tebowfan

I am 8 days out from the bypass and I would take at least 5 straight days off. It's more about being tired. I was so tired and fell asleep easily. I am a person that never took naps before. I have had zero problems and so glad I had this surgery and I love my doc:)

I'm kinda leaving it up to how I feel afterwards. The surgeon's office does six weeks but I think I might go crazy if I'm out of work for that long!

I am having my surgery on Wednesday. Wednesday and Thursday are my days off. at this stage I am planning to take Friday, Saturday and Sunday off and GP to work on the Monday

Thanks Cupcake! Your almost there too!
7 1/2 hrs and I'm off to the hospital. I'll be on the loser bench waiting for you! Lol

I would probably pay a thousand bucks right about now for some food!! lol!! I am hungry!!

Im glad to hear that everyone is doing great and recovery so well I am on day 3 of my pre liquid diet and surgery is Monday, 5 more days until I join you all. Yippie.

tebowfan... Sounds like the same exact diet that I will start Monday and for the same reason. I guess I will be happy that I only have to do it for 3 days. You're 1 week post-op today... How has your experience been?
Shopping tomorrow for my Protein shake and stuff... any suggestions on a good Protein Drink?

My doctor does a two week diet also. Under 900 calories or less. Protein Drinks, broth, sf Jello and sf Popsicles. That's it. The reason he is doing this is strink your liver so it is easier to get to your stomach and such. The higher your bmi the fatter the liver so it takes longer to strink. The first3 days are the worst cause mostly giving up caffiene. After that it was much easier. You can do this!! I am 1 week postop today!

My doctor does a two week diet also. Under 900 calories or less. Protein Drinks, broth, sf Jello and sf Popsicles. That's it. The reason he is doing this is strink your liver so it is easier to get to your stomach and such. The higher your bmi the fatter the liver so it takes longer to strink. The first3 days are the worst cause mostly giving up caffiene. After that it was much easier. You can do this!! I am 1 week postop today!

Back to the store I go thanks a bunch

I wanted to have the sleeve as I really did not like the idea of malabsorption and re-routing my intestines. I was 100% sure I am the prefect candidate for the sleeve, I told my surgeon too that I want the sleeve not the bypass. He did not agree, he said i would have better success with the bypass but I did not listen.
Then I had my endoscopy and turned out I have GERD. So my surgeon pretty much refused to do the sleeve and I had to listen to him, so I went with the bypass. I am glad I did, I have no problems with eating whatsoever, if anything I have to watch coz I eat too much but I can tolerate everything and no more reflux.
Do not be scared because with the bypass you will get your health back. Malabsorption only occurs 50% of the time, I know plenty of ppl who doesn't have any Vitamin deficiency. Same with dumping, I have none, I can have a nice ice cream any day I want - but I guess that is the last thing you crave after eating it for so long No worries, soon you will feel much better! Keep us updated!

Hello, well I had the gastric bypass last Thursday May 8th so I'm 5 days post op. I believe I dumped today!!! Yesterday I was able to get all my fluids in and all my Protein so I was pretty excited. So today I was following my plan to increase my protein from 4 oz at a time to 8 oz at a time. Well 8 ounces went down fine no problems but I must have drank it too fast . About 10 minutes after I drank my shake I got very light headed/dizzy, sweaty, heart racing, and double vision . At the time I didn't relate it to dumping I guess because I was thinking that only happened with fatty and high sugar foods. But it passed after about 20 mins, afterwards I felt really weak for a couple hrs but I feel fine now. I hated the experience but I'm glad I'm learning this before I go back to work. This is definitely life changing. I can have creamy Soups, sf pudding, yogurt but honestly nothing tastes good to me so I've just been doing the shakes and Water. I tried Tomato Soup and a yogurt but they don't taste the same anymore. Anyway just please take it slow and listen to your body!

Just emailed guys!

Can you also send me a copy? You are an angel doing this fir all of us!!

Day 6 post surgery.
Feel great. Drinking as much as I can.
Protein shakes as directed.
Things are going well, I think.
I have not gotten on a scale yet. Will only do that once a week. That will be tomorrow.

hi sweetie how are you, well I'm on my way to the hospital my check in is at 845 surgery is at 1030 I feel so calm, thank you for checking in on me when is your surgery so I don't forget.

WOOHOO!!!!! I have finally been approved for surgery. Now I'm waiting on a date I see the Dr on the 19th, he will schedule me then. I can't wait, so excited

All went way better than I imagined it would from reading these posts. Thank you for the prayers. God was definitely listening . My only proble. Is peeing. I had todo a catheter twice now. Ugh! I will probably go home tonight It means so much that y'all were prAying.

Cindi2014 during my mushy stage I ate alot of tuna and softer fish any kind I could mush with the back of my fork...at least that was fine with my doctor!!! I couldn't stand the thought of food in the processor...so whatever I chose I merely mushed up really good. think of stuff you like and see if you can do that with your choices. but like I said I ate alot of tuna fish, chicken in the can and fish tilapia and salmon...I'm not a big fish person but I did what I had to do to get past this stage. best wishes on this and will be looking forward to more posts from you...take care!!!

You will be fine. Had bypass last Wednesday and it really hasn't been bad. Praying for you and quick recovery!

Thank you:) I love to cook. What I made for my lunch one day was I grilled some chicken tenders for my daughter....took 1 1/2 and cubed them, put them in the food processor with some lemon juice, a spoonful of avocado, lemon pepper and hit the button a few times....instant lunch and dinner...it was light but filling and tasted really good not to mention, it was pureed enough to go down really nicely

It was 4/23 I am almost 3 weeks post op:)

Hey everyone- I was just poking around the pre-op threads and see you guys are talking post-op here. Jump onto the April post op Thread so we can all share. I don't think many hit the pre-op boards after surgery.
http://www.bariatricpal.com/forum/762-post-operation-gastric-bypass-surgery-questions-answers/

Couldn't have said it any better! Perfectly stated.

Hi #Rebellious ButterflyHow are you doing? I don't know if you remember me but I'm the one from the nutrition classes. Just wanted to check in with you! I'm going to pray for you, I'm sure your going to be ok! Good luck and god bless