rkingston

You had surgery. You need to stay in touch with your surgeon. Surgeons are almost always assholes. Assholes are attracted to surgery. Don't take it personally. He cares, just in his own way. Family doctors are great at making you feel special, not so much at anticipating surgical complications and they haven't treated hundreds of sleeve patients. To have your post surgical care managed, see your surgeon. To feel good, get a massage.

Good luck. This shows great courage. Hopefully the last stop.

This is the new world. From now on eating will not be the same as it was. You will learn how to avoid misery from food habits and choices but you will forget from time to time until the new world gradually sinks in. I hate when that happens. But most of the time I can avoid pain and nausea. You learn to listen to your body and heed it's messages. You know it's worth it. Relax. Eat/drink more often and less. Good luck.

Don't cancel. You have struggled with weight all of your life. It's been issue number one. The sleeve is a tool to decrease the angst over weight. You start eating small portions not because of willpower but because that is what feels best. You can start to put some of that energy you spent struggling with weight on other things that will reward you. You sound to me like someone who will not abuse the sleeve but someone who will allow it to work. GERD, if it happens, is easy to control. Get the surgery and spend the rest of your life on issues other than weight. If you had a choice would you choose to put on a 68 pound backpack every day and wear it all day? Dump it.

Get a Withings. It will download your weight to an app. I use Fitbit app. So you can fiollow your progress automatically. It costs $145 so is not cheap. I don't think it matters too much the difference between scales. More important is what happened over the past month or so on the scale you are using. Using the same scale will reveal the trend. It was definitely worth it for me. I also use the app RevUp and so a fitness person also follows this. The withings also determines your fat percentage so a trend will be much slower than just weight.

You will get some chest pain as a result of the gas that the surgeon uses to inflate the abdomen so he can perform the surgery. The gas irritates the diaphragm and can give pain and hiccups. The chest pain will go away within a few days as the gas gets absorbed by your body. I had quite severe chest pain for a few days.

After your surgery sip Water and walk. Of course you will question your decison to have surgery. But it will all be worth it. You wouldn't have gone this route if there was a simpler way for you. Also, of course, everything about the way you eat is irrevocably changed. I am 6 weeks out. You learn to eat slowly and stop when you begin to fel full, not to be "good" but to spare yourself side effects. And it will feel great when you are out to a restaurant to have a meal with family and after eating about 1/5 of the meal in front of you push it away and say, "That was delicous. I'm done." Good luck.

You are welcome and good luck!

I don't know how far post op you are but that is the feeling of food or fluid in your pouch or esophagus. You need to take in fluids/food slowly enough so that it can pass into the small bowel before you take more. This is especially true with food. There is only so much room and when it gets filled up it backs up and is very uncomfortable. You'll learn.