KatrinaGrace

@@BLERDgirl, do the online places allow you to return the suits if they don't fit?

@@sunflowerchild, when I went to Victoria ' s Secret, they had absolutely nothing that fit me. The sales girl didn't believe that I was a DDD either. Said there was no way I was that big. I just sighed and let her go about her business of measuring me as has been done so many times before. She was right, but only not the way she thought. I'm bigger than triple D. These things are deceiving. I am guessing they must have bigger sizes online? I do have to have an underwire because my girls are lazy as hell. They have no lift of their own, and need all the help they can get. I never even got to have cute little perky boobs as a teenager or young woman. These things have been the bane of my existence since they popped up on my chest at 11 years old.

My body apparently defies logic. I lost everything except my boobs. No surprise though since I have always had a huge chest even as a young skinny teenager. Now that I'm in a size 6 bottoms but still busting out of a 34DDD bra, I have no clue where to find a suitable bathing suit. I need one with tons of support and definitely an underwire. I have never in my life been able to find a decent suit to cover my girls, and I'd love to be able to this year. Geez, I can't wait until I can get my reduction!!

I apologize, that was supposed to say "isn't *always* true." Leaving out that one word surely made me look like a know it all ass.

Insurance not covering complications after self pay isn't true. I was self pay. I've spent more than three weeks in the hospital since January due to complications, and my insurance has covered all of it.

I feel your pain, Izzy. It's been this way for me since about two weeks after my surgery on 11/4. By New Year's Even I was deathly ill. Literally deathly ill. Was put in ICU and spent most of January and the first week of February in the hospital. I had every test imaginable run including endoscopy and colonoscopy at the same time. I ended up with multiple diagnosis. Diverticulitis, sepsis gastritis, esophagitis, dehydration, ketonuria, lazy colon, severe reflux, etc... I have been on a load of medications. Lost an incredible amount of weight in rapid fashion, all of my muscle from not being able to keep anything down at all. It has only been in the last three weeks that there has been a turn around with my health. I'm still taking Carafate twice a day and protonix. It is still very uncomfortable to eat any foods that we are supposed to eat after WLS. Seems simple carbs are all I can tolerate. But things are starting to get better. All of my doctors have agreed that I am one of the unfortunate few that just did not have a favorable outcome from vsg surgery. There is no rhyme or reason for why and it could not have been predicted. I was seemingly a perfect candidate for surgery. Sometimes even when it all looks good on paper, the end result isn't optimal. My doctors think that I need more time for healing and that hopefully my body will eventually adjust. I hope yours does too. It truly is awful dealing with feeling so terrible. You have my deepest sympathies.

How can you want something so much, and then turn around and regret it so quickly? I cannot believe I signed the rest of my life up for this. I feel like a complete dumb ass for not realizing beforehand that this surgery is just another diet... a lifelong one at that. I suppose because the only two people I know that had WLS had gastric bypass, and they eat whatever they want, don't exercise, and still lost all their weight. I didn't want to give up carbs. How did I not know before I got myself into this jam that you have to give up carbs forever?? I haven't been fat my whole life. I just gained all this weight this year. 62 lbs in 10 months after acquiring a seizure disorder in early February and being pretty much bedridden since then. In January I was a size 8 and happy. I panicked after gaining so much, threw thousands of dollars at a surgeon, and jumped on the surgery bandwagon. What the hell was I thinking??? No diabetes. No high blood pressure. No ill health at all due to my weight. I did it out of vanity, and I friggen want to bang my head against the wall for being so stupid. I bet some potato chips would make me feel better. **I was crying my eyes out when I started typing this. Now that I've vented, I'm feeling much better. Guess I just needed to host a pity party for one. Please don't bash me too hard. I know I've made some stupid judgment calls.

I feel exactly the same way. I'm 2 1/2 weeks post-op, and I swear I feel like I could eat a whole cow. I'm fine all day, but by evening, nothing can satiate me. I'll eat 3 or 4 ounces of something and then be starving again an hour later. Water and tums don't make the hunger go away at all. I'll eat a whole 5.3 ounce container of Dannon Lite and Fit yogurt with ease then be hungry again in another hour. I've seen zero reduction in my hunger, and it pisses me off. Wondering if it will get better, but I have my doubts. I seriously feel like I haven't had surgery at all and the only reason I know I have is the healing incisions and I watched the video of my surgery. That thing was violent! So sorry you're dealing with this issue, but so glad to see I'm not alone.

