Hi everyone,

Thanks for accepting me into the SoCal group. I'm a Cali native, Valley Girl, actually ughhhh gag me! LOL

I'm giddy after having the surgery. I had lap-band in '07 and never did very well on it, and had lots of pain where the port was attached as well as everytime I ate anything. I was so thrilled when my surgeon mentioned the revision surgery to VSG. And this time my insurance paid for it !!

My surgeon is Dr. Paya in West HIlls, but my insurance made me go to U.C. Irvine for the procedure. He's a "Fellow" at UCI so that worked out fine but it was so far away we got a hotel for Sunday and Monday night which worked out great.

I found this site because once down there I could not get the half lyteley down! Every sip gagged me and I threw it up at one point. I panicked so I hopped on the computer and found this site. It was so reassuring to know that not everyone was required to do the bowel cleanse. I caught my breath and decided I would tell them at the hospital in the morning and if they wanted to give me an enema they could, but they didn't. They said it was no problem. Go figure!

Anyway, my surgery was June 27th and I had planned to go back to work today but I'm having a lot of pain on the incision where the lap band port was located so I'm going to try to see my doc today to make sure it's not infected or herniated....then it's back to work. Desk job lucikly!

Sorry for rambling! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

Take care,

Tippy

Hi Tippy;

Welcome and so glad you have been sleeved. Hope your incisions are feeling better. You should talk to SoCalKurt - he had his VSG from surgeons at UCI also.

Provide an update, how are you doing after for first week of work? How are you feeling?

iegal

Hi there,

My first day back to work was today and it kicked my butt! I have a desk job and it was quiet today but exhausting just the same. I went back 10 days after surgery and I think I would recommend a full two weeks to anyone else. Plus my incision still hurts. I saw my surgeon yesterday about it and he took the tapes off all the incisions causing them all to be sore ! He put a pressure bandage on my sore incision and showed me how to do it, and it has helped! Anyway, I got home, went straight to the bedroom, got on jammies and took a 2 hour nap!! LOL Feeling better now!!

Welcome Tippy2us

I'm not on here that much . . . but welcome to the group