I'm nervous and excited

I am also june 23rd! I am already 4 days into my preop optifast diet.

June 23 as well. Start liquids tomorrow! Blah! So excited for surgery day and most importantly life after!

I am on day 5 I must say it is getting a lot easier!!

Surgery in just a few days! I must say I am nervously-excited! Praying all goes well for me and all my other June 23rd sleevers! See ya'll on the losers bench

I have surgery tomorrow as well. I'm very excited and nervous. Good luck to you guys! See you on the losers side.

I have surgery June 25th. I'm so scaredddddd

I have surgery June 25th. I'm so scaredddddd

Rest assured that you aren't the only one. I'm scared too.

So I had my surgery june 23. I am too dehydrated to be send home today. I am not tolerating my liquids yet. Yesterday was such a bad day, I wasn't even sure this was worth it. With every sip of Gatorade I feel extremely full and nauseated. I'm just bummed out. I knew it would be hard but I didn't plan on being miserable. Boo!

So I had my surgery june 23. I am too dehydrated to be send home today. I am not tolerating my liquids yet. Yesterday was such a bad day, I wasn't even sure this was worth it. With every sip of Gatorade I feel extremely full and nauseated. I'm just bummed out. I knew it would be hard but I didn't plan on being miserable. Boo!

TammygRN it's been rough for me too and I'm still regretting my decision. I came home with a PICC line as a precaution for leaks. I had lap band to VSG revision and the scar tissue was so bad that my surgeon couldn't even see my band when he got in there. He also mentioned that there was also scar tissue underneath where the band was wrapped around my stomach. All I can do is hope and pray that everything will strengthen in the 3 weeks that I will be receiving TPN and I won't have any additional complications. I'm a very nervous/anxious sleever right now. My first 2-3 days were really rough. I'm finally starting to feel more like myself. I hope you are doing better. Hopefully we will both eventually come to love our sleeves.

I had my sleeve on the 23rd as well. I hope you all are feeling better. Can't wait to check in again. So this has been an surreal experience to me. The last three or four years have been very rough but the day I decided to get surgery I can't believe my life was the way it was. Finally walking around without a cane or using a wheelchair. My husband cried yesterday because it was the first time we were able to take a walk alone together in since mid 2011.

Again I hope all you 23's are well.

I had my sleeve on the 23rd as well. I hope you all are feeling better. Can't wait to check in again. So this has been an surreal experience to me. The last three or four years have been very rough but the day I decided to get surgery I can't believe my life was the way it was. Finally walking around without a cane or using a wheelchair. My husband cried yesterday because it was the first time we were able to take a walk alone together in since mid 2011. Again I hope all you 23's are well.

Congrats on your NSV. I know it must make you feel great. Keep up the good work.

I love hearing about all of these successes! Congratulations, everyone!

I also had surgery June 23 and stayed an extra day (3 nights) because I was really dizzy and unable to walk more than 30 steps or so. I was not prepared for the nausea, but the meds helped. By Day 2 I was also questioning whether it was worth it, but by the evening of the 25th, all nausea stopped. I'm also allergic to Dilaudid, and so had to have some mega doses of Benadryl, which makes me really loopy. By Thursday morning, I hadn't had any Dilaudid or Benadryl for 24 hours, I had a hot shower, and I felt like a new person. I was able to sip 3 oz. of Water every 30 minutes and I was so ready to come home to get some real sleep.

Since then I've felt great. My only discomfort comes from not eating the right consistency (going too thick on the liquids -- Greek yogurt was really painful in the first few days of full liquids). Black bean Soup was too thick on the first few days of pureed. I'm figuring out what my tolerances are.

Now, 3 weeks later, my main focus is trying to get 80 grams of Protein in each day. I'm introducing 2-3 Tbsp of pureed chicken meat into my Healthwise Soups and drinking 2 powders?utm_source=BariatricPal&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=CommentLink" target="_ad" data-id="1" >unjury Protein shakes a day with Greek yogurt and fruit Snacks.

Edited July 13, 201412 yr by GretchenInDE

Congratulations to all my fellow June 23's! Its been 1 month, I am down 31lbs and I couldn't be more thrilled. Already have been more active and feeling so much more healthy. I hope you are all doing well and I look forward to hearing from some of you:)

I am also down 31 lbs. but it's been a struggle. My PICC line was removed last week and getting these fluids in has become a huge task. I seem to have early morning stomachaches too. Does anyone else have this problem? Hope everyone is well.

Edited July 23, 201412 yr by lifestartsnow4me

Hope all you June 23 sleevers are doing well. My journey has been anything but typical. I have been in the hospital 3 times since surgery for dehydration ( on day 4 of this hospital stay) I developed a rare complication that a whole team of surgeons can't agree on how to fix it. Due to post operative inflammation and some narrowing of my sleeve a pouch developed at the top of my sleeve and all my nourishment goes into this pouch and then the pouch pushes it back up my esophagus and I vomit. We did a dialation of the sleeve in hopes the pouch would push the liquid down, but no luck. One dr wants to stent me from my esophagus to small intestine. But thats just a temporary fix where the benefits may not outweigh the risks. My surgeon is talking about converting my sleeve to the routen-y. Which is another surgery but it may be the only thing that will work. I'm so exhausted. I sure didn't plan for this complication and expect to still be laid up in a hospital bed at post op week 5 that's for sure.