KCgirl061

I wish I hadn't had the heavy duty opioids. I felt awful in hospital and didn't think I'd be able to go home. I felt like it was a major workout just to get up to the bathroom and back in bed. The nurse explained that it was likely the morphine and she would switch to the Lortab when it was time for more pain meds. After the morphine wore off and I was good on the Lortab I was in the shower and moving around the room getting my bag packed.

Maybe doing a pouch reset? I've only seen mention of it and don't know the exact steps for it. Then when you finish that start some kind of structured diet plan. Planning to me is the key to eating what I'm supposed to eat and not whatever I find in the pantry at the last minute. Good luck!

Did they mention insurance coverage for it if it is off label use of the medical device?

My understanding is that your sleeve will stretch to accommodate up to half a cup of food during your first year and that it is important to measure your food to keep from pushing the limits and stretching it to be bigger than that. It sounds like at 3oz you're doing fine. Make sure you're eating slowly.

Welcome!

Beano wont help with that type of gas. Its an enzyme to help you digest food properly. A heating pad around your upper back and shoulders will help relieve some of the pain but the body just has to absorb the gas trapped in your abdomen. Walking seems to be the only thing that speeds up that process. Makes sense because as you walk you are increasing your oxygen consumption and expelling more CO2 - which is the gas they use in surgery and what you're trying to get rid of.

A lot of people will do a pouch reset. My advice is to write out your menu for the week. Maybe go to Pinterest to get ideas if you need them. But planning out my meals is my best strategy to stick to healthy eating. Otherwise it gets to dinner time and I'm at a loss for what to eat or make and just end up eating junk.

What about actual lemon and lime juice from the produce section? You know - the plastic bottles that look like the fruit.

The number one thing I see people complaining of is the issue of your family still needing to eat when you can't. Make sure they know you are likely to get hangry, and - if at all possible - it would be helpful they could refrain from eating trigger foods in front of you. Its really hard to smell pizza in the house and know that you can't eat it. But you also have to know that this is a choice you are making and not them, you can't tell them not to eat certain things just because you can't.

So I picked up some Lactaid and started taking it today. So far so good, hopefully this is the solution I've been needing.

You can do it! Good Luck!

I think there are a lot of different people out there getting weight loss surgery and handling it in different ways. When I started by journey I was here on BariatricPal and several "support groups" on Facebook. The sheer amount of enabling on the support groups was unbelievable to me! People telling each other it was fine to eat whatever you wanted in moderation. Encouraging to cheat on the pre op liquid diet and sometimes even post op diets. Anyone that tried to say "no, don't eat that, it has too much sugar, make a better choice" was labeled Food Police and bullied. I had to leave and this is the only place I've stuck around because I don't see that here. I see people genuinely helping each other, not enabling the bad decisions that lead to WLS in the first place. My point is, I truly believe those people, the ones with the "you can eat whatever you want in moderation" mindset, the ones saying "I'm eating ice cream and cheeseburgers and still losing weight, I must be doing something right!", they are the ones that will end up not losing the weight they want and regaining it back. That is the 25% over the 25 BMI group of people. Stick to the path you're on. Make the permanent lifestyle change from unhealthy foods. From the look of your food diary you are doing great and I have no doubt that you will exceed the 'average' weight loss.

Yep. Its different for all of us and I'm sure it comes down to age and genetics. My friend and I were just talking about how I've lost more weight than she did (both by pounds and percentage) and yet I don't seem to have as much sagging skin as she does. It's pure luck on my part.

Keep pestering them! Ask to speak to a manager. Tell them that their staff are not following up on what they specifically said they'd be doing, which is staying in contact with you. Be assertive and make several calls if you have to. At the very least they'll stop giving people the expectation that they'll communicate with them in a timely manner.

Liquids pass through pretty quickly, and I can't imagine you drinking enough to cause the kind of pressure that would result in damaging your staple line and causing a leak. How quickly are you getting that 10oz in? Are you chugging it or sipping it over 30 minutes? When you move on to more solid food it is absolutely imperative that you stick to the volume amounts set by your surgeon. That won't move through as quickly and damage could occur. But also you want to get used to that amount so you don't overeat your calorie limits. After you're completely healed, this ability to drink a lot will come to your advantage in summertime and in situations where dehydration is a risk.

My family and I just spent the afternoon at the movies. We skipped the soda but got a large popcorn and refilled it. I certainty had my share of it!

*groan* I don't know if I can give up my protein bars. They are such a good source of protein, fiber, and they help tame my craving for sweets!

When I was blonde for a whileI always thought I looked a bit like Kelly Clarkson -- a fatter version anyway. Now I'm thinner than Kelly. She's still a lot more glamorous than I am though.

DONT PANIC. I'm a surgical nurse and see all sorts of surgeries that use staplers. It is totally normal for loose staples to have been left in abdominal cavity. I'll explain. Lets say your doctor is using a 60mm stapler. And he makes his way across the stomach and gets to the end where his last bit of stomach to staple across is only 30mm. He fires the stapler and 30mm of staples are in your staple line and the other 30mm worth of staples have to go somewhere right? They fall out of the stapler into the abdominal cavity. Usually the surgeons at the end of the case will put a bunch of saline in and suction it back out, getting as many of those staples out as they can. But not all of them. They don't have a count of how many loose staples are there and arent going to spend any amount of time picking out every single one. Especially when they know they won't cause any harm. So even though there was a loose staple that made it's way down to your ovaries, it's VERY UNLIKELY it came from your staple line.

This is a great idea. Also here is my insight - guess what days I'm more likely to overeat or eat unhealthy foods? My days off work. When I'm at work I pack my health portions of food and that's what I have to eat. When I'm at home on the weekends or other days off I'm much more likely to grab a handle of Cheerios from the pantry or I'm tempted to eat out and get into more calories than I should really have. So that can be another positive to getting back to work.

Donated. Some to shelters, some to my nieces that are in college and gained the "freshman fifteen" and were shopping at thrift shops anyways.

I haven't thought about dairy. Most of my dairy intake is the Premier protein I use as coffee creamer, yogurt, and cheese. Unless there is dairy in protein bars too? I'll have to give that a try.

That's AWESOME! Talk about your non scale victories!