Ok everyone since we are getting close to December I figured I would go ahead and start us up a post op thread

I guess we all need to be more careful about how we are feeling and what current medications we take. Having too much medication on board can certainly wreak havoc on our recovery and have nothing to do with the actual surgery . Hmmmm...more to think about! It doesn't take a lot of weight loss for medications to be decreased.

Omg. Experiencing 1st dumping. My pouch didn't like the chicken breast. :-(

Gen :-) 12/15/12

Oh, I'm so sorry Gen:(

Omg. Experiencing 1st dumping. My pouch didn't like the chicken breast. :-(

Gen :-) 12/15/12

Poor Gen hope it doesn't last too long! Hugs!

Omg. Experiencing 1st dumping. My pouch didn't like the chicken breast. :-(

Gen :-) 12/15/12

Ooh no, I hope it goes fast. My first lastest 30 minutes of feeling yucky I didn't actually have a BM, just felt horrible, sick, sweaty, like I had to vomit, horrible experience... then it stopped. I hope yours is as fast or faster. I haven't tried Chx Breast, maybe I won't, lol.

I thought I would make a nice dinner for my daughter and I, my body rejects it. I got down almost an ounce of the chicken when I started feeling it. I think it's pretty much over now. Thank goodness. That sux!!!

Gen :-) 12/15/12

So I talked to the bride as suggested and it didn't go bad like I thought. So now....the question....I am a size 18 right now, size 20 dress. The wedding is 8 months away and the dresses are being ordered in 2 months since she has 6 bridesmaids and the store said we had to, to get them in time. So, I hope to be a 16 (18 dress) in 2 months, but still when ordering I will be 6 months before the wedding, not sure what to do. The dress, per the store, can go in 2 sizes without looking much different, it can go up 1 size only. More than that depends on the dress. Thoughts?? Do I dare order a size down, so maybe a 16 dress (14), since dresses run about 1-2 size smaller than clothing. That would mean I would have to be about 200 pounds to be in a 14 at my height/body structure.

I had pills stuck in stricture, hiatal hernia, ulcer and esophagitis. EGD is done but now I'm throwing up some blood and it feels like something is stuck in my throat.

Lisa :-) surgery date: Dec. 4th, 2012

Wow, Lisa, no wonder you have been miserable. So how is that all resolved? Will you be able to eat or drink for a while? Hope ya get to feeling better soon. Take care!

I had pills stuck in stricture, hiatal hernia, ulcer and esophagitis. EGD is done but now I'm throwing up some blood and it feels like something is stuck in my throat.

Lisa :-) surgery date: Dec. 4th, 2012

Wow you have been through so much! I hope you heal fast and everything goes smooth from here. Take care of yourself.

OMGooodness...Poor thing!! Hope your feeling better!

Day 2 of back to work and today I am 2 weeks post op! Yeah! Work is fine, but coaching my girls is hard. We are mid season (basketball) and I had practice yesterday and a game today. I am pooped. It's 8:30 and I am about to go to bed! Teaching has been fine except or loosing my loud teacher voice. I have to hold my side when I need to talk over 30 plus middle schoolers! And coaching... Well I was not as animated as I normally am on he side lines. Ref missed a call... Oh well, I can't yell at him cause it hurts! We won anyway! Yeah! Now I'm going to bed. Thank God in Heaven for weekends. One more day of work and no ball practice,

I have my first post op tomorrow, looking forward to hearing docs take on my progress.

Good night, ya'll? ( Yes.. I'm from NC)

I had pills stuck in stricture' date=' hiatal hernia, ulcer and esophagitis. EGD is done but now I'm throwing up some blood and it feels like something is stuck in my throat.

Lisa :-) surgery date: Dec. 4th, 2012[/quote']

I have or had hiatal hernia, not sure if it was fixed w the surgery. Need to ask Dr. Esophagitis too :-( The hiatal hernia causes reflux which caused the esophagitis. Thats what happened w me. Are you at the hospital still? I hope so. What did they say about the blood? I hope you'll be ok soon, thoughts are w you.

Gen :-) 12/15/12

Wow! So much news today. Jodi and simply hope you ladies get to feeling better super quick. Lisa finding out is half the battle, now on to the cure. Gen- terrified of my first dumping. Talked to my doc today, wow how I love him! Wonder if he's single lol he said 2-4 ounces of anything I want per hour, more if I can handle it, but I don't want to over do anything. He also said not to worry about protein just yet, but make sure I'm throwing a protein shake in there. So far so good. Starting to feel better than the hell that I was. So happy to have you guys to turn to! Bless us all!!

Snow.... I'm glad your day was better! I just talked to my boss today because I wanted to go back to work Tuesday. Since I don't have my follow up until Thursday next week, he won't let me come back until then. I was really looking forward to going back Monday!

CP3482 ~12/27/12

Oh Lisa meds can you believe it? All my meds seem ok to go down except the huge ass metformin pill and I still cut it in to 4s and still feels too big. It feels like right when it goes to the back of my tongue it gets stuck but I keep sipping water and it's down.

When did you ll take your calcium and iron pills? I know when they sent me home they said doc said start the multi vitamin

Next day. They didn't mention the other vitamins.