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Surgery July 20th preop diet headaches

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Lovelyorchid    16

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So I called to set up my preop testing for my July 20th RNY! I'm so excited and can't wait for my new life to start. I started my preop diet today, and I have a really bad headache! Maybe it's my stomach and my fat yelling to feed it? Has anyone experienced this on their preop diet? Thanks for your help!????????????????

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MSWMike    22

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I just started my 2 week liquid diet today. I was warned about headaches. So far, I found that having a Protein Shake helped with it immensely.

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Lovelyorchid    16

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Maybe I'll drink half of one I already had my shakes and lean meal for the day. Thanks! I didn't think this would happen.

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PinkieD    27

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Can't wait until I am at that point. It is miles away. Didn't even meet with surgeon yet.

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Lovelyorchid    16

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You will get there! Keep with it!

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Lovelyorchid    16

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Well I tried a shake, green tea for some caffeine and nothing! I still have a headache! Uhhh I'm sure it's my stomach and fat crying for food! I hope this will subside by morning. Uhhhh.

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Niki15    198

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I had a bad headache lastnight it was my first day on the luquid I caved and drank some milk and it went away ..I weighed myself out of curiosity and have lost 5 lbs since yesterday ..

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Niki15    198

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Great to hear I will restart mine next Tuesday at least I know what to expect now..

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Sajijoma    1,324

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I haven't done the preop diet, but I did do Joe's juice diet from Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead and the first few days were very painful. Headaches, body aches, feel like you have the flu and that's from your body detoxing. If you can fight through it, in a couple of days you should feel pretty good. If you can't, you can slow it down by taking a piece of bread, crackers, or eating something with some sugar although it being your preop diet, you really shouldn't be taking in sugar or carbs since it's to help shrink your liver. More Water will help to flush it faster too.

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Lovelyorchid    16

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So my headaches come and go. i ended up eating some turkey meat and more and it helped. I just hope this is not a constant thing weeks after the surgery. But I think it's all the detoxing from all the bad stuff I use to eat.

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Niki15    198

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Be careful its supposed to be liquids only .When I had my headache I drank a small cup of milk and that helped

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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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      1. summerseeker

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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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