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It was a great day and I survived Thanksgiving. Just a little turkey, 1/4 cup of mashed potatoes, 2 black olives, 2 cucumber slices. All I could manage to eat. How did you all do?

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Waiting for our first fills next week. We went to my mother's assisted living facility and ate there with her, so small portions and no leftovers. Had a good dinner and didn't feel stuffed and bloated. She apologized that the food wasn't that good, but we thought it was great!

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This is day 2 on Mushies (stage 3). I had the day pretty much planned out. Today was not as bad as I thought it was going to be. I ate according to plan has much as possible. I ate:

Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs

Lunch: 2 oz white turkey breast, 2 tsp. turkey gravy, 1/4 cup of squash and 1/4 cup sweet potato and a small spoonful of cranberry sauce.

Snack: a few bites of pumpkin pie

Dinner: 4 oz white turkey breast, 4 tsp. turkey gravy, 1/4 cup of squash and 1/4 cup of sweet potato. I needed more turkey because I was hungry and needed more Protein.

I felt pretty satisfied except at dinner time because I waited to long to eat.

Hope you all did great today.

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1-2 oz turkey ... 1/3 cup mashed potatoes ... 1/4 cup stuffing ... spoonful of corn ... some gravy to help the turkey go down :)

I allowed myself to have a small slice of apple pie too :biggrin1:

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I have been feeling sick and almost fainted yesterday. I'm 2 weeks post op. I started trembling and my teeth were shattering and couldn't even talk well for half an hour. The back of my head hurt a lot from all that shaking. My husband put honey under my tongue. I also had some sweetened juice. Has anybody felm this? I keep drinking all day. I called the Dr.,but he never called back.

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I have been feeling sick and almost fainted yesterday. I'm 2 weeks post op. I started trembling and my teeth were shattering and couldn't even talk well for half an hour. The back of my head hurt a lot from all that shaking. My husband put honey under my tongue. I also had some sweetened juice. Has anybody felm this? I keep drinking all day. I called the Dr.,but he never called back.

Wow, I have never heard of something like this. Hope you are doing better. Let us know what the doc says when you do get in touch...Dave

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I have been feeling sick and almost fainted yesterday. I'm 2 weeks post op. I started trembling and my teeth were shattering and couldn't even talk well for half an hour. The back of my head hurt a lot from all that shaking. My husband put honey under my tongue. I also had some sweetened juice. Has anybody felm this? I keep drinking all day. I called the Dr.,but he never called back.

I am 3 weeks out and haven't had anything like that. How are you feeling now? why don't you call your local doctor if your lapband doctor isn't around. also why don't you post this into a new thread under "Pre-op & Post-op Lapband Surgery Questions & Answers" so that people will read this and be able to help you.

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I ate until I couldn't hold anymore,tossed it once, ate some more....

lost a pound!!!!

(realizing all I can eat is just a few ounces....so overall I ate 1/4th of what I normally eat)

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Wow , sounds like you were seriously dehydrated. Not, good. You should visit your ER and get some fluids. Nope, never happened to me and im six weeks post op.

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Since I'm still in liquids, Thanksgiving wasn't too hard. Other than watching everyone eat what was reportedly an exceptionally good turkey! I did dip a finger in the gravy just to taste it and in the mashed potatoes and just smooshed them in my mouth until they were nothing. :wacko: Actually, that was Friday. Thursday I was at home alone, having sent my hubby and kids on to his side's gathering, since I just wasn't up for it that day. I'm only 8 days out, plus I got the flu this week, so I was still not ready to be around people. Even yesterday ended up being a bit much for me.

Christmas will be a lot harder, since I'll be on mushies and soft solids at that point, but with no fill. :)

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I have been feeling sick and almost fainted yesterday. I'm 2 weeks post op. I started trembling and my teeth were shattering and couldn't even talk well for half an hour. The back of my head hurt a lot from all that shaking. My husband put honey under my tongue. I also had some sweetened juice. Has anybody felm this? I keep drinking all day. I called the Dr.,but he never called back.

Call the doctor again. And call every two hours until he calls.

meanwhile it sounds like you don't have enough nutrition. Hoping fluids are going down, I'd start with Propel which is Water but with some OOMPH to it. Until you get to the doctor focus on getting some hydration and Protein into your body. Ensure liquid Protein at Walgreens or CVS is good. Keep drinking fluids. If anything you don't want to dehydrate.

Never heard of this. You should get to the doctor.

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I did very well.

I had less than 2 oz. of turkey...moist but just not happening. Some lovely italian cheeses mixed into the mac and cheese, melted quite nicely. No bread, that is for sure not happening. Baked apples were nice but only had a half if that. The best was the baked zucchini and yellow squash, also had a stuffed portobello. By far one of the best Thanksgivings. The focus was less on food, more on who we were with and sharing that moment.

Still decorating for Christmas. The tree is beautiful this year.

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