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Courtnin    86

Courtnin
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Had my surgery today, and I am feeling great. It was a little rough for the first out of recovery, but I've been so fortunate to have no gas and very little nausea. I'm feeling so positive and excited about this journey and have no second thoughts on my desicion. :)

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Summerrain    520

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Welcome to the otherside. I was the same and didn't have a lot of pain or gas, it was just a bit hard to get in and out of bed for about three days but then I have a really high pain threshold.

Best wishes on your new journey.

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DanaAdams    59

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Yay! I hope you continue on a GREAT path!!!

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amclapp    8

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I had surgery yesterday and I'm feeling good....I'm sore alot but that's it :-)

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Courtnin    86

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I completely anticipated it to be way worse then it was, but I'm also a big baby and usually have a low pain tolerance. I'm still feeling pretty good today, except I tend to do weird things in my sleep and ended up rolling onto my tummy in the night oooouchies!

Thanks for the well wishes, feels so great to begin this journey and start to heal :)

Congrats to you aswell amclapp, hope your feeling well!

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Healthy50    1

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I was banded on November 12. I feel the same way. I haven't had hardly any pain and very little gas. I was also anticipating alot more pain and gas. I keep expecting the pain to come any time now. I did a few errands yesterday and drove today. I am exhausted but not in pain.

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CHEZNOEL    4,061

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Congrats and best wishes for a speedy recovery with no more ouchies!

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bcuzicanb    3

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I was banded on the 15th I'm still having gas pain but other then that I'm doing great...I sleep with a lot of pillows and head elevated! ;)

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ritaroo1972    10

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I had my surgery yesterday. Surgery went great, no problems at all. Today has been terrible. So sick to my stomach. I have waves of nausea and feel like I am going to throw up. Scared to death to throw up. My left shoulder, side and chest hurt from the gas. And nothing seems to help. I had a hysterectomy in September and that was nothing. I debt think I was expecting this much pain. But I will survive!! :)

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vanessa1215    35

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I had my surgery yesterday. Surgery went great' date=' no problems at all. Today has been terrible. So sick to my stomach. I have waves of nausea and feel like I am going to throw up. Scared to death to throw up. My left shoulder, side and chest hurt from the gas. And nothing seems to help. I had a hysterectomy in September and that was nothing. I debt think I was expecting this much pain. But I will survive!! :)[/quote']

Are you home now? Did they give you a patch behind you're ear or a script for anti nausea meds? I left the hospital with the patch and a script! Maybe call your doc to let them know about the nausea, maybe they can give you something to help!

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ritaroo1972    10

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Are you home now? Did they give you a patch behind you're ear or a script for anti nausea meds? I left the hospital with the patch and a script! Maybe call your doc to let them know about the nausea' date=' maybe they can give you something to help![/quote']

Yep I'm home. Came home right after the surgery. No patch, but I have the Phenergan gel to rub on my wrists. It helps but it doesn't seem like for very long...how are you??

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vanessa1215    35

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I am really well now! The first 4 days were rough but I made it lol some of the nausea for me was borderline dehydration. Once I found that warm liquids helped (I used warm tea with Splenda) on day 4, I felt like a new person because I wasn't dehydrated anymore! It does get easier, hang in there :)

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vanessa1215    35

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I am really well now! The first 4 days were rough but I made it lol some of the nausea for me was borderline dehydration. Once I found that warm liquids helped (I used warm tea with Splenda) on day 4' date=' I felt like a new person because I wasn't dehydrated anymore! It does get easier, hang in there :)[/quote']

As a side note, watch caffeine cuz it can cause dehydration, if you have Decaf tea use that. I only had regular but it was a saving grace for me!

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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
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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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      1. summerseeker

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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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