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My surgery is May 22nd I'm so excited and nervous at the same time. I've been waiting months for this surgery. My original date was march 17 but my thyroid levels were not stable enough to clear me. Now I just pray that when I enter the hospital and they do labs everything is good.


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I'm May 24th for correction; removal of the lap band and switching to gastric sleeve. Super excited! Having gone through the pre and post op before, it's not that bad, makes prepping for the work lunch easy.


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Nice! Did you go back to work already?

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Really wow! That's wonderful. You look good!

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Just a few days left. Down 17 pounds now! Spoke to the doctor this morning. Can't wait for Tuesday.


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I'm officially on the loses bench! Got sleeved on Wed, came home from hospital the next day around 5pm.

I had a few setbacks when I was in the hospital that revolved around the pain medicine. No matter what they gave me I would start throwing up even if they gave me anti-nausea meds, so I haven't had pain medicine in about 24 hours.

I'm trying to power through without the pain meds because I want to be able to keep my liquids down which I wasn't able to do when I kept gagging.

Getting liquids in is a chore, but I'm making myself do it. Same with getting up and walking around the house.

I've never felt this tired. I can't sleep more than 2 hrs at a time, so I'm sure that's part of the problem.

I'm trying not to let the pain keep me down, I know it's only temporary.

Good luck fellow May sleevers!

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I'm officially on the loses bench! Got sleeved on Wed, came home from hospital the next day around 5pm.
I had a few setbacks when I was in the hospital that revolved around the pain medicine. No matter what they gave me I would start throwing up even if they gave me anti-nausea meds, so I haven't had pain medicine in about 24 hours.

I'm trying to power through without the pain meds because I want to be able to keep my liquids down which I wasn't able to do when I kept gagging.
Getting liquids in is a chore, but I'm making myself do it. Same with getting up and walking around the house.
I've never felt this tired. I can't sleep more than 2 hrs at a time, so I'm sure that's part of the problem.
I'm trying not to let the pain keep me down, I know it's only temporary.
Good luck fellow May sleevers!

Keep that positive attitude! It will help you get through it! Stay well [emoji173]️


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Wednesday is the day....everything is a go. I'm getting nervous...but I am so ready to make this life change. I love my Dr....and the staff that have helped bring me to now. I find it comforting to know they will be with me through the entire journey and beyond....and will follow me for years. Praying it all goes smoothly.

Thank you fellow May sleevers for the encouragement and sharing your issues and successes. It really helps.

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Wednesday is the day....everything is a go. I'm getting nervous...but I am so ready to make this life change. I love my Dr....and the staff that have helped bring me to now. I find it comforting to know they will be with me through the entire journey and beyond....and will follow me for years. Praying it all goes smoothly.
Thank you fellow May sleevers for the encouragement and sharing your issues and successes. It really helps.

You got this girl! I'm right behind you! (5/31) and I can't wait! Positive vibes only!


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Im thinking of it as a chance to start over and do it right. Kinda like getting a new stomach that isnt all old and stretched out...and making sure we do all the right things for that never to happen again...Good luck to you....We got this!

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2 1/2 weeks out. Still on full liquids. Getting all my Protein and fluids. scale hasn't moved in over a week. Actually, it's gone up and down, up and down. Half regretting this right now. Only reason I'm not fully regretting it is my blood sugars are completely normal without medication. So there's that. Which is what I said I'd be happy with, only I'm not. I knew I'd lose less because I was a lower weight, but this is ridiculous. 6lbs since surgery.

Sigh, I know my body is healing. This was my fear though.

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      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.

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