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Hi ,

I am new to Vertical Sleeve Talk and im having my surgery June 2nd in Mexicali,Mexico with Dr Aceves and I am just looking to meet others around my age or anyone that wants to be VSG Buddys :)

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Oh... That's my birthday. I'll be sure to keep you in my prayers. I'm not as young as you, I'm in my 30's. You are so lucky to be having the procedure at such a young age.

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Thanks so much , Did you feel nervous about your surgery at all?....I really dont feel scared or nervous and I wonder if thats a bad thing ? I am thinking maybe its because I still have a month 1/2 before surgery ??!!!! I am actually more worried about my plane ride more then anything since its my first flight eekk :o

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I was more excited about the procedure. I didn't get nervous until I left for the hospital. When they put the iv in me I got a little shaky. But I just kept taking deep breaths, and kept reminding myself of the outcome. My procedure only took an hour. I work at a hospital, so I knew that this procedure was pretty low risk. The fact that I was in and out of the or in an hour was confirmation for me. I was is a little pain, if I had to describe it I'd say it felt like I did 1000 sit ups. I really didn't use much of the morphine drip in the hospital, I'd say I used about 1/8th of my morphine drip. They sent me home with Tylenol 3, and I only took that the first two nights so I could sleep. Other than that everyday it gets better, as far as your diet it is very trial and error, you'll have figure out what works for you as far as your Protein.< /p>

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Hello, fellow 22 year old! I had my surgery last November. Welcome to the forums! Your surgery is also on my uncle's birthday. ;) Are you excited?

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Hi ' date='

I am new to Vertical Sleeve Talk and im having my surgery June 2nd in Mexicali,Mexico with Dr Aceves and I am just looking to meet others around my age or anyone that wants to be VSG Buddys :)[/quote']

Hi, I'm 24...I had my surgery last week...4/11...you must be so excited about your surgery date!!!

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ofcourse we can be buddies, im 16 ive had it done on 15 and half, its easy nothing to worry about.

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Ready2bthin, ill be there with u on june 2nd, we'll be surgery buddies! Im excited for a new start!

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Ready2bthin' date=' ill be there with u on june 2nd, we'll be surgery buddies! Im excited for a new start![/quote']

I am sooo excited for a new start goodluck and I will see ya in June :-)

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ofcourse we can be buddies' date=' im 16 ive had it done on 15 and half, its easy nothing to worry about.[/quote']

Thanks, Do you anything that you struggle with?

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Hi' date=' I'm 24...I had my surgery last week...4/11...you must be so excited about your surgery date!!![/quote']

Thanks yes I'm more then excited, The anticipation is driving me crazy lol I'm so ready to have my sleeve :-) btw how are you doing post-op? Has it been hard not eating solid food ?pls keep me posted on how your doing !!!!

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Hello' date=' fellow 22 year old! I had my surgery last November. Welcome to the forums! Your surgery is also on my uncle's birthday. ;) Are you excited?[/quote']

Yes very excited , how has your journey been for you ?

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I also had my VSG with Dr. Aceves, at age 25.

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he is amazing!

you are in the best hands possible!

good luck :)

you are going to love your sleeve

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I also had my VSG with Dr. Aceves' date=' at age 25.[/quote']

That is great I love finding ppl that was his patient btw you look great !!!

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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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      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.

        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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