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I'm 4 days out as well. Likewise, my recovery has been pretty smooth. Let's hope things keep going the way they have thus far. Fingers crossed.

I'm set for a June 16th operation date. Anyone else out there with the same date?

I'm only 4 days post-op and am having very little problem taking relatively large drinks of Fluid, although I can only take about two drinks until I feel like I'm filling up. Should I be concerned that my doc maybe left my sleeve too large if I can already drink like this?

I was sleeved on the 16th. I don't think I could have asked my recovery to have gone any better. I had absolutely zero gas pains, and very little soreness. I did however get sick from the anesthesia. That passed after two days though. I am currently down 29 pounds since starting my two week pre-op diet.

I used Dr Kim. I was sleeved two days ago (the 16th). I'm doing great.

I was sleeved on the 16th as well. I was discharged the next day. Having said that, I was dry heaving for a day and a half. That wasn't fun at all. I feel great now though. I haven't even needed my pain medication. I have however not been able to even get close to the 60oz oz liquid I was told to drink each day. Im drinking maybe 20oz at best at this point.

OK, it's official, this is going to happen. I just got the call with my time to be at the hospital. 6:30 Monday morning it is.

June 16th is almost here!!! The liquid diet has been rough. I have slipped and gotten off of it a few times. Eating more Protein things. But most of it has been good. I think this weekend is going to be very slow. It looks like Monday will never come. I am 13 lbs down. Hoping that is good. I am pushing for 17 lbs. before Monday. Going this weekend and get things needed for my 2 weeks of fluids. How is everyone else getting ready this weekend for the new life we are about to have. Excited and happy for a new beginning. Yep, it's three days away. It's getting very real at this point, so real that part of me started getting cold feet. I quess that is normal to some degree. The liquid diet has been hard for me as well. Two weeks is a LONG TIME to go without eating any solid food. I'm down 15 pounds myself. Being down 15 pounds is why I started getting cold feet in the first place. I started telling myself that if i can lose 15 pounts in 11 days, why am I having 80% of my stomach cut out? But I followed that thought with, oh yeh, I've lost 40 pounds doing Atkins before and gained it all back plus a few pounds. And I have done that many times over. It's just time to turn my life around.

This morning was the first time I felt scared at all. I watched a video of a gastric sleeve surgery last night. That was the first time I actually saw how small my sleeve would be, which is roughly the diameter of a large writing pen. That got me thinking about just how restrictive my food intake will be.

Here's the scoop from an insurance perspective. If you elect to self pay, even if your insurance would have covered the operation had you gone through their approval process, the insurance will not cover the cost of any complications as it's considered elective surgery. I was in the same boat, but elected to go self pay becasue I didn't want to wait for the insurance company to OK the surgery. It was going to be a minimum of 9 months for that to happen once I jumped through all the hoops they required. This is also the reason I elected a sleeve instead of a bypass. Sleeves have a much lower rate of complications than bypass surgeries do. Having said all of that, I know if problems do arise, i will be on the hook for them financially. To this end I selected a Dr. with tons of experience and a good track record of success hoping to cut my chances of any complications.

About 2 months for me as well.

OK, day 5 of the pre-op diet. No more head aches, thank goodnes. I'm down 9 pounds as of this morning. I know a lot of that is likely Water weight, but I'll still take it.

I'm completely gung ho about getting this done. Having said that, last night my stomach starget getting upset, like I wanted to throw up from the liquid diet. I am a little bit scared that i will basically live off those same high Protein shakes for weeks after the surgery. I hope my stomach learns to tolerate them better than it is now, or the next month is going to be miserable.

It gets better, it really does. Thanks Buterfly. I wonder if taking Pepto would mess up my liquid diet. I hope not, becasue i just had to take some to keep from throwing up all over my keyboard (and I'm at work so that would be a really bad thing).

OK, now I'm starting to feel the liquid diet. I started feeling sick to my stomach last night and still feel the same way this morning. Two weeks of this is going to be rough if I'm going to feel sick the whole time.

Maybe I'm stupid, but I'm not nervous. Excited would be a better discreption. Now ask me how I feel the day before the operation and you will likely geet a different answer.

I'm currently on day 2. I've been very tired, but no head aches. I'm not hungry, but still want to eat. I guess I never really noticed how much I eat not out of hunger, but becasue I just like to eat. I will make it through though, I made a promise to myself to not cheat.

I know exactly what you mean. I had originally wanted to keep it secret, if for no reason other than I didn't want to have to talk about it. Everything about being fat is judged negatively in this world, so I'm sure having WLS would be too. I have come to the conclusion that keeking it secret wasn't going to be possible. I often go out to lunch with my co-workers so keeping it secret wasn't going to happen. I ended up telling those around me (in the office) just so I didn't have to worry about them figuring it out when I couldn't eat like I did before, and pretty much wouldn't be able to eat at all for weeks. I've told just about everyone in my group, including my boss who is a bean poll, tri-athelete. I thought for sure he would judge me, and maybe he has, but it sure makes things easier on me not to have to hide something that really couldn't be hidden.