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Not sure if you asked me @@freelyme but I'm Bypass on Oct 28. What about you?

Yes, I'm bypass on 23. I'm not good at the @@Beni

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@@freelyme

That's okay, I forget all the time. So 5 days, how are you feeling?

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There's like 10 people next week and that's only from this topic

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@"Beni". I am ultra paranoid I'll get sick before then, I'm bored of liquids but all in all still pretty excited. Gonna spend the night at a hotel in the hospital the night before. How about you?

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I think it's awesome! We have a great group! The support is phenomenal.

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I picked up my prescriptions yesterday. 2 (?) Different antibiotics that I have to take tomorrow at 2pm, 3pm, and 10pm. And then I have my after surgery liquid Lotab too. Started my crazy fun bowel prep at 5pm. Getting a leg workout up and down the stairs to the bathroom ! ????

be prepared for yeast infection :)

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@@Beni you can take them, I'm taking 2 percs, zinc, Calcium, Multivitamin, stool softener, and Iron and prisolec, the iron at a different time though. I think you will be fine. I break it into different times. I take the percs and zinc with prisolec, then 4 hours later I take the multi with calcium and percs, then at night iron, stool softerner and percs. They fit lol, its the Water to get them down that fills you up. Talking about stool softener, TMI WARNING*************** when will I poop? It has been like 6 days. When I had my c-section I didn't poop for 14 days!! It was hard and stuck inside of me, I had to take 15 laxatives over a 3 day period and then it was like hell getting that devil out, it was like 15 lbs tmi I'm sorry and then it wouldn't flush, I had a poop that was bigger and harder than the hole itself, I would of died I think if I didn't get it out, my doctor said I should of let the nurse take it out, they break it up inside of you or something because you can't deliver it, it was the worst thing in life, but when it came out I felt pure relief, like I never felt that in my life. My poop was literally stuck in my tunnel just trapped. I put on gloves and used vaseline and dug up in there and felt it, it was a rock. I'm sorry guys it was the worst thing next to the csection, I don't ever want that to happen to me again.

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I know my NUt says I am supposed to be able to take this giant pills including my regular multivitamin but I can't help but wonder how can I? My Centrum Vitamins are enormous.

@@Beni forgetaboutit my surgeon recommended I take chewable Flintstones multivitamin with D - Chewable calcium citrate by Twinlabs Vit C and all other pills with I solve in my mouth or I crush them with a can or if a casual open it & pour into warm diet tea.

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@@Beni you can take them, I'm taking 2 percs, zinc, Calcium, multivitamin, stool softener, and Iron and prisolec, the iron at a different time though. I think you will be fine. I break it into different times. I take the percs and zinc with prisolec, then 4 hours later I take the multi with calcium and percs, then at night iron, stool softerner and percs. They fit lol, its the Water to get them down that fills you up. Talking about stool softener, TMI WARNING*************** when will I poop? It has been like 6 days. When I had my c-section I didn't poop for 14 days!! It was hard and stuck inside of me, I had to take 15 laxatives over a 3 day period and then it was like hell getting that devil out, it was like 15 lbs tmi I'm sorry and then it wouldn't flush, I had a poop that was bigger and harder than the hole itself, I would of died I think if I didn't get it out, my doctor said I should of let the nurse take it out, they break it up inside of you or something because you can't deliver it, it was the worst thing in life, but when it came out I felt pure relief, like I never felt that in my life. My poop was literally stuck in my tunnel just trapped. I put on gloves and used vaseline and dug up in there and felt it, it was a rock. I'm sorry guys it was the worst thing next to the csection, I don't ever want that to happen to me again.

wow lol but I thought you wasn't suppose to take the multivitamin with the calcium it's suppose to be 2 hours apart because the calcium blocks the iron in the multivitamin or something like that

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Sounds fun! At least they can' say you didn't practice your walking

That's for sure!!

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@ Bronxmerci. I know your pain.

A had a back injury and was on Percocet for a while. Got so constipated I had to go to emergency room. No one had told me the medicine like stalls your flow to a dead stop. It was one of the most painful experiences of my life. the worst was I still had horrible back pain but that the other issue on top.

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I didn't kno the multi had iron! I'm taking Iron aside from it uhmmm oops I'm going to ask @@freelyme since my pharmacy and docs are closed.does Multi Vitamin have iron? I was precribed separate iron!

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Yes, you are supposed to have extra Iron besides the multi because menstruating women need extra

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      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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      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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