Gottajustdoit

Hi everyone. I had surgery around 1pm on Wednesday and was discharged from the hospital around 7pm last night. Felt good to sleep in my own bed! No complications during the operation, but it took me a while to get out of the recovery room. After the surgery, the gave me Dilaudid in my IV for the first day. On the second day they switched me to the oral Oxycodone. I stopped the pain meds yesterday morning. I was about to get out of the hospital yesterday morning, but my body was low in magnesium and sodium so needed those added to my IV before I could leave. I was given broth and Jello in the hospital but didn't feel like eating much. I have three kinds of pain..the stomach itself is very tender, as if someone had plowed into me. It's not unlike super sore muscle pains. I also have gas pain in my right shoulder, which caused a lot of pain but that's subsiding. The other pain is a more like a tightness in my chest or reflux. Now that I'm home, I've been sipping on Premier Protein shakes and water, but that's it. I may add in Unjury chicken broth later in the day. What I"m wondering is what kind of pain y'all are feeling post op? My husband just left to pick up my prescriptions for Zofran and the acid reducer. No a fan of crushing up my other meds (e.g. my thyroid me) and getting those down. Yeck. Overall less pain that I was expecting, but realizing it will take a while for the tummy bloating and soreness to subside. Total pounds lost from the date I started all-liquids (Feb 3) until today is about 5-6 pounds. I plan on taking a 2-hour flight to see my family on March 7 and am pretty sure I will feel up to it.

wahoo!!!😀

To all those who are joining me on the operating table tomorrow, February 13, Godspeed!

Welcome to the February group! I definitely wish you well. Surgery for me is the day after tomorrow and I have only shared my decision with my family and a very close friends. We are all nervous. First, we are having major surgery and second, we have to change our lifestyles forever. Good luck!

Sorry to hear about the long hospital stay. Where did you have the pain?

Enjoy every single bit of that steak. Savor it. Enjoy! And remember, some day you will get to eat teeny bites of really lean steak again!

Hmmmm...this does seem odd. Might you be allergic to the surgical tape? When you say you have no restriction to drinking, do you mean the amount? Which surgery did you have?

Great job both of you! This makes me feel a bit braver as I head to my surgery on Wednesday. I have been straining my soups and my best so far has been the soup I strained today at Noodles & Company. Kind of embarrassing, but I strained their Thai Chicken Soup at the table so I could eat with my family. It was soooo delicious. Pudding, I must say, though, sounds AMAZING.

Thoughts and prayers for all three of you who are going into surgery tomorrow. 😀

I’m scheduled for the 27th!!!! BrooklynKay--Welcome to February Weight Loss Buds!

So, the liquid diet for me has been very, very hard. Tomorrow will be one week on the all liquids and then surgery on Wednesday. I have strained a lot of soups and my favorite so far has been Trader Joe's Chicken Kettle Broth and Progresso's canned French onion soup. The seem to have the most flavor of the ones I've tried. I've made three types of Jello-o and overnight I'm putting my protein shake into popsicle molds to see if they will taste like fudgecicles. Fingers crossed! It has been so hard to watch TV with so many food commercials. My funeral meal (Mod Pizza) is what I'm craving the most. I had my favorite meals (yes steak was one!) each day of the week before the liquid diet. It's frighting how much I miss just ordering off the menu or grabbing a snack from the refrigerator. The agony is real!

Glad you have been discharged and don't have pain. I don't know how you are going to do it. Will you be able to lift your baby? I was told not to life anything about 20 lbs after my surgery for at least two weeks. I hope someone will be able to help out so you can rest. Hang in there!

When was your surgery? What kind of pain? Did you have a gastric sleeve originally followed by a recent gastric bypass? I sure hope my doctor will give me something to help me sleep. I understand the only pain meds he prescribes is Tylenol with Codeine. I'm allergic to codeine so once I leave the hospital it's fend for myself with just regular Tylenol, which I haven't found in liquid form yet (other than the children's Tylenol). Are you taking anything for the pain?

I do have Trader Joes near me (yes!). Is the black bean and chipotle soup spicy? Do you buy it in a can? There is a cafeteria in the building where I work and the soup of the day switches from day to day (then repeats). I have been straining the various soups for my lunches but I'm TIRED of them. I strained a beef and barley soup today that had a vegetable/tomato base. Ick. The one soup that I keep going back to is Progresso's French Onion soup. I strain out all the onions and it has a salty rich taste to it. I try not to have it too often because I fear it will also lose its appeal.

Don't worry, EmzBee....I know what your worries are. I'm the kind of person who goes to the doctor for one thing only to find out I have something worse. If it wasn't so traumatic to my psyche, it would be funny. So, you can imagine I'm thinking the same thing, that I will have complications. Take comfort that so many of our February buddies have already through the surgery and doing great! That's what I'm focusing on. Also, if we do have complications, the surgeons have probably seen it before and know how to fix them. I am taking heart in what my surgeon said, that the surgery is quite common and the chances of complications are very rare.

Dear Frust8-- This sounds so horrible and sorry to hear of all the complications. I'm not clear--what surgery did you have when and what, exactly, was the complication? Are you having another surgery this month? I am beyond shocked that you have had to be on a liquid diet for so long. It sounds miserable. I am only 6 days into my liquid diet and am trying to stay sane. Hoorah! So good to hear you are through the surgery and pain is minimal.

The way I feel must be like the keto flu, then. I never tried the keto diet so I didn't experience it. My nutritionist did not mention I'd feel so yucky. It is good to hear that I may be going through a normal process, then. I DO have Netflix and am binging at night after work when the kids and hubby are eating dinner. Cooking would be too difficult right now!

Interesting! I am glad to hear that it is treatable. Hope you are feeling well now. My gastric bypass is on Feb 13 so I still have 6 days left of this miserable liquid diet. I am not adjusting well--not just hunger, but I have headaches and some nausea. The smell of some of the soups I'm eating is off-putting. I went grocery shopping tonight for more supplies and--no surprise--it was difficult. For some reason I wanted cheese really badly. I thought of sucking on cheese cubes! I didn't, but was thinking about it! I did buy some sugar-free hard candy to keep me occupied when the hunger strikes.

I will have to take most of my medications after surgery. Even though I consider them to be quite small, my surgeon says I need to crush them. I will be taking two soft chew multivitamins, two soft chew calcium citrate, and one soft chew Iron + C after the surgery. What type of vitamins are you taking and do you have to crush your pills?

thelostmermaid--What was the blood stool from? Did they say it was at all related to the surgery? Sorry to hear you had complications. Congrats on the weight loss!

Do you have the Calm app on your phone? I don't but have been thinking of getting it. I keep seeing it pop up on FaceBook and it looks like it might chill me out. Other ideas are just listening to quiet music and breathing in and out. I suffer anxiety and I know how awful it is. Hang in there!

Congrats on the weight loss PRE surgery! I see your weight goal and I bet anything you'll blow by it. Nice!

Awesome!!!! Keep on moving!

So glad to hear of those who have had the surgery and are feeling well! I am one-week out (guess I'm one of the quads/quints with a Feb 13 surgery) and I just finished my umpteenth bowl of sugar-free green Jello-O. Ugh. I had my preop physical for clearance today and all looks good. Bloodwork tomorrow. I love my primary doctor. After my physical she gave me a hug and wished me good luck. I had tears in my eyes. What doctor does that? I am blessed! Wish I could pay all the hugs forward to all of you. That small gesture meant so much to me.

I had Mod Pizza...loved and savored every bite. Would pay big bucks for another pizza right now!