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bestarcher    0

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just got banded may 24 by DR NEPOMNAYSHY at LAHEY CLINIC in Burlington Ma I feel great, and walked a lot at the hospital but then the drugs wore off lots of gas pain in shoulders I have to keep moving but fealing good in general

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LilMonkey    0

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Congrats! It's a great feeling to be over the hump with the surgery, isn't it? Best wishes on fast healing. You should feel pretty proud of yourself at this point for making it past the first hurdle! :D

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just got banded may 24 by DR NEPOMNAYSHY at LAHEY CLINIC in Burlington Ma I feel great, and walked a lot at the hospital but then the drugs wore off lots of gas pain in shoulders I have to keep moving but fealing good in general

Hi Bestarcher,

Congratulations on the big day! I hope you are feeling better and the gas pains are starting to subside. I’m in the process at Lahey, Burlington and if all goes well I’m hoping for a surgery date late July.

I really hope you had a good experience with them. Was there anything that you would have done differently? Did you like your surgeon? Any advice for a newbie?

I would love to hear all about your experience.

Best wishes for a quick recovery!

gingersnap

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bestarcher    0

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im very pleased with my treatment i would not changt a thing it was simple i was realaxed had no worries in the world i was up walking shortly after felt good .after my 6 walk that offered my peodometet

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FxyLdy    0

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Many congrats! I look forward to mine in the coming months. So glad it worked so well for you. Continued success!! I used to live in near Boston. Lahey Clinic is a great place.

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soniapaz    0

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It's good to hear that you are doing so well!

I am waiting to hear back from my surgeon with a date. Looks like maybe mid June or early July. I'm getting banded at Beth Israel in Boston.

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I know how you feel... tons of gas pains... in my sides, and shoulders... just don't feel myself yet. HOw long till they told you that you could have mushies? My surgery was the 21st... they said 4-6 days... I'm wondering if that's too soon.

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bestarcher    0

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my dr said 7 days untill stage 2 mushie .i feal good taking all my meds in the morning no peoblem getting 5 pills down so i could proberlyy do mushie and feal good ,but i choose to follow my dr advice and wait one week i have 47 years of eating my way now i will do what the dr orederd i got out today and walked 1/2 mile , 1 1/2 hour on the rider mover and took in a movie .i gald i brought Jello & Water to the movie becuse all i could smell is butter popcorn , i ate my jello and was satisfied

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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.

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