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I am a new member. I am having a hiatal hernia with a sleeve on Wednesday, June 18th. I am nervous but happy to finally have it scheduled. Anyone else scheduled for June 18th>

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Congrats. Good luck. Am the 25th

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I'm having surgery on June 18th also!!! I'm so excited to start this new journey in my life!!!

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I have pre op today at noon. Really nervous now. I hope I am more calm tomorrow!

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Hello! This is my first post and I am in my hospital bed having my surgery this morning. The two days before I just kept reading posts and doing more research. I kind of had cold feet.

But here I am. Luckily I had the "air" pain just under my ribs and I did have some nausea. I have had my meds as given or allowed. I would say my pain level is a 3 out of 10. I'm so happy I've done this. I was going to. Do the band, but I have to take 3 different pills each day. My primary Doc said I should do sleeve since it does not change the opening size. I just have to space out taking them.

Thank you to all of you on this forum. I've found it fascinating and helpful. Wishing everyone out there a successful and satisfying journey.

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I'm getting ready to leave for the hospital for surgery at noon. My stomach is in knots! I'm ready for this to be over and to be on the other side. Good luck to the others having surgery today!

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Best of luck with your recovery.

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I'm getting ready to leave for the hospital for surgery at noon. My stomach is in knots! I'm ready for this to be over and to be on the other side. Good luck to the others having surgery today!

Good luck to you!! May it go smoothly and as painlessly as possible.

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I'm home from the hospital. It went smoothly but now that I'm home I'm having pain. I have a liquid pain med but am told it tastes horrid. I'm already nauseas so I haven't taken it.

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I am home as well. Surgery was Tuesday am and got home last night at 5. While I did so well in the hospital the pain came with the ride home. I take the nausea medicine first and then take my pills. I did three pills last night and four this morning. I did keep them all down. I'm taking it easy today, but I will try to stroll on the treadmill later today. Good luck to all of you and remember it does get better. I know the next few days will be tough but I have lots of support.

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I took the pain med and only took 1/2 but it made me very nauseous and it hurt a lot Just have to power through it!

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Keep on with the pain meds, they really help!!! Just take things one day at a time.

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Thanks for the encouragement. I'm worried about not drinking enough and now I am running a 99.7 fever. I'm wondering if I should take some liquid Tylenol.

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    • Alisa_S

      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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    • Alisa_S

      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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      1. summerseeker

        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.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

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

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      Officially here for a long time, not just a good time💪
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      Three months and four days ago... I was in Costa Rica having a life changing surgery! Yesterday we had a followup visit with Dr. Esmeral via video chat and this morning my middle number changed.  I'm down 47lbs and two pants sizes. I can wear a Large tshirt for the first time in like... 14 years! Woot!! Everything is going great. I have zero regrets. I went down to the riverwalk with a friend and walked 2 miles on Monday without even getting fatigued. And no more snoring or chugging pickle juice for crazy leg cramps! I need to go to the gym more... I'm making new shirts next week so that will motivate me. LOL But I'm also just not as TIRED all the time! I have a LONG way to go...but seeing the progress on the scales and in the mirror is a huge motivator!! Thank you all for cheering me on and supporting me!!
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