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Stevehud

Gastric Sleeve Patients
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    I'm STARVING!

    here is a hint or help as you will, get some of the flavorless fiber additive like benefiber ( store brands are cheaper) but add two teaspoons to your shake mix when you make em, and you will stay fuller much longer ( and avoid binding up n'cest pas?)
  2. try some ice it works great on these holes.
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    Anyone have 50 lbs. or less to lose?

    honestly if you asked me would i have the sleeve to lose 45 pounds the answer is very adamantly no way. now you mention something like the word "stuck" in a sleeve it doesn't get stuck like in a lapband, you feel full very fast and if you dont eat slow enough and chew well enough that full feeling gets ignored until you are overfull and that is the stuck sensation i believe people are really mentioning. most people i know with more advanced arthritis than me have found alternatives to regular nsaids. as to the reflux, i had horrible gerd i slept in an adjustable bed for years due to it, but since my surgery my gerd is non existent, i had some acid issues immediately post surgery but nothing above the stomach.
  4. Here trust me this helped immensely.
  5. honestly, your going to need time to heal, but more importantly is time to get a routine down, its easy now to think oh ill drink this and etc, but until you get to that post op liquid stage its almost impossible to really know. I would suggest the marked Water bottle it really helps. if you need the picture of it , let me know ill post it.
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    Bowel movement

    For me it took about 6 days post op. But i would ask about a fleet enema or dulcolax suppositories, not the most fun but the fleet enema works and you do feel much better afterward. But ask your doctor first please
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    Depression...so sick of you!

    yeah my town had the most snow in all of Massachusetts we got 9+ feet in 2 weeks, 11+ feet in 3 weeks another couple inches tonight, i haven't seen anything but white or off white for weeks, we couldn't get to the gym for two weeks due to nowhere to put the snow, they had to call out the national guard to help clear the streets and we've had like 70 roof collapses so far, its ben a nightmare thankfully i haven't stalled to too much, but its damn hard when you cant get to to the gym i feel your pain.
  8. Thank you all so much I know its not the most pleasant of subjects, but i truly appreciate the advice.
  9. took me 2 months to get my intitial appointment only because the surgeon is so busy then it took me three months almost to the day to get all my testing in, psych appointments etc.
  10. I cannot imagine eating this little with a normal stomach, seriously if you could stick to my diet i would be amazed, i know there is no way i could do it. other than that if you can do a very high Protein, ultra low carb diet forever then by all means, but seriously if you do this, Breakfast- one egg ( scrambled, boiled etc) with cheese. mid morning snack 4 apple slices lunch Protein shake afternoon snack 1/2 greek 100 calorie low sugar greek yogurt dinner 4 ounces of protein 1- 2 oz of vegetables. nightime snack ( optional) sugar free Jello or apple slices. Now if you can do that without crashing your system and without being extremely hungry, more power to you.
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    Mederma or scar cream?

    i had my gall blader done 4 years ago and now with this i do kind of look like ive been stabbed a bunch i have 12 little hole scars all over lol my wife says it makes me look rough...Grr. lol yeah right. lol
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    New Whey Protein Tube?

    for a sleeve depending on the size of your sleeve, it can be as much as 40. is what is on my worksheets from my nutritionist , anything over that is just extra. the smaller the size of the sleeve the quicker things pass through without being absorbed (has to dow ith less surface area i think,?) I've seen a lot of new Protein gels and of course gummies ( but those gummies have a ton of sugar so watch out) but since it has no sugars or carbs hey why not, if it helps you get what you need and your fluids are still getting in, then personally i cant see why not, but i would definitely ask your nutritionist. Oh also, i dont know if whey protein isthe same as whey protein isolate, i think the isolate is a more refined version so you can absorb it better, but I cant say with definitive poisitivity.
  13. you know that makes a lot of sense to maybe weigh here and there but only one day as the official weigh in day. ,
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    Can't stop smiling....... =)

    AWESOME!, i did an interview with a newspaper about his surgery and one of my biggest goals is togo to disney when i hit goal or near it, so that I can , like you said , fit on everything , including a regular plane seat and actaully walk through the park without sitting every 50 feet. Good for you ! you go !
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    pcp approval letter

    i had that problem due to the fact my PCP was affiliated with a different hospital group than where i went to have my surgery. it took me a week of calls and in-person visits before i finally got him to relent and write me a letter. Thing is he id t when i told him he doesn't have to refer me or recommend my surgeon, just state that he recommends the procedure. That worked just fine.
  16. there was no way for me to put on clothes with the leg massagers, and the iv line, i would've had to have them disconnect it and reconnect it to put on a shirt plus the monitor lines would've had to be the same, it would've been too much of a hassle plus every nurse shift change they had to give me heparin plus check the incisions, change dressings, etc. was easier in the gown, and i had a nice big gown that actually fit. ( gowns in bariatric sizes! who knew!)
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    Hubby doesn't understand!

