Sassygirl06

thank you. i have already lost 7 pounds since my surgery! i can see it in my face the most. i love it! i havent been under 260lbs since 2002. so almost 10 years. i havent been under 220 in 14 years and under 170 in over 17 years, so those are my mini goals till i hit the big one. everytime i hit a milestone im gonna reqard myself with stuff like a new hair style, a pedi, a mani, a massage. i cant wait till i hit the first one which will be hopefully soon. that is when im getten the new hair dew. ttyl

Hello all! Im at San Joaquin community hospital in Bakersfield california. I got sleeved at 5pm today. When I first woke up from surgery I was in a lot of pain. I had a morphine pump, which i pushed but got no relief from. I let them know right away that it was not helping and they gave me phentenol. That helped alot. Since being placed in my actual room the doctor ordered me demerol every 3 hours as well as the morphine pain pump. As long as I stay on top of the meds I feel ok, still tender, soar, but nothing i cant handle. I got up to pee at 645pm, and asked the nurse if I could walk a while since i was already up. They were all for it so I took 4 trips around the hospital until my iv machine started beeping at me to return to the room. The doctor ordered me npo until tomarrow so im extremely thirsty! they wont even give me one of those popsicle spunges to wipe the inside of my mouth with, so i had my daughter go get a paper towel and get it wet so i could wet my mouth with it. love the hospital so much! they have valle parking so you dont have to drive around looking for a spot, and you are not supposed to even tip them so you dont have to pay any money. you just pull up to the front of the hospital, get out, get your ticket and go in to the hospital. when you go in the lady at the front desk gets a leason (not sure if i spelled that right) that escorts you straight to your room where they get you preped for surgery. the only thing i havent liked was that they had to push back my surgery time because of 2 emergency OR visits. but that is perfectly understandable. Anyhow, will keep you all posted on my recovery!

cow country huh? well that is pretty much anywhere around here...lol i was very fortunate to recovery quickly as far a physically, on the outside. but my tummy is still not taking anything at all very well, even Water. i get this horrible pain after swallowing anything. it has been getting a little better with time, i guess i just need to be patient. at least im not hungry anymore.

yes dr naik was the one that did my seminar...super cute. i do like my insicion sites that dr garcia left. there are five of them, 3 are less then 1/2 and inch and 2 are about 3/4 inch. he didnt use stitches just steri strips, and as of right now they look like little scratches. like from a cat. i think they will heal really great. i am definatly gonna write a letter because they were to wonderful to ignor them. they all asked me to come back and show my progress as well. let me know how your surgery goes...but im possitive that it will go wonderfully!!!

welcome to the group! i love this place. its a wealth of knowledge, and chances are if you have a question about something related to the sleeve, about 30 others have an answer to that question. there are some really smart people in here that have been through it all just before you, and are willing to share their experiances just like their mentors did for them.

so true so true! why is it now i get the hicups after eating only a few bites of food and so slowly??

i had my surgery on tuesday and i didnt have a bm until friday (late at night). it was very runny and iserino is right DONT TRUST A FART! lol

you already look amazing!

thank you new day, i will certanly try anything at this point!

this is gonna sound so bad but i agree with smkeller. i love eating, although since the surgery i havent wanted to eat anything. however before the surgery i was on a diet for so long and there were times when the desire to eat got the best of me, but i didnt want to gain weight back that i had lost. there were many times when i would grab a bag of chips and a disposable cup. i would sit there and savor every chew of the chip. i would chew it up until it was just a mush, then i would spit it out into a cup. i would get the flavor of the food that i wanted, but i would not swallow it and absorb the calories. it also helped if i did this after i was already full on something that was healthy that way i wasnt tempted to swallow the food that was bad. i know this sounds soooooo bad but it helped me through some really tough times. its not like i was bulimic or anything because i didnt swallow it and throw it back up, and i was eating the good stuff for my diet. i hope i dont catch to much flack for it

wow i guess this is a touchy subject! i dont think anybody should critisize for just chiming in but that is my opinion. anyhow, i did have a 2 day stay because i lived so far from the hospital that my doc wanted to keep an eye on me for one extra day. i didnt need a drain and i was thankful for that. as a matter of fact, and i dont know if this is common or not, my doc didnt even use stiches. he used sterie strips. i had 4 small insisions all about 1/2 an inch in size and i am so happy with the look of them. totally expected to have bigger scars! as for the diet....he required a 2 week liquid diet for all of his patients regardless of bmi. in my opinion why wouldnt someone want to do the most they could to have the best outcome. this is coming from someone that HATED the pre op diet, as evedinced by some of my posts about being on the diet...lol... however i lost so much weight i was thrilled and i just got that much close to my goal weight that much sooner. it is also said that the quick weight loss does shrink the liver as well as make it more pliable (capable of being moved without tearing) the liver is a BAD thing to have bleed as it is very difficult to stop the bleeding once it has begun. anyhoo good luck to anyone still waiting for the day, and congrats to anyone who is lucky enough to be on the other side already!

