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I had my fiance to help me and I agree, it is great to have someone behind you. I am a month post op as of tomorrow. Have you had a nurse named Joy? She was my favorite.

I am still on liquids due to all of my issues!

I spoke about him to my dr as well as on an interview re my stay. I have no idea why he thought he could do that. The girl in the bed next to me asked for dilauded all day and all night. She was telling her guests it made her feel so good. Whenever she asked for it, she got it. I was in a lot of pain and it went on for quite a bit. I am a month out tomorrow and last week the pain pretty much stopped. Now for some reason it is creeping back. I have no idea who he thought he was to tell me to cycle through anything.

I was just looking at your ticker and that is a very positive thing!!!!! ((((Angel)))))

He wouldn't give me the pain or nausea medications and I was even asking 2 hours after it was due.

Most of mine were great too, but I did have one male one who wanted me to "cycle" through the pain.

I believe it can also have something to do with what your insurance requires, also. I wasn't required to lose weight, but I did. I also had to do the 2 wk liquid diet to shrink the liver and I think I lost about 9 lbs at that time.

So far I haven't had this problem and I am almost a month out. I also had to lose 20 lbs of Fluid altogether for each of my hospital stays. Could be my body is playing catch up, I don't know. At this point I have been losing a pound or two per day, except during the ten days in the hospital.. I gained the fluid.

Thank you!!! I like it! I hate that I am not wearing it. I used to always have it on, well not to bed or the shower. I couldn't ask for any other ring...... It's just hard because you don't know when you will stop losing weight. Right now I lose 1-2 lbs a day. I love the ring. We were looking at diamonds for the center stone and they were costing around 7500 and I just felt like it was way too much, and then the cost of the actual ring/setting! Tanzanite is my favorite gem and I was going to have 2 tanzanites on either side of the middle stone and when we passed a tanzanite across the center of the stone I knew it's what I wanted. When he finally gave me the ring, it was a different stone. Much bigger than the one I picked!

I have Rheumatoid Arthritis and IBU has been the only thing to help me with the joint pain. I stopped taking it about a month before the surgery to get used to not having it. My surgeon actually told me not right away but maybe later down the line. He probably would rather never.

I am really surprised over the people who were done as outpatient!

Have you mentioned to them that they kept the gold from sizing your ring? I am almost afraid to do anything til before my wedding. I never wear it to bed and have only worn it a couple of times since my surgery because I haven't been very well.

I would get a second opinion. There is nothing wrong with that.

The horror stories are bull? I don't know. I have been in pretty rough shape since my surgery. By day 20 p/o, I had been in the hospital a total of 10 days. Lots of issues. I don't think they are horror stories, per se, but I know that some have these horror stories.

Oh, ok. Well if that's what they want you to do, keep it up! Not everyone has difficulties. So you are right, be happy about that. Congrats!!! You are working towards the new you!

Thanks. There was another option they gave me with the speed bumps. Just a piece of metal that attaches to the ring. I have no idea what it's called but it help to size the ring. I didn't chose it before because it is visible and not as pretty. I suppose I could get the bumps bigger, but I would have to keep doing it! I know I am going to keep losing. Right now I lose 1-2 lbs a day. I am sure it will slow down at some point. Those speed bumps cost us almost a hundred bucks....

I suppose you were lucky enough to not have any issues. I was not. Def if I were you I would embrace it!! I don't think you should be using a straw because it does introduce air into the stomach. If you can only take 5 bites, to me that means your surgery worked.

I did not but what I did have was this medicine ball that was attached to me. It stayed in for 5 days.

I had been throwing up 2 weekends in a row and it is not a good thing. I ended up hospitalized and with pancreatitis. Kraft macaroni and cheese is probably not what you want to be eating, either. I guess what I would do is get back to reading labels and measuring your food according to this stage in your post op diet. I am at almost a month out and due to all of these complications, I am still on that first couple of weeks post op liquid diet. This kind of makes me think that you might be eating the amounts you used to eat in the past, maybe have not been able to let go of that behavior. Then when it is too much you have to vomit. I would try and get away from that.....

