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On 12/7/2020 at 5:30 PM, BigJay79 said:

Congratulations from one Hoosier to another!!

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Awesome! I'm in southern Indiana but having surgery in Louisville. Good luck!

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I noticed there are a lot of us having surgery in Dec 15th. It’s almost here!! Is anyone else excited and nervous but especially nervous?! Lol

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December 22 - started 2 week pre-op diet today :-)

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Surgery is on Dec. 15, really getting nervous now.....Going out on the weekend has always been my wife's and I big social event. Meeting up with friends and having a multi-hour eat and drink fest ... Things are gonna be changing around here, unsure as how to resolve all of it at the moment..

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On 12/09/2020 at 10:32, Mrb1807 said:



Surgery is on Dec. 15, really getting nervous now.....Going out on the weekend has always been my wife's and I big social event. Meeting up with friends and having a multi-hour eat and drink fest ... Things are gonna be changing around here, unsure as how to resolve all of it at the moment..


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As I mentioned before my date is the 14th. How is everyone else around that time doing with their pre-op diet? I’ve been doing great from the aspect of getting my 3 Protein Shakes in a day with the option of a 4th. Don’t usually do it cause the vanilla is so freakin nasty. Plus I can eat up to 4 servings of veggies a day. But man the whey Protein and salad are not great on my stomach. I find that I am hungry but can resist all the food even though there are five kids whom my wife has to cook for and she is a good cook as noted by my waste line. I feel less hungry pains but more mental. In my head I think, I am hungry and I just want to get something to eat so I’m not. I’m not really tempted to eat the food, I just miss eating an actual meal or actual food.

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I also finished up all my tests today. Covid EKG and blood work. So when everything come back good I’ll be set for the 5 days from now.

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Nothing guaranteed until we hear from my insurance, which was submitted yesterday. I might not know for up to 7-10 business days. So with that in mind, I’m starting my liquid diet on the 14th (Monday) in case I’m having surgery as soon as the 28th (it might be the 30th)!

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My surgery date is December 28th.... My surgeon had me start the preop diet on December 5th. He put me on a 3 Protein Shake diet a day..... Water between each shake... no other food. It was tough the first 3 days... but Im on day 5... and cant believe Ive gone that long with no "food" . My preop will be a little over 3 weeks whereas everyone else Im seeing only has a 2 week.

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I had my revision surgery yesterday morning (sleeve to bypass). I feel great when I’m not moving. Going from a seated position to standing (and vice versa) is painful. I at my first solid food today- salmon mushed up with a fork. So far so good.

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On 12/09/2020 at 20:36, CJ78 said:



My surgery date is December 28th.... My surgeon had me start the preop diet on December 5th. He put me on a 3 Protein Shake diet a day..... Water between each shake... no other food. It was tough the first 3 days... but Im on day 5... and cant believe Ive gone that long with no "food" . My preop will be a little over 3 weeks whereas everyone else Im seeing only has a 2 week.


I’m on day 7 now. I know I can do it and I’d be able to do the three weeks of I needed. But I fell asleep on my bed this afternoon and went downstairs when I woke up. The kids had left some goldfish out and being hungry I almost mindlessly picked them up to eat them. Would have been so pissed if I had.

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The pre op diet is so hard! My surgeon has us use his products (which is dumb IMO) but nonetheless. Some of it isn’t horrible, and gives you something to chew. Albeit, chewing for thirty minutes on one bite of rubber but ya know. 🤣🤣.

Otherwise it’s just been Protein shakes/popsicles/SF Jello.

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40 minutes ago, RTL1234 said:

The pre op diet is so hard! My surgeon has us use his products (which is dumb IMO) but nonetheless. Some of it isn’t horrible, and gives you something to chew. Albeit, chewing for thirty minutes on one bite of rubber but ya know. 🤣🤣.

Otherwise it’s just been Protein shakes/popsicles/SF Jello.

I would even be ok with popsicles and SF Jello... but my surgeon stated nothing but 3 Protein Shakes and Water in between for me.

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I had gastric bypass surgery dec 7. Was discharged from hospital and on the way home started vomiting blood. I was then rushed back to the ER for them to find a pretty large blood clot in my intestines. Dr did a endoscopy and pulled the clot out. Now I feel 100x better.

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