birthygirl

My husband used McAlexander and I was planning to but he stopped doing bariatric surgery at that point. I loved Pam (the coordinator) as well. He did another surgery for me though and I really like him. And I would go to St Bernard's before NEA any day...my experience there was horrible.

Is anyone else doing Insanity? I just started yesterday with my husband (who also has a sleeve). I'm also doing Couch 2 5k (on week 3) and will run my first one in June. I have switched to a real food diet recently (not counting calories, fat, etc), but now that I'm exercising so heavily I know I need to watch my Protein. How do you get enough protein w/o shakes (I cannot tolerate them!)? I'm about 8 1/2 months post op and still cannot eat much (which I'm TOTALLY ok with!). But Insanity has you eating 5 small meals a day, and I stay full for so long after eating one I'm not sure how I'll get enough.

It wasn't hard for me. I'm 7 months out and still can't manage 3 ozs sometimes! I had a week off as well and for me that was plenty of time.

I don't see the stretching being an issue, but I had a serious soda "addiction" pre surgery. I HAD to have at least one every day. I'm only 4 months out from surgery and have had cravings for them. I know, though, that if I have one I won't be able to stop myself so I avoid them anyway.

I'm in Jonesboro! Originally from the central part of the state. Sleeved on June 25 down 59#!

Do you ever set small goals for yourself or is it best to just kinda go with how your body is doing on its own? I was sleeved June 25 and haveost 26 lbs. My husband and I are taking a vacation in a month and I would love to be down another 20-25 lbs. I know that's not a totally unattainable goal, but I'm wondering if its recommended to or not to set goals like that.

Ct showed nothing. Drs best guess is the tight stitch they put in the largest incision where the stomach is pulled out of pulling on something.

I too drive the day after I came home.

I have that! I have no idea why or what causes it, but it sucks!

I actually had my gallbladder removed when I had the sleeve done.

Has anyone here suffered an incisional hernia post surgery? Apparently they can occur after surgery where the lining is already compromised. I have been having severe pain in my left side and this is the only thing I can come up with. My surgeon, based on info via phone call, said he has no idea what it could be. I am having a ct tomorrow morning. Just wanted to see if anyone here had experience with this.

From reading (and trying not to self diagnose myself with some sort of rare fatal disease as always happens) I think I have an incisional hernia. Cause from surgery weakening the abdominal lining. I'll hopefully know more after my ct on Monday...

I was sleeved on the 25 of June and had my drain out last Monday. Since then I've had this terrible pain in my left side above my hip bone but it feels like deep inside. My surgeon said he has no idea what it could be and is sending me for a ct on Monday. It hurts more when I cough or laugh or bend more on that side. Anyone had something like this?

I was the same as KittyfromBC. The only reason I didn't go back on July 2 was because I got my drain out that day and didn't want to go to work with that in. My boss (who was sleeved in April) said if I needed to work half days that first week I came back we could work that out because he had to due to being so tired in the afternoons. I didn't have any problems with that though.

If you're working out that much, and losing inches you could likely be gaining muscle.