My surgery date is July 14th! Any tips or recommendations to make this as comfortable and smooth as possible? Thank you!

Follow your preop diet dont cheat. Walk your butt off as soon as you can after you wake up in hospital-helps with gas. Realize you will be super tired easily in the first few weeks. I am 10 days post op and tired very fast. Stick with the recommended supplements and diet.

Ask your surgeon if he would please extract as much of the CO2 as possible before he closes up your incisions. Many people suffer from excruciating "shoulder gas" for a few days after their sleeve. It is part of the surgical process to expand the abdominal cavity with CO2 so that the tools have more room to navigate around and about in there while the doctor is working.

One of my pre-op questions was about how he manages post-op pain and residual gas. He said and I quote, "I will extract as much of the gas as possible before I close you up." I am happy to report that even though I was over-anxious about it, I had no gas pains at all post-op. It is worth asking about, anyway. They put it in there, so why shouldn't they try to get it back out?

July 14th here!!!

I am also a July 14th sleever!

Thank you for the tips, folks! I'm looking forward to surgery!

Boise - age sex location? Are you on fb?

F/Atlanta/30

Boise - age sex location? Are you on fb?

I am a 31 year old female from Morrisville NC.

No I don't have a Facebook or any social media site for that matter.

I am july 14th too. Anyone else feeling nervous

I am July 8th! Doing pre-op diet now consisting of only protein shakes and clear liquids. It's just about killing me! Right now I am thinking more about food and less about being nervous but I am sure that will change as it gets closer.

I'm 31 female arkansas. We are Lol the same age group! Can't wait to see how we do!!!

July 10th here. I can't wait

Hello. I'm scheduled for July 1st. I'm doing to the pre op diet. I agree with the above mentioned...it's about killing me. Let me know can think about is food rather than being nervous.

July 14th here!!!!! 36 / female / florida