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**sorry ahead of time for any crudeness** My surgery is in 6 days (April 17). So 2 days ago I decided to go to Walmart to look at the Magnesium Citrate. Paid $1.29 each bottle. Got Lemon & Grape. These are the Equate brand, clear bottles/clear liquid, 10 ounze each. Got home and put them in fridge. I had my day free today so first I went to JCP and tortured myself with clothes. Left with an $8.00 sale shirt that is lightweight with "bat wing" sleeves. Then I went home and tortured myself with a magnesium citrate experiment. So here is my experience: I set a timer too Opened lemon bottle. Had NO smell. Has a little carbination. Reminded me of seltzer (not as carbonated). Looks like clear Water. Took out my water bottle. Held nose and proceeded to down bottle. Stopped 1/2 way to breath, chased with ice cold water (before opening nose), wiped mouth so as not to have any taste. Could taste the residue - NOT BAD. Far easier than Barium or Pepto!! NOT BAD AT ALL. I dont understand why so many people have written how horrible it was. Continued to finish bottle with nose close, chasing with ice water. The dilemma really was that I dont have an appetite lately nor can I fully consume 10oz of liquid (probably 14 if this instance because of the ice water chasers). So getting it all down in a few mins was the hard part. START TIMER>>>>>>> One full hour later, still nothing. No gas, no gurgling belly NADA. OK a little burping, but nothing out of the ordinary after a large glass of water. Thought I was crazy and this stuff wasn't working. 1 hour 5 mins, felt normal sensation to poop. Went to bathroom. POOPED NORMALLY. Naturally my poop was black from the high protien. No more poop than normal. AND THAT WAS IT. It's now been a full THREE HOURS since I drank it...... And I think that is all folks!!! (so some info: I am doing the liver reduction diet day 8 and I have not cheated really. My diet includes mostly high protien, fluids, and 2 food items from "the list" - so I can have 2oz of lean meat each day. I have done 4 oz on the days I have "slipped") So I guess there isn't anything further in me. CAN IT BE THIS EASY WITH MAGNESIUM CITRATE???? Did I miss something??? Doesn't seem right.

Sooo happy to read all the info in these forums!!

**Update** nearly 8 hours later.... So I decided to go eat some dinner.... as soon as I smelled the meat cooking, I had to go potty. All liquid....but not bad at all.... I still wonder if there's something wrong with me that I am not even a fraction as bad off as most have posted.

I guess I don't really understand this - isn't that bad to do? I am so fearful of things bgetting caught in any stapled area.

Well I wonder if that is going to happen to me. I think I am going to eat a little bit of a SF pudding and see if that does anything. This is far too good to be true.

OMG You guys have no idea what I am doing at the moment..... Just got bored today...so first went out and tortured myself at JCP looking at clothes. Bought an $8 shirt Then stopped at Walmart on way home to check out this stuff and bought 2 bottles of Magnesium Citrate (lemon and grape). Just drank the lemon one..... big experiment!!! Please stand by :( I'll post all about the MC experiment in a bit lol

AGREED - most pertinently is that this is a hostil work environment. You NEED to be looking forward to this. Surgery, ANY surgery, really requires a good attitude to foster healing! I am soooo mad for you! Speak up for yourself or else, take a small leave if you can. But how exciting that your date was moved up!!! I too had a date moved up and about flipped with excitement then went crazy trying to make all my arrangements more quickly.

SIX MORE DAYS I am anxious every day!! My liver reduction diet is going well.... it is hard to get 64oz of Water in. Some days I do, and some days I am getting in 50 though. My liver diet is very simple (too simple) and it allows for 2oz of lean meat - in which I fail and have been eating 4 at times!!! 4 is still low, and it is mostly protien. But starting today, I am curbing that. I have not deviated in any other way and am still losing. I am down about 34 lbs since Superbowl (about 8.5 wks). I have made a list of all the things i want to bring to surgery (cell phone, charger, chapstick, brush, backscratcher...stuff like that) and I will be scrubbing the hell out of the house this week so that I wont need to clean for a bit once I am home. I AM scared though....very scared. I think constantly about potential complications (mostly adhesions and things that are out of anyone's control). I know people who have had bad complications and now that I know so much about WLS, I can attrubute many of their complications to things they did wrong or defied their doctors. I wont be doing things wrong.

OMG I hope I can eat cantalope!!! I am diabetic and insulin resistant and eating cantalope in the past has messed with my blood sugar and naturally contributes to insulin issues thus weight issues and causes me to dump (and I do not mean "dumping syndrome" LOLOL) This is one of those instances where I pray that RNY/WLS allows me to eat something normally (even if just 1-2 ozs). Thoughts?

same here, my Doc is nearly 2 hours from me. I wasn't overwhelmed until the insurance approved and they got me a surgery date....then I was TOTALLY overwhelmed. You are not alone. I am 6 days pre-op. Today was my last apt for anything before surgery; I was cleared with all of my pre-op tests today including a MRSA test that I was scared to death about.

My surgery is in 1 week so I am having this dilemma at the moment. My dr did tell me I would need to crush mine. I take Neurontin and the pills are on the larger side. I crushed one tonight as a prep and it was a pain to do. Bet it tastes GROSS. So for those who used the SF choc syrup or apple sauce etc; on what day following surgery did you start? I do not want to miss ONE day of my meds. OK so I guess I will miss a day, but want to start right away.

