JaspersGirl

oh my! glad I am not the only one then. I have a birthday party to go to this weekend. I am very close to these people and I know during dinner I will forget. I will have to have my husband or daughter nudge me or kick me under the table if they see me over eating again, lol.

wow, 5wks and you still can't eat. I am 21days post op and I can't eat anything. After a couple of small tiny itsy bitsy bites I get super full. I am worried when I return to work I won't have energy because I can't eat. I work in direct patient care and run around all day sweating.

I am itchy too where the other strips fell off, I am slightly allergic to latex, I hate that itch, sometimes I forget not to itch so hard, lol

I go to a WLS support group in my area and there are people there who said they sell Grapefruit juice type of Protein drinks at Trader Joe's. I want to go look for some, I hate the shakes! Before surgery I loved chocolate, I was a addict when it came to chocolate. Now the smell of it makes me gag! I purchased a huge chocolate Protein powder jug. Now I can barely drink it!!!! Just letting you know, hopefully you have a Trader Joe's by you so you can try the drink.

my doc said let them fall off on their own, the stitches desolve and the strip will fall off. I am 21days post op, and I had 2 (the bigger ones) still on, I pulled one of them in the shower, and I bled! I said damn, I will let the other one fall off by itself instead. I guess everyone is different?

OMG!!!! I just post a new topic asking the same thing!!!!! I am 21days post op, this weekend I went to a party and had something I shouldn't have had (I tend to forget I was sleeved when I am talking and hanging out with people) I have had this pinchy feeling as well, I too am freaking because it's been 2days and I get that pinchy feeling every few hours! I am glad to know if it's a leak then we would have a fever, I thought I ripped my incision and I am leaking, lol. That is what I get for eating like a fatty, well it was just one bite of a tostada, the bite was like a mouse size bite. Please keep me posted, hopefully your pinch pain feeling goes away soon!!!

Since Sunday morning I woke up with a pulsating pinch pain around my tummy sides area. Sometimes I feel it on my left back side. I am not sure if it's because maybe I slept wrong. I woke up on my side with top part of my body twisted (yes I am a crazy wild sleeper), or was it because I was at a birthday party on Saturday night and had a bite of a tostada? Not sure if it's stuck somewhere, or did I pinch a nerve in my sleep? Has anyone felt this before? The pains come and go every few hours.

I worry about my hair as well!!! My hair was thinning before surgery, so I am afraid it will get worse. I hope not!

that reminds me, lol. This weekend at my friend's bday party, her sister is a baker in a some fancy bakery and makes the bestestestest cakes. I knew I couldn't have cake, so I licked the ribbon the cake had as a decoration, lol My daughter looked at me so shocked and said mommy you are going to get sick. I said no, sleeved people don't dump and winked.. I am bad!

I am 21days post op and can't even finish 1ounce of food! (unless it's just broth) I get full but not satisfied I hate that part, but 1 time I did continue to eat my chili and boy did it hurt! It was an hour of pain!! I ate 2oz of chili beans. Never again. So now if I have to get up and leave my family alone at dinner, well then I get up and they understand.

I had a constipation problem!!!! I take 1oz of prune juice a day, it works. Yesterday I took 2, I was in pain, but it worked

Hi!!! Happy same sleeve day to you! lol, I don't exercise, I plan to maybe in a week or so, just the treadmill for now. To answer your typical eating day.... sigh.. I can't eat much!! I will give you an example of what I ate today so far. I woke up and around 8am had 2 oz of double Protein shake, I was turbo full. For lunch, at 12pm I had 1/4 of a poached egg, I can't fit anything else around 1pm I had 6oz of Sobee 0Calorie fiji apple/pear Water thing. Right now I am mega stuffed, for dinner I will have maybe 2oz of chicken broth. When I do have pureed or mushie food, I get stuffed very easy, maybe even 2 small fork tip bites of food. This weekend I went to my friend's birthday party, I was told to bring a dish (it was a surprise party so we all took something to make a buffet) I made a high protein bean salad. So my hubby and I ate in the corner alone just so I won't have people asking me questions or making faces to see how little I can eat. My brother ended up joining us in the corner and he had a tostada.... well as we were eating, talking and laughing, I grabbed a piece of his tostada and ate it!!!!!! I don't know if that is why I have a deep pulsating pinch feeling since then. I hope it passes, I feel so stupid for doing that. I hope I didn't do damage. urgh! I need to not forget I was sleeved!

