Hi guys I am new here and looking for September surgery buddies!! Mine is scheduled for the 12th! I am so excited! Who’s with me???

On 8/17/2022 at 5:03 AM, Daniyogurt said:

Me!! I’m the 9th!

How you doing Twin???

2 hours ago, Slwhurst said:

Ok guys it is super real now! Just paid my last payment and filled all my goals in on my wellness journal and start the pre op diet tomorrow! All my pre op testing is completed as well!!!!

Yay!! I hope the pre-op diet goes well. Hopefully the time will pass quickly and the 12th will be here before you know it.

I keep hearing you guys having pre op appointments and testing. I don't have any of that. They will just call me the day before the surgery to tell me what time it will be at. They gave me special sponges to wash with the night before and again the morning of but that is it. No blood tests, no covid tests, nothing. They don't even check up on me and remind me to do the 2 week liquid diet even though my last appointment at the surgeons office was in early june. Even more differences in protocols I guess lol.

My surgery is September 12th… So excited for this journey with m6 September surgery buddies

On 08/30/2022 at 18:19, Giovanna628 said:

My surgery is September 12th… So excited for this journey with m6 September surgery buddies

Have you already started your pre op diet? Mine starts tomorrow!

2 hours ago, Hope4NewMe said:

Yay!! I hope the pre-op diet goes well. Hopefully the time will pass quickly and the 12th will be here before you know it.

I keep hearing you guys having pre op appointments and testing. I don't have any of that. They will just call me the day before the surgery to tell me what time it will be at. They gave me special sponges to wash with the night before and again the morning of but that is it. No blood tests, no covid tests, nothing. They don't even check up on me and remind me to do the 2 week liquid diet even though my last appointment at the surgeons office was in early june. Even more differences in protocols I guess lol.

The differences are so interesting to me! My program seems pretty hands off as well, but they did have me do a swallow test, chest x-ray, blood work, and an ekg. They'll call me at the end of the week for my covid test. I didn't get sponges but was sent a bottle of antimicrobial soap for the night before and day of. They'll also call me the day before for a check in time.

58 minutes ago, loli_lotus said:

The differences are so interesting to me! My program seems pretty hands off as well, but they did have me do a swallow test, chest x-ray, blood work, and an ekg. They'll call me at the end of the week for my covid test. I didn't get sponges but was sent a bottle of antimicrobial soap for the night before and day of. They'll also call me the day before for a check in time.

So far, I did 6 nutritionist visits, a psych visit, multiple rounds of blood work, an EKG, an echocardiogram, a swallow test, an EGD, and needed clearance from 3 other specialists. I'm probably forgetting something at this point.

Thursday, I have a pre-anesthesia screening test, have to weigh in, and will have a 1-2 hour long physical/consultation with my surgeon. Friday, I'll have a 3-4 hour long class with one of the nutritionists. I assume this will be to cover the pre-op and post op-diet in detail.

It's a lot, but I'm kind of glad there are so many steps. It's given me time to prepare mentally.

If y'all have never done a dexa scan, I highly recommend them! I got my first dexa scan in May, with the scan showing my total mass at 216.9lbs, my fat mass 99.2lbs, lean mass 111.5, my visceral fat 3.10lbs, and my body fat 45.8%. Yesterday I got a new scan, and I weigh more at 217.2lbs but my fat mass went down to 92.4, lean went up to 118.9lbs, my visceral went down to 2.31lbs, and my body fat is now at 42.5%.

The tech that performed the scan was like "the scale is a liar, you're doing great!!" Which was really nice to hear, I'll definitely be getting a scan done every few months to see more than what the scale can tell me.

1 hour ago, SpartanMaker said:

So far, I did 6 nutritionist visits, a psych visit, multiple rounds of blood work, an EKG, an echocardiogram, a swallow test, an EGD, and needed clearance from 3 other specialists. I'm probably forgetting something at this point.

Thursday, I have a pre-anesthesia screening test, have to weigh in, and will have a 1-2 hour long physical/consultation with my surgeon. Friday, I'll have a 3-4 hour long class with one of the nutritionists. I assume this will be to cover the pre-op and post op-diet in detail.

It's a lot, but I'm kind of glad there are so many steps. It's given me time to prepare mentally.

Oh yeah I did have a psych eval and a nutrition class, but that was part of pre-approval. It was recommended that I go to a support group / class run by nutritionist, but the zoom times are all when I'm at work, and they said it wasn't mandatory. I did have a last consult with my surgeon, but it was the same thing I've heard a million times and I didn't have any questions because I've done so much research, then he just kind of pressed on my stomach and was like "yeah you're good"

On 7/27/2022 at 4:59 PM, Slwhurst said:

Hi guys I am new here and looking for September surgery buddies!! Mine is scheduled for the 12th! I am so excited! Who’s with me???

My surgery is scheduled for the 12th also! So excited !! Day 3 of my pre-op liquid diet. So far so good.

11 hours ago, Slwhurst said:

Have you already started your pre op diet? Mine starts tomorrow!

Hey buddy! Yes I started the pre op liquid diet on Monday….on day 3… so far so good. How are you doing on it?

Day one of my pre op liquid diet today… I did find out I can maintain a clear liquid diet along with the shakes.

2 minutes ago, Slwhurst said:

Day one of my pre op liquid diet today… I did find out I can maintain a clear liquid diet along with the shakes.< /p>

I’m on liquid, but I can have creamy soups. I made tomato soup with tomatoes from my garden and zucchini basil soup from my garden. I used a emulsifier to cream and liquify the soup…..so delicious.

On 08/31/2022 at 07:19, Giovanna628 said:

I’m on liquid, but I can have creamy Soups. I made Tomato Soup with tomatoes from my garden and zucchini basil Soup from my garden. I used a emulsifier to cream and liquify the soup…..so delicious.

That sounds delicious and I wish my doctor would allow such. Sadly it is clear liquid only and meal replacement shakes for me for 11 days

13 hours ago, SpartanMaker said:

So far, I did 6 nutritionist visits, a psych visit, multiple rounds of blood work, an EKG, an echocardiogram, a swallow test, an EGD, and needed clearance from 3 other specialists. I'm probably forgetting something at this point.

Thursday, I have a pre-anesthesia screening test, have to weigh in, and will have a 1-2 hour long physical/consultation with my surgeon. Friday, I'll have a 3-4 hour long class with one of the nutritionists. I assume this will be to cover the pre-op and post op-diet in detail.

It's a lot, but I'm kind of glad there are so many steps. It's given me time to prepare mentally.

I did have to have the EGD, EKG, and psych clearance before they would approve me and then after approval I had dietitian classes and exercise classes to tell me about what they want me to eat and how much exercise to do but I only met with the surgeon for less than 15 min and all he basically did was ask which surgery I wanted and that was it. All of that took from jan to june to get done because everyone was so over booked. After early june though, I won't see anyone again until the day of the surgery. I'm sure it will all work out but I would have preferred to have a longer visit with my Dr just to feel less like a number and more like a person but honestly I didn't have any questions and since I passed all my tests then I'm healthy enough and that's all that really matters.