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I am new to the site as well. Good luck with your surgery. Are you excited? Who is performing your surgery? I have to wait until May for mine. Take care.

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Hello!! My surgery is March 14th, and I am new here as well. Good luck and congrats!! There is TONS of info to be had here. I could (and have) read for hours... :)

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Good Luck to both of yall, all will be fine , i had mine 4 days ago. I am in no pain, had a few gas issues at the begining but it got better every day, I have been out and about the last two days. I couldnt get all my Water or shakes in a first but I did great today. My incisions have healed over. I have no complaints , today I made it through the family eating 16 oz ribeyes , my mind was telling me to go eat by I was not hungry, so I simply went outside to water the garden, when I came back in they were done , they had aired out the home and I did fine , normally I would have been foaming at the mouth. Rest assured you will be fine too. I have dropped 12 lbs in 4 days so that alone is very exciting. I am on the post op diet, not the end of the world . I will be fine and so will you. take care and this forum is full of great people that are here to help you.

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I'm so excited for you newbies! I'll start my 5th week tomorrow....almost at a 20 lb. loss! And that's w only 2 pre-op days of liquids.

I'm so glad I did this.....not one regret. It really changes the way you look at food. For me, I felt best after I had 2 weeks under my belt, as far as healing goes. Plus, there is that fear of the unknown.....this is all new to us. I still don't have much energy and have a problem getting in enough Protein. But I'm working on it and it's improving.

I'm excited to see you've joined this amazing group of people who share so easily w everyone. Congrats on your new life!

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everything will run smoothly, but you may reconsider the decision of having this surgery, some people regret it, i do.

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Congrats and welcome. My advice would be to stock up on your liquids before surgery.

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Hello I am scheduled for my sleeve onApril 2, yes I'm a little scared. but I am also excited about it. I have a trip planned to Mexico in June and want to be smaller by then. I know this won't be easy but I have been overweight for 25 plus years and now is the time. Does any one have advice on preparing for the two weeks before surgery?

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Welcome! You've come to right place!

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Hi everybody. Im new to the site and my surgery is March 19. I'm super nervous about the anestheia and leaving my kids to do this and be in the hospital for a few days. Any words of wisdom?

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Relax , I am sure all will be fine , this was my forth anesthesia and I think its amazing how you can be at rest while they go to town on you, sure you waken droggy but its not that bad , i was up walking within two hrs on my own , I was ready to be released the next morning. my son was with me the whole time minus my surgery time. all was good. If you have the same experiance as I did you will fly thru this and I looking back 5 days cant believe i have recovered so well. I am ready to do everything i was doing before , sadly my caregivers wont let me do crap. but i am ready to mow do what ever, I did sneak in 5 loads on laundry today. . i was in youfr shoes and yes it is only right to have fear of the unknown, but I can say now this was a piece of cake, ok wrong choice for words this was a glass of protien shake lol good luck keep us posted.

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Thanks it is good to hear that other people were nervous as well. Sometimes it makes me feel like im abnormal for having so much fear of it.

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Thanks it is good to hear that other people were nervous as well. Sometimes it makes me feel like im abnormal for having so much fear of it.

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