My surgery is in 1 week so I am having this dilemma at the moment. My dr did tell me I would need to crush mine. I take Neurontin and the pills are on the larger side. I crushed one tonight as a prep and it was a pain to do. Bet it tastes GROSS. So for those who used the SF choc syrup; on what day following surgery did you start? I do not want to miss ONE day of my meds. OK so I guess I will miss a day, but want to start right away.

How large were they though?My surgery is in 1 week so I am having this dilemma at the moment. My dr did tell me I would need to crush mine. I take Neurontin and the pills are on the larger side. I crushed one tonight as a prep and it was a pain to do. Bet it tastes GROSS.

I'm a firm believer of the 'turning it around approach'.... Have you asked her, "Why do I need to stop losing weight"? I'd love to hear her response... and if she says, "because you are too skinny", then say, "Says who"?

THANK YOU all for posting here - I am excited to have some experience partners now and I hope you will all keep in touch here with me!

OMG You are soooo cute - watched your videos - AWESOME job!! And I love the Unjury chkn broth - it's going to be a life saver because I can't stomach shakes. I have to spend some more time in your blog looking at your products!

OK follow my stats please: Small framed 5'3, high weight of 238 (again). I was 238 on Feb 4 (and diabetic type II). As of today, 8 weeks later, I am 204 (-34 lbs in 8 weeks) and my blood sugars (via stick) are normal. My A1c is 6 Yes, this is all good news! So today I am 5'3 204 lbs, normal blood sugar.... My surgery is still a week away and I KNOW I will be under 200lbs by then. My GW is 130, though I would feel great at 145 (so 55 - 70 lbs to go)..... Since I am a yo-yo-er, I once again have it in my head that I can do this without surgery. CAN I????????????? Uggggg, I am so scared of the surgery (not the eating issues or future etc) but the actual modification and surgical risks. 3 weeks to 3 months recently, I KNEW this was for me. For YEARS I have known this was for me. Am I the only one who's a chronic Yo-Yo-er? My dream about the surgery is that someday POST op, I can eat normal (in a sense) and not have to worry about gaining 50 lbs from a few bites of things. Hope that made sense

they aren't just negative about your WLS - they ARE negative. If they were saying things like we worry about the surgery risks, that would be normal. If they are telling you you can meet your goals through diet & dicipline & Exercise, then ask them why they aren't rich sucessful lawyers or brain surgeons???? This thread kills me! I too deal with this myself - and from my own damn husband!!! And yes, he IS a negative person, not just specific to the WLS. F*CK THEM!!! This is for you. PS this is NOT about their son either!!! My in-laws quickly became Out-laws!

I'd look dead at 115. At 145 I am a sz 8. At 140 I am sz 6. I am taller than you a lil bit though. I dont recal ever being below 138 though. I was sz 6-8 at that weight. And I was killing myself to maintain it. I did more damage to myself killing myself to be that size than the side effects/risks of RNY most likely.

It's funny because I recall when I was young, so many around me saying that I was "padding myself". Um nooooo, I LIKED food!!! I wasn't trying to gain weight on purpose - not even subliminally! The overweight genes run in my family, and I am insulin resistant with PCOD. The contridicting thing was I too was (am) a perfectionist and the one thing I could not get perfect was my health! And like you, I am not thrilled about not taking my medicine. I NEED it.

WOWOWOW Best Topic for me today!!! Glad I'm not alone. I too am PCOD and with the pre-op weighloss, I got my period 2x regularly and 3rd time should have been last week - and NADA!!! I am really worried it will start just before my April 17th date!!! I haven't used a pad in 25 years! (then again, I've only gotten my period like a dozen times regularly in all of that time LOL). And now this.....ugggg :ph34r:

Your stats are similar to mine. I am pre-surgery (April 17 date) with many concerns. I am about to post some concerns as other topics. Since you started at similar stats to me, maybe you can find my other topic and respond? It will be about pre-op weight loss. Part of my dilemma in this now is that my pre-op weight loss is amazingly fast (and actually now that I have looked at some people's stats POST surgery, appears to be faster). I am a yo-yo-er

Meeting with the nutritionist was wonderful. She really laid out all the eating habits that would change post surgery and gave me meal plans for every day starting with day 1 (liquid diet), through meal plans up to 8 months later. More importantly, she helped give me a little strength to get on my pre-surgery eating plan. I saw her 3x in past 9 weeks. I don't have to see her further, though I can if I choose (my own payment though if I do). In all honesty, she didn't really tell me anything I didn't already know. She just made me accountable. She did harp into my brain though the importance of eating Protein at all meals (>25g), and eating it FIRST before Fiber. I am a horrible anesthesia person. Once I had surgery and was sick for a week after and the anesthesia stayed in my system for a MONTH. This was before we knew I was allergic to morphine though. I am disabled and had 6 surgeries in less than 14 months and after the 1st one, the OR got my anesthesia administration down to a science. I was soooo grateful. My RNY surgery is at a different OR though so I am really nervous even though they know my requirements/protocol. I DO NOT want to be projectile vomiting bile as I come out of anesthesia!!! I also know redheads react differently to it.

I LOVE YOUR BLOG!!!! LOVE IT!!!!! I have many of the same worries - and I am concerend I will get my period due to the stress and shock! I too am on medication that I WANT to and must take (neurontin) and there's no liquid form so the large pills must be crushed to a fine powder, thus I am weaning myself this week to 2x a day (as opposed to 3x a day). I loved your post about how you would treat your 5-year-old-self. And I really related to your concerns of being healthy, ok, and living. Please keep in touch here. How long do you anticipate being in the hospital?

@Lulu - check out my recent post - looking for experience partners with dates April 15 & 16