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They gave me a blood thinner injection right before the surgery but they didn't send me home with them.

I'm finally able to keep a little broth and a sugar free popcile down. Getting and feeling better everyday. I'm just real sore on my left side where the largest incision was. I've also ben having the gas pains in my chest area and bloated feeling in my stomach. I'm taking the gasx strip that disovle on your tongue. They seem to be working good. Hope all is well with everyone. :)

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I was sleeves Monday too! Stayed 2 nights because I am worried about dehydration and now am home. My incisions HURT! And just general gas pain. I am able to get isolate sips down. Tomorrow I will try some injury broth. I am not drinking anything without Protein in it.

I just feel so full and gassy and bloated. Blech.

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Kayla - no blood thinners for me. If they gave them before surgery, I have no idea. I didn't realize a lot of things that were going on. Later I found out that my Multivitamin was through IV, my meds to settle my stomach were pushed through the IV, of course pain meds, and antacids were through IV. So maybe there could've been thinners. No one told me.

Just took all my meds and I'm feeling good. Pain is not that bad. About to go finish my chocolate shake and then it will be Water for the rest of the night. That puts me at 45g of Protein - not bad for day 2 with a frickin hiatal hernia.

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They gave me a blood thinner injection right before the surgery but they didn't send me home with them.

I'm finally able to keep a little broth and a sugar free popcile down. Getting and feeling better everyday. I'm just real sore on my left side where the largest incision was. I've also ben having the gas pains in my chest area and bloated feeling in my stomach. I'm taking the gasx strip that disovle on your tongue. They seem to be working good. Hope all is well with everyone. :)

Hi! Glad you're well. So I have gas x strips and haven't taken any. So after they dissolve do they make you pass gas? Just trying to see how they work.

Glad you were able to keep some food down. Whatever you can keep down is good!

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I would be too. Wonder why no one mentioned it to me.

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Well I finally came home tonight but the gas/stomach pains are horrible. Lucky that I'm not nauseous that I was scared of. I just can't wait to feel better

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Kayla - no blood thinners for me. If they gave them before surgery, I have no idea. I didn't realize a lot of things that were going on. Later I found out that my multivitamin was through IV, my meds to settle my stomach were pushed through the IV, of course pain meds, and antacids were through IV. So maybe there could've been thinners. No one told me.

Just took all my meds and I'm feeling good. Pain is not that bad. About to go finish my chocolate shake and then it will be Water for the rest of the night. That puts me at 45g of Protein - not bad for day 2 with a frickin hiatal hernia.

You are so lucky. A lot of stuff they gave me orally. And I say liquid Prilosec tasted like dead fish. It was horrible. I got blood thinner injections in the hospital along with medicine to help cut nerves.

I ended up in the ear yesterday because of bladder retention. It was causing me to get blood in my urine. Ended up with an IV for dehydration. Another thing to note. Not all doctors understand bariatric surgery. During the ct last night they discovered that my intestines are inflamed, he kept trying to give me Motrin type products and I had to repeteatly tell him I can't take those anymore.

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I'm on IG, @my_vsg. FB kicked me off for using soflgrl. I had that account for 9 years :-( The noises my tummy is making are insane. I swear there's a snoring bear in there. I was foaming nonstop since 4pm yesterday up until I passed out at midnight. This morning, just walking, walking walking and my goal is to get 64 oz of Fluid in today. 4 down...60 to go.

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I'm feeling better everyday. I'm still pretty sore on my left side where the biggest incision is. Having gas pains too but the gasx strip seem to help. I will try a shake today.

Also, is anyone having dreams about eating real food? I keep dreaming that I'm eating regular food and then realize I'm going to mess up my stomach. Then I wake up and realize it was a dream. :/

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Kayla - no blood thinners for me. If they gave them before surgery, I have no idea. I didn't realize a lot of things that were going on. Later I found out that my multivitamin was through IV, my meds to settle my stomach were pushed through the IV, of course pain meds, and antacids were through IV. So maybe there could've been thinners. No one told me.

Just took all my meds and I'm feeling good. Pain is not that bad. About to go finish my chocolate shake and then it will be Water for the rest of the night. That puts me at 45g of Protein - not bad for day 2 with a frickin hiatal hernia.

You are so lucky. A lot of stuff they gave me orally. And I say liquid Prilosec tasted like dead fish. It was horrible. I got blood thinner injections in the hospital along with medicine to help cut nerves.

I ended up in the ear yesterday because of bladder retention. It was causing me to get blood in my urine. Ended up with an IV for dehydration. Another thing to note. Not all doctors understand bariatric surgery. During the ct last night they discovered that my intestines are inflamed, he kept trying to give me Motrin type products and I had to repeteatly tell him I can't take those anymore.

Oh goodness lifewhichismine. That sounds gross- the Prilosec. Bleh. Yeah they would literally come to my IV and start shooting meds into the part connected to my hand.

I'm so sorry you were sick with a bladder infection. Yeah - I'm realizing if it's not their specialty, they don't know the true ins and outs of it. Or maybe they're not thinking about it. I hope you get better soon.

I've actually even noticed that all bariatric surgeons are different as far as how they do things...

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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

        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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