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Are we ever able to use anti inflammatories? What do we use if we have a strained/torn/pulled muscle/ligament?

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I have a protein powder that tastes like pb cookies that I bet would work...... I'll have to try it.

I know. I hate it

Ha! Love it Donald!!! Thx :-)

Thx. Not allowed the berries yet but can do banana. Where do I buy the pb2? And is that milk? We can't have milk either. Will water work?

And of course we're not allowed to have any of those foods since they're not on our list. :: sigh::

Surgeon

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Look into getting a Yonana machine

Good job!! All of my pants are falling off too, even the new ones that are a size smaller. Keep those shorts so you can compare at your goal weight

Ditto at three weeks out. And I swear my old tummy is grumbling and wants food in it. Lol

Fortunately I have not had any problems and bounce back from surgeries fairly quickly. Had both of us had complications it would have been very difficult. All in all this experience didn't go as we planned but I can't wait until the 25th when I can make real meals for us and our 3 kids and eat at the dinner table using real plates and utensils rather than eating out of one oz medicine cups. I'm so glad you have your fiance there by your side. He sounds like a keeper! :-)

My best friend is my husband. I've built up a wall to having local friendships in the last year. Some may think that sad but really it's a lot easier than dealing with the ups and downs of friendships. After 43 yrs I have finally learned the difference between acquaintances and friends. I have a lifelong bff from childhood that I cherish and always will, but we live 1800 miles apart.

Sometimes I question it too. Was in mourning for foods I couldn't eat during pre op diet, now still in mourning over foods I can't eat now. But I have to remember the big picture of why we decided to do this in the first place- our health/life What really bothers me is how some people are allowed to eat foods our nut/dr doesn't allow. I said screw it yesterday and made cream of chicken broth and drank two oz for lunch. If I one more bite if canned smoked chicken I would puke and everything else we have the same and I refused to eat them. So I figured the cream of chicken soup is better than nothing. And honestly, it has better nutrients than the canned veggies. Those are pointless to eat from what I can tell. I want to eat fresh veggies and real meat. It just takes time though. And I'm thinking the Protein drinks are what's making me itch all over. :/ I'm not buying anymore though and we'll drink what we have. I spent $200 on those things. Confession- I ate about 8 noodles of mac and cheese and a cup or two of skim milk yesterday. Couldn't get enough of the milk. SOOOOOO good! I was doing really well with walking this last week until Friday. I walked a mile on Monday, two miles on Tuesday, one mile on wednesday and a mile on Thursday (all in this Texas heat and lost lbs doing so) but nothing on Friday, and maybe a half mile yesterday and was pooped. My abs have been sore simple from going fishing and not even reeling anything in but I will hold off on doing that for a couple of weeks I guess. I think I will ride a couple of miles on our stationary bike today. I hope my abs don't yell at me more afterwards. I'm glad w4 are in this together. Even if you didn't have any suggestions is nice to know I'm not the only one feeling this way. We know what we need to do and we're doing it, it just takes time. Is ok to fudge up a little too just as long as we get back on track and not keep doing the fudging ups. And it's nice to be able to come on here be able to complain, whine, mourn, and vent to get it out of our system.

Don't you love it when you're the "bad guy" for speaking the truth? Smh at them. I had a bff for 7 yrs that I backed away from 2 yrs ago because of her exaggerations, lying, gossiping and attention seeking. Other people see that too but of course I'm the bad guy for calling her out. Anyway, she got sleeved a year ago. When I see people from the church I used to go to (stopped going a year ago) that she goes to too people always bring up how she looks now. I hate it. That means people are still associating me with her and probably thinking we did this because she did. I just say that I haven't seen her in a very long time and only on fb and change the subject. I wish she was completely out of my life and for people to stop associating me with her.

Love it! Lol

I'm itching on my belly where the incisions aren't. What's up with that??

Jessica O- I totally understand what you're saying though and I'm still going by our dr/nut instructions/menu. As far as our dr goes he has not once examined me, before, right after or at post op, he argued with me when I asked him about a lump above one of my my incisions, he couldn't be bothered to come in at my post op appt to answer my two questions (the nut went back and forth to ask him), he didn't tell me how my surgery went, didn't give me pain meds that worked even though I told him beforehand what did and didn't work on me and made me suffer, even the nurses were po'd at him, and he makes me feel like I'm a bother, and just a number and a paycheck. I called him on a Saturday night to let him know about my husband who was going downhill after his sleeve, told him his urine was very dark, he was nauseous even taking antinausea meds, in pain, tingly in his head and hands and couldn't drink his Protein and he just said for him to drink more Water. Made him suffer 4 more days until post op appt and then had me drive him to the ER where he stayed for 5 days diagnosed with pancreatitis and a blood clot. Yet, he is considered one of the top bariatric surgeons here in Texas. Personally, I think he has gotten the God Complex. And because I've had so many drs like him give bad advise and made errors, leaving me with physical and emotional scars, I do not trust them 100%. Two regrets that I've had with doing this is 1) not trusting my gut feeling from our orientation meeting with him, 2) not taking my husband in to the ER that night, no matter what our dr said, because he was wrong, and I knew it too. Our Nut said the Centrum doesn't have Iron in it. She was wrong too apparently. But we are staying in the flintstones for now because with his Coumadin and levels being tested two times a week he can't change the Vitamins until after. The vit k levels are different and we can't mess with that right now. :-)

It's more credible than my bariatric dr and obviously our Nuts since both of them have us different info. I have been neglected by our bariatric dr so any information I can get from here is more than I have ever gotten or will get from him.

K good to know. Just goes to shows not to believe everything you hear from a dr or nut.sigh. I hope those taste better than the flintstones. How much vit k are in the Centrum you take?

Two flintstone chewables per day. The adult centrum chewables don't have the iron, or so I was told by our nut. I haven't looked yet. But I'll look into those in three months when my husband can hopefully stop taking Coumadin. We can't change vits right now or it'll mess up the levels. Well, actually, I could change and will look into it. I don't like the aftertaste of the flintstones. Yuck.

I burp a lot too and hiccip after drinking. What's up with that??? Doesn't matter what I drink from, star, no straw, cup, water bottle, I still drink too much air even though I don't feel like I am....

Pik, I have faith that you will get better soon. This is just a brief rough period of time in your journey with this. I will pray that next year , or sooner! , you won't regret this decision. My husband was feeling the same way, still probably is a little but he is finally getting better. It just takes time :-) hugs

Our dr never put us on b Vitamins other than what's shady in our flintstones. Hubby was still feeling down and lethargic so I have him sublingual B vits. He did much better today :-) I took some too but didn't notice a difference. I am getting dizzy when I sit up our stand up. I will half my dose of bp med tomorrow and see if that helps otherwise everything else is going great.