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Kind of weird question but didn't want to sound like an idiot during my final consultation.



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I am the opposite. I have to do bowel prep but not the 2 week liquid diet. I had the sleeve in February of 2014 and am converting to bypass on 6/26 due to damage from reflux.
I am glad there are other converters!! I am super scared!!

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1 hour ago, Kimber628 said:

I am the opposite. I have to do bowel prep but not the 2 week liquid diet. I had the sleeve in February of 2014 and am converting to bypass on 6/26 due to damage from reflux.
I am glad there are other converters!! I am super scared!!

I am beyond scared. I didn't want to have bypass. I just wanted a re-sleeve but my insurance wouldn't cover it bc it's still considered "investigational."

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I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but I am afraid as I almost died after my sleeve. 5 hospitalizations, intensive care, and then sent to a more experienced hospital. I had to pay for my mortgage (single mama) but live with my parents for awhile. I had a feeding tube and it was a mess. Infections, blood clots, you name it, it happened. I just can’t have that happen again. It was the worst 6 months of my life.

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6 minutes ago, tkyle said:

I'm meeting with NP next week to talk about gastric bypass after sleeve 7 years ago. Advice and thoughts.

It's a tough decision. My insurance picked bypass for me smh. I keep asking myself....can I really do this? Can I start all over?

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You will, you can and you'll end up with a smile on your face, a spring in your step and triumph in your heart.💚Not always easy and not always fast but the improvements you make will really last😛

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Well...it's been a month since I had RNY. Surgery went well. I lost 15 pounds the first 2 weeks. YAY! I haven't lost a pound since. My dr said my stomach was 1oz. I can eat way more than that and I do not feel any restriction. If I went through this for 15 pounds I'm going to be ticked off. Has anyone had this issue??

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Well today the Canadians are celebrating their country and then. in 3 short days we Americans will be celebrating our independance and freedom. Isn't it neat you can snuggle your Great Pyrenees, I can pet my 2 cats and a,dhave a chance to be healthier, fitter and live longer to enjoy our freedoms? 🇺🇸And Thank You Again to our Mum 🇬🇧 the UK❤ who sheltered us, and like a good mother allowed us to grow until we could stand strong and free,on our own 2 Feet!

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Ha. I admit to picturing myself on the operating table emptying my bowels right in the middle of my bypass. Not pretty!

If you've ever had a colonoscopy, then you'd be familiar with this clearing-out procedure:

Get yourself a bottle of magnesium citrate (cheap and available over-the-counter everywhere. I like the cherry-flavored). Don't take this liquid the day before your surgery, but a few days before. You'll be in the bathroom a lot, so be prepared for that. Also, be prepared for some semi-explosive goings-on in orifices that you didn't know existed (?!). You might also need to apply some Vaseline around your b-hole to prevent what I refer to as "fire butt".

After you're clean as a whistle, just make sure you follow your clear-liquids diet until your surgery date.

You should go into surgery feeling squeaky clean and sporting that new-car smell. (Just kidding on that last one, but you get the idea.)

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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.

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