    its very easy to look at others and say, "how can you eat that in front of me" etc. i always joke with my wife, although she has lost about 15 pounds since I started losing, she doesn't have to restrict her eating. so it's hard when she has some chocolate, or the like, or even just seeing her have carbs that i can't. or won't have. but i made a vow to myself not to become the person that watches what she eats and tries to make it so if I can't have it, it cannot be in the house etc. in that respect i make the extra effort not only to do what i must for my own health and weight loss, but to be sure i dont turn into the ex-fat person who tells people how bad their eating habits are etc. I refuse to become that person. That's being said, being on all liquids was so hard, because as you say, you just want a damn bite of food. Im honest when i say i would probably engage is weird acts of silliness if i could only have some regular good old bread. lol and during liquids I probably would've robbed bank for a few french fries.
  18. The Vitamin shoppe which is online also sells calcium chews in caramel and in chocolate caramel, they dont have bad sugar no worries there but they taste like caramels and are easy as pie to eat and digest. Personally they saved me from the bad tasting tablet types. Here is a link http://www.vitaminshoppe.com/search?search=calcium+chews#
  19. so far apple slices, ( recommended with Peanut Butter by my nutritionist but for me apples and peanut butter just dont go together) some hummus either with carrot sticks or the like, or there are these great edamame rice crackers at trader joes that go great with hummus, half a whole grain, and flax seed pita with some natural peanut butter on it can be great but i do find it hard to eat peanut butter with nothing to drink, I have to try to find some jerky i can deal with, with a top partial denture jerky can be somewhat hard to eat.
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    Ah, the old back handed compliment!

    There is an old saying , "learn to take a compliment." sometimes compliments are just that. I love hearing how great I look, it lifts me up, and motivates me that little bit more to keep it up. Now i know not everyone is me by any means, but if someone says, wow you look great it doesn't mean i didn't look great before. come on. i mean if someone liked your outfit and said " hey you look great in that outfit". does that mean they are saying you look bad in anything else? Of course not. A true backhanded compliment would be like" hey you look good since you lost the weight." that has the implication built in of not looking good before. Or if someone said, " since you lost weight ill bet people like you." or " wow, without the weight, youve become attractive." Or "your pretty, now that you look normal." otherwise like i said sometimes a compliment is actually a compliment.
  21. Zackly I dont have alot to add to what has been said except this, i loved to eat out and entertain and to tcook. i watch chopped, great british baking show, etc etc. now im two months post op for the sleeve, and my meals are not as creative as they were because of lack of starches. BUT that has made me more creative and i now eat thing i never wouldve imagined, hummus, edamame, chickpeas, heck i made a chili the other day and as im not fond of kidney Beans i used small white beans ( like navy beans but smaler) and i double dup on the onions and added some finely diced celery as well. it came out amazing. I have lost close to 90 pounds since my pre op, and i went from a 5xl shirt and 4 xl pants to two days ago i bought and fit into a 2xl shirt and regular XL pants. I wasnt insulin dependent but i was pre diabetic and now my blood sugar is perfect, my neuropathy is light years better, i used to walk with two canes one to use and one just in case, now i dont need either and I ride the exercise bike for 6 to 7 miles 4 times a week and d a circuit strength training 4 times a week as well. My leg vein problem is gone, my back pain is extremely better, OK enough about me. Here my most important thought, if you do this you are going to need to replace food with something else. like all those thing you listed that you want to do again, golf etc. this surgery will help you over come the hunger and it will help you get to where you can do those things again, just be sure to actually do them, i now take guitar lessons, and build models and stuff like that, as well as going to the gym, the oint i want to make is the surgery can give you the hand you need to get where you want to be but you have to get over food being the big part of your life that it is and make something else take its place. Goo dluck! You Can Do This!
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    fingers and toes

    ring guard is a smart idea, I have to have one put on my wedding ring as well. I don't relish sizing my ring down but losing the weight is necessary.
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    What irritates your sleeve?

    had a small piece of a croissant, like about a very very small bite and it felt like granite in my stomach, lesson learned, oh and beef thats not ground sits like a brick. Everything else im okay with unless i eat to fast then....well heck I deserve that lol.

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