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sweetsoutherngirl

By sweetsoutherngirl, in The Gals' Room

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sweetsoutherngirl    32

sweetsoutherngirl
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So i searched the forums and it seems everyone has some issue with TOM after surgery. Has anyone had a very painful TOM afterwards? I got mine a week after surgery and I have it again now. Both times I am in so much pain I want to cry, well I did a bit because I was in so much pain. And it is super heavy... Any suggestions on what I can take? I am taking liquid tylenol but that does nothing for me :(

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ladyTy    5

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I had My first TOM a couple of week after my surgery and it was very painful that i couldnt get up and since i still cant take tylenol pills what i did was take the tylenol codein that the surgeon prescribed after my surgery and that help me alot :(

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Violet953    46

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I have an irregular and heavy period anyway...but the week after surgery mine was very very heavy and lasted like 2 weeks which is normal for me...sometimes the bleeding lasts for months actually. But its weird...idk if it's from loosing weight or what but now I haven't had it for over a month! It's so hard to tell with me what's going on...I assume though its just your body getting used to all these changes.

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mandagay    93

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Sweetsoutherngirl, I had my tom about a week after surgery and swear I thought I was gonna die! I cameon here and asked about and some lady made fun of me saying the band doesn't effect ur womb. I'm not completely stupid but my body has gone thru a lot and it stands to reason to me that stress and other things can effect ur period then why not this? I was embarrassed to say anything else after that so I'm glad u brought it up

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sweetsoutherngirl    32

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Sweetsoutherngirl, I had my tom about a week after surgery and swear I thought I was gonna die! I cameon here and asked about and some lady made fun of me saying the band doesn't effect ur womb. I'm not completely stupid but my body has gone thru a lot and it stands to reason to me that stress and other things can effect ur period then why not this? I was embarrassed to say anything else after that so I'm glad u brought it up

That is so mean of her. This is a place to ask questions and get some answers possibly. I know before my surgery it was not this bad and now I have had two that were horrible. I ended up taking some crushed tylenol and balling myself up in my bed until I went to sleep. I am calling my doc tomorrow. Today has been a bit better

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Lianne    34

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I had ablation done late last year to eliminate my periods. I had met my yearly out of pocket co-pays with my Lap Band surgery so i figured why not? It was a very minor outpatient surgery. I still get my regular PMS symptoms (which are minor) but the horrible cramps and the bleeding are gone! I couldn't be happier, and would recommend it to anyone.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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