Fantastic! Thanks for the information

Hope that last bit of soreness goes away soon so you can rock your sleep any which way you want. I've always slept with a body hug pillow and think it probably helped quite a bit with keeping me comfortable the first few days after surgery. Best of luck to you!

LOL! 14 ounces is one serving. I only drink one per day and it takes me several hours.

I injured my foot 11 days after my surgery in a fall. Have to do the whole stay off it and keep it elevated crap for 6-10 weeks. So I'm wondering, should I really keep trying to drink all this protein if I'm not able to get up and exercise? Seems like a lot of unnecessary calories. I drink mega muscle milk. It has 40 grams of protein and 220 calories per 14 ounce serving.

If it's typically 150-200 for 8 ounces, shouldn't 220 for 14 ounces be just fine? Plus 40 grams of protein is a lot for one drink. I am no math genius, but I think 220 for 14 ounces is even better than 150-200 for 8, right?

On the bright side, I still feel great and laying around isn't driving me crazy since that was pretty typical for the pre-surgery me anyway. Don't even feel like I had surgery.

Aghhh, I have already worried about this soooooo much because I'm a lazy non active person already. I've felt so great since surgery and had more energy than ever since starting B12 supplements that I was beginning to move around much more. Unfortunately, this is why I fell. Wouldn't have done that if I'd still been my usual lazy self

I have no dietician and not much info from my surgeon. I was a cash pay since I didn't meet the bmi requirements through insurance so I didn't have to go through nutrition classes, psych eval, or any of the stuff sleevers normally go through before surgery. I made my first call to the surgeon's office on October 20th and my surgery was on November 4th, so it all happened really fast. I have a folder from my surgeon with all the info, but it doesn't address everything. I am also one of those people that doesn't want to bother my doctor unless I'm dying so I am very hesitant to call and bother him.

I'm 16 days out and have never had any pain since surgery. At this point I don't even feel like I had surgery anymore, so I sleep in any position and never notice. Are you still having pain or sensitivity?

Where did you get your muscle milk from? That's what I drink, too, but only have found the basic chocolate and vanilla flavors from the convenience store so far. Haven't seen any type of muscle milk in my local grocery store.

I ate some Campbell's chicken noodle soup two days ago, and it was amazing. My doctor said not to freak about the carbs until I am able to start eating real food. The soup helped so much to help curb my massive desire for some plain Lay's potato chips.

I didn't do anything with that information. What was I supposed to do with it? I am still on full liquids, so I don't bother with charting anything yet. I drink one mega muscle milk protein shake a day (40 grams of protein). I drink my water. I drink 3 oz of soup once a day. I fell and sprained my ankle on the 14th so no walking for me. Lots of laying in bed with my foot raised above my heart. What do you do when you have feelings of joy from success? Do you feel like you have to validate those feelings or do something about them? Do you feel the need to process the information you receive from your joy? I'm going to guess no. You just feel happy. Same thing for frustration. I don't feel the need to process it or get information from it. I just feel frustrated and move on. Feelings - good and bad - are part of life. You don't have to analyze or try to validate them all the time. You just have to keep on going.

I feel your frustration and know exactly what you mean. I'm there too. I'm also obsessed with the scale. No amount of telling me to stay off of it will keep me off. I was sleeved on November 4th and lost 18lbs in the first week. Had an over the phone check up with my doctor on my one week anniversary and expressed to him how thrilled I was with the loss. I swear, from the minute I hung up the phone, I immediately stalled. Gained .4 lbs for three days straight. On the last day of week two at my morning weigh in I lost the 1.2 I gained and .2 more. Lost another .2 yesterday, and nothing today. It is horribly frustrating to go from losing to not losing after only a week. I started week three yesterday feeling like a failure already. I know the reality of stalls, but it doesn't make our feelings of frustration any less valid. Just like when we do see the scale finally go down again, our feelings of joy won't be invalid. Good luck on your journey and the roller coaster of ups and downs.

I went down 18lbs my first week too. My surgery was November 4th. Didn't lose $hit the second week. Started week three yesterday and down only one more pound since the end of week one.