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Pre-surgery jitters

onmyway11

By onmyway11, in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums

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onmyway11    43

onmyway11
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I'm about a week and a half out. I'm freaking out. Soooo nervous. I have a band and I want it OUT so it only makes sense to be sleeved at the same time. I'm at my highest weight (minus 15 I've lost since joining my hospitals program). I have zero reason to believe I will "do this on my own" since I've been overweight my entire life and just turned 50. I've tried and tried and failed and failed at that. I lost with the band with great difficulty and gained it back.

My bjggest fear right now is the actual surgery. I hate IVs and hospitals in general. Then I'm afraid of the recovery. Last time I was sick for about a month when everyone said it would be a nothing type of thing with the band. Nausea. Then lastly of course afraid I will fail at my 2nd weight loss surgery.

Wondering if everyone else went through these jitters? If anyone has regrets that they did the surgery? What you did to calm your nerves. My poor husband thanks you in advance for anyone who can calm me down haha

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barbbbsss    36

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My surgery is Jan 11 and I understand. I keep my mind on after the surgery. I have had two c sections and know there is recovery involved but imagine you are going to be well taken care of during your surgery . You are on a road to better yourself.

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ready_to_be_thin    179

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I can't speak on the lap band but I am a tad bit over 4 months post-op on the sleeve and almost 75 pounds down. It is one of the best decisions I have ever made. I have had 10 surgeries in my life, and this one was extremely minor. I had very little pain. The only pain I really had was from the gas. I had no stomach pains or incision pains at all. Just remember to walk walk walk after your surgery and that will help tremendously with the gas pains. It's only normal to be nervous, but I think you will be glad that you went through with this. I wish you all the best luck.

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sonkat5355    70

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I can't speak on the lap band but I am a tad bit over 4 months post-op on the sleeve and almost 75 pounds down. It is one of the best decisions I have ever made. I have had 10 surgeries in my life, and this one was extremely minor. I had very little pain. The only pain I really had was from the gas. I had no stomach pains or incision pains at all. Just remember to walk walk walk after your surgery and that will help tremendously with the gas pains. It's only normal to be nervous, but I think you will be glad that you went through with this. I wish you all the best luck.

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Your weight loss is great. I am 61 almost 62 and my Dr said it might be slower weight loss for me. I'm @ 275 lbs. May I ask your age?

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sonkat5355    70

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I can't speak on the lap band but I am a tad bit over 4 months post-op on the sleeve and almost 75 pounds down. It is one of the best decisions I have ever made. I have had 10 surgeries in my life, and this one was extremely minor. I had very little pain. The only pain I really had was from the gas. I had no stomach pains or incision pains at all. Just remember to walk walk walk after your surgery and that will help tremendously with the gas pains. It's only normal to be nervous, but I think you will be glad that you went through with this. I wish you all the best luck.

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Oh, I am scheduled for surgery Jan 31, 2017, liquid start Jan 17.

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ddkVSG    32

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I'm a band to sleeve revision also. My sleeve surgery was 12/27/2016. My surgeon does but do the revision in I've surgery. My band was removed in November. That was a glorious day. I hated that thing. I can't believe I waited 10 yrs to get it removed. So far very happy with the sleeve. The only bad note of this whole process is learning I am sensitive to aspartame. It gave me a Migraine post op. Terrible. My way of dealing with nerves was to start doing everything I could pre op to prepare myself. I started the low carb, high Protein diet back in September. I started drinking 100 oz of Water a day. I started regular exercise. Then I cleaned and organized my house. No regrets at all.

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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.

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