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Content1    0

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Hi there - I also have a gastric sleeve on September 12. Our stats seem very close. I'm getting nervous!!!

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waterchick    35

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Sleeve scheduled 9/27

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Anomalia    4

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Sleeve on September 6th

Getting organized is the hard part for me right now. Post-op supplies are taking over my kitchen!

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LandofHopeandDreams    26

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17 hours ago, Anomalia said:

Sleeve on September 6th

Getting organized is the hard part for me right now. Post-op supplies are taking over my kitchen!

HAHAHA, Same here, I just got three Amazon packages...

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Krabbie    3

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Getting GB on Sept 22.

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MelBelleB    1

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I'm scheduled for a sleeve on September 7th!

I'm at the point where I have tubs on my dining room table collecting supplies...eek!

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Jeffrey131    6

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On 8/9/2023 at 12:28 PM, ElleRodri said:

Scheduled for a DS on September 11. Counting down the days and running through the gambit of emotions. I didn't come into my surgery prep thinking that I'd be getting a WLS from the surgeon in an effort to fix a failing nissen fundoplication (GERD surgery, 2005). He just told me at the first appointment that it was my only real viable option for a repair and return to somewhat normal function.

I'm eating reasonably now, I just have to remember to eat Breakfast, which I usually don't but I've been trying to divide up my calories more thru the day instead of them all at the end of the day. I usually don't eat during work hours. Making sure I'm drinking plenty of no-calorie fluids and my care team recommends liquid IV, so I've been making sure to drink at least one a day, although when I start my 2-week pre-op diet it'll go up to two each day.

I think I'm ready, not 100%, still scared witless that I'm going to regret it but at the same time I know I can do this and that this is going to be my best shot at being able to enjoy life again.

I'm having a Gastric Sleeve on the 11th, as well! I feel you about being a little nervous. It kind of depends on the day and whether or not I think about everything ese I need to get done before I can't do anything except sit on my butt for a while. Oddly, or maybe not, I'm now thinking of what I want to eat before I have to start the liquid pre-surgery diet.

It sounds like we have some similarities in the changes we have had to make. Remembering to eat Breakfast and not eating my largest meal at the end of the day. That's part of how I got to be overweight in the first place. Probably the biggest switch for me has been to get away from carbonated beverages!

When do you actually start your preop diet?

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ElleRodri    39

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24 minutes ago, Jeffrey131 said:

I'm having a Gastric Sleeve on the 11th, as well! I feel you about being a little nervous. It kind of depends on the day and whether or not I think about everything ese I need to get done before I can't do anything except sit on my butt for a while. Oddly, or maybe not, I'm now thinking of what I want to eat before I have to start the liquid pre-surgery diet.

It sounds like we have some similarities in the changes we have had to make. Remembering to eat Breakfast and not eating my largest meal at the end of the day. That's part of how I got to be overweight in the first place. Probably the biggest switch for me has been to get away from carbonated beverages!

When do you actually start your preop diet?

I start my pre-op diet on Monday of next week. So we've been trying to make all my favorite meals and go to my favorite places because they just won't be happening again for a long while. Kinda like a last hurrah. My husband is sad that I won't be "a happy fat kid" with him anymore but is looking forward to eating all my leftovers.

My biggest switch has been going from drinking my calories (country time lemonade all day every day, like a gallon of the sweet stuff every day just about) and going to the packets and squirty bottles of sugar-free. I've found it really easy to keep a little variety in my purse and I carry around a big water bottle everywhere now that I didn't before. I'm still struggling with the "no straw" and 30-minute rule of spacing things out. I'm afraid that is gonna be a lesson I learn the hard way.

I just don't know how else I can really prepare. I bought a binder and some high-cut undies because I know I'm going to want slight compression for the ride home from the hospital as it's 6 hours from home. I've bought Proteins of several types to try as we move forward. I'm afraid of failing. I'm afraid I'm going to make myself sicker than I've been over the last year and regret it. And I know this is supposed to be the gold standard fix for a failing nissen but it still scares me. The surgery itself is no big deal, I don't need to worry about that since all I gotta do that day is "take a nap" while the doctors do all the complicated stuff, hahaha. It's how bad am I going to mess myself up afterwards and how long will it take my husband to get me to turn back into "a happy fat kid".

My husband is supportive but he's also an enabler and is afraid to tell me no even when I ask him to. And I get it because I can be a real horses patoot at times. Also, there's the thing of physical attraction as well. My husband is very much enamored with "curvy girls"... like he's never dated anyone smaller than me, so I'm petrified that as I lose weight he's going to lose interest between curves getting smaller and skin getting loose, I'm paranoid. One of the things I'm working on with my therapist but still weighing heavily on my mind. I just worry because I am admittedly very co-dependent on him.

But life will be what it is and I'll deal with things as they actually come to fruition because I'm a terrible overthinker otherwise...

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ElleRodri    39

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13 hours ago, BlueNoseTuna said:

Hey all! Would it be cheating to consider myself a September surgery if it’s scheduled for 8/31 🫣

The more the merrier I say! We need all the support we can get :)

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      Iʻm roughly 6 weeks post-op this morning and have begun to feel like a normal human, with a normal human body again. I started introducing solid foods and pill forms of medications/supplements a couple of weeks ago and it's really amazing to eat meals with my family again, despite the fact that my portions are so much smaller than theirs. 
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    • BeanitoDiego

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      Oh yeah, something I wanted to rant about, a billing dispute that cropped up 3 months ago.
      Surgery was in August of 2023. A bill shows up for over $7,000 in January. WTF? I asks myself. I know that I jumped through all of the insurance hoops and verified this and triple checked that, as did the surgeon's office. All was set, and I paid all of the known costs before surgery.
      A looong story short, is that an assistant surgeon that was in the process of accepting money from my insurance company touched me while I was under anesthesia. That is what the bill was for. But hey, guess what? Some federal legislation was enacted last year to help patients out when they cannot consent to being touched by someone out of their insurance network. These types of bills fall under something called, "surprise billing," and you don't have to put up with it.
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      Quick ending is that I don't have to pay that $7,000+. Advocate, advocate, advocate for yourself no matter how long it takes and learn more about this law if you are ever hit with a surprise bill.
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    • BeanitoDiego

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      Some days I feel like an infiltrator... I'm participating in society as a "thin" person. They have no idea that I haven't always been one of them! 🤣
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    • ChunkCat

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      Thank you everyone for your well wishes! I totally forgot I wrote an update here... I'm one week post op today. I gained 15 lbs in water weight overnight because they had to give me tons of fluids to bring my BP up after surgery! I stayed one night in the hospital. Everything has been fine except I seem to have picked up a bug while I was there and I've been running a low grade fever, coughing, and a sore throat. So I've been hydrating well and sleeping a ton. So far the Covid tests are negative.
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    • BeanitoDiego

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      Still purging all of the larger clothing. This morning, a shirt that I ADORED wearing ended up on top. Hard to let it go, but it was also hard to let go of those habits that also no longer serve my highest good. Onward and upward!
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