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My Journey Starting With Pre Op Diet

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ShantelleElaine    39

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I have blue cross/blue shield PPO blue. It is so exciting to hear that your approved and my deductible is already met for the year so I will have no out of pocket expense throughout the whole process. Very grateful.

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Aidalphung    7

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I'm so hungry. This preop diet is hard

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Tawnya777    106

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Today is your day. Good luck. I'm still having wierd dreams' date=' can't wait to the 7 th. tomorrow starts the clear liquid diet. Say good bye to

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How is your liquid diet going? Hope the dreams are getting better for you. It's so weird, because after my surgery I was having dreams about chocolate and chips and I wasn't even hungry. I still can barley get anything in my stomach.

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Tawnya777    106

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Good luck! Keeping my fingers crossed for you!

Thank You!!! I made it out. Yesterday was a pretty bad day for me as far as pain, but today is getting better.

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Tawnya777    106

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That stinks' date=' but it will be worth it! Good luck!! I hope that everything goes well!![/quote']

The hospital stay was actually nice except the fact they kept coming in every hour to do vitals and someone would come in between that for meds. It was nice to have a push button that I could use to give myself pain meds every ten mins as needed. I sure do miss that part, but I'm taking my liquid pain meds now at home. It only really hurts when I stand up.

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Tawnya777    106

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Glad everything went well! I hope the pain gets a little better and that you get a good nights sleep!

Thank you!!! The pain is better today then yesterday. It's hard to sit up and standing straight I cannot do yet. My sleep is off and on all day and night, usually when I feel pain and take my meds. That's almost always after I get up. I'm am trying to walk around the house as much as I can, but I feels hard to breath and I guess that's from the hernia repair.

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Tawnya777    106

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I understand I don't remember much I am sore but I can tolerate it. Having a hard time sleeping but I know that will change. I have some gas pain not a lot but I will be moving a lot more today than yesterday other than that so far so good

I'm glad to hear your surgery went good and your doing good. I had more pain the day after surgery . How is your progress coming along? Does it feel like your incisions are going to rip open when you walk?

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Tawnya777    106

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Happy to hear you are doing good! It'll get better every day. Rest when you can. Congrats!

How long did your pain last for?

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Tawnya777    106

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Congrats both hoping you fell better soon. For me good bye food. 5 days of clear liquid diet and then surgery on the 7 th. and the countdown begins

Thank you!!! How is your liquid diet going? Congrats on your upcoming surgery!!! I think there is a couple other people on here having their surgery on the 7th as well. All I can recommend for after surgery is a heating pad and lots of pillows. Let me know how your surgery goes. Hopefully you don't need a hernia repair, because I think that's whats hurting the worst, but I can't really tell. Good luck!!!

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Tawnya777    106

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Glad to hear you are both doing good!!!!

Thank you!!! Just glad to have made it through all this finally. Now I can't wait to heal all the way.

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Tawnya777    106

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I have blue cross/blue shield PPO blue. It is so exciting to hear that your approved and my deductible is already met for the year so I will have no out of pocket expense throughout the whole process. Very grateful.

That's good news!!! Congrats!!!

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Tawnya777    106

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I'm so hungry. This preop diet is hard

Pre op diet does suck, but at least you didn't have to do two weeks and after surgery you most likely wont even care about food, at least for the first few days.

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LadyDiva618    359

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I'm glad to hear your surgery went good and your doing good. I had more pain the day after surgery . How is your progress coming along? Does it feel like your incisions are going to rip open when you walk?

Today is a lot better than yesterday I did a low impact workout for 3 minutes today. I'm taking it easy though because I have this fear that my incisions will rip each time I move. I am slowly getting better at it.

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Aidalphung    7

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Thank you!!! How is your liquid diet going? Congrats on your upcoming surgery!!! I think there is a couple other people on here having their surgery on the 7th as well. All I can recommend for after surgery is a heating pad and lots of pillows. Let me know how your surgery goes. Hopefully you don't need a hernia repair, because I think that's whats hurting the worst, but I can't really tell. Good luck!!!

.. My liquid diet getting better. I work in a deli next to the bakery first day the cakes were calling me. Today fried chicken was calling . But I haven't cheated . Surprising that the chicken broth tastes good I have lost 4 pounds in 2 days. Thanks. And I hope everything goes well with you. Believe me your posts helps a lot.

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    • Alisa_S

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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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    • Alisa_S

      Alisa_S

      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.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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      Three months and four days ago... I was in Costa Rica having a life changing surgery! Yesterday we had a followup visit with Dr. Esmeral via video chat and this morning my middle number changed.  I'm down 47lbs and two pants sizes. I can wear a Large tshirt for the first time in like... 14 years! Woot!! Everything is going great. I have zero regrets. I went down to the riverwalk with a friend and walked 2 miles on Monday without even getting fatigued. And no more snoring or chugging pickle juice for crazy leg cramps! I need to go to the gym more... I'm making new shirts next week so that will motivate me. LOL But I'm also just not as TIRED all the time! I have a LONG way to go...but seeing the progress on the scales and in the mirror is a huge motivator!! Thank you all for cheering me on and supporting me!!
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