i felt the same way as you. as a matter of fact i think i pretty much posted the same thing. what i did to make the time go by faster was plan little trips with my family so i had things to look forward to the entire time on my countdown. even the weekend before my surgery i took the kids camping and the time flew by. another thing to do is to challenge yourself to lose as much weight before the surgery as possible. there is no reason to wait till the surgery to start losing weight. i was able to lose 50 pounds pre op and it is making my recovery so much easier not to mention the fact that i am that much closer to my goal weight because i started earlier. i know the waiting is tough but look at it as if you already are on the losers bench and celebrate the little things that you acomplish. when i lost 20 pounds i went and had a pedicure. when i lost 40 pounds i went on a limo ride with my daughter and had a scavenger hunt. when i lost 50 pounds i bought a new dress and went out to dinner (a healthy one) with my husband. reward yourself with treats along the way that arent related to food. you will find it all the more rewarding in the end when you can make your life about living instead of eating.

i have a friend that got rny. she lost all of her weight but her skin just sagged off of her. her skin is now a grey tone. almost all her beautiful hair has lost its shine and the rest fell out. she hates the surgery choice that she made. she told me she often cries about it. she just doesnt look healthy. she has to take handfuls of vitamins just to get what she needs because she cant absorb anything.. the sleeve was the right choice for me because i wanted to lose weight to get healthy not just skinny. isnt that the point to be heaalthy. i dont think anything about the rny is healthy. when you have to swallow so many pills just to get the vitamins and minerals you need to survive what is healthy about that. i just had my surgery this week and my recovery has been very quick. it took her months to be able to do the things she love to do. i feel so sorry for her. not to mention the fact that she has started to gain weight back already! please reserch all of the things the good and the bad before making your decision, and please let it be your own and not anybody elses. do it for yourself, and youl make the right one.

i do so love the advice that you give time and time again. you are a very wise woman. that being said can i ask you how to messure body fat and lean muscle mass. you seem to know the way and i would love to know how you do it without the machine in the office that you say has been provin inacurate. is there a dummy way for us people that dont have a clue?

yeah i crush them and put them in applesause. it helps.

wow that experience must have been very powerful to you. i wish that you could be able to contact him to help him the way that he unintentionally helped you.

my funny story is that after surgery i couldnt pee at all. i kept going to the toilet to try to pee but nothing was coming out. i would sit on the toilet with the water running trying to encourage my bladder to work. well one morning i was sitting on the toilet while my husband and daughter were visiting. in my house i havent peed in private since i was married, my husband always barges in, my kids and so on. so i dont even bother to close the door anymore. well the nurses assistant was coming in to check my vital signs while i was visiting the toilet and we tried to tell her not to come in but her english not to good so she barged in while im sitten there ass out. she doesnt miss a beat though as she claps her hands and smiles and says "oh you go pee pee?" i quickly smiled back flung my hands in the air and said, 'nope i just like to party naked on the toilet." can anyone say ---heres your sign. lol

oh my goodness, everyone is right! you need to get back on track for yourself. just because you can jump in front of a bus doesnt meen you should. same with mcdonalds!!! just because you can eat there doesnt mean you should! it is honestly the worst thing in the world for anybody to eat!! have you ever seen super size me??? JUST DONT GO THERE! I hope for your sake you have learned from your mistakes and get back on track. good luck to you....i hope you can do it.

welcome to the greatest wealth of knowledge about the sleeve! i love this place. the insurance is the one that counts and if they say ok the surgeon is on board no problem. i just got sleeved 3 days ago so im knew to it. the main problems i have been having is swallowing as well. it feels like a brick going down and i can only drink about 1/8th of a cup of anything before i am to full to continue and i have to wait about 40 minutes to attempt to drink anything again due to stomach pains. everyone i talk to sy the same thing that it will get better. even with the problems i love it already due to the hunger being totally gone. i dont even think about food right now. totally happy. i have already lost more than 3 pounds since the surgery! totally cant wait for real loss. welcome to the club and i hope you get your surgery date sooner rather then later. it will be the best decision of your life.

i did get my blood drawn there and the girl was great. they did it at my pre op registration. my doc is john garcia, but irani is his partner. i heard he is great too. is he the really good looking one..lol i really loved your hospital, as a matter of fact i want to write a letter to the board telling them what a great place they have there. i cant believe how wonderful everyone was there. not one mean one in the bunch. i almost didnt want to leave they made me feel so cozy! i had one male nurse when i was there named michael and he did everything he could do to make me feel beter. i was a real whiner and he didnt miss a beat. he was at my beck and call. he really made me feel better. he deserves a star among us award! there was also a female nurse there on the night shift that was sooooo nice. dede. she made me feel like a part of the family there. i would be so proud to work in a place like that.

yesh i have been complaining of the same thing. everyone says it will go away....i cant wait. i dont even like to look at food right now. when they say it will totally change the way you think about food they aint kidden