Hi,

Hoping to connect with other Hampton Roads sleevers.

Victoria

Hey I'm in Hampton Roads area. My sleeve is scheduled for 12 March. I can't wait

3 weeks to go - are you counting down yet? I'll be pulling for you.

<p>3 weeks to go - are you counting down yet? I'll be pulling for you.</p>

Now that I have my date I feel like it happen so fast! The count down has began. How about you are you ready? Nervous? Counting down? Who have you told, if anyone? I know for me no one knows. Now that I got my date I got to find a way to tell my husband. It all happen do fast.

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Already had mine - just cheering and praying people on.

Hampton roads here. Anyone ever checking on here?

Don't know, but I am.

I'm also in the Hampton roads area!!

Where did you have surgery?

Where did you have surgery?

SwimmerVSG,

I had my surgery at Norfolk General.

So did I.

I had my surgery March 12. How long ago did you have surgery?

Dec 2011

Riverside In Newport News.

Dec 2011

Swimbikerun,

Being that you are over 2 years in can I ask you a question? I'm 21 days in when were you able to eat solids comfortable and when you go out to eat do you feel like your wasting money cause you can't even get through half your meal? When you were less then a month out how much did you eat, cause it seem like I get hungry every 2-3 hours. Before surgery I was never hungry. I'm not use to being hungry. Sorry for so many questions

Always!!

21 days in I could eat some tuna and a few other things. Nothing major and very wet too. Very soft and very chewed up. It was about that time I started getting the gallbladder issues. When I go out to eat I never feel like I'm wasting my money. It takes me a couple of days or three sometimes to get through food. I'm used to leftovers. That means now too.

I wasn't hungry. My biggest problem was I forgot to eat. A lot of times I forgot to eat. There was simply no connection between food and the brain. I mean gone. So I said well I'm fat, who cares? (Unfortunately that came back to haunt me when 6 months after surgery I had an A&E admission for malnutrition w/cachexia. LOL like I said there was no connection between food and the brain).

If you want something to eat, are you sure it isn't head hunger? Are you getting Protein and fluids in? At this point, that's all that matters. If at first its been a couple of hours, drink 4 ounces of Water. Then drink another 2. Are you hungry? Are you getting in 60 grams of protein?

Ask away. I just tell people my experience is very different as I had gastroparesis before the surgery (almost hospitalized for that because of malnutrition) and still have delayed emptying after, with a wild case of IBS and food intolerances to most anything edible.