HatheryOnHerWay

My surgeon uses that cow membrane thing on all his sleeve patients to prevent leaks. I was pretty grossed out. Haha

I just use those little Ziplock containers that you keep like salad dressings and stuff in

OMG, the "I feel so bad eating in front of you" thing or giving me the frowny sad face drives me NUTS!

My pain wasn't extreme like yours, but I did projectile vomit every time I tried to drink something. This too shall pass

I'm 7 weeks out now, and feel completely normal...other than the fact that I don't eat nearly as much as I used to. I can tolerate all foods now that I want to eat. Sometimes I eat something yummy and wish I could have more, but that's what got me fat to begin with.

so are there certain pain meds we shouldn't be taking? I was never told this.

40 is fairly high BMI; it's usually the minimum BMI for American docs to be willing to do the surgery. It's not super high, but it's higher than most Mexican docs require.

Hehe, the guy ate a record number of 69 hit dogs today. No naughtiness intended!! Hehe

Good on you for defending people not there to defend themselves!

They were showing the Nathan's hot dog eating contest on SportsCenter this morning. They showed this graphic of a regular stomach that holds one liter and showed how the competitive eaters can stretch theirs out to 4 times that. Then I thought about my tiny little tummy, and how glad I am that I can't eat 69 hot dogs

Way to go! You look great!

Way to go! You've done so much research, I know you're going to do great

I got some of that at Whole Foods and it was horrible. Really tasty smell!

I'm so glad you got that nasty thing out of you!

My worst side effect was the "word loss." Basically it made it so when I talked, i couldn't find the words to say. They'd be on the tip of my tongue but I couldn't remember the word. Or sometimes I'd just randomly stop talking in the middle of a sentence. Or, I'd be talking and the completely wrong words would come out even though I didn't mean to say them. It got to the point where I felt like I was coming across as stupid to people for my inability to communicate.

This is fabulous! Should be sticky!

Wowza, hot stuff!!

I think it took a month before I didn't have a constant reminder of some sort that I had been sleeved. Now I don't think about it unless I'm eating.

At first when I got "full" it was painful and I'd sometimes throw up, so it was important to stop before I got there. Now my full is more like a normal full feeling, but slightly less comfortable. I try to stop when I'm satisfied and not get all the way to full.

It's sucksville the first week for sure. It'll get better

Oh my! I'm so glad you got that awful mess out of you!

I wish my surgeon had told me that---at least it would be validation for why I used to eat so dang much! hehe

My surgeon actually recommended I go to Sonic and get one of those

Give you scale to a friend and ask them to return it to you in 3 weeks. hehe

You look like a model in that third pic in your undies.