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???

3 hours ago, Slwhurst said:

Day 3 of the liquid diet and headache from lack of sugar and caffeine are kicking my tail. To top it off they said no pain relievers… How have y’all made it past this?

Check with your team. They should allow you to take tylenol. It's NSAIDS they don't want you taking.

Can't help with the rest, I went low carb and quit caffeine a while ago.

On 09/02/2022 at 16:49, SpartanMaker said:

Check with your team. They should allow you to take tylenol. It's NSAIDS they don't want you taking.

Can't help with the rest, I went low carb and quit caffeine a while ago.

The only caffeine I am really used to is a cup of green tea in the morning. I am leaning towards it being more the lack of sugar.

1 minute ago, Slwhurst said:

The only caffeine I am really used to is a cup of green tea in the morning. I am leaning towards it being more the lack of sugar.

Could be. "Keto Flu" is pretty common when people start eliminating carbs.

On 09/02/2022 at 17:10, SpartanMaker said:

Could be. "Keto Flu" is pretty common when people start eliminating carbs.

And how do we get past this? How long does it last? It doesn’t sound fun…

Just now, Slwhurst said:

And how do we get past this? How long does it last? It doesn’t sound fun…

For most people, it tends to go away after 3-4 days, once your body converts from burning glucose to burning ketones.

COVID! 6 days into my 2 week liquid diet!! I have never been so pissed in my life! Surgery bumped to October 3…

4 hours ago, MiamiJoe said:

Hello everyone! My VSG is 09/24!! Super excited

Welcome!

3 hours ago, tx2az said:

Had my VSG yesterday. Came home today. No nausea, no pain (of course that may pop up) lol

Now on to the Stage one for 14 days. - broth, and Premiere Protein Shakes, SF 1 popsicle . 1 SF Jello.

I'm so glad to hear everything went so well! Hope things continue to go that way and that the next 14 days go fast and easy for you too.

2 hours ago, Yearofme43 said:

Hell9 all new to the group, scheduled surgery is September 15,the initially wanted the sleeve, but I've been having issues with Gerd so decided to switch to bypass, just started2 week post-op diet ,its hard 2 protien shakes a day and 3 oz protien, meat, salads, ect and snack if i get hungry which i do uugh but i got this i can do it

Welcome! Good luck on the diet, I start mine on monday and I'm also having the bypass.

2 hours ago, loli_lotus said:

I'm off my birth control for surgery, and guess what decided to show up today. Before BC, I'd have a very long, heavy, and painful period, hopefully that won't happen again. Surgery is Tuesday.

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I'm sorry you have to deal with that on top of surgery as well! My periods have become irregular as I have gotten older, so you are now living my fear.

1 hour ago, Slwhurst said:

And how do we get past this? How long does it last? It doesn’t sound fun…

With caffeine I had a headache for 3 days when I gave it up, with my keto diets in the past I never got headaches but I heard the keto flu is common and ranges in duration. Whatever it is though, I hope it passes soon. The diet is bad enough without adding pain to the mix.

49 minutes ago, MANDY2910 said:

COVID! 6 days into my 2 week liquid diet!! I have never been so pissed in my life! Surgery bumped to October 3…

Oh no!! I'm so sorry! That really is horrible to get that close and have to start over. Hugs!

On 8/24/2022 at 5:35 PM, diamond65337 said:

Hi, I am from Olathe KS. My surgery date is 9/19.

That's awesome! We should talk after our surgeries to help each other out

Preop appointment today and my blood pressure was 160/110:(. It’s never that high! I was running late, stressing about work and they had me run across the entire hospital so I know at least some of it was from that. But now they’re saying if it’s that high on surgery date they might cancel. So now it’s probably going to be even higher because I am freaking out!

Hey September buddies! You guys will do great! I got a Sleeve to Bypass conversion on August 29th. I was super stressed out about the 2 week liquid diet but it went by super fast after the 4th day. The 4th day was the worse hunger pain.

2 hours ago, Cassandra Maughan said:

Preop appointment today and my blood pressure was 160/110:(. It’s never that high! I was running late, stressing about work and they had me run across the entire hospital so I know at least some of it was from that. But now they’re saying if it’s that high on surgery date they might cancel. So now it’s probably going to be even higher because I am freaking out!

Maybe you can explain to them that you get nervous and to check it a second time? I've gotten high blood pressure reads twice in my life and both were from running late and stressing about it, both times they let me do it again after maybe 5 minutes and everything was normal.

9 hours ago, loli_lotus said:

Maybe you can explain to them that you get nervous and to check it a second time? I've gotten high blood pressure reads twice in my life and both were from running late and stressing about it, both times they let me do it again after maybe 5 minutes and everything was normal.

I agree. My husband has that “white coat syndrome” where something about dr’s offices makes his BP go up. They have it in his file and they know exactly what to do. They will wait a while and get you to relax for him it’s hanging with the nurses or whatever and it will go back down to normal. I wouldn’t worry about it for a moment. If it’s up just tell them you are stressed and ask them to wait a while and check it again and it will be fine.

On 09/03/2022 at 08:54, ShoppGirl said:

I agree. My husband has that “white coat syndrome” where something about dr’s offices makes his BP go up. They have it in his file and they know exactly what to do. They will wait a while and get you to relax for him it’s hanging with the nurses or whatever and it will go back down to normal. I wouldn’t worry about it for a moment. If it’s up just tell them you are stressed and ask them to wait a while and check it again and it will be fine.

Unfortunately they did check it about 5 times, it kept coming down but not where they wanted it to be:(. It didn’t help that they were using the automated machine that squeezes so tight it bruises your arm.

11 minutes ago, Cassandra Maughan said:

Unfortunately they did check it about 5 times, it kept coming down but not where they wanted it to be:(. It didn’t help that they were using the automated machine that squeezes so tight it bruises your arm.

Hummm. Have you checked it since? Maybe you actually do have slightly elevated pressure that just began recently. It does just sort of come on one day. If so, they will most likely tell you how to alter your diet to try to bring it down on your own or start you on a low dose of BP meds which you hopefully won’t need in a few months cause you will be eating great and losing weight which often brings it down. It’s not always weight related though. It can be genetic. My husband hates the taste of salt and is tiny and he and his whole family has high BP. How long do you have before your surgery? Can you get in to see someone (family dr or even NP at surgeons office). I think the pills start to work almost instantly because he can feel somehow when he forgets his and feels better shortly after he takes it. If you have a little time I would get a cuff at Walmart or just go frequently and use theirs for free to test and see if it is running a little higher than the past first but I’m not sure if your already doing pre op how much time you have to figure it out. The manual cuff are fairly inexpensive If you know how to read them (not sure how easy that would be to do on yourself though). The machine ones were like $20-30 If I remember correctly. The ideal way to go about it would be to make appt with family dr and get a cuff and notebook and start logging it several times a day for like a week. Your BP, what you were doing before and maybe even what you ate. Then take that with you to dr along with what your BP was that day and go from there.