Finally the day is here...Looking for any last minute suggestions or things that worked for you surgery day or that you wish you would have done! Let me know!! Thanks all love this site!

Congrats that your big day is finally here! The only advice I have is try not to be nervous or have any second-thoughts. It's a wonderful thing you're about to do for yourself.

Congrats on your journey to a new you!!!

The only advice I have is to walk, walk, walk as soon as even a few hours after you get home!!! It really helps relieve the gas (as does the Gas-X, I did the strips). But walking every few hours, even around the house will help a bunch. I didn't get the horrible gas pains that everyone talks about and I think that's because I walked every few hours.

GL!!!!!!

Thanks ladies...walk, gas x and dont look back:) Got it!!

My surgery is tomorrow too! I figure tomorrow will be fairly easy to get through because I'll be groggy from the anesthesia, but I hope the rest of the days the first week go well. I've been doing the 'liquid' thing yesterday and today in preparation and have been thinking 'oh it's no problem getting in that protein' but right now I'm doing a couple of good sized shakes and after the surgery it'll be hard to fit both those shakes in if I can only kinda sip it...We'll see how it goes...Good luck to you Nicole!

Enjoy the Versed! Best wishes! Mine was last week and I haven't thought once that it wasn't worth it.

Hugs!

Nicole74... I wish I had known that I really needed a week off of work to recover. I had surgery on Friday and expected to go back on Monday morning. I was weak and nauseated and looked like HELL but I did manage to work half days. The following week... i was like a new woman. If there was one thing I wish I had done differently it would be to take the week off after surgery! It is the BEST thing I have ever done for myself. I will be 9 weeks post op tomorrow and have lost 35 pounds. Congrats!!!

awesome you have the same date Lisa! Please let me know how you do lets stay in touch since we will be going through the same thing..I didnt have to do any pre diet I actually just had sushi for dinner...but I bet it does help not to eat much a day or 2 before..

I'm new to navigating in this site, but I found what looked like a 'friend' request and sent it to you, Nicole. My name is actually Klisa...Lisa with a K in the front of it (lisawithak). Ohhh, I'm so jealous that you had sushi! I've been dying for something to CHEW on! I was on the phone laughing with my Mom about how I was going to wrap a steak in a pair of nylons so that I could chew on it to get the flavor but still maintain the 'liquid only' diet because I wouldn't be able to swallow any of it. Hahaha!

I have to be at the facility at 10:30 am tomorrow (PT), so my surgery will probably be 12:30-1:00...hopefully things aren't delayed much... surgeries always seem to get backed up.

Rheaosun - 35 lbs in 9 weeks?! That's so wonderful!!! I was only planning on taking a couple days off of work...surgery tomorrow, return to work on Tuesday, HOWEVER, I work from home (programmer), so I don't have to move much at all to work. We'll see how it goes.

Walking is a must for the gas pains and two other things helped were a heating pad with a towel under it that helps the gas pains and also my Dr told me to lay back in a recliner with my arms over my head. I think it helps the gas move around because it can be quite painful. You really need to take a week off after surgery and it usually takes you around 10 days to get completely back to normal. Good luck !

OMG! The gas pains are HORRIBLE!!! The pain killer doesn't even make them go away. I'm trying to walk around my pool 10 times every once in a while...I got home a little over 3 hrs ago and have done it 3 times. The funny part is that I'm too tired to count so Lord only knows how long I am actually walking. It feels A BIT better WHILE I'm doing it, but afterwards, it sucks again. I took some GasX as well. It feels like it hasn't helped much, but who knows hwat this would feel like if I weren't walking or taking the Gasx and the pain meds. Forgive any bad spelling here. I'm half asleep. Came back on to look ofr addtl suggestons.

Heating pad next.

I hope you are having an easier night than me, Nicole!

I only wished I had gotten something a little stronger than gas-X and I needed a few more days off from work. My surgery was on a Thursday and I thought i'd return to work on Monday....it was more like Wednesday and I could've used a few more days after that.

Good luck

I ended up being awake for a good portion of the night, but actually made quite good use of the time...I was doing the 'walk around the pool thing', but then it hit me that I might as well do light chores rather than just walk around the pool, so I ran my dustmop over my floors, did some light dusting, cleaned the kitchen, etc. I do about an hour of work (moved slow, but that's OK since my point was just to move), sleep for about 2 hrs, do another hour of work, etc. I think the longer bouts of activity helped a lot because after a couple of them I was able to sleep for about 4 hours at a time, which was nice.

Still have some pain when taking deep breaths and the belly area is a bit sore from where the port was placed (behind the belly button), but the gas is MUCH better. Still there some, but NOTHING compared to last night! Phew!

sleeping on my side helped too...as well as the heating pad.

Today I've had some Jerry's Deli chicken Soup broth (the pups are getting the chicken, noodles & carrots in their dinner tonight), some Vietnamese beef broth w/ some Protein powder in it, a small rootbeer float, a little juice (I 'juiced' 2 apples, a pear and threw in some coconut Water, but then was too full to drink most of it) and about a 1/2 liter of water. I know I need to up the water quite a bit, but I think I'm doing not so bad for my first day. :rolleyes2:

Oh, I had my liquid Vitamins too.

All in all I'm doing much better than I figured I would be...

However it kinda sucks seeing a steak or something on tv and thinking, 'Hey, maybe I'll BBQ one!' and then 'remembering'...

Just gotta get through this first month and it'll hopefully be not so bad.