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Just walk and use your spirometer and you will get through it. Its not that bad...at least to me.

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Gas pains are bad. That's the first thing I felt when I woke up I just walked a lot yesterday and did thst breathing thing.

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I'm going in on the 30th a little scared of the gas pains.

I had mine on monday going home today. The belly pain and gas pains are the worst. I have been taking gas x and it isnt helping much. I even had to get a suppository. Just make sure you are walking alot

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@@Msnursekrystal Hope you feel better soon. Can someone karate chop on your shoulders and upper back? I hear that helps.

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Well it's finally here...seems a bit surreal! Off to bed and waking at 5a.m. For a 6:00 check in and surgery at 7:30! This site and all the posts have helped me greatly along my journey to this point, I'm not sure I'd be as comfortable or as knowledgeable as I am about all of this without you all. A big thanks and to all of you for sharing and I'll let you know how I'm doing in a few days....God willing and the creek don't rise! (Southernism:)

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@@La La lady Good luck! Hope all goes well xx

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Mine surgery is tomorrow bright and early 5:45...but that makes me first in, so hopefully I'll be the first to get to go home Friday????...I'll try to up date it I'm not too loopy lol...good night to you all!!

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Well it's finally here...seems a bit surreal! Off to bed and waking at 5a.m. For a 6:00 check in and surgery at 7:30! This site and all the posts have helped me greatly along my journey to this point, I'm not sure I'd be as comfortable or as knowledgeable as I am about all of this without you all. A big thanks and to all of you for sharing and I'll let you know how I'm doing in a few days....God willing and the creek don't rise! (Southernism:)

. Same day buddies ????hope we can keep each other updated...my thought and prayers are with you????

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Let me warn you the worst part after the gas pains is the pain in the belly button incision. It's a stinging horrible pain.

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So I finally got the call. I am to report to the hospital on Monday at 5:30am. I can't believe that I'm only days away from this life changing event. Now it's time to get everything ready for my hospital stay. I can't forget my liquids and Vitamins. So who all are getting their sleeve on March 30th and are you ready?

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@@MaryC94 Sitting in my PCP office to get final sign off for Monday. Meeting with surgeon this afternoon them get my check in info tomorrow night. Yikes!

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@@purrfctangel, it's going to ok. If your feeling like me, I'm a ball of emotions right now but we're going to fine. I have to do a final weigh in tomorrow. Let's see how many pounds I've lost since being on this liquid diet. We have 3 days and counting.

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It wasn't that bad to me. I was so worked up about the gas pains. Just ask for your pain meds and you'll be fine.

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Hi everyone, my surgery went great. I've been having gas pains though. I'm hoping they will go away soon! Did anyone get pains from just putting anything in their new stomach? Any time I drink or eat, my stomach cramps up and then I'm burping. If you went through this, please let me know how you got past this. Pretty uncomfortable. Thanks for any help you can give.

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@@stacy458

Yes, To me it felt like a spasm. It still happens once in a while but not as bad. I kept feeling like it was hunger. Very strange feeling. Then came the acid stomach. If you do start getting acid stomach call the nurse right away and get something for it cause it will wake you up at night.

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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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      Three months and four days ago... I was in Costa Rica having a life changing surgery! Yesterday we had a followup visit with Dr. Esmeral via video chat and this morning my middle number changed.  I'm down 47lbs and two pants sizes. I can wear a Large tshirt for the first time in like... 14 years! Woot!! Everything is going great. I have zero regrets. I went down to the riverwalk with a friend and walked 2 miles on Monday without even getting fatigued. And no more snoring or chugging pickle juice for crazy leg cramps! I need to go to the gym more... I'm making new shirts next week so that will motivate me. LOL But I'm also just not as TIRED all the time! I have a LONG way to go...but seeing the progress on the scales and in the mirror is a huge motivator!! Thank you all for cheering me on and supporting me!!
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