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Soft/silken tofu might be nice.

Good for you!! Yes I was in terrible pain as well I had my procedure on Wednesday 7/6 I left the hospital a few hours after surgery.. I feel so much better on day #4 my right side is still sore and feels the worse but I'm unable to drink any Fluid.. Water hurts to go down.. Any suggestions on how you were able to take down your liquids. I did check the scale and I've lost 8 pounds since Wednesday but I'm still worried because of the liquids Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App Are you on pain meds? I suspect my continued use of pain medication is helping me take down liquids. Other than that I don't have any advice for you I'm sorry. I'm really not having any issue taking continued small sips so I consider myself lucky. I might even hit 64 oz of fluids today if I keep going. I will say that I feel worse everytime I wake up from sleeping/napping in terms of gas. Laying down seems to make the gas settle in. I just came in from an almost hour long walk around the neighborhood so I guess I am doing pretty well.

Adding this to the list of many questions I'll ask my surgical team when I see them in 2 weeks but curious to hear from all of you as well: how soon after surgery were you permitted to swim? I'll be at a resort 3 weeks after surgery and was looking forward to the pool but suddenly realized....I might just be dipping my toes !

I'll let you guys know what they say at my first post op appt on Tuesday. I think I'll feel up for some gentle swimming by then so we'll see.

Good luck everyone. I am two days post op now. Woke up with some discomfort around 6:30 am and went for about a mile walk around the neighborhood. I think it really helped and since then I've been having no trouble slowly sipping fluids and passing gas. Trust me you want to pass gas anyway you can. I'm supposed to start protein shakes today and I was able to get down 8oz of fairlife milk mixed with half a scoop of Quest protein powder. It took me about 4 hours- I napped somewhere in between. I'm sipping a cup of broth now and am also on my third 8 oz mini bottle of water. I was in a lot of distress last night and when I woke up this morning but the rest of the day has been manageable. So hang in there everybody. I'm also keeping up with regular doses of Tylenol with codeine which I'm sure is helping. When I came home yesterday I was up 8lbs from my surgery day weight due to all the IV fluids but now I'm just 2 lbs up.

Shades of self hatred here. It has to do with how we see and treat ourselves more than anything else.

I had surgery on Thursday at age 31. 221 highest weight, surgery weight was 210.

Fish you can cut with a fork is allowed on my soft food stage and it has loads of protein and no carbs.

