Hi everyone!

My surgery is at 10:15 AM in New Jersey tomorrow morning. I am beyond excited but I'm also pretty nervous and scared. Are there any words of confidence that you all want to share? It would be very greatly appreciated. ☺️

I had mine done a week ago today!! And I feel great!! First 3 days aren't so bad, I had a morphine clicker so felt no pain the first 24hrs suck because you can only have water/ice but after that I found it pretty good!! I got to leave hospital a day early too!

Good luck! Surgery is always scary but it is worth it to get to the "losers bench!"

I was worried the night before surgery, too. I am so glad I didn't talk myself out of it. It's one of the best things I've ever done for my health. I've been off all diabetes medications since the surgery (in May 2014) and all my labs are good. When I think back to where I was year and a half ago, more than 100 lbs overweight, unable to walk around the block, and in pain most of the time, I shudder. Now I'm walking, dancing, and riding a bike. Pretty much whatever I want to try, I can do it.

Once you get beyond the first few difficult weeks, you, too will be telling yourself that you're glad you didn't back out. And when you reach your goal weight, you'll come back here and tell your story to another nervous newbie.

Enjoy the great nap and wake up to your new birthday.

Congratulations on your surgery day!

Keep your chin up you can do it! Good luck dear!

Awesome! Thanks for sharing my sleeve date is August 18 th.I'm so excited I wanna be able to play with my 10 grandstands!

Congrats!! Welcome to the loser's bench!! I'm probably a little late, but my best advice is - to try not and be nervous! Believe it or not, I wasn't the slightest bit nervous when I went into surgery! I didn't have any complications, what-so-ever, and it didn't take long for me to recover! I was off of pain meds in two days after being released from the hospital.

Good luck to you, and wish you all well on your recovery!!

You'll do great!! Everyone's experience is different...I woke up with major gas pain but my friend had the same surgery and had none! So if you wake up with pain, just remember the best thing you can do is walk, walk, walk!! The couple of days of pain is so worth it!!

Hope everything went well ????????????????

Hi all. Feeling much better. Thanks for all the encouragement.

@@my_new_lifetime - just like @@finediva said "enjoy the great nap and wake up to your new birthday"

relax and do what they tell you at the hospital. walk as much as possible, hydrate and try to get off pain meds and go OTC as soon as possible.

Happy Birthday!

Great to hear you are feeling better @@my_new_lifetime ~ Congratulations on your surgery and speedy recovery!

Hope you are doing well. I was sleeved the 27th also in New Jersey. I had a bit of a rough time because I also had a hiatal hernia repair but as I start a new week things are getting easier. Take time to rest, sip, walk and think about your outcome to be! Welcome to the losers bench!!!

As soon as u wake up walk! WALK WALK WALK! No matter how hard it is to do it or how slow u go just walk! The more you walk the better you will feel!