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fiddlinjellybean    16

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I know you can’t really compare apples to oranges, but I’m wondering if any of you ladies have had both wls and a c-section? How do they compare? It’s my only big surgical experience to draw from so I’m just trying to understand what I’m in for come March 20th!

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KS Mermaid    23

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I have had C Section, Hysterectomy (davinci robotic), and now I am having Bypass. My sugeon does all his WLS robotically, if this applies to you will have 5 small incisions on your belly very similar to a hysterectomy done robotically. *old fashion way of WLS was to cut you open and stitch you up.

A C Section unlike this, is a large incision in the lower abs where they cut your abdominal muscles, to pull a baby out. The pain/discomfort you experienced from C Section is more on the incision and muscle being cut which is numbed by alot of the times by an epideral.

When you have the WLS done robotically the 5 incision are approx 1cm long. The discomfort your going feel is from the actual inside of your body ie: stomach sutures and gas they pump in your body. Your recovery will be alot quicker than that of a CSection.

My surgeon said that if you work a desk job you can go back to work 1 week later with weight lifting restrictions.

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fiddlinjellybean    16

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Thanks KS Mermaid! That sounds like it will (hopefully) be a bit easier than a C-section (assuming all goes as planned).

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momof3_angels    465

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Less pain with sleeve than with c-section.... but I actually had a lot less energy after the sleeve. I was able to get up and do a lot of walking after all three c-sections, whereas with the sleeve I had to go to a store with shopping carts to lean on to do a lap. Weird, right? But then again... I had a brand new baby after each of my c-sections to provide a wonderful distraction.

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Lbtnew    89

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6 hours ago, fiddlinjellybean said:

I know you can’t really compare apples to oranges, but I’m wondering if any of you ladies have had both wls and a c-section? How do they compare? It’s my only big surgical experience to draw from so I’m just trying to understand what I’m in for come March 20th!

Congrats to you ! I've had 4 c sections and a hyserectomy, there is no comparison, the sleeve is a cake walk compared to those. Good luck and best wishes

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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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      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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      1. summerseeker

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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.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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