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i think some of them like to shock you my doc tuts at me for drinking so much tea, its decaf tea!! She still says that’s a lot of tea! (I see 2 consultants the head consultant is the not liking tea person lol) They gave me tea and water only the 3 days I was in hospital and it wasn’t decaf trust me it was full on caffeinated tea but she always comments on the tea never tells me it will do a b or c just that’s a lot of tea and gives me the look. I only drink 4 full cups a day just the word tea seems to ruffle the feathers I think it’s the same for coffee they think its not plain water so don’t drink it!

i never quit my docs all know and never told me to stop I just take a extra fast tab for longer. They did say to me one thing at a time and when I want to quit speak to them and they will give me any help I need but I never got raked over the coals for it not pre or post op never even a mention of slow healing or issues like ulcers because of it.

I was taking pills before the op for reflux and acid problems for a couple of years nothing at all was mentioned that it might not be a good idea to have the sleeve because of it. After the op yes I am on fast tabs like a lot of us its fine. And I have lost over 100lbs to date.

Sorry to hear of your issues I suggest that you google the foods like bananas are good for b vitamins potassium etc so just try and cross reference food that fits them all. I googled some links to share for you to look over. http://potassiumrichfoods.com/potassium-rich-foods-list/ http://www.healthcastle.com/iron.shtml http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/10-foods-containing-vitamin-d/ maybe grabbing a juicing book and see if you can concoct a juice that’s high in most of what you need drink one a day and cut down on supplements. I feel for you I had extremely bad ibs pre op my body couldn’t absorb hardly anything no matter what I was eating or drinking. I was constantly having blood work done to check my levels it gets very frustrating!

I would have just taken it in anyway if they ask I would say I have medical issues that I need to be able to eat food when my body calls for it and I can’t eat fast food and drink sugar loaded drinks! They will assume your hyperglycaemic or diabetic and leave you be.

You also might have that subconscious thing of I CAN NOT HAVE IT SO I WANT IT thing that a lot of us have done in the past when on a diet. Your also going to deal with your normal habits I too as a chip person I would eat them over sweet stuff any time so I get it. This is a test run you say so don’t beat yourself up about it just work through why you feel you need them so bad is it because your telling yourself NO or is it because you really did eat them all the time so withdrawing from them? You could also be craving salt on my pre op diet I had to have a salty drink everyday which was a gravy stock cube with hot water like a cup of beef gravy stock lol So it could be as simple as needing salt and that’s your go to salty product.

I crave Chinese food after I go swimming I think my head just want carbs when I am done but for the past 3 weeks when I am just about done in the pool I suddenly think chicken chow mien or special fried rice with sweet n sour sauce would be nice lol Also not eaten rice or noodles at all so its strange! As for other cravings nothing other than in the liquid stage I wanted salad I craved crunchy fresh salad to just be different to the fluid I was taking. Also like my pre op milk diet I craved cucumber even rang and asked if I could just have a little bit got told NO! lol

It gets better! I broke out my skin was dry it was crappy for a couple of weeks, now my skin is much better and hardly any break outs infact my face has been pretty clear and nice skin looking for a couple of weeks now!

Well at first its pretty much liquid because that’s all your taking in so the people saying never trust a fart got caught short lol Then when you start to introduce more solid food your body takes a while to get used to that then your hit with constipation. Its kinda like during the liquid and pureed stage your body got so full of Fluid it wrung out and dry so when your doing food there is none left to help and that’s when you need help to go lol we also change out full fluids for food so are taking less in this kinda makes your body act like a drought it uses the fluid for other things and not enough is being taken into your bowl to help the process. Our bodies are strange things it reacts all kinds of ways to this. First we change habits of a lift time and do this pre op diet then don’t eat for 24 hours then have a op then we are in recovery on meds and just drinking Water and such oh we keep taking meds and nope no food just water or fluids depending on the stage then oh no switch up again lets try food though we haven’t had any in say like 4 weeks or so lol Our bodies can’t keep up with us and goes a little haywire. For me my constipation was not a ongoing thing prune juice is my thing and in my food log I put little notes of when I go just like BM if it’s been 3 or 4 days I drink half a glass of prune juice and I am fine in a hour or so.

i wanted to add a few more examples on whats lurking in my freezer lol In my freezer I still have beef casserole which is mainly beef some mushrooms green beans and carrots, home made sweet n sour chicken and stir fry veg though that when defrosted is a touch dry its like a falafel I needed more sauce when I did it. There is even roast chicken dinner but potatoes hate me so that stayed in there like the roast had chicken veg gravy a potato (not a whoel massive oen a 1/4 roasted one) and some cranberry sauce all blended up. Oh lasagne I added only some of the top layer of pasta with the cheese and blended the meat and sauce with it. So pretty much if people are cooking or you are cooking you pick out the parts you can eat put them together and just blend them up you can add little bits and bobs to make it taste better like I did with the roast just take it into consideration when if your calorie counting (which I don’t)

Its pretty much anything you can shove in a blender/ use a hand blender on Think homemade baby food. I made soups and thickly blended them by using less of the stock. I did fruit purees my fave was peach pear and apple. you do have to cook them down with some water then blend them not just "raw" fruit You can do like chicken stew/casserole and blitz it so yeah pretty much anything you like as long as its healthy of course and if you do fruit like I did its not your all day food choice I did that and still do for a fruit options add it to yogurt or breakfast stuff it all depends. To make the food wetter you just add fluid like gravy, stock, milk, protein shake even. I mainly stuck to thicker home made soups because I had a hard time with all meats so it was easier to just blend a chicken or turkey and veg soup and that be my food.

