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Surgery is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon and I am freaking out. I thought I would be super excited and I'm not! Did anyone have these feelings?

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its ok.. you are about to have surgery! You will be super excited in 6 months when you have lost most of your weight!! Good Luck!

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If you didn't freak out that would be unusual. You will be fine. It is all worth it in the end. I almost walked out of the prep room IV and all.

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I was freaking out too. Just keep focusing on why you are having the surgery. AND make sure you pee right before surgery - so they don't need to use a catheter. I'm glad they gave me the option to pee or have the catheter.

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I'm still a few weeks out, but I will be extremely nervous when I kiss my kids goodbye to travel to Texas for surgery. My only two fears are leaving my kids without a mom or bankrupting my family due to a leak that is not covered by Tricare, because I am self-pay.

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I'm self pay as well... I have a lot of trust in my surgeon! He has had only one patient with a leak in 7 years of doing. I can just pray that The Lord gives everyone in the room perfection!

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You will do great! I am praying too, and I will be sure to keep you in my prayers as well.

Shannon

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I wouldn't say I was freaking out, but definitely extremely nervous. Everyone at my surgeon's office was like, "Are you so excited?" I was like thinking, no, not really...I was focused on the procedure itself and the recovery- not the most fun or exciting thing. Two weeks later I am happy I went through with it. Good luck- you will do great, it's a very safe surgery!

-Kendra

15 lbs lost since surgery 12/17

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I wouldn't say I was freaking out' date=' but definitely extremely nervous. Everyone at my surgeon's office was like, "Are you so excited?" I was like thinking, no, not really...I was focused on the procedure itself and the recovery- not the most fun or exciting thing. Two weeks later I am happy I went through with it. Good luck- you will do great, it's a very safe surgery!

-Kendra

15 lbs lost since surgery 12/17[/quote']

This so helped me to read this I am pre op and my surgery is Jan 8th! Thanx for encouraging us on this side of the bench! It really helpful to see the positive postings!

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Ok surgery went amazing only lasted 30 mins because liver was amazing! Yesterday was pretty painful but woke up burping and farting a lot so much of the gas pain is passing!

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Congrats!!! I am happy to hear this.

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This is how I feel my nerves are so bad my surgery is Jan21 and as long as I was working toward getting sleeve that was okay now that its official I'm like I'm so nerves of the unknown my anxiety has gone to the roof it's like I'm anxious but nerves at the same time

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This is how I feel my nerves are so bad my surgery is Jan21 and as long as I was working toward getting sleeve that was okay now that its official I'm like I'm so nerves of the unknown my anxiety has gone to the roof it's like I'm anxious but nerves at the same time

Hey! I was nervous up till the morning of surgery! I actually had a breakdown and just thought do I really want this life changing surgery? But thinking about the amazing stories I've read on this forum I got super excited! Just following the per-op diet! First day I woke up wasn't bad, day 2 was horrible, today is day 3 and I'm up walking around reading all my books to much I'm keeping hydrated!

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My surgery was Dec. 6 and I was really nervous as well. I kept telling myself that this was nothing compared to the c-sections that I endured for the love of my children. This time I was going to do this for ME!! I was worth the recovery pain as well.

Glad to hear your surgery went well and happy healing!

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      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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