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I had the sleeve on the 18 of April and I am still is the hospital cause I can't drink not even one 1oz they did all the test and everything came out good so what can I do....

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daly, I am so sorry to hear that....I will pray for you. I had my surgery the same day. Is it that you drink and it comes back up, or that you can't drink at all?

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I can drink like 2 oz and it will be good it won't come back up is just that I will feel full all day were if I try to drink a little more out the day it will hurt my stomach

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Yeah, it might just be taking a little longer for the swelling to go down. I know you must want to go home so badly but better to be at the hosp where they can monitor you closely. You will be in my prayers :)

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I had the sleeve on the 18 of April and I am still is the hospital cause I can't drink not even one 1oz they did all the test and everything came out good so what can I do....

Praying for you sweetie!!! Hope you get to come home soon. :)

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Keep your chin up...saying a prayer that they find out what the cause is and your able to go home soon! Keep posting!

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Hey daly

God I was exactly the same as u. I was in and out of hospital for ten days. I am now 5 weeks post op and still major struggles with eating.

Keep ya chin up if u want someone to share with drop me an email.

I have found just a little more each day. But major struggles with Fluid. Try watered down juice. I find it a little easier to drink

Good luck.

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I was sleeved on 4/19 and I really struggled on 4/20 and even 4/21 getting Fluid in. They did discharge me because I wasn't vomiting but it was very difficult. That being said, I found that in the hospital they kept giving me ice Water, and I finally asked for room temperature and that helped. Now at home I also drink gatorade on occasion and that helps me to feel better too. Also, I found that I was able to take in the most Fluid when I had taken pain medicine. Now I don't know if that's because my body relaxes with the lack of pain, but for some reason, at home I am able to drink approximately 12-20 ounces of fluid over the course of a dose of pain medicine, far more than without. I am trying not to use my pain meds because I need to drive to appointments and it makes me feel generally sleepy/itchy/weird. But maybe the relaxation part is key. I have to be like, 100% fully relaxed for any fluid to go down.

Weirdly enough, I'm on pureed food post-op and greek yogurt, as well as cottage cheese, go down without even a tiny struggle. So strange!

Wishing you the best!!!

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does the temp of the Water make a differance. I have had days where I can't drink cold or even cool water. My stomach feels like it is getting tighter as I sip it. I know that when It is like that if I drink some hot water it relaxes.

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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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        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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        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.

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