knt4ever

I went to Pre-Op meeting today with 5 other patients and Bariatric coordinator who had RNY a long long time ago and it was very informative & reassuring. Our binders have so much information but very thorough and answers most questions! They said I won't have a button for morphine and that I will have to let nurse know when I need pain meds. I told my coordinator to go ahead and let my nurse know I WILL need it so go and have it ready. I believe they might think I have a drug problem because I may or may not have asked for the prescription for pain killers already. LOL. Trying to stay ahead of the pain! Next Thursday is the day!

WILL DO!!!

Some Dr have people on the liquid diets and some don't. My Dr has liquid diet if over 48 BMI and I am not so don't have to by his standards. Good Luck to you too! I will be 3 days behind you! Keep in touch with how you are doing ok?

They shook my stomach like they were mixing a protein shake to get the barium all over and had to roll over two times in a row lol

So the results came back from Pre-Op tests and overall it was good so another hurdle has been passed. Vitamin D is low so I will supplement with a million Vitamin D3 (ok not that much) and a couple of my liver enzymes are elevated so they are going to take biopsy during the surgery. My question: Iis isn't everyone's liver enzymes elevated when they have a fatty liver???

Us guys are minority here but there is support from everyone and I say, "YES WE CAN!"

We have same surgery date and I am having Gastric Bypass as well. And we are both dudes lol. We can go through this together. Good Luck

Meijer with prescription from Dr is no cost. At least it is here in Toledo, not sure other cities.

I see said the blind man! Thanks!

So you don't add the liquid from coffee to your daily totals?

GREAT ADVICE!!! I will adhere to it and only jump on scale once a week. My surgery is Dec 26th. Thanks!!

Your start weight is same as mine and you are at weight lower than I am shooting for (185) so I have been following you. So I will have Dr remove my Gallbladder and Appendices while they are in there!

My NUT is prescribing me Pre-natal Post-op and if I go to one store they are FREE!!! BTW I am not pregnant either because I am a guy.

My NUT is not a fan of gummies primarily due to ZERO Iron in them, I get to use Pre-natal Vitamins Post-Op so that's interesting lol.

DLCoggin - Appendix removed, Gallbladder gone and now this? Half your insides are gone!!! LOL

Thanks Lynda!!!! Ken

So the key is the temperature? Get the Water to 140 and then add or add to room temperature water and then heat up to 140?

Oops, I am having Gastric Bypass and didn't realize this is in the sleeve forum. My bad. Great information though!

My Hospital's catheter policy is any surgery over 2 hours. My luck!

Congrats! Isn't it amazing? Few times in life you can look forward to a particular date knowing after that date your life will be altered significantly such as marriage and first child.

Michael Jackson jokes are great LOL! Good luck.

I am so sorry you are going through all this drama. Insurance companies amaze me. This surgery will cost them less over the years by eliminating all the issues from obesity. You would think they would push it through faster! I went through some issues (not add bad as you) getting approved. First off, the coordinator was out few weeks from a surgery and nothing moved while she was gone. I wanted surgery this year because deductibles are paid already this year and also next year our's is going up alot! When final sent it was denied because of 6 month but I had been to my PCP before and they didn't count it. My coordinator re submitted exact same paperwork and was approved! Ugh. Good luck and hold you get the golden ticket!