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I had mine the 9th and feel fantastic! I have a problem with lactose intolerance, but I've managed to work around that fine and my weight has noticeably dropped and my face is thinner! I'm absolutely happy I did this! Tomorrow I get my drain out and can resume exercising and transition to puréed food so it's going to be a wonderful day for me and I get to find out what my official total weightloss to this point is. I've been sneaking on the scale at home(bad I know) but it's more official when the big giant scale at the office tells you you've lost weight!

I know how you feel, because I was scared at the idea of giving myself the shots too, but I've been doing it for 8 days now, and you know what? It's not that bad. Find the flabbiest part on your lower belly off the sides of your belly button, alcohol rub, pinch the chub, hold the pen over the area and just push the plunger! It really doesn't hurt that bad and it may save your life. We did our surgeries to make our lives better not end them with complications. You can do this! I am and I'm a big freaking whimp!

My role model is a friend of mine from over 20yrs ago. We used to work together and were roughly the same size. She had an older sister who was also in our size range and she had rny in the 90's and got super thin and healthy but we both looked at what all she did and "gave up" and we just weren't there. I investigated my surgery options then, and got scared and ran in the opposite direction! We reconnected a few years ago and we still were both the same size(bigger than before and getting bigger at the same rate). It just seemed that was life for us kindred spirits, but then she talked about wanting to turn her life around and get healthy and she started to change and FAST! She had RNY and lost a ton of weight! I have never seen her look so good or feel so happy and I have to say, I was more than a bit jealous! I asked her what she did to get that way-thinking she was going to point me at my new diet for the next 6 months, as that's the longest I've been able to maintain a diet in the past before putting all the weight back on. When she told me she had wls I was floored! I mean, she LOVED food and I do too and the idea of breaking up with what I know we're our favorite abusers seemed so extreme, but she was sooo happy and doing the things I want to do, so it got my mind to thinking..."if she can do this, I can do this too!" And I looked into my options and here I am currently 9 days post op RNY and already feeling the changes in me.

I went with the rny. I am currently 9 days out. I don't regret my decision at all! In the very beginning, I thought the sleeve sounded better because "I can still eat all the foods I love" and "I don't want my intestines messes with! That sounds so invasive!" So what changed? Well, think about it. The sleeve isn't less invasive. I mean you are literally cutting out the curved side of your stomach leaving just the banana shaped "sleeve". With the rny all you stomach is still intact in your body. Your pouch is just separated from the stomach, but it's still there. Living and creating hormones your body needs to thrive. It's reversible in an emergency, and the stomach left behind is a safety net should you develop something like esophageal cancer later. They can take that lining and literally rebuild your esophagus. With the sleeve your kind of SOL. And now, speaking to the part about wanting to eat all the foods you love, isn't that what got us all into this mess in the first place? Our love of sugar or fatty bacon cheeseburgers or whatever the pleasure may be. If you don't want to give them up, no surgery is going to work for you period. It's what we put in our mouths that our body uses for fuel, for fat storage, etc and if we want to get real, we want to say "ok I don't need a soda or cake or a double bacon cheeseburger with extra fries" and be ok with that.(can ya tell I miss burgers right now? lol) and Malabsorption sounds like this horrible thing, but it's not all bad. Yes, by rerouting the intestines you miss the ability to absorb certain Vitamins and minerals and will need extra supplementation BUT malabsorption also means you can't process refined white table sugar so you body flushes it out unused. It means that you can't absorb all the fat from your meal so some of that gets flushed out as well without going into the body where it's not needed and actually causing harm. Malabsorption means that not everything entered gets completely absorbed so some extra calories do slip out unused and is that a bad thing? Not really. My final thought on why I chose the rny over sleeve is because I only want to do this once. Quite frankly surgery sucks! Being fat sucks! Being too tired and miserable to enjoy life sucks! I don't want to get the sleeve, start off well, then have the progress slowly slip away and feel like I made a mistake. Some people want that option to do something else if it doesn't work, but I want to go straight to the option that is guaranteed to work if you put in the work. There's a reason they sell the rny as "the gold standard" of weightloss surgeries and I sat down with myself and had a good long hard think about it and in the end, I don't want to be back here again and contemplating another major surgery and feeling more defeated than ever. I want to come out on top the first time and say "see! It's nothing to be afraid of!" And with over 25 yrs of solid data behind the rny, they have really got this thing down to a science! I can't believe how easy my recovery has been! I'm nearly back up to full speed(still have to get a drain taken out Thurs.) I should be falling back into my full exercise routine by the weekend. It's not as scary as it sounds, but at the end of the day, you are the one who has to live with your decision so you need to make the choice that you feels fits your life the best.

You are probably fine as many others have said, the purpose of the 6 month program is to test your ability to follow a program and stick with it. The fact you have such low results is actually good for getting approved! If you lost like 50lbs they'd say "hey this is working for you, just do another diet!" But if you gain weight to them it shows you aren't in it for the long haul and the diet is very strict in the beginning especially so you have to wrap your mind around all that. The fact that you stuck with it and walked away with only a 5lb loss says you tried and you need help.

