I am scheduled for February 18th. I will be first in. Wow, this process takes forever.

Just got my surgery date this week. February 21.

Awesome Everything. Mine is the 18th

I have a count down on my phone. It is getting more and more real. Monday will be 2 weeks exactly prior to surgery. I meet with the dietician for preop diet. I know that I can have meat. I just can have zero carbs, sugar, fruit. I check veggies and that to has carbs. So we will see what else. Not all liquid though. Then I meet with the physician assistant to do a last review prior to surgery. Probably be more real on Monday than todat

I go Tuesday for my preop. I have not started any sort of diet yet and I’m not sure what to expect. Tentative surgery date is Feb 21st. I think they will confirm with me at my preop. Probably shouldn’t admit this but I have still been somewhat on the fence about what surgery to do. I was hard-core sleeve, then Bypass, then sleeve again. Will talk to Dr on Tuesday!!

Oh and I meet with the NUT for the first time at 11 AM on Tuesday and then have my preop at 3:00 PM - should be quite the whirlwind. I haven’t bought one single thing yet and then I have to be out of state the week between the preop and the surgery for a job interview. This should be interesting!

Welcome to the FEB 2019 group Everythinganna! I'm have gastric bypass, without the option for the sleeve because I have gastroperesis and acid reflux. I've been told that the gastric bypass helps reduce the reflux whereas if I got that sleeve, my reflux would only get worse. I'm not sure if that is "commonly known" or even false, but that is what my surgeon told me when I was hoping for the sleeve. If you have reflux, maybe you could ask your surgeon given you're on the fence.

Hope all goes well!

11 hours ago, Big Bari said:

I am on the 13th too. woohoo .I'm going to the grocery store today to prepare myself I start liquids on the 6th.

Wow, I think that makes four of us on the 13th. Big day! I start all-liquids tomorrow and I have more than enough liquid varieties to make sure I can survive at least through tomorrow. ? I am prepared for being bored to death by day three. Well, probably by the end of day 1!

I’m on the 13th, too. I’m on 4th day of pre-op. I’m only allowed protein shakes, broth, sugar free jello, and sugar free popsicles. I’m dying!! ?

jenniefeefee--WOW that is a long pre-op diet. Sounds like we have the exact pre-op diet. Have you started on your multivitamins, iron, and calcium or do you start them after the surgery only? How have you been managing the all-liquids so far? Any tips?

Jennie I have the same preop as you do, today was day 5 for me. Surgery is the 12th. Day 4 was pretty rough, but I have to say today was better. Energy kicked in and hunger subsided. I guess with the lack of fats in my diet it took 5 days for ketosis to kick in, but hopefully it’ll be better from here on out. Hopefully you experience the same?

Hey, Gotta. I started my multivitamin, iron, calcium, B12, and biotin two months ago. The all liquids has been pretty tough. Artificial sweeteners give me such terrible headaches. I usually take Advil for my headaches, but can’t have ibuprofen anymore. ? I guess a tip I could give is: try to take a nap when the uncontrollable hunger starts to creep in. I feel so guilty for retreating to the bedroom while my family has dinner, though!

Taylor, I hope the same happens for me!! I could kill for just a scrambled egg!!

Less then a week left till surgery. Starting to get nervous. I'm going to pack my hospital bag tomorrow to make sure I have everything I want.

Oh I hear ya! I honestly was so tempted to just say forget the whole thing and go get a cheeseburger, but then I had to remind myself how silly that was.

5 minutes ago, Tonya648 said:

Less then a week left till surgery. Starting to get nervous. I'm going to pack my hospital bag tomorrow to make sure I have everything I want.

What will you bring to hospital with you and how long do you expect to be in the hospital?