alley-gator

Saying that people are meanies is such a nice way of putting it. Let's call a spade a spade... They are assholes.

I was almost 3 weeks post op but its true, parties are hard. And for some reason even feeling crappy for me doesn't override wanting to eat. But I'm trying to fix that!

Holy **** girl you look A M A Z I N G. Great job lady!

This has got to be one of the worst things I have read on this forum. If all you can do is attack people with your snarky, condescending, self righteousness then please refrain from posting on my threads in the future. I didn't post here to be attacked & treated like an idiot. Responses like yours are the reason that new members are afraid to post, because they don't want to be treated this way. For you to assume that I must have gone into this blindly is completely judgmental. I researched for over a year, and my form of research was more than looking at before & after photos. I read medical journals, research studies, death rates, complication rates, personal stories...I knew exactly what I was getting into physically & emotionally. That doesn't mean it isn't hard, and that there aren't moments of regret. And someone in that moment needs support that they did the right thing. They need a safe place to vent, not to be talked down when they are already feeling badly. It isn't as if I ate a cheese burger 10 days out and came here asking for absolution and to be cottled. I came here venting that I was frustrated with this process which, last I checked, doesn't mean I am the uneducated idiot you make me out to be. In the future you should refrain from commenting on peoples post until you can say something constructive that adds a useful voice to the conversation instead of beating someone over the head. But I don't know, maybe that's how you treat one another in the outback.

People should really check out their facts before mentioning something about someone's religion...I've lived in Slc my whole life, and been Mormon and a high number Mormon men have some form of facial hair nowdays. Missionaries don't, but general members of the church can and do wear facial hair. Do you think mormons have horns and tails, too? Still think they have 17 wives and 100 kids?

Geez.... Staple line not duties line Fat fingers equals tons of autocorrect!

Personal, rude, mean attacks are not okay....but neither is sugar coating. There is a happy medium, a way to get your point across without being a d**k & without condoning destructive behavior. Some people on this forum are on a personal mission to be rude enough to shock people onto action, and some are on here to give unending support even if it does make them a factor in bad decisions. I think both sides take it too far. And then people call each other out for brig "rude" and are just as rude themselves. Whatever, ill say what I have to say and if someone is offended then they can just skip over my opinion, can't they? And for the record, fishy didn't just have a strong opinion, sometimes he was an outright d**k and that's what got him banned, I'm sure.

I asked my Dr this question a few days ago... This is how he described it... The tube that was created by stapling your stomach has a pressure gradient with the bottom being higher and the top, near your esophagus, being lower pressure. When you eat or drink something, the food or drink has to fight that pressure gradient to get through & down into sleeve and eventually the intestines. The pressure gradient, along with swelling, causes many people to feel exactly the way you are now. But trust me, it gets better. The first couple of weeks I could feel every single thing in my sleeve go from my esophagus to my belly button, almost force its way through. But now I feel like that's mostly gone away. Thank goodness, its not fun!

I do the same calculation & know that soon it will come off. I've been stuck for a week now!

Last time I went to cedar point I had just had knee surgery...so I had my brace & we got a wheelchair, and I got to the front of every lone lol...see if you can find a knee brace!

That's my go to! I love the cran raspberry

You can get mio from any grocery store. It's little bottles of liquid water flavoring. You van squeeze a little in or a lot depending on your taste. Before surgery I loved strawberry watermelon. Post surgery it doesnt sit well.

Hahahahaha yes they are. Sooo... A tip for water... I read today that apparently the make up of Water causes it to sort if "sit" on top of our sleeve and not just go through smoothly like other liquids, which is why we can have pain and nausea from it. For some people, mio or crystal light break it up enough to make it work, but that didn't happen for me. However today I tried a slice of real lemon in my water bottle.... I got all the juice of out one slice. I am tolerating this amazing compared to regular water....will be doing this until real eater doesn't bother me anymore! Hooray!

The strawberry Greek frozen yogurt from yoplait is really Yummy.

Yep, sleeved 12/20, still can't get water down, it just makes me uncomfortable and hurts my stomach. Even flavored water & gatorade. I've been living on diet cranberry, its all I've found that doesn't cause that problem. Also I can handle Sf popsicles.