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I feel like a deflating balloon!

kimpossible67

By kimpossible67, in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums

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kimpossible67    608

kimpossible67
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Do you have days you just look down and it feels like some stuck a pin in you? Or a slow leak in a tire? Something looks/feels so different all of a sudden. I almost feel...small..kind of fragile almost (trust me, I am neither). I notice I'm not comparing myself to a others quite as much. It was unusually warm yesterday and I'm always freezing. I'm outside in jeans and a tee. I didn't feel self conscious it was weird. I didn't go grab something to hide my sagging...I just enjoyed the air!

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BSU    61

BSU
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Hard chairs hurt more now. Less cushioning.

I also feel cold more easily.

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UmmZ    4

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That is a wonderful feeling :) Best wishes! :)

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kimpossible67    608

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Hard chairs hurt more now. Less cushioning.

I also feel cold more easily.

You're right! I'm always cold from about September to June lol. It's just worse this year!!!

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barbie03    2

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Good for you!!! My surgery isn't until the end of January... I'm looking forward to getting my life back! Merry Christmas... Keep up the good work.

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JCP    619

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I'm freezing all the time too and shrinking from my extremities inward. My wrists and fingers are tiny now. I can cross my legs. I've lost a cup size. Gone from XXL to L. All great! But I am deflating and getting saggy! :( The dreaded turkey neck! Oh well! I feel tons better, my labs are good, and I no longer fear diabetes, heart disease, and osteoarthritis in my knees! :)

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kimpossible67    608

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I'm freezing all the time too and shrinking from my extremities inward. My wrists and fingers are tiny now. I can cross my legs. I've lost a cup size. Gone from XXL to L. All great! But I am deflating and getting saggy! :( The dreaded turkey neck! Oh well! I feel tons better, my labs are good, and I no longer fear diabetes, heart disease, and osteoarthritis in my knees! :)

Who would have thought saggy skin and a turkey neck would be a beautiful thing? Considering I was working on my 14th chin...lol...I LOVE the turkey neck. My upper thighs have bought the farm though. Glad from the knee down aside from fall incidents they look pretty good.

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I can fully relate @@kimpossible67! My saggy skin and turkey neck are far preferable to the "inflated" version I had before! (Btw, my sister told me to start using good moisturizer with firming qualities twice a day on my neck and it's really helped.) my thighs look like they just had a litter of kittens, but I'll take that over their prior size happily! And yup - cold much of the time too, though a fun bonus I've noticed is that as those newish pants get looser, the silk long underwear fit underneath them nicely! Same with the tops. Enjoy the continuing deflation!

Kate

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laurenella82    625

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@@JCP

Were you diagnosed with osteoarthritis? I was, left knee only, I'm wondering if it actually goes away. The ortho surgeon said there was no need for surgery and I want it to stay that way!

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athena3127    199

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Oh what a feeling isn't it? I remember the first day post op that I "felt" different. I everything I had on that day seemed ever so slightly a bit large. There's an old movie "the increatable shrinking woman" and that was exactly how I felt!

Keep in shrinking!

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kimpossible67    608

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@@JCP

Were you diagnosed with osteoarthritis? I was, left knee only, I'm wondering if it actually goes away. The ortho surgeon said there was no need for surgery and I want it to stay that way!

I don't, no. I have MS. If I walk a lot my left knee gives me fits.

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Melitta    19

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I am cold ❄ today and it's 75 degrees outside. I am no longer pretty diabetic. I still suffer from knee pain due to Army injury.

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JCP    619

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@@laurenella82, no, I had not reached that point but my mother had it in both knees and was in a wheelchair for the last 10 years of her life. (She passed in 2009 at 80.) Seeing all she went through is what got me started on this journey. She endured so much. I'm sorry to hear of your diagnosis. Perhaps you can have a replacement?

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laurenella82    625

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@@laurenella82, no, I had not reached that point but my mother had it in both knees and was in a wheelchair for the last 10 years of her life. (She passed in 2009 at 80.) Seeing all she went through is what got me started on this journey. She endured so much. I'm sorry to hear of your diagnosis. Perhaps you can have a replacement?

The ortho surgeon said I was not a candidate for surgery. Apparently it's not that bad yet. That's why I am so anxious t have VSG.

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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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        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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