I am on mushie foods as well, I am16days post op, I can only eat 2-3 little fork fulls of food as well. Sometimes I just have broth with a noodle or something, lol. It goes down way better and I don't get that yucky feeling that is going to come back up your throat. My doc said that is the sign that you prob ate to fast or over ate.... 2-3 little fork full size? Can't wait to start eating normal, I worry myself that I am not getting enough... oh wait... I forgot to take my Flinestone vitamins today!!! it's 10:18pm where I am... brb gotta eat Fred Flinestone!

excited for you!!!!!!!! good luck

Hi everyone! I am new here, hopefully I am posting correctly. I had the sleeve surgery done on March 1, 2011. I just wanted to introduce myself to everyone, can't wait to get to know everyone and chat! I have so many questions, I don't know where to begin! I am going to read up on what I can and learn more about everyone's story before I begin to ask and bore everyone . so glad I found this website!!! oh... before surgery I was 237lbs now I am at 217lbs woohoo!!!

just got sleeved and oh how I wish I knew someone who got sleeved!!!! It's tough doing this alone, don't get me wrong my family supports me, but I need a buddy

I will look into getting this book, I am lost on how to cool or what to cook now that I am sleeved.

I just started on mushies and did the guacamole thing, it went down fine, I was only able to have like 2 tspsoonfuls with 1/2 a cracker. it was yummy

I purchased a few jars of baby food (chicken and turkey) super gross!!! So now I just over cook my soups and it becomes all mushie for me.

I was like you, for about a week that is all I was able to sleep 3hrs a night!!!! Few naps during the days but the naps would be approx an hr long or less. Now I sleep from 10pm-10:30am (taking advantage of my medical leave! lol)

hi, Sorry to hear about your nausea, I was sleeved on 3/1 but didn't get that. I did do the spit thing, I was spitting every minute for the first week, I don't know why, I just needed to spit!!!! Then it stopped, all I did for the 1st week was broths and popsicles, I went through 3 boxes of popsicles the 1st week, but doctor said it's fine and that was prob helping me keep hydrated, I couldn't tolerate water, it just caused me to gag. I use to drink alot of water before my surgery, now I can't

lol, I am one of those, I lost 20lbs in less than 2 weeks, I haven't lost anything in days.. I was so bummed and lost hope! Now I feel silly. thanx for the encouragement

Hi, the gas ugly feeling stayed with me for about a week! The worst gas pain days were the 3rd day for some reason, I had to call my doctor and he told me to try prune juice. don't do it without your doctor's permission, everyone is different. It did help alot!!! The day after wasn't as gassy painful. Those hunger pains... i get them, but I don't think they are really hunger pains, supposedly we have the hunger hormone taken out. Maybe it's gas or acid reflux? oh and with time you will be able to meet your water and protein, it took me a week and a half. Sounds like you are doing good

glad your gas is less, that was the most painful thing I endured.. dumb gas! It went away in the first week. I had my surgery 2wks ago and still could only eat soup, with a little bit of mushy foods. I get stuffed if I just eat the mushy alone in 1 bite, and when I say bite, I mean smaller than your pinky finger nail. It's not much, so I just make sure I keep doing my Protein shakes. Hopefully by next week I can eat a little more.

I didn't have complications, I stayed 3 but that was doctor's protocol. He said because if there is any leakage or anything like that it would happen with in the first 3days and they rather have me be in the hosp where they can get me in O.R stat. He is great. Dr Nagles in Northwestern Memorial Hosp in Chicago, IL