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I am anxious as I will going 8 to the Pre-op diet for two weeks. My anxiety is due to feeling hunger pains, headaches and mood swings. How can I get through this.....any suggestions or words of wisdom to share with this anxious lady :-1

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Good morning! I'm on day 6 of my two week pre-op diet. Unfortunately, you are going to have hunger pains,headaches and mood swings. That's just part of pre-op. That being said, there are, at least for me,things that help. For the headaches, I take Tylenol. Remember... no NSAIDS. Tylenol doesn't always work but it seems to take the edge off the headaches. As for the hunger pains, I drink hot Decaf tea. I can have artificial sweeteners, so I put some Splenda in it. For me, the tea eases the hunger pains. It doesn't always get rid of them, but it makes them easier to deal with. I drink a LOT of hot tea! Doing these things seems to help with the mood swings. Also, keep yourself distracted, if you don't focus on them it's easier. I read a lot, and I am still going to my Water aerobics class and will until I have to stop for my surgery. I don't know if you had to lose weight before you could qualify for surgery. I had to do a six month insurance mandated diet. I just keep telling myself that if I could do that to qualify for surgery, then I can certainly do two weeks of pre-op!!! :-)

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I'm feeling very guilty right now... My doctor has his patients do a two week diet He allows us to have vegetables but today as a cook for my family Sunday dinner I ended up eating eating a chicken wingette. Then we went to a Christmas Model Train Show and I had a little bit of popcorn. I feel so guilty I don't know if I ruined possibility of surgery even though I still have 10 days to go.

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I'm right there with ya Curvey8, like literally, as my surgery is the 18th also. I am on day three of the two week prep, and I am hungry, moody, but I am managing by staying super busy reorganizing closets, cleaning my garage, basement, ect. Tea helps, meditation with deep breathing has been my saving grace though. Keep your head up, this isnt forever, we can do this!

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Hey, I just found this post while searching for other 12/18 patients. I just got the call that my surgery is at 7:45am tomorrow. I was overcome with a wave of fear and anxiety that this is actually happening, but once that passed I'm back to being excited. I feel a lot like I did before I went on my first roller coaster as a kid -- anxious, and wanting to go but afraid to, and once I did it the first time it was over before I knew it and everything was okay. I feel like that's how this surgery is going to be and that once we wake up it will be downhill from there.

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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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