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smilebig2012    4

smilebig2012
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The last 2 days I've been nauseas, dry heaving, diarrhea ( sorry TMI). I dont know if it's my sleeve or the stomach flu? I also have had on and off pain on my left side that travels to middle. ( kinda pulsing pain) It goes away and comes back? The day it started I ate half an egg, 1 slice bacon and 2 bites of hash brown, at lunch I had a cup of clam chowder. When I had lunch I was feeling nauseas and thought I had to eat. I was waking up in goose bumps and sweat running to the bathroom.

I was sleeved 4/10 (6 weeks)

Anyone had this? I'm miserable and today I'm slowly eating...but I did have a couple sips of seven up.

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Lea Anne    17

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Sounds like the flu but since you're having pain I'd call your doctor to be sure. Do you have any anti nausea meds left? Try sipping on a small glass of Welchs 100% grape juice mixed 50/50 with Water. Its great for nausea and will get some Fluid in you. Hope you feel better!

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Lissa    2,631

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I think you have a dairy allergy myself. Your symptoms sound like my last experience with a Protein Shake made with cow's milk. Call your doc in the morning, but avoid straight milk for a couple of days and see if it doesn't get better.

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Lea Anne    17

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Oh keep taking your temp to make sure you dont have a high fever. Anything over 101 and you should really call your doc.

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Jbtoby    3

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Please do not take this as any kind of criticism - I am a week post op and still trying to absorb all of the information. My doctor and the hospital gave me very specific instructions about what to eat. At six weeks I will still be on pureed foods. I will be able to eat eggs but bacon and hash browns would have to be pureed. I am not allowed any solid food for at least eight weeks.

Maybe they are overly cautious and maybe I will not stick to this. You may need to take a step back to softer food if this continues.

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PollyBlue    22

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I'm thinking the fat in the hashbrowns would be playing merry hell with your tummy.

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petal    11

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thanks lissa.. I have been suffering the same today also ,, was fine until I tried a hot chocolate with full cream milk.. now the pain in left side is very painful, and radiating up under my ribs only relief when i am bent over squashing my tummy..so think you are right about the milk. ..grrrrr stupid hot chocolate.. even if you were so yummy..

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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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        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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