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8 minutes ago, Dastodd2424 said:

I’m like - I can not beleive I did this—- why did I do this to still be hungry!

I totally understand, my surgery was on the 13th of June and I too could not understand why I was so hungry. I'm more hungrierthan I have ever been in my life, but it will eventually go away as you are able to eat food, I still growl, I just wanna feel normal again.

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I am home from the hospital yeah. I’m sore but I am walking

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I’m new to posting, but I’ve been lurking for a while. I had my sleeve surgery on the 26th. Surgeon said it was a simple procedure with no complications. Liver looked good, no hernia needing repair. I had horrible luck with my IVs (both were infiltrated), my anxiety and BP were pretty high and I ended up with bad muscle spasms in my back and neck, but I’m a week out and feeling mostly normal. I’ve lost 12lbs and I seem to be tolerating everything okay (knock on wood).

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Congratulations that is great, I'm coming along I also had the sleeve and lost 13 pounds as well can't wait to see more come off.

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I was hoping everybody was ok. Haven’t heard from anybody in awhile. I’m now eating salmon, grilled nuggets from Chick-fil-A and shaved turkey. I was kind of fatigued for a few days but I upped my liquid intake and really started taking those 4 Vitamins and it’s made a difference. Hope everybody is still hanging in there. We got this y’all, we did this as I’m assuming last resort now let’s make sure we make it count. Keep it up everybody. I’m sure it will get easier and easier just hang in there.

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Yeah today was the first time I literally woke up without having a headache it was scaring me I ended up at the emergency room again because my head just wouldn't stop hurting so today was the first time I just upped my food a little bit more in trying to put in a little bit more liquid and today was the first time I woke up without a headache.

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@Carla Ogwin that’s good to hear. I was getting alittle nervous myself. But we’re learning I just wish the learning phase would hurry up lol.

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Ikr. I'm over people telling me to be patient lol but it's all good it took a while for this Weight to get on here and it's gonna take time to get off

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Exactly but we got this.

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I had my first post-op appointment yesterday. My surgeon told me to just keep following the stages on the handout and scheduled my next appointment for three weeks from now.

He told me to go ahead and start eating eggs and other foods that I could smash with a fork (that was kinda broad, but I know what he meant, lol) when y'all make your eggs, do you add anything extra to them to make them softer? Usually when I make a scrambled egg, I'll use butter and heavy cream to get them fluffy, but I know that neither are a go right now.

Y'all don't know how appreciative I am to have this group to be able to interact with people that are going through the same things I am.

Thanks for your help!

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On 7/3/2023 at 12:53 PM, sleevedinthe817 said:

I’m new to posting, but I’ve been lurking for a while. I had my sleeve surgery on the 26th. Surgeon said it was a simple procedure with no complications. Liver looked good, no hernia needing repair. I had horrible luck with my IVs (both were infiltrated), my anxiety and BP were pretty high and I ended up with bad muscle spasms in my back and neck, but I’m a week out and feeling mostly normal. I’ve lost 12lbs and I seem to be tolerating everything okay (knock on wood).

Glad to see another Texan here that had the surgery around the same time that I did! I also lost around 12lbs after the surgery, I'm assuming that it's normal?

Glad everything went smooth for you.

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40 minutes ago, TRClark23 said:

I had my first post-op appointment yesterday. My surgeon told me to just keep following the stages on the handout and scheduled my next appointment for three weeks from now.

He told me to go ahead and start eating eggs and other foods that I could smash with a fork (that was kinda broad, but I know what he meant, lol) when y'all make your eggs, do you add anything extra to them to make them softer? Usually when I make a scrambled egg, I'll use butter and heavy cream to get them fluffy, but I know that neither are a go right now.

Y'all don't know how appreciative I am to have this group to be able to interact with people that are going through the same things I am.

Thanks for your help!

I use whole milk cottage cheese in my eggs & shredded cheese. I cook it right with the eggs. I had VSG June 1st & I can still only eat about half an egg

(Before anyone comes at me for using WHOLE milk dairy, I've been okay'd to do so because my body tolerates it & I'd rather have real fat then fake forever chemicals in my body from the low flat crap, it's my health journey, feel free to do as you please with yours.)

I also like adding Avocado to my eggs & I eat cottage cheese & Avocado with salt & pepper every single day. It's my lunch & I love it. So yummy! You can also mix cottage cheese with canned fruit (no skins) I love Peaches. Very delicious 😋

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On 6/29/2023 at 8:25 AM, Carla Ogwin said:

I totally understand, my surgery was on the 13th of June and I too could not understand why I was so hungry. I'm more hungrierthan I have ever been in my life, but it will eventually go away as you are able to eat food, I still growl, I just wanna feel normal again.

I was soooo hungry 2 wk PO! I couldn't understand & was very disheartening.. I had buyers remorse, but it faded in a week or 2. I am 5 weeks PO now, down 32 lbs & have to force myself to eat & drink. My appetite is usually sleeping but wakes up around dinner I will get a hankering for a type of food, lately has been steamed veggies & chicken. Yuuum!

It will get easier, day by day, stay positive, stay thankful for this tool & make small goals that lead to the larger ones! Best of wishes

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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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

        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.

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

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