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@@smoggie Maybe talking about the surgery with the nurse or surgeon's office would help? Maybe let them know your concerns and they can hopefully address them for you. I hope it gets easier for you.

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My surgery is on 1/26! Excited it is finally almost here. I have been waiting almost a year! Been through a month of eating my favorite foods for the last time, and looking forward to new healthy favorites. Nervous about complications, although rare, I just worry ????. Only a few friends and family know what I am doing, so a little anxious about telling people, especially my parents. My husband, children and a few close friends are very supportive. Looking forward to a happy and healthy new year!!

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My doctor's office has a pre-surgery class that you have to attend before they do surgery. It is about 2.5 hours long. From what the paper work said, they tell you everything you have to do when you get home from what you need as far as food to what to do with meds. I was a little concerned with all the meds I take, so I have been calling my general practitioner and asking her about some of my meds. She told me I could crush some of them until I got of of them or whatever was decided to do with them. I hope some of them go away. It is shocking to see so many meds when I just turned 38 and when I go to the doctor I get 2 pages of medications. WOW!

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I'm in : ) I go for my pre surgery testing on January 7 soooo excited this has been a long process but I'm almost there don't really know what's this appointment is for but if anyone would like to share their experiences and how long after this did they have their surgery I would love to read up on it thanks

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Received my surgery date today!!!! IT'S THE JANUARY 12

finally a new year and new beginnings I'm ready

I am on the 12 also! How exciting ????.

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A lil delayed surgery date one month I haven't received my sleep apnea machine and the Dr said I have to have it for surgery : ( Surgery date has been moved to February 12 @ 7:20 am im not upset just gives me more time to prepare myself im so excited

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January 5th here....worried about everything ....excited about everything!!! LOL

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Gaaaaah!

My date got moved from 1/22 back to 1/15 this morning! I'm mostly excited and nervous but I just gotta change all my plans, resubmit FMLA paperwork, yadda yadda yadda! A week and day left....

Good thing I went ahead and started that pre-op diet on the 1st!

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Gaaaaah! My date got moved from 1/22 back to 1/15 this morning!

That's crazy! How did everything go at work? Did you change positions (new site?) like you talked about was maybe gonna happen?

My job change did happen. It's nice to work for a big company because "the company" (via HR) does all the handling of FMLA paperwork and LOA timing, but it's still hard on my little worker-bee work ethic is struggling with having taken a new job and immediately left it for 6-8 weeks. Can't be helped, but it's one more thing to feel guilty about.

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    • Theweightisover2024🙌💪

      Question for anyone, how did you get your mind right before surgery? Like as far as eating better foods and just doing better in general? I'm having a really hard time with this. Any help is appreciated 🙏❤️
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      1. NickelChip

        I had about 6 months between deciding to do surgery and getting scheduled. I came across the book The Pound of Cure by Dr. Matthew Weiner, a bariatric surgeon in Arizona, and started to implement some of the changes he recommended (and lost 13 lbs in the process without ever feeling deprived). The book is very simple, and the focus is on whole, plant based foods, but within reason. It's not an all or nothing approach, or going vegan or something, but focuses on improvement and aiming for getting it right 80-90% of the time. His suggestions are divided into 12 sections that you can tackle over time, perhaps one per month for a year if a person is just trying to improve nutrition and build good habits. They range from things like cutting out artificial sweetener or eating more beans to eating a pound of vegetables per day. I found it really effective pre-surgery and it's an eating style I will be working to get back to as I am further out from surgery and have more capacity. Small changes you can sustain will do the most for building good habits for life.

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        That sounds awesome. I'll have to check that out thanks!

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