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Surgery on T-minus 6 hours. Still nervous and as hell.....

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I'm out. My arrival time was 515. Surgery at 715. Very tired. Hope your experience was s good am mine yall

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Surgery on T-minus 6 hours. Still nervous and as hell.....

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Alright all ready. Just talked to the surgeon. Just waiting for the show to hit the road

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im in horrible pain. 4 hours in surgery due to my doctor finding an hernia pushing into my diaphragm muscle. it hurts so bad to swollow to breath to cry. and remember my last post that my husband left me, well guess what guys he never showed up. only my mom and dad and my ex husband. it feels horrible but that was my wakeup call. hope u guys are doing well. as of right now im not able to eat it hurts so bad only sucking on ice chips. thank god i have no gas pains.

I'm out. My arrival time was 515. Surgery at 715. Very tired. Hope your experience was s good am mine yall

congrats you did it. praying for you for a speedy recovery

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Sorry about your husband. My pain level was quite high for the first two days, then it eased off midway through the third. Getting the drain out helped a lot.

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Sorry about your husband. My pain level was quite high for the first two days, then it eased off midway through the third. Getting the drain out helped a lot.

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im glad ur doing better. i didnt get a drain thank god

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I didn't get a drain either. Today isn't too bad. Some gas pains. I had a hernia fix as well, but we knew going in. The doc said my hernia was much larger than shown on the EDG. He also said that I had one of the largest stomachs hes seen on a low bmi patient. It explains alot. Between having a huge stomach and the acid reflux hunger pains. Thats why I was always hungry.

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Hello all!

Glad we made it through. I'm in pain too, and I'm hungry ???? I realy wanted to be one of those people who are never hungry for the first 9 months to a year.

My barium swallow before surgery showed a small hiatel hernia, but when I asked my docs resident doctor about it, she said my doctor doesn't do hernia repair. I hope the hernia is smalll, but maybe that explaines hunger pains.

I've drinken three little medicin cups of Water, and I will have broth snd Jello in a few minutes. Have you all eaten yet?

Also, no drain for me either.

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Hello all!

Glad we made it through. I'm in pain too, and I'm hungry I realy wanted to be one of those people who are never hungry for the first 9 months to a year.

My barium swallow before surgery showed a small hiatel hernia, but when I asked my docs resident doctor about it, she said my doctor doesn't do hernia repair. I hope the hernia is smalll, but maybe that explaines hunger pains.

I've drinken three little medicin cups of Water, and I will have broth snd Jello in a few minutes. Have you all eaten yet?

Also, no drain for me either.

i have severe pain im not able to eat anything. just ice chips im not hungry at all. if i try to sip a little bit of broth my stomach hurts severly kind of like cramping. my oxygen levels were low too. im suffering guys im on percocet every 4 hours and still feel so much pain.

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How are yall doing? I'm packing and preparing anyway, just in case. If he clears me I'm gonna have to make a mad dash to get to the plane ontime.

Yall packed yet?

i have my last appointment March 11th!! I had to wait six months! In the meantime, well in the last week I have bought Protein drinks. I tried all the allowed drinks a few months ago and bought what I liked. I am stocked on Vitamins and Isopure drinks! All the healthy healthy stuff I'll need like the veggies I'll be allowed to have during the 2 weeks pre op diet I'll buy in bulk later. I'm ready! Can you tell?

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Hello all!

Glad we made it through. I'm in pain too, and I'm hungry I realy wanted to be one of those people who are never hungry for the first 9 months to a year.

My barium swallow before surgery showed a small hiatel hernia, but when I asked my docs resident doctor about it, she said my doctor doesn't do hernia repair. I hope the hernia is smalll, but maybe that explaines hunger pains.

I've drinken three little medicin cups of Water, and I will have broth snd Jello in a few minutes. Have you all eaten yet?

Also, no drain for me either.

i have severe pain im not able to eat anything. just ice chips im not hungry at all. if i try to sip a little bit of broth my stomach hurts severly kind of like cramping. my oxygen levels were low too. im suffering guys im on percocet every 4 hours and still feel so much pain.

You're not alone. I have bad pain too. I was on th Delodid pump that i pushed myself, until this afternoon. Then they changed me to Percocet every 4 hours, and tylenonl. Can they give you some Tylenol. I tried eating some broth and Jello and my stomach hurt, anf I felt sick, got bad hiccups, but didn't reallg feel full.

It's what's to be expected....We just had our surgeries yesterday. Little bu liytle it will get better. Praying for us all.

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Hello all!

Glad we made it through. I'm in pain too, and I'm hungry I realy wanted to be one of those people who are never hungry for the first 9 months to a year.

My barium swallow before surgery showed a small hiatel hernia, but when I asked my docs resident doctor about it, she said my doctor doesn't do hernia repair. I hope the hernia is smalll, but maybe that explaines hunger pains.

I've drinken three little medicin cups of Water, and I will have broth snd Jello in a few minutes. Have you all eaten yet?

Also, no drain for me either.

i have severe pain im not able to eat anything. just ice chips im not hungry at all. if i try to sip a little bit of broth my stomach hurts severly kind of like cramping. my oxygen levels were low too. im suffering guys im on percocet every 4 hours and still feel so much pain.
You're not alone. I have bad pain too. I was on th Delodid pump that i pushed myself, until this afternoon. Then they changed me to Percocet every 4 hours, and tylenonl. Can they give you some Tylenol. I tried eating some broth and Jello and my stomach hurt, anf I felt sick, got bad hiccups, but didn't reallg feel full.

It's what's to be expected....We just had our surgeries yesterday. Little bu liytle it will get better. Praying for us all.

im in so much pain that im regreting this. its horrible.

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i dont know whats hurting so bad, my sleeve or my hernia repair its going to be a long night

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