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I am feeling sick as well. I had my sleeve done on Wednesday. I have sharp gas pains in my shoulders and stomach. The pains literally have me in tears! The doctor says walking gets rid of it so I walked every 2 hours. I just came home from the hospital an hour ago, and it's still there! I am on Vicodin too, but it doesn't seem to help :*(

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Yea I had mine done tuesday ... gas pain were not the bad took tylenol over the counter

Walking and moving around wi get the gas out

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@art

Im 3 days post op

I feel full all the time ... its just hard

My favorite color is green

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I feel full too! Every sip of Water or Protein is like a rock hitting my stomach. Ugh. It's definitely a struggle...I hear ya!

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Hang in there! It does get better each week. First two weeks were the worse for me. I was sleeved on July 8th and each week has been better.

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For the gas pains you may also try a heating pad under your back -- laying on your side , and walking . It totally sucks - the worst part of this whole surgery if you ask me. I also found standing up to eat helped me not trap even more gas . Try gas x strips - go on your tongue

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I just bought some gas x strips, and the heating pad definitely helped ease the pain. Thanks :)

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Hang in there! It does get better each week. First two weeks were the worse for me. I was sleeved on July 8th and each week has been better.

How are you doing now that we have been sleeved a month,I am still on pureed. Get sick if I try any thing other.apparently my Dr.makes sleeves very small.

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Are you still on pureeds? What do you mean he makes sleeeves small?

They choose?

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Are you still on pureeds? What do you mean he makes sleeeves small?

They choose?

Yes apparently they do make them different sizes,yes I am on pureed til next month.

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Are you still on pureeds? What do you mean he makes sleeeves small?

They choose?

I found out my sleeve is about the size of my pinky finger. No wonder it feels like everything is stuck in my throat.

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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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