Go in at 0730!!! Can't wait, happy to be part of this group, start my liquid diet on the 31st.

To all the april sleevers that have had wls this month i hope u r doing awesome! To those waiting it will be here soon... For all those tomorrow the 14th ... Omg its almost here ... I cant wait to start this new chapter.. I wish us all the best ... Ill be sure to post when i'm up for it. I have to be at the hospital in 23 hours ... dde1d...

Last sleep! Check in tomorrow 14ers!

Sooo excited! Did anyone have to drink magnesium citrate? OMG! You would think there wouldn't be anything to "clean" out after 10 days of liquids. I'm so ready to go sleep and wake up and get on the road. My prayers will be with everyone getting sleeved tomorrow. God bless!

Good luck to you all tmrw..

Ok so I'm doing preop i know I'm on bariatric advantage shakes an clear liquids I made homemade chicken broth fat free. Are we allowed a little salt and pepper or crushed pepper to season?? I'll call my NUT tomorrow but was wondering what everyone was doing???

Well i had my sleeve today ! Feeling pretty good considering ! Hope everyone else is that went today.. Dr said text book operation .. Now im hoping for text book recovery! Talk with ya all soon

Woohoo! I'm sleeved! Surgery went great. I've been up walking a ton, the air they put in to inflate the belly has caused me the most discomfort by far. Looking forward to getting all these wires unhooked from me. Hope everyone else is doing well.

I am sleeved! Surgery was 2 hrs because of a huge liver. No gas pain at all maybe because I ended up with a drain? I feel really...normal. I am pretty sleepy though....nap time

Ok New sleevers, can't wait any longer for the updates...I tried to let u all rest but enuff already...I'm dying to know how it went and how u feel!?!? Hope all is well...

So glad so many of u r doing well. I got word im going home tomorrow! So excited to continue on this journey. Look forward to hearing all your progresses... !

hi everyone! hope everyone is having a great time and recovering well! i am 7 days into my pre- op and i have lost 11 pounds. i am doing 3 shakes a day and 80+ ounces of clear fluids. i pee all day! its insane like i feel like im always running to the bathroom with the kiddos. I have 4 days til my surgery is anyone else experiencing irritability and crankiness? every soudn seems louder and smells seems more fragrant. i cook every night for the kids it is torture. last night they wanted to go to the movies so i took them and naturally i hold the youngest's popcorn bc she spills it everytime. the smell of popcorn was tempting me llol. I just learned i could season my broth with is nice but no salt. I am really anxious to just get the surgery oer with and start my healing. i feel like my body is going through such weird changes sometimes im freezing sometimes i feel like im in a suana. but usually always tired and low on patience haha.

good luck everyone!

How is everyone doing? I'm not doing so well at getting in my shakes or liquids. Every sip I take hits my stomach like a ton of bricks. I'm not in much pain, just sore from the air they filled my stomach up with. I'm hosting my daughters Easter egg hunt on Friday so I'm hoping and praying that I'll be feeling much better by then. No regrets so far, but I do look forward to getting to eat food again. I'm on liquids for the next 2 weeks. Anyone else come home with a drain???

Reporting in from the Marriott TJ Mex.

All went very well with surgery and the one other surgery scheduled with me could not have hers done as she didn't loose the req amount of weight!

Oopps accidentally pushed send...

I had a great experience at OCC and having the whole team wait on me hand and foot because I was the only patient was great!!

So I'm sipping and walking and have had no pain, just taking the meds prescribed and doing well.

Went out in the sun today to get a little more Vit D

Hope everyone else is doing well

Rhonda

Just got sleeved April 14th and all went very well! Tolerating my liquids nicely and feeling stronger everyday!

Hey everybody!

So glad to see your updates - we did it! So sending positive thought for those to follow.

My update:

I was reborn as a my new sleeved self at 3:15pm on 14 April! Dr did the hiatal hernia at the same time so that combined with a still fatty liver made my operation just over 2:15hrs long.

I was scheduled for 2pm surgery but when I checked in they said I'd go in at 1pm instead. Yep. I sooked like a champion waiting on the bed but some Drs in training and the theatre staff calmed me down. My surgeon said the operation went really well :-)

Recovery room however was another story - 1 and a half hours for them to get my pain low enough on a scale of 1 - 10 before they would transfer me to the ward. But we got there. It was hell for me not sure how you some of the others managed, your pain tolerances must be high. I can honestly say at that point I wondered what the hell I had chosen to do to myself..... Right at that point I had real regret. And that regret has now waned every hour since day 2....

Could not fault the nursing staff @ the Wesley - magnificent care in there. Only gripe was after the first night they left me in the room right by the nurses station which was soooo noisy. No sleep anytime of night or day unless knocked out with morphine then only an hour or so at a time. They moved me to another room for my last night though - that was awesome.

A lady had the same hernia and sleeve operation as me and with Dr Martin (hers was before mine) wow - what a trooper - she was up off the bed going to the loo by herself during the first night and went home at 11:30am the next day! sleeve star - so happy for her. I ended up staying in for 3 nights due to inability to get enough fluids in. Everyone is just so different.

The barium aniseed swallow wasn't too bad - a bit hard to get down but I didn't heave - had a 5minute delay from oesophagus to sleeve - but for day two Dr was happy with this and mainly due to hernia repair.

What I would recommend:

- Heat packs for shoulders for gas pain nurses bring these whenever you need

- adult cegas fast dissolving crystals (no Water required) to get gas moving;

first two days teaspoon sized water swallows anymore for me created air trap pain as the entry to my stomach was so swollen and narrow;

- Dipping my spoon into free fluids and licking or just sucking off the liquid rather than small measure in the spoon - I found I could get more down taking it this way and less painful;

- Asking for liquid pain relief rather than tablets when the injections stop;

- sublingual anti nausea tablets dissolved really quickly under the tongue too;

-Hydrolyte pops - only half at a time but helps if you are dehydrating when drip is removed

- Walking every couple if hours was most helpful of all;

- Packing 'just in case' feminine hygiene supplies - I was not due for 12 days but hey - day3 post op saw me having an earlier period :-/

Well that's me for now - I'll be stalking you posts and updating in a few days. Thanks for all you thoughts and well wishes.

Get well and onto losses everyone!