vonaljo1

I drink a protein shake that I like. It is from a company called SPONSOR and the product is called WHEY. I live in Switzerland and maybe this can also be bought in other countries. There is no bad taste to it and there are several flavors.

I had my surgery on October 17 in Basel Switzerland. Contrary to most people in this forum nobody asked me for a pre-op diet. So I went in with my highest weight ever and I lost 42 pounds in 4 weeks. There were a few days where the weight loss has stalled but now it's continuing. Surprisingly I was told that I can eat solid foods one week after surgery and just a few days ago I was told I can go to full fruits and uncooked vegetables as well. Clearly the different doctors have very different opinion of how to change the eating habits steering this recovery phase. I am not very comfortable eating solid food and if I just eat a little bit too much I get sick to the point where I will throw up or make myself throw up to get relief. Liquids and Puree foods are fine and I can eat them well. I struggle a bit drinking enough in between food and need to really remind myself to drink enough. I am happy with my decision to get a sleeve but there seems to be a long road ahead to "feel" normal again.

Thanks for your answer. I certainly feel more comfortable with liquid likr food. For example I can eat 180g Joghurt easily without any pain. Will keep it more liquid and buy stuff in the baby section as it offers also cooked vegetable in mushed form. We enjoy living in Switzerland very much. Hoelstein is about 30 minutes from Basel. The weather could be nicer but all in all we often feel like living in paradise. We used to live in North Carolina and Virginia for 7 years all together.

I am 2 weeks post surgery and this trapped air is really painful and annoying. I live in Switerland and have never heard of the gasx strips. What are these and how do they help?

Same here, I burb a lot and my family as put up with it so far. Actually burping is like a releave most of the time as I have trapped air in the stomach and when I eat solid food it oftern leads to pain until I can burp the air out. Does anyone have a good way to deal with it to avoid the pain or do something about it when it happens?

For the last 15 years I have battled my overweight. While I was younger I could take the weight without too many direct health issues from it. However, after the last major diet (HCG) I lost around 80 lbs and felt great. I got back into a regular workout and running scheme and was sure that I would never go back on the weight. However, after a year during summer vaction I slipped and let it go with the result that I did not only add back the 80lbs but added another 50 on top resulting in a total weight of around 360lbs. Now the misery started. I found myself with a lot of resulting health problems such as high blood pressure, swollen feet, ankle pain, sleep apnoe, etc. Then my doctor recommended to check if weight loss surgery was an option and I went to the nutrition center of the Clarasital in Basel Switzerland. There I was told that a surgery was possible and that due to the high BMI the insurance company would pay for it. But I was not ready and we decided to give it another 6 months. During that time I met two old friends who had weight loss surgery and this helped me to come to the decision to go for it. I went through all the preperatory meetings and test including a discussion with Dr. Kern, the surgeon, who recommended the Vertical Sleeve procedure due to my history of kittney stones. The surgery was performed on Oct 17, 2012 at the Claraspital. The first two days were very difficult with pain in my upper chest despite all the pain killers. During that time I did have regrets that I have decided for this surgery but as of the 3rd day and beyond it became rapidly better. The leak test was OK and after 6 days in the hospital I went home. Now I am at home for 1 1/2 weeks and battle to find the right rythem, type of food and how to eat it without getting sick or throwing up. Unfortunatly the last thing already happend a couple of times when I ate too fast and too much apparently of solid foods. Now I came across this website and I hope to share and learn more about how to live a good life with the SLEEVE. My biggest issue so far is that when I eat solid food it feels like air is trapped in my stomach and can not get out. This is painful and either I throw up or I can get the air out with burbing but this is oftern not possible. Anyone has any similar experiences and how to deal with it?