@@thbrown223 I didn't have it quite as easy as you, but I am definitely hitting the good side now! My weight is going down(I sneaked a peak this morning ) so excited about where this is going for all of us!

I hear you! It gets old. I have 5 boxes of jello I will never touch. I am in the soft food phase. I couldn't find a sugar free jello that didn't have aspartame in it, so I used regular with my dr's permission for my day before blow out of the pipes. So literally my jello days are behind me, and I cannot wait to get to the purée stage after suffering through my sad sad broth and Protein shakes that aren't sitting well while my hubby and kids had bison burgers without me tonight. God, it was the first time since my surgery Monday where I felt hungry and all I could do was smell it and dream.

You know what's great for bad ass pain? Witch hazel! That stuff and diaper cream!

Thanks! I'm doing great except that my energy level seems to drop off really fast. I've had to take naps every day which is totally not like me. I can't wait til the more energy phase!

I've been home since Wed night. I had a bit of trouble in the hospital keeping my oxygen levels up because the Iv dilaudid was suppressing my ability to remember to breathe so they wanted to switch me to oral loratab liquid, but I started violently vomiting so that caused a lot of pain and the cycle repeated. Then I finally was like forget the pain meds. I'm going to tough it out and I got well enough to go home within hours. the worst part is dealing with the stupid drain...if it weren't for that, I'd say I was pain free. I get it out next week so be strong! Getting my liquids in has gone ok. I'm loving v8 right now and I have always said I'd rather lick my own @ss than drink it ???? so some things really did change right after surgery! Protein shakes are hit and miss. I absolutely cannot do the premier protein. It hits the reject button the moment a drop hits my tongue and the syntrax flavors I liked post op are not sitting too well, but the ones I ewwwwed are working a bit better.

Bariatric advantage also makes a calcium citrate lozenge but it only comes in cinnamon and it burns my tongue. I had a sample and it was like sucking on a red hot! ???? the chews are really good though and I've heard they also make a flavorless crystals you can dump into a drink or pudding or whatever.

It counts, but I can't use it. I may never eat jello or soup broth ever again by the end of this! lol

In the hospital they gave me decaf iced tea with Splenda and sweet n low packets because I cannot do aspartame and my choices were literally just broth that tasted like sweaty old socks and onions boiled in water and then the decaf. That's all I had the entire time I was in other than a LOT of water/ice chips! They are totally safe to use if you would have used an artificial sweetener before.

Omg I laughed so hard my incisions hurt! ????

I've talked to my NUT about this a lot. It seems like she always brought it up. lol she said that at about a year out, it's ok to have a little cake or pie or even ice cream BUT you have it with your meal and AFTER you've had your protein and veggies so maybe you get one bite in or two at most. You get your taste and it's not enough to undo all your hard work.

My NUT said that with bypass, her patients typically lose 10% of their body weight in the first month and sleevers between 7-8% in that first month assuming they both comply completely.

I'm not celiac exactly but I'm gluten sensitive so I have to avoid large quantities of gluten so bread or pasta more than once a week kills my stomach. The very nature of the post op diet is high in protein and low in carbs like those with gluten, so I think you'll be fine and may actually improve your control over your celiac a disease.

My surgeon won't do the DS because the risks are too high. If you are willing to sleeve, why not just go bypass? It'll be more effective than a sleeve alone yet less risky than the DS. That's what I got. I have a lot of weight to lose so I wanted to get the thing that would help me the most and keep me the safest doing so. For me that was bypass.

Yogurt, refried beans, ham or turkey cubes, freeze a protein shake and by lunchtime it should be the perfect temp, egg salad with an ice pack...

What's your diet the day before? My surgery is tomorrow also. eat we have a meal plan that's 1200 cal by 6pm (just finished) and nothing but clear liquids until midnight. After that nothing lol.Lucky girl!!!! ????mine was yesterday too. I didn't have a liver shrinking diet either. Just eat whatever til Sunday night then it was clear liquids til midnight and then nothing at all. The surgery was surprisingly not so bad! I don't even have any real pain except from a super dry throat!

@@James Marusek the surgery went well! I'm not in any real pain at this point except for a super dry throat, but I have my ice chips! I'm just so happy to be on the other side and to have had such an amazing and compassionate surgeon. He did my whole surgery in 3 small holes!

that was exactly my experience to the point of I remember someone saying "are you in pain?" And trying to say yes but it was a whimper. Then I woke up in my room with my hubby and kids. ???? I was sooo sleepy though. I slept off and on til like 2am then went on a walk.

Thank you! ❤️ I'm so excited! I packed my bag and got everything done last night, so since I can't eat or drink, that leaves me 3 hrs to contemplate why I'm no where near as nervous as I should be! Lol I am absolutely calm which is so not like me. I even slept like a baby last night!

I've been approved!!!! I've been approved!!!! Holy freaking moly I have been approved!!!!!!!!!!!!! ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

I'm referring to a liver shrinking diet, not the insurance requirements. I was excepting to have to have one for 2 wks or even 1 wk, but he said I don't need one at all which has made the whole experience really that much easier on me. I only have to switch to a liquid diet the night before and drink 1 bottle of magnesium citrate. That was a lot less painful than my colonoscopy clean out! ????