Jruss71

I had my sleeve surgery on Thursday. The first 24 hours were rough, I had a good deal of pain and some nausea. They were able to manage my nausea much better than the pain. My dr had only prescribed 2mg of morphine every 2 hours as needed and this just barely took the edge off. Friday morning I had my swallow test and had a little bit of a scare there as the radiologist said the barium was only "trickling" through but that it was most likely due to swelling. They went ahead and progressed me to thin liquids from NPO, so I was able to start sipping some Water. They changed up my pain meds and I started feeling much better from about 9am yesterday on. I can still only take small sips of liquid as it feels like I am swallowing an air bubble almost every time. My stomach gurgles some after most every drink. It all seems to be getting a little easier every hour and I am feeling really good today. I will be on thin liquids for 9 more days which is fine since I don't really have any hunger to mention. I weighed this morning and I am down a total of 24lbs since starting the pre-op liquid diet just 2.5 weeks ago, so very happy on that front.

That's my date too! I started my pre-op diet today. Best of luck to you.

Hello Everyone, I am new to the site and thought it might be nice to document my story here and give and receive feedback from others who have had the surgery. My story probably begins like most of yours. I have battled weight issues all of my life. I was a fat kid, thinned down during my teen years a little, gained it all back in college plus some extra and spent all of my 20s and half of my 30s, 50-80lbs overweight. After years of struggling with all non medical methods, I decided to see a weight loss physician to get diet pills. After some up and downs with the diet pills, I finally got really serious and started slowly migrating to jogging from walking and managed to lose down to my adult low of 205 at probably age 37. I spent the next couple years running 5k every day and was able to eat pretty much anything that I wanted and stayed around a nice 210-215 range (I am 5'11"). Life was good and I was able to wear nice clothes, had tons of energy and looked and felt great. I had finally whipped the overweight demon and would never go back to "that size" again. After 2.5-3 years of living up to this promise, my world was rocked! In Dec of 2011 just 4 days before Christmas, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor. I was immediately put on very strong steroids to reduce the swelling around the site before surgery. After my diagnosis, I was so depressed I stopped running and that coupled with the steroids, I gained weight very rapidly. I gained over 40lbs in less than a month leading up to my surgery! After a couple months of recovery time and what appeared to be a successful surgery, I was starting to exercise (walking) and trying to get back to my life when my symptoms started reappearing. Long story short, I had regrowth at the tumor site and had to go back on the steroids and have a second surgery along with 6 weeks of radiation therapy even though this was a "benign" tumor. I have been totally disease free now for 1.5 years but the medicines/treatment have left me at the highest weight ever of 327lbs! I have tried for over a year to make progress but the weight refuses to come off. I have no energy to exercise, my back hurts if I try and I have just lost the zeal and vigor I once had. Something has to be done. A friend of mine had the VSG last year in Mexico and has had wonderful results so I started researching this as an option to get my life back. I decided this was the best route for me to take last month and I put the wheels in motion to get started on this journey. I found a very reputable Dr surgeon in our area and decided to go for it. I had all my pre-op work done yesterday and I started the 2 week Optifast diet today. So far, I am feeling great and my motivation to do this right is very high! I will post updates as I go through this journey!