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Cause I'm sure you're rubbing the med in your eye. [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] (I know it's a transfer from finger to lens thing, Internet.) The situation where the intervention is almost as bad as the illness. Glad you have stent for a short time and not the 2 weeks I've heard about. I'd need Valium if I felt like I had to pee all the time. Sounds exhausting.

You get IV antibiotics at surgery.

You also can inform CIGNA that you are filing a complaint with the insurance commissioner.

Insertion was mildly uncomfortable. Similar to period cramps. If you have heavy cramping during periods, it may be similar for a couple days after insertion. Totally worth it, IMO.

PPI can cause rebound acid for like 2 weeks when we stop them after taking them for a long time. They should be tapered and you can add in Maalox or Tums. But, I do think you should have your doc look at you because pain is not typical.

Unbelievable. What a long process. I hope you recover quickly from the procedure. I get really nauseous from general as well. The anesthesiologist had me take take 2 Dramamine 2 hours before the procedure. (I had surgery Friday and I had no nausea!!!) You'll be Cowgirl up before you know it! It's almost rodeo season, after all.

Use supplements.

The first letter meant they didn't get all the documentation they require from your doctor. I believe the last letter is the authorization and this mess is about paperwork catching up to paperwork. Which insurance company is this?

You will likely find some foods "slide" for you and others do not. Once you move to solids and try to eat some meat, you will meet your restriction. Dense foods fill up fast. The other thing I remember is that some days I seemed to have never ending capacity and then bam!restriction. Follow the plan. Keep posting. Try to distract yourself from testing the limits of your sleeve. Instead focus on learning to stop eating when satisfied

I thought this too. So much progress!

My surgeon's point was the sleeve is the middle of the road and if patients don't do well they can revise to RNY or get a lapband.

Have you caught the stones yet? Buggers.

At 3 weeks out you totally can be experimenting with different acid blockers. Prilosec 40mg twice a day for 6 months is standard in my surgeons practice. However, some people do better on Protonix twice a day. There is another one as well. They all act a little differently. So don't settle!

I had a lot of water nausea straight out of surgery. I still get it sometimes. I use water enhancers like Mio. Drinking shakes will help with hydration. ITA about playing with water temps. I often drink hot water with lemon.

I do interval training with weights every other day or just weights and low impact aerobics. I dance 3 days a week for 75 minutes. One rest day.

My understanding is that it's your BMI at your first appointment and not your BMI as you've been prepping for surgery.

A couple things to work on, if you aren't, 1) don't drink any calories (focus on eating to fire your metabolism and help with feeling satisfied. ) 2) make sure you are weight training. Muscles burn more calories than fat and they burn more calories at rest. So don't go more than 48 hours without lifting weights. In order to stop losing, I had to slow down my weight training. I couldn't eat more and didn't want to eat crap, but I had the opposite problem of not being able to stop losing. Turns out it was my big muscles )))

If you use the powdered shake mix, you can make pudding by using less water.

I was remembering today how my mother berated me about being fat. My entire life. (Mind you she was 98 pounds.) The memory today was how she took me shopping to buy jeans and nothing fit me, "you're too fat. You're embarrassing me. I hate taking you shopping." Yea, she is not in my life. I'm a healthy and well adjusted and totally at peace. Sometimes these memories arrive to remind me how much healing I really have done.

My surgeon considers yogurt a liquid. So I drank protein shakes and then had yogurt for dinner [emoji6]

See. I was onto something with the headstand. I'm a believer. See. I was onto something with the headstand. I'm a believer.

I had that massive bloating and distention with the erosive gastritis. Gas X helped. Entire abdomen was hard like a small basketball. Painful. I felt gross, too. I don't think you sound dramatic at all. You sound painful. What's the reasoning against doing the laser? Just to see if you can pass it on your own? Two friends had stents put in for their kidney stones but they were recurrent. I'm so bummed that you have pain.

Are you exercising? What are you doing?

What I have learned on these boards is that RNY is "the cure" surgery for reflux. I think you make a strong case for RNY especially since you can't afford a revision.

The possible saving grace, is that people who want to test run the sleeve, can revise to RNY. (I understand it would be a second surgery and all that that brings.) I do think I'd follow surgeon's advise. I do believe it's smart to preop investigate the cause.