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My surgeon just changed my surgery date to July 25th (from the 27th). Anyone else scheduled for the 25th?
Hope all the July buddies are off to a great start! 😊

Hi there! We're surgery twins. My surgery is also on July 25th. Feel free to reach out anytime. 😊

I am 12 days post-op. They also allowed me to have sugar-free popsicles, Jello and pudding. That felt a little more substantial at times. Keep your eyes on the goal. They are shrinking your liver to make surgery easier. You got this!

Ok, surgery in about 3 hours!!!
I’m all packed, scrubbed with the pre op body wash and thirsty.

I'm a bit nervous, but more excited. I hope the pain isn’t too bad afterwards, but whatever comes, I’m 100% certain of my decision and looking forward to my journey onwards.

I’ll let you know what weird and wonderful things lie beyond…

Hello, my surgery is tomorrow also, 1:00, its going to be a long day, i cant have any more liquids after midnight, but i am excited, good luck tomorrow.

P.S. dumping affects about 30% of RNY patients. It's much less common in sleeve patients. It's from eating too much sugar or fat in one sitting. It causes heart palpitations, cramping, chills or sweating, and diarrhea.
is there real sugar in your Protein powder, or is it an artificial sweetener? If the latter, it's not dumping - but you could have an intolerance to whatever sweetener they use. That's not uncommon...

good suggestion.
I can't modify my original post to request this info, so i'll look up each person's profile and input what it says the type of surgery they had. Not everyone fills this in, so we'll do with what info we have. Also, for those with revisions, only their latest surgery will be noted as it will start to get hairy if i have to cross-reference exactly WHEN they had thier revision...

Hello!
I'm new here!
My surgery is scheduled for July25th at 730am!

I buy all my Vitamins from Bariatric Advantage. They have a chewable and capsules.

Curious about no iceberg either. It may not have as much nutrition as other leafy greens but it is still good for your heart and has valuable nutrition and helps with hydration.

I have my pre op appointment today. My surgery is scheduled for 26th. I’ve been cleared for my psych eval. I am self pay so I will be making my payments today. I can’t believe this is happening.

Remember it is worth it and follow doctors order afterward to a t to avoid unnecessary complications. I had bypass 7/5 and I'm sore but it's not horrible. Keep moving and work the gas out. Good luck on your upcoming journeys

Any Bariatric Vitamin should meet the ASMBS guidelines. More of anything does not always mean better and less does not always mean worse/lower quality. I personally take the ProCare 1x daily capsule (iron free, per my doctors orders based on my lab work) and have had perfect labs since surgery. I tolerate them well and know they meet the ASMBS guidelines.

I thought I had found the perfect bariatric Vitamin from Walgreens (Optifast Post Bariatric) but recently found out it's either completely out of stock or discontinued. So now I am on the search for a good RNY vitamin as well.
I was told too by my nutritionist that taking a chewable multiple times a day was better absorbed than taking a bunch of regular pill type Vitamins. At least for gastric bypass patients.
I need to figure it out soon since I only have a couple weeks supply left. The last thing I need is to become vitamin deficient and have my teeth breaking off like chalk. If I have to, I guess I'll stock up on Flintstone chewables. xD

I use Bari-Slim chewable Multi Vitamins. They have alot in them - except Calcium. I buy Caltrate to take along with the Multi-Vitamin. The orange Bari Slim flavor is great - I use that as my "candy" for the day . Here's where I get them :
https://www.amazon.com/BariSlim-Complete-Chewable-Bariatric-Multivitamin/dp/B081264LLH

I use the bariatricpal chewable with Iron too. Same deal, $99 for a year supply. I suggest you order 1 bottle to make sure you like it. I took it before surgery and it didn't taste particularly good to me, but was OK so I ordered the year supply. After surgery, it makes me sick unless I take it with dairy. Problem is, Calcium interferes with iron absorption. I researched and talked to my pharmacist, and she says if I keep the calcium under 200mg then it's OK, it's levels over 200mg that are a problem. So, I take it with 4oz of fat free milk or 3oz of my Protein Drink to keep it under 200mg calcium.
I had the sleeve, so all I take is the 1 chewable in the am, and calcium twice a day later in the day. My bloodwork is OK.

I use the bariatricpal chewables. $99 shipped for a year supply. They taste decent.

I'm using the Bariatric Fusion Multivitamin chewable. I'm taking 1 three times throughout the day. I added a separate chewable B12, plus a chewable Iron, a chewable Biotin, and a chewable Calcium. The thing with the bypass is that because of the malabsorption, we need to take them several times a day because we don't absorb the way sleevers do. I am a revision from sleeve to bypass (20 days out). It won't do us any good to take a large amount of any Vitamin just once or twice a day because we won't absorb it anyway. We'll have better luck taking the regular amounts several times a day. This way, we give our bodies several opportunities to absorb some of the Vitamins we're consuming. Also, we shouldn't take iron and calcium together because they compete for absorption. Those should be taken at least 2-3 hours apart.

I found BariLife one a day bariatric chewable vitamins and they had quite a bit of good stuff in them. I haven’t taken them post-surgery yet because it is too early, but the flavor wasn’t bad when I tried them prior to my sleeve. They upset my tummy a little, but I think I just needed to eat something first.

Hello everyone, I just had my surgery July 7th! We got this!

I had mine on July 5. Was in the hospital over nite. Had to have something for pain and nausea the first night. Thought I was dying when I woke up from recovery but that was the meds nothing to do with surgery. At home taking it easy Dr. Sent me home with pain meds something for nausea and heartburn. So far have not had to take any of them. Today (Saturday) is the first day I can actually think of drinking anything like a Protein Shake. But I will say all I can think about is egg rolls. Don’t know why just keeps popping up in my head.

I have SADI-S as well, but 7/21...This pre-op diet is nuts

SADI-S on July 19th- first day of starvation today waahhh

I had all my preop appointments yesterday with my surgeon and anesthesia so it looks like everything is cleared. I had to do chest X-ray and extra blood work today. The only thing that concerned me is the anesthesiologist did an EKG yesterday and mentioned that it looked like I might have had a heart attack. She wants me to talk to my PCP about it, she said it could be a lead not in the right place, something, or nothing. I feel like here I am, 43, and already potentially had a heart attack. That is scary to me and way to scare a person before they undergo major surgery. My perception of how important this surgery is has changed a bit. Now it is important as ever to have this surgery done and to be successful with its results. I am doing my preop diet and it is not so bad, but I am ready to chew something. So my surgery team said I could chew sugar free gum. So I am going to try that. So now it just 9 days until surgery.
I am taking my son on a road trip Saturday and Sunday and I am not sure how I am going to cope with no snack food on the trip. I normally munch on popcorn, or something while I drive. I guess I will just have to chew some gum. Chew chew chew. lol

I'm actually in Indiana. But I love TN! Counting the few days left before the liquid fast.