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Felicidades! Espero que te todo siga bien y que te sientas mejor pronto!

Yay! Congratulations!! 🎈🎉🎊 Hope everything continues to go smoothly and that you have a speedy recovery!!

Thank you so much for this!

I hope you start to feel better soon!

Me too! I also switched surgeons/hospitals and I am so much happier with my decision.

What are you revising from? You may be right about the revision. I know my doctor told me that he would not do my lap-band removal and revision to sleeve in one operation because its more traumatic to the body. And had a greater percentage of some kind of complication or another. Including when healing. He said it can be done and many successfully do it, including himself when medically necessary, its just that he doesn’t like doing it. So I had to wait almost ten weeks in between. I feel like revisions are the least spoken about of all these surgeries. We speak of each as if they are individual and never of what it means to put them together in one body.

What company are you using?

Oh my goodness! November?! Ugh. I hope its not so far ahead for me. I have a wedding at the end of October. I want to at least be eating a little normally.

This exactly my worry. Luckily the kids won’t be back yet for that first week. That’s when it really gets exhausting. Lol.

Thanks guys! Your answers make me feel better. I think I’ll be able to do it. Driving was my biggest worry. Because of the amount of traffic going home can sometimes take over an hour.

Thats great to see! How’s your mobility? Have you been able to drive? (If you drive) I have to drive to get to work.

Yaassss!!! Lol. These popsicles are seriously saving lives out here! 🤣😂

I bought one of those protein laden broths from a Bariatric company. They aren’t bad and since they would something warm you might not mind having that. It has 20gms of protein. I hope you start feeling better soon!

Half way through the month! Good luck to everyone coming up this week and I hope those who have gone before are having a good recovery! Anyone who already had it already back at work? This has been my biggest worry.

I’m ready. Lol. Bring it on!

Yeah 8 pills feels like overkill. Lol. I say that even while I’m taking 6 because of my vitamin B and D deficiencies. Lol. I’m getting excited for my surgery. But also impatient. I want to be on the other side of this! Its funny but since its summer vacation I want the days to go slow, but since I know my surgery is right around the corner, I want it to hurry up and get here. Just some of the very mixed emotions running through me. How about you? How are you feeling? Are you ready?

Hi! I got the Barimelt ones. I’ve been taking them this entire month and so far so good. They’re not too bad, I think all of them have funky tastes based on what people are saying so I’m sticking with these unless my doc says otherwise. I chose the sleeve on the recommendation of my surgeon. I don’t suffer from acid reflux and he thinks I would do well with the sleeve since I did lose weight with my lap-band and proper eating, he thought the restriction was all I need to get back on track. I think he also said the weight loss difference was close with bypass and sleeve, so the less invasive sleeve would be enough

Just got my confirmation call for my pre-surgical testing appt in Tuesday! Its becoming soooo real! Argh!! Also, I ate some a pickle slices. Do you guys think that’s terrible? Where do pickles fall on the list of things you can’t eat on the liquid diet? Anyone have any ideas? Also for those of you who have had your surgeries already thank you for posting your stories and how it went. Its making it easier to wait on line for my turn to come!

You totally can!! 🤗 I’m on day 4. First 3 really were the hardest, but I keep reminding myself why I wanted this! When you get hungry drink water and focus on doing something to take your mind off of it or taking a nap, if you can!! Good luck.

Oh yeah, definitely with a job like that you should take your time. I’m having a revision, from lap band to sleeve. I’m so ready to get this done, so I understand you not wanting to jeopardize that.

My liquid diet allows me 1 egg/yogurt/glass of milk a day. In addition to my 4 protein shakes and clear liquids. I have NEVER found an egg to be so delicious as I do now!! 🤣 I bow down all chickens for making such a yummy treat! 🤣😂

Oh no! Are/were the spasms painful? I haven’t heard of that but I can easily imagine that happening. Especially considering that it mist feels like you just over did an ab exercise when you get out of surgery. I hope they were able to help you with that.

Wow 5 weeks is awesome! Good for you. Sadly I can’t take that kind of time off so I’m just hoping my body works with me and allows me to push through. I’ll be back at work on the 27th. Exactly 1 week later. Do you have a pre-op?

i second @heartofmercury’s sentiment. Today I begin liquids. I just know days 1-3 are going to be hard because I’ll likely get a headache from all the sugar and bad stuff leaving my system. Anyone else experience headaches?

I definitely like it better than the Gatorade. The only way I could finish a bottle of the Gatorade was to mix it with almost equal parts water. I was thinking that maybe that’s what I will do rather than using things like Crystal Light when I want a little something flavorful in my water. I’ll mix these with my water. That way I’ll have protein in my water but it won’t be an overwhelming flavor. I have a bottle of unflavored liquid protein on its way to me but I don’t trust that I can put that in my water without it giving it a funky taste. I’m curious about those protein chicken broths and puddings that I bought. I might have one of those today to see how it goes. And if I like it. My Liquids start next Monday (8/8) and I want to make sure I’m ready to go. I wonder if anyone else has tried them or something like them.