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I'm going to be very frank here. I have heard that people who have bypass surgery or DS have terrible bm/flatulance smells that are so terrible that the smell won't leave the room and will follow you around. Is that also true for VS?

Just want to know every part of what may happen on this journey, I don't like surprises of this nature....

Thanks,

Stephanie

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Poop is poop, and a fart is a fart with VSG. The odor will be determined by what you eat. The only thing I notice is that when I eat a lot of white carbs, I get a little gassy, but it isn't any "stinkier" than what I experienced pre-op.

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Im 8 days out and it took me 4 days to do a #2 it was nice. As for" toots" go since im on liquids i have to say before the surgery mine had a terrible smell, right now no smell (gas from surgery) or not to bad depending how much Protein drink.

tried to use nice words instead of my guy terminogly...lol

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I definitely have more gas if I eat something with sugar. The way it was explained to me is that it's not in our stomach very long so it goes undigested into our intestines and causes gas. I have to be really careful of where I am and how close to people I am if I eat something

like candy.< /p>

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Thank you for your answers. I am assuming that with the VS it's "routine bms" . I have been told the other types of surgeries cause a terrible odor for a year or longer. Mostly due to the food sitting in the bowels rather than the stomach. They say its so bad that they have to use a bio spray that is used in the hospital and even that doesn't work for some people, they have to get charcole underwear liners. I was so horrified to hear this that I was seriously thinking maybe this is not something that I would do. I'm so relieved to hear with VS this isn't the rule.

Thank you all so much, this forum is so valuable.

Stephanie

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I'm going to be very frank here. I have heard that people who have bypass surgery or DS have terrible bm/flatulance smells that are so terrible that the smell won't leave the room and will follow you around. Is that also true for VS?

Just want to know every part of what may happen on this journey, I don't like surprises of this nature....

Thanks,

Stephanie

For some reason, I am much LESS gassy since I had surgery, but I'm no more "smelly" than before.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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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

        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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