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Onedeterminedchick,good luck with your journey and surgery this week. I am 5 wks pre op, Surgery is10/25 can't wait for the surgery to be done.

Good luck

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@@allies journey Thanks so much! I'm so excited I'm ready to get this behind me. Good luck to you as well. Hang in there

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Hi all new to site so I hope I joined thread correctly. I just had sleeve done on 09/20, so just got home yesterday. Trying to concentrate now on getting the 64 oz in. Have had hiccups so realize why & slow down more, has helped. Just sore still, worst pain is still some left shoulder pain from gas during surgery? Any body else have & suggestions that helped. Walked over mile between day 1 & 2 in hospital & got better but some pain still there. Thanks for setting up thread. Good luck to 09/21 & 09/22 people.

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@@veryblessed Congrats on your surgery! Sounds like you're doing well. Other than walking for the gas pain - you can try moving your arms a lot (scissor them as you walk or even just move them around while you're sitting) and a heating pad might help some. Good luck on your journey!!!

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Hi all new to site so I hope I joined thread correctly. I just had sleeve done on 09/20, so just got home yesterday. Trying to concentrate now on getting the 64 oz in. Have had hiccups so realize why & slow down more, has helped. Just sore still, worst pain is still some left shoulder pain from gas during surgery? Any body else have & suggestions that helped. Walked over mile between day 1 & 2 in hospital & got better but some pain still there. Thanks for setting up thread. Good luck to 09/21 & 09/22 people.

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I just had my week check up today - was told no one really gets 64oz in the first week or so, just drink as best you can. It made me feel a lot better to know I was normal. I work on getting down a 32oz bottle of Powerade zero, as well as 2 shakes and 8 oz cups of Water in between. I'm not always successful, but they assured me it's normal. Hope you heal fast!

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@@veryblessed Congrats on your surgery! Sounds like you're doing well. Other than walking for the gas pain - you can try moving your arms a lot (scissor them as you walk or even just move them around while you're sitting) and a heating pad might help some. Good luck on your journey!!!

Thanks for the tips KristenLe.

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Hi all new to site so I hope I joined thread correctly. I just had sleeve done on 09/20, so just got home yesterday. Trying to concentrate now on getting the 64 oz in. Have had hiccups so realize why & slow down more, has helped. Just sore still, worst pain is still some left shoulder pain from gas during surgery? Any body else have & suggestions that helped. Walked over mile between day 1 & 2 in hospital & got better but some pain still there. Thanks for setting up thread. Good luck to 09/21 & 09/22 people.

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I just had my week check up today - was told no one really gets 64oz in the first week or so, just drink as best you can. It made me feel a lot better to know I was normal. I work on getting down a 32oz bottle of Powerade zero, as well as 2 shakes and 8 oz cups of Water in between. I'm not always successful, but they assured me it's normal. Hope you heal fast!
Thanks rolosmom7. Yes you are right. Nurse called yesterday & told me the same thing. She said gradually will get easier. each day it is getting easier to get more fluids in.

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My surgery was the 13th. Couple of days with significant discomfort but not nearly as bad as I anticipated. Sorting out head hunger from real hunger...which is eliminated. Doing Protein shakes, crystal light, sugar free Jello, and cream of mushroom Soup. I move to puréed foods tomorrow and I am a bit nervous. Not that I won't tolerate them but rather I will not be as disciplined. I am fixated with the scale which has to stop because if I don't see a drop, I worry that I am doing something wrong. Open for advice. Thank you!

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My surgery was 09/21 & I just got home yesterday. I'm going to be honest & say recovery is a lot more difficult than I was expecting.

I'm having the most trouble with nausea- I can live with the pain but the constant sick feeling is horrid! Meds help & it gets easier as time passes.

Oh and this is probably TMI but my period decided to arrive early - about 20 minutes before I was due in surgery!! Yes, they can still go ahead and did. I get nausea at that time normally so that on top of surgery has really knocked me around.

Im feeling thoroughly miserable but i still have no regrets & im happy I have other people's stories to read on here or i would be feeling a lot worse mentally.

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@"veryblessed" Congrats on your surgery! I too was sleeved on 9-20, almost 2 wks out now. Stomach pain is minimal , but found I had more abd pain after the staples removed... Strange ..but I Am definitely not pushing the food limits! Sticking w soft foods, eggs, Greek yogurt, cottage cheese. I'm finding the foods I crave no longer taste good when I try them. How are you doing now?

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@Katie09/22/2016. Congrats on your surgery and surviving starting your period on the day of surgery! That sucks! I was luckily 4 days post , thank god! I hear lots of women experience hormonal changes also post sleeve . I was banded previously and had it removed 4 months prior to VSG. I think we can expect mental changes! Hang in there and I hope your nausea has improved!

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I had my surgery 9/21 and am doing great! Only 5 pounds lost so far though :( my recovery has been so smooth, not one single issue. I can drink Water normally and have no pain in my incisions. I hope the weight loss picks up once I get back to work and start working out a few times a week. I started the journey at 256 and am now at 235! I just can't wait to be under 200.

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@Katie09/22/2016. Congrats on your surgery and surviving starting your period on the day of surgery! That sucks! I was luckily 4 days post , thank god! I hear lots of women experience hormonal changes also post sleeve . I was banded previously and had it removed 4 months prior to VSG. I think we can expect mental changes! Hang in there and I hope your nausea has improved!

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Thanks for your support! My nausea has pretty much disappeared (thankfully!!) I'm going ok, recovery is a bit trickier than I expected but not bad considering most of my guts were chopped out

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Sleeved 9/19, awesome recovery; able to get in all protein/water/vitamin requirements, back at work FT, etc., etc., trying to squeeze in a little walking in between hectic schedule.

I'm hungry though! I thought I wouldn't be, but I'm at 2 weeks out and need some sort of solid food. I'm having 2 ounces of smoked salmon, and that holds me. I kind of skipped the week of puree/mush/cream Soups and have one "meal" of salmon or pureed ground turkey mixed in pureed chili -- about one half cup. Then I can get by with the Water and Protein shakes, but I was going crazy on all liquids, and broth wasn't cutting it.

I lost 14 pre-op, 6 the first week, only 2 the second week. I know, I know, healing, not a race, don't compare, yada, yada, yada, but I feel like this is kinda slow for the first big month of loss! I expected a slowdown in month 2-3, not week 2-3!

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My surgery was on the 2nd. Pureed/soft/soft solids. Made cauliflower pizza for dinner. It was really good.

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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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        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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