I never got cold feet till the day of in the gown sitting in the pre op ward lol Mum had left I was the last person in my section and I rang my mum to come back and told her I feel like going I just wanna leave I had no clothes as she took them all home when I got in my gown and she never brought them back and I was just gonna bolt in the hospital gown and support stocking and hair net lol Took me about a hour to finally say no its ok just go or I will leave and I forced myself to lay down and go to sleep but yeah if you didn’t panic or get cold feet your wouldn’t be human we all go through it. I was scared for a couple of weeks before hand my date was moved forward twice! So first thought I wasn’t getting it till next year then they changed it to this year actually was meant to be this month but they changed it again for may so I thought I had months to prepare then that letter come saying oh no its may 15th so I was like holy sh*t! Everything was crammed in to a 2 week period the tests the going to group meetings all of it just slammed me so I found myself thinking about it and crying for a few nights at the shock of it all being RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW!

Should have talked in the line like hope the cat feels better after these stool softeners good job you remembered the cat litter! lol

I threw away the vitamin drops they give me from the hospital utterly gross after the first time I had to allow 14 drops to fall on my tongue I physically had to try not to gag to do it again so I got store own brand asda in my case kids multi vitamins orange flavour chewable you take double because they are for kids and I love them! They are not gummy but my vitamin levels are fine I actually have slightly high iron I was told yesterday so I am good 270 in the thing had them for almost 3 month no issues!

I eat muesli, or cheerio’s mainly as my breakfast with milk so yes lol I let it go soggy/milk soaked but yeah I do every day pretty much. I will say this it takes so long to finish a box not finished a box yet so saves money lol

Effervescent tablets are not the same as carbonated I am on prescription effervescent calcium tablets as soon as the tablet has finished fizzing and dissolving its not fizzy and carbonated its flat its just when its dissolving that its going made and fizzing as it breaks up I assume that’s what the zippy things are a effervescent tablet you dissolve in water.

I had a really easy sleep study but it was nothing to do with insurance or if I could or couldn’t have surgery. They put things around my torso and on my finger no mask no oxygen no sleeping pills just me and another chick on the whole ward. I watched tv for a bit in the tv room right by out ward section then knew because I sleep crap in hospital and coz everyone knew i had it just not confirmed et I went to sleep got up a couple of times to pee in the night but did my 6 hours. I found it a breeze. The woman opposite me however cried for 3 hours was on the phone and missed her kids she did settle down and go to sleep not long after I turned my light off and stuff I think it was a kinda your there its nothing bad the only other person in the room is going to sleep so maybe I should too. It sounds to me like you were fighting the whole thing sleeping pills should have had you going to sleep keeping yourself active to keep awake is just counter acting the pill. Speaking to people working yourself up its all ways even if you didn’t mean to, to keep you from just getting on with it and sleeping.

When my mouth starts flooding with spit it’s a sign I am gonna puke! My mouth is pretty dry on the whole and maybe that’s due to not being able to drink water so I drink a lot of decaf tea which means I am not really drinking enough who knows lol Hopefully the water thing will settle down soon but I am the opposite dry dry dryyyyy

Here read this its what I found and read for more detail http://www.dbh.nhs.uk/Library/Patient_Information_Leaflets/WPR32630%20Bariatric%20Leaflet%20Pre-op.pdf

same as me! may 15th here too and i am whatever my ticker in my sig says lol

Your welcome, the clear liquid stage just means no creamy stuff no blended soups no bits. So even if it was onion soups you can have the broth just sieve it to remove all the bits. They say clear because you’re so sore and sensitive right now creamy or blended soups could give you pain or make you sick as its too heavy at this stage.

Yes you can just the clear liquid though put it though a sieve

I’m not sensitive to smells but I have always had a good nose anyway I can smell things 10mins before other people, actually stopped a fire in my house because of my good nose when the tumble dryer plug started to melt I smelt the burning first and hunted it down sniffing the location out even when everyone else said can’t smell a thing! But the gag reflex sure is up way high had issues before with gallbladder and ibs so I can puke at the drop of a hat if I smell something off its on and I am heaving. Think that’s partly why I puked so much after the sleeve my body was so used to being sick its so easy to do so.

That is pretty cool I would have liked to know how big the bit they threw away was lol

Yeah agree with this one like pee is different not just in looks, to be as delicate as I can lol other female parts taste and smell different not gross or nasty just different lol I know it affects men too on um consistency and taste when they are on a high Protein diet just never gave it a thought that oh yeah that’s all gonna smell and taste different too btw! (and I could be the only one and just did TMI on my private life LOL)