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I doing great all my incision look good except the big one on left fills like a knot on top n its a lil warm is this norm an today I see its starting to bruise under it

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Yikes I don't know. I have mine on Dec 10th. I think they told us in class that unless it is oozing stuff that's it's ok. But it would not hurt just the call the doctors office and ask that's why they're there. Keep us posted.

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I talk to a nurse friend of friend who had sleeve done about 3 weeks ago n she said its fine if I still fill funny bout ask doc monday I'm sure its fine just lil paranoid lol

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I had surgery 10/30 my bruises didnt show up until day 3 or 4 and only on 2 of my incision sites

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Today is day four so guess its norm I have 6 incision all lil ones just that one big on left side

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I was only in for little over 24 hours...I half 6 all tiny hardly notice them now

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One of my incisions felt like it had a knot under it, was slightly warm and did bruise by day 4. It continued to be sore for about 2 weeks while the other incisions didn't hurt much. I was told that one incision gets used more than the others and can hurt more. After 2 weeks, it still had a bit of a knot, but it's gone now. I had my surgery on October 15.

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How many days was everyone in the hospital??

I am going in monday. Dr said as long as all is well I will be out wed a.m.

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How many days was everyone in the hospital??

I was in 3 nights. I had rny and gall bladder removed. You will be fine. Make sure you get up and walk. It helps with the gas.

Keep us all posted. Good luck!

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I was in the hospital for 24 hours. Im 10 weeks out and the incision on the left side still looks bruiesd even after it healed.

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Had my surgery on nov 19th haven't no problems except hiccups, bruises are almost gone. No pain at all, hopefully going to stage 3 this week, only aloud to walk. Started weight 250 now 233 , ,

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I was in a stale last week wen I started mushie foods but I up my protien n Fluid cuz apparently I wasn't getting enough an I woke up 2 lbs lighter this morning so happy was making me crazy an I've started writing everything down again that's the worse part for me but everything I see on here told me up protien write it down an they were right

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I am 5 1/2 months post op. I was in the hospital about 36 hours post op. Ive lost 112 lbs and don't regret a minute of it

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I doing great all my incision look good except the big one on left fills like a knot on top n its a lil warm is this norm an today I see its starting to bruise under it

That is exactly me! Left side incision puffy on top then had horrible bruising but sent pics to dr via texted message all was fine and the bruising went away

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
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      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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        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.

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        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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