steve-o

Thanks for posting. You're about a month ahead of me, and you usually make good sense, so I'm benefiting from your experiences. Hang in there.

Bklyn Lady, Compliments on your sentence, "You're going to have to grow a pair of ovaries, woman up and dump him." You are a born writer. :thumbup1:

Well, that worries me a little. With 10 prescriptions and a boatload of Vitamins, I have a lot of pills to swallow (or a lot of nasty gravel from crushed pills to choke down). The worst will be 4 giant Metformin tablets a day. I asked my surgeon about the "nothing larger than an M&M" rule. He said it doesn't apply for his sleeve patients, and that I should be able to handle even huge fish oil capsules. Looking back, maybe he was talking about after healing, rather than about week 1. I wonder how common is it to have problems with pills early on vs. how common it is to have no problems with them.

Thanks Bevanne! I'm going to search for a source of the 40g protein Isopure drinks. All I was aware of before was the little 15g protein bottles.

I'm supposed to get 70 grams of Protein a day. How do you DO that with clear liquids? I can't imagine that broth has very much protein. The only thing I can think of is to buy a case of Isopure Plus and drink 5 a day. Tell me, oh experienced sleevers!

I'm getting sleeved on 6/3, and have a few small questions (to get started). How do you pronounce "bougie"? :scared0: Why do they leak test the removed part of the stomach? Is it because a problem with the staple line there probably indicates a problem with the staple line in the sleeve? How do the pathologists dispose of the removed part of the stomach? (I don't expect a funeral or anything :thumbup:. Does it just go out with the trash? Just as long as they don't make dog food out of it!) If you're supposed to be on Clear liquids for a week after surgery, does that mean that you don't take the (bulky-looking) Calcium supplements until you are ready for solids? Did any of you ask your doc for pics or a movie of your new sleeve? Thanks! Steve

Andrea, thank you very much for your post. It really helps a pre-op like me to see what your experience was!

Thanks, all! I love the wallet idea.:biggrin0:

Chiming in... I'm gonna do it June 3.