Anyone else scheduled for January 2018? I have my surgery scheduled for January 11. I'm having to wait until next year because I had a stent put in back in December 2016. The anesthesiologist won't sign off until I have had the stent for at least a year and am able to come off of Plavix for the surgery.

7 minutes ago, Jessicamurray said:

It was okay so far...If I could go back I would switch hospitals...St. Alexius Hospital in St. Louis is pretty freaking sketchy. I think I'm doing alright though, just having a hard time getting much down. At this point I would totally do it again, just at a different place! I'm already down 6lbs in two days though!!

Are you getting excited?? Congrats on your date, btw. Less than a week!

Yes excited to get this over with & be done with the pre-op portion of the plan. Congrats to you as well on the surgery & the weight loss present & future!

1 minute ago, Heisenberg said:

Yes excited to get this over with & be done with the pre-op portion of the plan. Congrats to you as well on the surgery & the weight loss present & future!

Thank you so much! Good luck to you!!

I’m right there with you. I went out to dinner a couple of times & had steak & jumbo shrimp before I started the pre-op but I really wanted to go to the casino for the prime rib buffet before I did this. Oh well! I plan on eating small portions of delicious (expensive) lean cuts of meat & seafood with fresh fruits & veggies. The days of Quantity are passed time for the more expensive quality meals. I also love to cook so that’s a plus. Here’s to delicious 4-6 oz meals!

I like your positivity! Everything went so quickly for me! I saw the doctor on a Wednesday and said let’s do it! Saw the dietitian the next day and she told me to start the pre op diet!! The rest of that day and Friday I ate whatever I could and officially started my pre op that Saturday. 11 days days later is surgery which will be this Tuesday 1/16. Lots of other tests between all that. I am ready though. I like your idea of quality over quantity. I will no longer say “I hate fancy places. They never give you enough food!”

Tennisboy11, I worry when you said you were drinking protein drinks so soon. I am not allowed protein drinks for at least the first week. Please be aware that protein will make you more constipated. My doctor gave me colace laxative on one of the days in the hospital to help get everything moving the right direction and to help with gas pain. Then the next day he gave me milk of magnesia which is a laxative. Both made a big difference and I believe that is what helped with the gas pain and helped me feel better. One thing that I have heard from others is comstipation can get so bad and extremely painful. Avoid at all cost.

I was curious too about protein shakes on day 4 post op too and called the nutritionist just to check and she confirmed it was right. I have been taking colace and some other terrible liquid every night too and finally had a bm yesterday so I’m feeling pretty good. I guess the one common theme I keep seeing on our thread is how different each of our docs approach our pre and post op steps but somehow we’re all doing alright, good thing we did as much research as we did on the surgeons. Have a wonderful first weekend with our new sleeves and hope you keep feeling better each day too!

I sent a request to join. I’m being sleeved Monday (Jan 15)

Good luck mine is Monday as well

21 hours ago, Honeyswt said:

Hi all Jan 8th sleevers. I just created a private facebook group. Anyone can join but I wanted to make sure that everyone that was sleeved on Jan 8th knew about the facebook group and can join. I just now noticed that someone had made a facebook group as closed but not secret. I made mine secret and do not want others knowing my business. Please email me at seekinbigbadwolf@aol.com with your facebook name and I will send you an invite. You can also message me here. It is the only way to allow others to join since it is a secret group. Looking forward to starting a great group that will support each other!

Great! This is wonderful I was just getting read to ask about "secret" and "closed" group. I don't want anyone to be able to see my business or the groups I am a part of. I'll DM you my email so you can add me to the secret group

Thanks!

Yes I made a secret facebook group. I think some people think that it is only for people who had surgery on Jan 8th. The facebook secret group is open to everyone regardless of when or if you have had surgery. You just need to email me at seekinbigbadwolf@aol.com and I will give you my facebook name. I do not want my business know to all and I like that it is secret. Anyone that wants to join, please do so. I look forward to all of us supporting and encouraing each other.

Me three! @ 3:30!

My surgery is the 15th at 8 am!

I’m scheduled for 1/22/18. I too am scared and excited. Struggling with the Phase 2 diet. Pressing on!!!

6 hours ago, Global_Librarian said:

My surgery is the 15th at 8 am!

Me too!!! Newbie here and I’m soooo excited!!!

I was sleeved the 8th!

I just had my surgery on January 8, 2018. Currently down 13 lbs

I am a January 22 sleever!!

I just had my surgery on January 8, 2018. Currently down 13 lbs

Wow that’s awesome! Congrats. My surgery is Tuesday.

January 17 ?