tberme01

I have to say now that today is almost over, it was probably the best day on my diet. I did have some hunger pains but not bad and the shakes did help. I also only had one bowl of the broth w/ celery and carrots. I'm hoping it has been a better day for you Jo and that tomorrow is even better!

I'm on day 5 of my diet. I can't have salad or meat, only the liquid diet and 5 carrots 5 celery sticks and 5 radishes a day. I make soup with the broth carrots, celery and fresh parsley. It helps a little. The 1st couple of days were horrible but it is better. I feel the same about anesthesia. I am very scared. I'm a nursing student and I have learned about all the things that can go wrong. I just keep telling myself that it is all in God's hands and that if I wasn't suppose to have surgery it wouldn't happen. Well good luck and I hope our hunger pains go away soon. Just stick with it, you can do it!

I'm on day five of my liquid diet too. Band date 3-31-09. The dietician told us we were able to have 5 carrots 5 radishes and 5 celery sitcks a day on top of our liquids and shakes. To help me I made soup with the veggies and broth. I added fresh parsley. Also as a part of my liquid diet I have soup packets so once a day I add that to the soup I make it's actually pretty good. I hope this helps a little. Just remember atleast 4 days before your surgery don't add the veggies to anything, don't eat them at all. You'll do great! This is the hard part and you're almost there.

Thanks so much Special K. I know that the process is neccessary but the one thing I've always been confident in is my mind. I hate my body most of the time but I'm so proud of myself when it comes to school. Now I have someone questioning my mental stability. Anyways I have talked to my family and they agree that they have never seen signs of me being bipolar, which I know is very common with the illness. I have spent much time praying over the last few hours and I feel much better. Your words of advice help me to know this is just another hoop that I WILL be jumping through. Thanks so much. God Bless you too.

I have never been on this site before. The Psychiatrist I seen today gave me the address. I hoping someone can ease my mind a little. I see a lot of success stories regarding the psych eval but mine didn't go well. The dr basically said that I'm at high risk for bipolar disorder due to sleeplessness and past hx due to post partem depression and thyroid disfunctions. I explained that the sleeping probs are only when I take perscribed med adipex. Anxiety was related to too much synthroid while getting the disease under control. I'm a mother of 2 and I'm in nursing school with a 3.86 GPA. I told him I'm under some stress but I'm a happy person. I don't like my weight problem, that is why I was there. I need to be healthy for my girls. I guess because I answered too many questions as being happy in life and successful w/ school he said that was manic or states of euphoria. He didn't ask hardly any questions he was just going off the computer test which I found to be difficult. (I'm an analyzer) Questions like most people are truthful, people have alterior motives. Well I'm guilty of giving people the benefit of the doubt and answered mostly true. Anyways I have to see a therapist now for 12 session. I'm even more scared than before and I just want to cry. Can someone please give me some advice or even a story that relates to mine and let me know I'm not the only one. Thanks