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Southern soul have you had your meet w surgeon yet? Any pre op diet? I meet w mine May 21. Hoping I don't get a two week liquid diet. :/

Yes, I've been meeting with my surgeon monthly since Feb. He's monitored my required 3 month physician diet, which has just been monthly weigh-ins & a quick face to face with him. I have to do 2 weeks of low carbs, <20 per day, lean Protein & veggies mostly.

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I'm new to this forum. A good friend told me about it and I decided to join and see what it's about. My surgery date is June 17th.

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My Preop class scheduled for may 28....getting closer now, it wont be long now...

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Stress test tomorrow - chest X-ray and echo fri.... Uf all goes well... JUNE 5 th!!! Can't wait!

How did everything go?? Still on for the 5th?

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All went fine...still the 5th....upper GI thurs! Thanks for asking!

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All went fine...still the 5th....upper GI thurs! Thanks for asking!

Good to hear! I have my tests on the 4th then sleeve et al on the 5th.

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Okay so how do people sleep with all these wires? I cant wait until this sleep test is over!

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Brandnew- I hear ya....I had to do it twice...once without the cpap and one with...the one with the cpap was as if I was punched in the nose for eight hours straight. Both I swear I didn't sleep but the tech said I did...I just think I faked it well.... Stick to it, u can do it....is for one night!

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Masko5: I got through...thought I was gonna have the best sleep ever...boy was I wrong lol

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I been sleeping with à cpap machine for the last 7 years. Thevgood thing about it is once i found out i needed one it helped so much. Since ive lost some weight the pressure level have been lower. With surgery soon, hopefully i will no longer need the machine one day soon..

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Good morning my fellow June sleevers,

My Psych appointment went well yesterday it was about 2 1/2 hrs long and very simple. I felt it was a waste of time, but something that has to be done to have the surgery.

So I made it through that, now I will start my 2wk liquid diet on the 29th then the 8 hour nutrition class on the 30th. After that it's the waiting game til the 12th. SO EXCITED!!!!!

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Just received my date today! June 17th is the big day! I am from Buffalo NY but I am having surgery in Erie PA

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Hi all,

My date is June 19th, trying to stay calm and focused! So happy to find a place for support as due to my job I am not able to attend any groups!

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Hi all!

I go on June 3!! I have another appointment tomorrow with the surgeon. I have pre admission testing on Friday and next Tuesday is my EGD. Everything is coming up so fast!! I hadn't been told about a 2 week liquid diet and I am less than that away!!

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I am a band to sleeve revision scheduled for June 10th as well. Best of luck to you!!!!!! Keep in touch! :D

I am also a band to sleeve revision on 6/10! So excited. I am not looking forward to the pre-op diet, but that is a small hurdle.

I am in Cincinnati with Dr. Brad Watkins.

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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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