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Womanvsmirror    314

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I'ts surreal. i think on some level i never thought i would get this far. Not that i expected to fail at the diet, on not get approved, but I'm one of those expect the worse type people. Needless to say its been an interesting ride. Sleeved 6/1, and amazingly feeling like super man (with meds of course). I left the hospital the next day, i could not sleep or get comfortable and wanted to be in my own space. Good decision thus far, im hiding from the scale so i will be surprised when i go get my staples out on 6/10 (hoping for onderland). so nothing to report just a happy sleever.

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Womanvsmirror    314

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I loved reading a lot of your pre op post they were very helpful

Glad my rambling helped someone, how is everything going on your journey?

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Join7l7    11

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Good luck on your journey :)

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hazelzay    75

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I loved reading a lot of your pre op post they were very helpful

Glad my rambling helped someone, how is everything going on your journey?

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My surgery is the 15th and I'm on my pre op two week diet and it's just giving me really bad headaches . I've always had headaches because of my sleep apnea but non like this. It's day five and it's just terrible and I had like 4 unsalted peanuts even thought I'm not suppose to but I felt like my head was hurting because I needed food or something . I wish I could take excedrin .. How is eating during stage 2 for the hospital ?

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Womanvsmirror    314

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Glad you have a date.... Woohoo

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Still stage one but the hunger isn't there

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hazelzay    75

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Glad you have a date.... Woohoo

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Still stage one but the hunger isn't there

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Stage one is the liquid right that's what my packet says

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IBG1269    3

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My sleeve was on 6/1 also -- feeling good also. Trying to get all the Protein in is difficult -- but physically the recovery is much easier than I thought. Where do you have staples? I have no real hunger either -- very strange feeling......

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Womanvsmirror    314

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Right but what I found is as long as I don't get bored I'm fine so far I've had popsicles flavored Water Powerade Zero clear Soup from the Korean store beef stew made with real broth broth only of course and today my mom made homemade chicken Soup so the broth from that was flavorful and amazing so I don't really feel like I'm missing anything yet. I am looking forward to my full liquids starting on Friday mostly for the cream of wheat and runny oatmeal

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4MRB4PHOTO    3,899

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From the title, I thought Todd Rundgren posted.:)

Congratulations on your surgery and the beginning of a new you.

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      Iʻm roughly 6 weeks post-op this morning and have begun to feel like a normal human, with a normal human body again. I started introducing solid foods and pill forms of medications/supplements a couple of weeks ago and it's really amazing to eat meals with my family again, despite the fact that my portions are so much smaller than theirs. 
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    • BeanitoDiego

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      Oh yeah, something I wanted to rant about, a billing dispute that cropped up 3 months ago.
      Surgery was in August of 2023. A bill shows up for over $7,000 in January. WTF? I asks myself. I know that I jumped through all of the insurance hoops and verified this and triple checked that, as did the surgeon's office. All was set, and I paid all of the known costs before surgery.
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      Thank you everyone for your well wishes! I totally forgot I wrote an update here... I'm one week post op today. I gained 15 lbs in water weight overnight because they had to give me tons of fluids to bring my BP up after surgery! I stayed one night in the hospital. Everything has been fine except I seem to have picked up a bug while I was there and I've been running a low grade fever, coughing, and a sore throat. So I've been hydrating well and sleeping a ton. So far the Covid tests are negative.
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