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Gastric Sleeve Experts... Please Chime In!
pataroony replied to lillita's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Hi There: I went back to work after 2 weeks...I was feeling quite lethargic but didn't fight it...I missed my coffee but had to accept I wasn't super energetic...GET ENOUGH PROTEIN and eat/drink regularly...have 3 oz sips of protein shake every hour. It's weird when everyone around you seems to be eating or talking about eating...distract yourself - read inspirational stories...once you're a ways along, you will be eating normal foods but in very small quantities and no one will notice and you'll feel great...and get enough sleep. -
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Gastric Sleeve Experts... Please Chime In!
pataroony replied to lillita's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Hi There: I was sleeved in October, 2011. It was right before Thanksgiving (in Canada) and I was cranky as hell. I was doing okay but then got teary at feeling so excluded from the feasting. My general irritability was a good indication of how much I was using food to sooth crankiness, boredom, anger....etc. I had to keep busy, relaxed, get lots of sleep, and just suck it up sometimes. There were times when I'd eat too much and up the food would come. I also got big into thrift store shopping...a bit of an addiction situation. You need to watch out for that. All in all, you'll tough it out and gradually, the moodiness will not faze you as much...becomes normal. Practice saying 'no' to yourself and quickly distract yourself with something else to do. It definitely gets better. The weight loss didn't seem as fast as I expected so I stopped weighing myself, stopped 'dieting', and 'got on with my life'. If you focus too much on weight loss and food, you will naturally think about it all the time. I am a year and a half post and weight a little more than 100 lbs. less. I no longer obsess and think much about weight (I'm 145lbs. 5'3") and go about my day. I have the odd cookie, occasionally eat too much popcorn etc. but don't let it get me down. -
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Hiya: I can sooo relate...I started off just using thrift stores to save money as I was losing weight so quickly. Now I am losing more slowly (158 lbs. from top 249lbs) and I am so pumped with being able to buy smalls that I keep going back and spending a few hundred every couple of months...now starting to sneek clothes into the house. I have also started buying shoes like crazy because my feet are smaller and slimmer...I am having fun, though but husband and teen girls are scolding me constantly and I feel guilty. I cannot fit another thing into my closet (probably two 5 feet lengths of rail). I guess it would be worse if I switched to drinking or gambling..lol.
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Now a consistent 197 lbs., down 20 from 4 weeks ago. I struggle with remembering to drink enough water so that is my goal today. Starting to eat 'food'...
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Hi. Nice to see someone who lives close by...I am so excited to get this done...11 more days...doing the pre-op diet..3rd day and I'm doing ok so far.. Very excited to see you are doing really good..I can't wait to break that 200 mark too..
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well, the 199 almost flipped over to 198...I'm being patient with this so called stall...feel really good
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Day 4 - Post Op - getting harder, not easier
pataroony replied to Sleevie WonderLand's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Hi all: I had the painful incision site at the end of my second week...thought it was an incisional hernia and freeked. I went to emerg and they did an ultrasound and confirmed it was just scar tissue formation. Now at the beginning of my forth week, it's totally fine...from sharp pain getting out of bed to totally fine so hang in there. What seemed to help for a few days is a lower back brace that goes around your middle and supports your abdomen - I wouldn't recommend it for long or your stomach muscles will get weak. Ab exercises aren't supposed to be done until after 6 weeks if I'm not mistaken. Hang in there...it all gets better. I don't take any acid reducer...I wasn't advised directly to and I figure the smaller stomach won't produce enough acid. Honestly, I don't know about this. -
Day 4 - Post Op - getting harder, not easier
pataroony replied to Sleevie WonderLand's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Hiya: I had the anti-nausea patch on and was so dry I couldn't swallow - was told it was the patch so I took it off...kind of a vicious cycle to dehydrate self with patch. Get some other anti-nausea med. -
Gastric Sleeve Experts... Please Chime In!
pataroony replied to lillita's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Hi: I'm 3 weeks post and sometimes I feel a vague hunger sensation but most people tell me I won't feel true hunger for at least a year. So if I'm to believe that, I chalk various sensations up to gas, impending bowel movement (could be hour away), or thirst. Any feelings such as this, I'm usually able to ignore. -
WEll I did it! Broke 200 lbs. Now 199.8lbs. I'm 2.5 weeks post. (total lost about 17 lbs.)
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Hey I noticed you said you were going to Bay Bariatrics. Dr. Tersingni did my band surgery ( not his fault that I had to have it removed)
Anyway, I live in coos Bay so if you ever come here for followup, you should get a hold of me! I am 2 1/2 years post sleeve surgery so if you would like to get together if you ever come back here, just let me know!
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Fear Of Crime And Mexico Gastric Sleeve Surgery
pataroony replied to pataroony's topic in Weight Loss Surgeons & Hospitals
Thanks Everyone. I might have done it in Mexico if not for my husband. I have to go to Coos Bay for follow-ups regularly, which is doable. All that said, there are so many happy people who've done it in Mexico that it can't be that much of a problem...I, myself, probably wouldn't hesitate (gotta keep hubby happy but cost $7K more). -
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Hiya: I had surgery on Oct 3/11. They first start a 'line' in your left hand for administering anesthetic; I also got some sort of antianxiety med through that. Then they wheel you into the operating room. You scoot yourself from the rolling bed onto the operating bed. You won't remember much after that. You wake up in the original room with a bunch of nurses, maybe hubby, looking at you waiting for you to wake up. You're sortof groggy, of course and feel like sleeping...
