may be that each person's is set in their user CP area, so it reads differently based on how you set it. I did change mine to a larger font when I first started using the forum. Now I clicked on the "A" up in the right hand corner and selected a huge font/ Now I clicked on the double A in the left hand corner at the top that says remove formatting. Let's see what this looks like posted.... This is wierd...when I am reading the forum this all looks black and small. But in this editing box it is the larger, colored version that I selected in User CP. I don't understand why.

I've read 1% pretty consistently too...I have no idea where they got those statistics but I don't think they are correct.

My font is bigger than your font! (nothing personal :thumbup:) Seriously, yours is smaller...take a look! Are you sure you are looking at mine or someone elses?

It was also comforting to me preoperatively to know that Dr Aceves has performed over 600 VSG surgeries and has never had a leak. There is nothing that compares to having full confidence in your surgeon. I had researched so much and learned so much about his skills that I was SUPER calm when I was when going into surgery. It made all the difference in the world. Meeting Dr Aceves and the other physicians on his team prior to surgery, seeing how thorough they were in all the pre-operative assessments (even knowing what I know as a nurse for 30 years) made it so easy. All the information that I read on this forum, and in bariatric surgery journals also helped tremendously. Everyone is different. For me, learning as much as I could and understanding all the possible benefits/risks, how things should progress, and what to expect post-operatively, just helped me feel more and more confident.

Aloha! You asked on an earlier post "what causes hernia"? Being obese can predispose a person to getting a hiatal hernia, and my surgeon always repairs any hernia like this when he is doing the sleeve surgery. It's actually very common and lots of people don't even know they have the hernia. It just takes a stitch or two to close up the defect in the diaphragm, to repair the hernia. It's not a big deal at all. But it does seem to cause a bit more esophageal spasm, I guess because the esophagus is not used to being constricted a little where it enters the diaphragm. So that "constriction" causes a bit more discomfort when food passes through that area. You just learn to take smaller swallows, and wait to let any "burp" come up before you take another swallow. If you don't wait to let the burp come up, the air bubble in your upper sleeve gets bigger with each swallow, and that hurts more and more. I noticed when I first started drinking after surgery, when I first felt the slight discomfort (air bubble), the temptation was to swallow another sip to "get it to go down", but that is the opposite of what should be done. Wait to burp. Then you can take another tiny sip. Now I am 5 weeks post op, and only occasionally have this need to burp, so it gets better as time goes along. My sips don't have to be as tiny (but I don't take huge gulps like I could before surgery). Hope this helps.

Dr Aceves will give you a letter for your employer for the time off if you ask. I requested two weeks, so was on "mushies" by the time I went back to work. That gave me a bit more energy. Good luck to you!

Read as many posts as you can. Ask questions if you have them. Welcome to the best place to find support before and after your surgery!

I find this article very interesting and actually see it as encouraging, not anxiety producing...for me, knowing that successful methods of dealing with leaks are being developed is a great thing in my book.

AWESOME NSV TennJenn. I can't wait to follow in your footsteps.

Dan, Yes, I was especially lightheaded and weak on the preop diet, but I found it helped if I drank something every 2 hours that had a little nourishment in it. 1/4 cup of jay Robb Protein Shake, or some sobe lifewater which has a few calories. Be sure you are getting enough water and protein drinks, or you will be weak. If you get dehydrated, you can have other complications such as gout, fainting, renal problems. Did your surgeon give you instructions on this?

I decided to not buy candy this year (maybe ever again) for haloween...instead I found cute little boxes of stickers in haloween colors. I rarely have any trickortreeters on my street, so usually ended up eating the entire bag of what ever I bought myself! Yikes. (not all in one sitting at least!). But this year, I'll be taking the left over stickers to work for the peds patients.

You sound like the rest of us preop---nervous is normal. Keep up the good work. It is all worth it when you see the pounds dropping off. I felt dizzy and a bit weak after a week or so on the pre op diet. Just be sure to drink plenty of water so you don't get dehydrated, which can cause complications. You'll do great.

right, no fever

Type in zapata in the upper right hand search box on this page and you will find some posts about him.

Pullllease....bicker in the private message session!

I hate it when people treat you like an idiot...grrrr I agree with you that you may have just done a bit too much on just 3 days post op. Take naps and don't be doing a lot of physical exertion right now...you just had major surgery so give the bod a break! What kind of progressive diet does your doctor recommend? Backing it up sometimes helped me when I felt cruddy. I started solids this week and have some back pain so am backing up to mushies for a couple days to give the sleeve a rest. Sometimes it feels like two steps forward and one step back. If "jane" is the nicer nurse, can you ask to speak with "jane" when you have to call? Hope you feel better soon.

Dr Aceves' instructions to me were to wait three months before trying pills, but I had hiatal hernia surgery along with the sleeve so I'm a bit "tighter" than those who just had the sleeve. I crush up some of my pills. Nexium can't be "crushed" because of the way it is formulated so I dissolve it in a little Water and rinse it down. Another One that can't be crushed comes in a liquid form which I am using for now. I used to take huge glucosamine "horse pills" before surgery, but I've lost 40 lbs and my knees don't hurt any more, so I discontinued those completely ...have not taken them since before the surgery. Goal is to eventually get OFF of everything except maybe a multivit.