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Had my sleeve done yesterday. Really a piece of cake so far...hardest part is that my surgeon doesn't allow anything for first 24 hours...not even ice chips...oh, and not being in a private room has been the pits...it is like The Shining on the other side if the curtain!!! The nurses are so pleased with my progress they are calling me a model patient :-)...think I will be discharged today instead of needing to wait until Friday

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Sleeved Monday 5/6 in N TX! Still in some pain but overall doing well. Tracking calls on my fitness pal and feel healthier already but the choices I'm making!! How r y'all doing? My 1st post op appt in 2.5 weeks out on 5/23.

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Sleeved Monday 5/6 in N TX! Still in some pain but overall doing well. Tracking calls on my fitness pal and feel healthier already but the choices I'm making!! How r y'all doing? My 1st post op appt in 2.5 weeks out on 5/23.

I was sleeved on the 2nd as, pretty much of pain meds except when I sneeze, that hurts a lot and sometime need pain meds to relieve it, and bed time, can't find a comfortable non painful way to sleep. Do you have that problem? I would like to do away with pain meds completely, but bedtime is such a chore can't seem to do it. My post op is the 21st. Also gonna weigh layer today to see what my 1 week loss has been

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Hey mikeR think I going to invest in one if those big v shaped pillows. Hope week one loss is good!! : )

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Had my sleeve done yesterday. Really a piece of cake so far...hardest part is that my surgeon doesn't allow anything for first 24 hours...not even ice chips...oh, and not being in a private room has been the pits...it is like The Shining on the other side if the curtain!!! The nurses are so pleased with my progress they are calling me a model patient :-)...think I will be discharged today instead of needing to wait until Friday

Love reading posts like this! Good luck!

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Literally just got my date still sitting at the drs office! Friday, May 17th - I'm so emotional lol

I share the date - you can be my sleeve buddy!

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I just had surgery last the 8th. You must stay your diet. I stayed on mine down to the dotted line. My doctor could tell by my liver. The surgery went very well because of that. The girl across from me did not and she is having problems with throwing up continuous. She still hasn't been up walking yet.

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Had surgery on the 7th, came home yesterday. Dr. Morales said I did great. I stuck to my pre-op diet. I'm sore but, I'm up and walking. Haven't had to take any pain meds. They took my pump out yesterday before I left the hospital.

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I just had surgery last the 8th. You must stay your diet. I stayed on mine down to the dotted line. My doctor could tell by my liver. The surgery went very well because of that. The girl across from me did not and she is having problems with throwing up continuous. She still hasn't been up walking yet.

But a lot of drs dont give a pre op diet. Mine doesnt and he doesnt have more problems than any other surgeon. He said as long as you don't gain weight thats fine.

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Have anyone cheated on their liquid diet.. today my first day its getting hard as the day go on.

I've kind of cheated..on the first day, I ate a 575 calorie salmon meal from Olive Garden instead of the 300 cal lean cuisine. I also only had 2 Protein drinks Instead of 3 and added 1/2 banana to it. And had about a cup of cottage cheese last night to help me sleep. Ate it super slow. Going to try and get the 3rd shake in today to try and help keep me not as hungry, and drink more Water.

My wt is down 8 lb since Sun. So I'm ahead of schedule.

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Just got approved and got my date...may 22...which also happens to be my 33rd birthday! Excited for the new start!

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I just had surgery last the 8th. You must stay your diet. I stayed on mine down to the dotted line. My doctor could tell by my liver. The surgery went very well because of that. The girl across from me did not and she is having problems with throwing up continuous. She still hasn't been up walking yet.

The pre op diet has nothing to do with how you out the other person are doing, every doctor is different and every patient is different. Some doctors are very lenient and don't give any pre op diet others very strict and have a 3 week or longer strict liquid diet and everything in between. Yes one of the main points of the diet is to help shrink liver and lose a little weight before the surgery to make things easier on the surgeon, but a good surgeon can work with almost anything. Each patient is also different, you were strict with yourself, I cheated twice and ate something. I was up walking, without assistance getting up our walking, within 30 minutes of entering my room, according to nurses average person takes 4 hours and needs assistance getting up and walking. The throwing up could be anesthesia, they say it makes a lot of people ill, and not just wls patients, but any type of surgery. I was released from hospital less than 24 hours from my surgery cause I did so great.

Now I am not condoning people cheat on their pre op diet, but just pointing out that cheating doesn't necessarily mean things are going to be bad for you. Also even with cheating I lost 17 pounds on my diet.

What is important is don't cheat after, you can cause yourself problems, listen to everything your doctor tells you, again here doctors vary but not as much cause they don't want you to cause a leak or have to throw up something that won't go down cause your not ready for it yet.

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May 29th for me!!!!!!

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