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Welcome to the other side! Now, walk, walk, walk and sip, sip,sip!

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I had mine yesterday too! My stomach keeps spasming. I'm hoping I'll be in less pain tomorrow. How are you feeling?



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I had my sleeve on Tuesday ... I gotta be honest, I never thought it would be this painful. I've had 2 c-sections and I'm going in thinking .... ha this will be a breeze. 2 of my incisions are fine and not painful at all, but the third is incredibly painful (I think that's the one they pulled everything out of, as there is some bruising around it). So I've been all gorked out on pain meds, coughing from the breathing tube and congested. Just thought I would bounce back quicker!!!

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9 hours ago, jillybeanRN said:

I had my sleeve on Tuesday ... I gotta be honest, I never thought it would be this painful. I've had 2 c-sections and I'm going in thinking .... ha this will be a breeze. 2 of my incisions are fine and not painful at all, but the third is incredibly painful (I think that's the one they pulled everything out of, as there is some bruising around it). So I've been all gorked out on pain meds, coughing from the breathing tube and congested. Just thought I would bounce back quicker!!!

HI,

I had my sleeve on April 6 and I can relate. I also had 2 C sections and a total knee replacement and thought this would be very easy as far as recovery. Everyone spoke about barely any recovery time and I was disappointed in myself when I felt miserable for the first few days, not even gas related but as you're saying incisional pain. I had 2 areas on my right side that were painful, I couldn't find a comfortable position. My back hurt, I had a headache and yes I also took my Percocet. Even though I did my breathing exercises it hurt to breathe and I felt short of breath when I walked. Anyway the good news is I was sleeved on a Thursday and by Tuesday I felt significantly better and by the one week mark completely back at my norm. So as a fellow RN I am writing to encourage you with my story and let you know you are about to turn the corner. Ive lost 26 lbs and am tolerating a pureed/soft diet and feeling great. Just give it another day or two. If you need someone to talk to Im here and I would love to see how you progress in the next week or so.

Deb

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Thanks for all the responses and comforting comments. I'm really struggling too (surgery was 4/19) and it helps to know that I should be feeling pretty good by next week


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My surgery was on the 18th and by lordy it was a rough 24hrs. But once the catheter and drain were out my pain went away and I managed to walk more. Got out of hospital on the 20th and since then I've just got better each day.

Also just managed to go to bathroom without help from meds as that was a painful lesson after gallbladder surgery.



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On 4/21/2017 at 6:18 PM, DP64 said:

HI,

I had my sleeve on April 6 and I can relate. I also had 2 C sections and a total knee replacement and thought this would be very easy as far as recovery. Everyone spoke about barely any recovery time and I was disappointed in myself when I felt miserable for the first few days, not even gas related but as you're saying incisional pain. I had 2 areas on my right side that were painful, I couldn't find a comfortable position. My back hurt, I had a headache and yes I also took my Percocet. Even though I did my breathing exercises it hurt to breathe and I felt short of breath when I walked. Anyway the good news is I was sleeved on a Thursday and by Tuesday I felt significantly better and by the one week mark completely back at my norm. So as a fellow RN I am writing to encourage you with my story and let you know you are about to turn the corner. Ive lost 26 lbs and am tolerating a pureed/soft diet and feeling great. Just give it another day or two. If you need someone to talk to Im here and I would love to see how you progress in the next week or so.

Deb

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Thanks for the encouragement!!! I am finally starting to feel better!!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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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.

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