C.Todd

Hi all, i am in for surgery on tues 3rd oct, I know why I'm having a gastric sleeve and what I will do if I don't have the surgery. I have met 2 great mentors on here that have been great for advice and what they have been through ect, But don't want to keep bugging them, I am just scared now. I have had a full spectrum of emotions from the day I decided to go ahead with surgery. I have research for a good year, tried alsorts in the mean time and found a great team and surgeon in the uk. I am 12 weeks off finishing a nursing degree and all the time I am faced with health promotion to patients yet i feel a fraud each time I do it. I am a mother of 2 and have a partner that supports me fully, he has never struggled with food like I do and over the years together has seen and felt my personal struggles. The fear I believe comes from the unknown, I have talked to others and been amazed at their achievement yet I feel that will never happen to me and I even feel after this I will be the same and never be 30lb lighter. I have done a pre op but not much of one as my surgeon has allowed me now to just eat veg and lean meat and am fine with what I will be having for the next 4 weeks until the purée diet kicks in. I have been given so much information about my surgery from my consultant, so it's not through lack of that information, I guess it's all something we have never had before until we have done it (sounds silly when I read this but it's what's going round in my head). Catherine

So pleased for you, all diets seem to be different depending on surgeon, let us know when you get all the details I am not insurance I am self funding, I'm in uk.

Yes I feel freezing too, I thought that was just me, I'm glad to hear someone else has it but sorry at the same time as it's not a nice feeling. Really strange your craving something you don't even like. Can you have bovril or anything, I have been having that to keep warm a little. I hope you feel better, in a way I feel this is getting us ready for what is to come so it's not a shock to the system. I feel if I did this a few years ago I would of packed it in, so I know I'm ready for this now.

Hi there my date is the 3rd, I'm on my pre op diet and struggling, I hope your goes better it's day 4 that I hit a low point.

Hi there, I'm 31 and am booked in for surgery in Sheffield, UK, 3rd October 2017. I am nervous and excited to finally be starting a new chapter in my life and facing my demons. I could really use some one to talk to about what to expect, the dos and the donts Ect. I don't know anyone who has had this done and would love to talk to someone who has. Hope to to speak soon Catherine