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Yes they told me everything. If you don't want something tell them not to give it to you and doc can order something in its place.

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Thanks I talked to them and they are going to change my meds out!

Pre op weight 246, surgery weight 224, Goal 160, surgery 2/6/13

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Good luck Douglas

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I'm on my PRE op diet and have bad headaches. I hear the 3rd day is better, I'm on my second. My surgery date is 18th Feb at Baylor trophy club. Lets hang in there girls and guys.

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Hope surgery went great, Douglas! Keep us updated!

Is anyone back home from the hospital yet?

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Still at the hospital hoping to get to go home today but its not looking good:-(

Pre op weight 246, surgery weight 224, Goal 160, surgery 2/6/13

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Ok.....so stupid question.... when you guys talk about gas pains do you mean you burp to relieve the pain or the other end? This makes me nervous!!!!

In order to really get the pain to go away you have to pass gas from your bottom burping really doesn't help...

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I'm heading home from hospital now. Since we had a two hour drive we stopped half way to walk a bit. Don't want any complications with clots or gas. :-). Can't wait to sleep in my own bed!!!!

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Sleeved today!! I have to admit I am feeling great when I woke up OMG the pain from gas almost made me pass out.. They told me I have to walk to get the gas out and walking I did! I am so excited and ready to begin this journey...

FEB 6TH SLEEVERS TELL US HOW YOUR DAY WENT!!!!

I can only hope I feel as good as you!!!! Congrats!!!

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I'm not sure if I updated, I got home last night. The only pain I have is from my big incision. It's about 2-2.5 inches. The rest are teeny tiny. My drain site feels fine too. I can take a shower in another few hours.

So far I've had 6oz of Protein Shake and 10oz of Water. Right now I physically can't do anymore. I will try again after my nap. I get tired pretty quickly. So far today I have been off pain meds.

I realized pretty quickly that most of my hospital issues were caused from the morphine pump. Please be diligent and aware if you get sick shortly after. My nurses kept trying to get me to hit the pump and it was almost instant vomiting. Not fun when you are hours post op.

The crazy thing is I don't feel anything different. The only reason I can tell I had surgery is the large incision site. Everything else is great. I didn't have a lot of gas pains. I never expressed it from the bottom, always up and out.

Good luck to the rest of the sleevers and I will be keeping everyone in my prayers for a quick recovery.

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I'm heading home from hospital now. Since we had a two hour drive we stopped half way to walk a bit. Don't want any complications with clots or gas. :-). Can't wait to sleep in my own bed!!!!

Congrats and good luck!!!

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I'm on my PRE op diet and have bad headaches. I hear the 3rd day is better' date=' I'm on my second. My surgery date is 18th Feb at Baylor trophy club. Lets hang in there girls and guys.[/quote']

It gets better i'm on day 8 already! I can't believe I havent eaten in 8 days, its unreal!

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I'm on my PRE op diet and have bad headaches. I hear the 3rd day is better' date=' I'm on my second. My surgery date is 18th Feb at Baylor trophy club. Lets hang in there girls and guys.[/quote']

Push fluids! I drank 80oz of Water alone. One day I only got 36 oz and had headache. Since then I get water in no headaches

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You will do great poetikjay. It's not all that bad. And it's amazing how much better you feel in such a short time. My son swears I look skinnier already. I'm praying for you sweetie!!

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    • Alisa_S

      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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    • Alisa_S

      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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