Ok I'm home now, comfortable and my typing arm isn't hooked up to an IV anymore so I can let you guys know how it went. I found these play by plays so helpful when I was researching the board so hope this one is too. Here goes: - I showed up at the hospital at my designated time of 8:15 am on Thursday. When I got there, the Preoperative nurse went over paperwork with me, had me take a pregnancy test, had me change into a gown and set up my IV who I promptly named Blue IV Carter. Since I had no one with me and had not invited visitors to the hospital, the preop nurse also wrapped up my clothing and bag and left it with security. - while I was in the preop room the following people came by to check in with me and see if I had any questions: the surgeon, my physicians assistant, the surgery nurse, the anesthesiologist, and the anesthesia nurse. - I was also left alone in the room for quite some time as the surgery before mine ran long so I took that time to peruse my file and read all my clearance letters. I noticed that the shrink who did my psych clearance had not listened to a word I said and his letter was riddled with errors but oh well, it was effective for my insurance company and I see my own therapist anyway. - the surgery nurse comes to fetch me and walk me into the OR where I was greeted by at least a dozen people. The anasthesia nurse told me the first thing she would give me would feel like a "glass of wine" and one of the surgery assistants told me he was hooking me up to something that would massage my legs. "Oh, like a fancy spa." I said and then my surgeon came to wish me a good sleep and that's the last I remember until - I woke up in the post op room extremely nauseous and in a lot of pain. I was retching and dry heaving a lot. The anasthesia nurse was there and showed me how to use my PCA and I proceeded to press the button repeatedly. This was the worst part of the whole experience. I ended up spending almost 6 hours in the post op room while they got a room ready for me. The hospital was backed up and they apologized for this several times. My mouth was super dry, to the point of pain, my cheeks sticking to my teeth and what not. The post op nurse brought me some cups of Water to swish and spit which brought some light relief but I was fantasizing about the bottle of biotene spray that was locked up with security. I also must have slept quite a bit while down there. They brought several other patients in and out from other surgeries while I was there. At some point my surgeon stopped by to tell me he had done a liver biopsy as well. - eventually transport took me to my unit, which was not my surgeons preferred unit but made me happy because it was a unit with all private rooms. The transport was also awful- they banged me into a wall and Blue IV Carter got stuck a couple of times. As soon as I got into my bed in my unit I started dry heaving again. - I met my (lovely) nurses and begged them to retrieve my bags from security for me. While I waited for those I swished and spit some more and drifted in and out of sleep. - when I got my bags the biotene was a huge life saver. It kept my mouth moist for the rest of the night as I was on nil per mouth and wasn't even allowed ice chips or water. Shout out to the bariatric pal community for recommending I pack that. - at this point (7:30/8pm) I started feeling pretty great. The pain meds were doing their job and the nurses gave me Zofran for nausea which worked great. I started doing laps around the floor with Blue IV. About every 5-6 laps elicited a little burp which felt great. - I spent the rest of the night alternately sleeping, walking my laps, spraying with biotene, and using the spirometer. Around 2am the nurse asked me if I had urinated. I had not and she informed me if I didn't go soon she would have to insert a catheter. I interpreted this as a grave threat and stepped up the laps and made many attempts to pee while running the shower and sink faucets. At some point my nurse changed me from a clear bag of IV fluids to a yellow one rich with Vitamins. Between that a YouTube video of a babbling brook I propped up on the sink I finally went around 5:30 am and the catheter threat was over. - I slept about an hour and was awoken by a parade of about 10 cheery residents, 3 of whom were in my surgery. They asked how I was feeling, checked out my 5 incisions and went on their merry way. They returned throughout the day in various configurations of 2-3 at a time to make sure I was walking, using the spirometer and feeling okay. - my surgeon came by around 9 am to check in and tell me that the surgery went great and I would be free to go around 3-4 pm and that I could have Clear liquids. - my nurse brought me a tray of tea, water, veggie broth, orange jell-o and apple juice. I had the water and about half the broth. It felt great ! And elicited more gentle burping. - around 12 pm in preparation for my discharge they took away my dear Blue IV Carter and replaced her with a non PCA model. Bye bye morphine. - I then slept hard for about a 2 hour stretch- the longest stretch of the whole ordeal. When I woke up there was a lunch tray with the same stuff as the Breakfast try. I had half the broth again. - the surgeons PA came in with my discharge paperwork and final instructions. I changed into my clothes, called an Uber and now I'm recovering comfortably at home. Voila. tl;dr- surgery went fine, pack biotene, try hard to pee.

I'm in my recovery room which turned out to be private anyway. Tomorrow I'll try and post a play by play for everyone, but just checking in to say I'm all good !

Me.

The gown and pants they gave me are sooooooooo big I am drowning in them. I hope this is how my fat clothes feel later on down the road !

I'm here now. I think my surgery is at 9:30. Good luck guys.

I'm on my way to the hospital as well !

Us n00bs are just gonna take way more than we can give up until we aren't newbies anymore. I could definitely see how that could be frustrating- especially when you're getting piled on for sharing your knowledge. Not to sound like #1 creeper but just know that plenty of us are spending a lot of time reading through your old posts, soaking up knowledge, taking notes, trying to succeed. That goes to all of you vets, but especially you @@Kindle I really get a lot from your posts.

How long until the magnesium citrate works? I finished the bottle about an hour ago and now I'm just waiting.

I'm tomorrow as well. They just called me tell me to come by 8:15. I'm thinking about calling to purchase a private room. What did you all do?

When I realized that I couldn't just stop overeating to lose weight. If I tackled overeating I could stop gaining and gaining but in order to lose I needed to really restrict myself and I knew I couldn't succeed at that without a tool. So it was that and after I'd done enough research to satisfy safety concerns.

Laughing at how optimistic I was here. Yes, I easily avoided all the usual temptations near home like pizza, chips, ice cream, takeout. But I cheated on my liquid diet almost every day with small servings of raw or fresh grilled fish for dinner and one night that fish came with a side of baby artichokes. Today is the last day before surgery and I'll stick to all liquids but ugh! I suck. Haha.

Good luck today @@ChrisInc2 @@Ashley Nd Michael Fisher @@CaitlinT @@Shelli1972

I cheated as well. I had a Bloody Mary and some tuna tartare topped with caviar. Ahhhhh.

I'm 4 days away and I'm freaking out a little too. Mostly about a big cut I have on my pinky toe because I tend to fixate on irrelevant things. I'm worried It will get a terrible hospital infection.

At my preop appt the other day, they told me to take the gel off my index finger and leave the rest.

This is one of the best posts I've ever read

Also- the kind of whitening we did for my teeth involved some kind of laser/light and custom trays with carbomide peroxide. This was a few years ago but I kept the trays and buy the carbomide peroxide on Amazon to periodically rewhiten.