I imagine it is because of my nausea and inability to take in much fluids. I guess the low amount of calories I am consuming as well. Has anyone else had this issue? I seriously think I am falling to pieces and really regret the surgery.

Well thank you very much! At my jewelers they have called it both things. I have no idea what drug users say,so forgive me. I am wearing it right now and it just keeps turning..... =/

Well, I have to take a lot of medication. The medicine that got stuck was one of my Epilepsy meds. A pretty big pill. I have to cut it in half and in quarters. It felt like it was in my chest, at the bottom so I would say it was at the end of my esophagus where it meets the stomach. Because of my hernia repair, everything is very tight. This can happen with some foods too. By the time I get to the hospital it has either dissolved or it came back up. The reason I ended up going to the ER is because I had been vomiting all day and not able to keep any fluids down. Because of that, I also could not take any medicine. Given the fact that I have Epilepsy, I never want to go a day or more without my medication. By going to the ER, they can take care of it through IV. Just so happens I was admitted both times. Because of the vomiting, I did end up with Pancreatitis.

I just want to be able to wear it without the fear of losing it, ya know? He spent a pretty penny on it and if I lost it I would feel so awful. But I want to wear it!

He certainly is a keeper!!!!

I am more than three weeks out and I will say that I have had a rough time altogether. My surgery was on July 16th and I was the least bit nervous going in until the very last second when my fiance was kissing me goodbye as they were wheeling me out. In that second I worried it would be the last time I ever saw him. I guess right after that I went under. His face was the first one I saw. I have no idea how long I was in recovery and I do not recall being in the recovery room or seeing any nurses or doctors or anyone. I could not breathe and it felt like I was having a heart attack. I couldn't talk at all and I was so afraid. I was motioning to the nurse but she could not understand me. My fiance could. He was reading my lips and he told them I couldn't breathe and was having chest pains. All of a sudden a rush of people came in the room, they unhooked the top of my gown and started hooking me up to everything and a respiratory guy came in and tried to draw blood from my left wrist and was unsuccessful so he went to the right. It was a very rough hospital stay. I finally went home and my pain was tremendous. At ten days something got stuck in my throat and I vomited all day long and I was admitted for three days. Five days later some of my medicine got stuck in my throat or chest and once again I was vomiting all day and admitted to the hospital for four days. At that point, when I was discharged, I was on day 20 s/p my surgery. Ten days spent in the hospital and ten days at home. Finally my pain is almost gone, I have a twinge here and there but that's about it. I saw my surgeon yesterday and I just broke down. I told him if I could turn back the clock I would never have the surgery. My Hiatal Hernia surgery was necessary, but the RNY was not. I am still on liquids at this point..but hardly in. Everything makes me nauseous and has since my second discharge from the hospital. I am not getting in the fluids or Protein that I should. At this point he is most concerned with me getting the fluids in. I will see him again next Thursday and I asked him about when I could go to mushy. In the hospital he told me ten days, which would be next Thursday. He looked at me and told me to come see him. So that means don't eat, just come see me and we will see. I feel like I am at my wits end and I wish I could undo my surgery, but I know I can't. He told me I am not the first patient to feel this way and later on down the line I will feel different. Right now I am just not so sure about that. My weight loss is pretty good. I have gained 20 lbs in Fluid between all three hospital stays and I have lost it and then some. I went in at 239 and left at 251. I dropped that fluid weight in five days I guess. I don't remember how long it took me to lose the next 5 of fluid out of the hospital, but this last time I got out of the hospital on Tuesday. I went in at 227 and came out 232. Today, 3 days later I am at 226. The weight going in (239) to now (226) shows a 13 lb difference in over 3 weeks, but I also lost the 20 lbs of fluid. At this point I hardly care about the weight loss, I just want to be well. I am not able to go back on my RA meds yet due to the complications and I worry every day that my Epilepsy meds are going to get stuck in my throat again landing me back in the hospital. Ugh. Pik out.