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Gallbladder First, Sleeve Next
Shay27 replied to Meganator's topic in PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
I had my gallbladder removed about 10 months before getting sleeved. I gained about 38 lbs in those months and the weight gain didn’t seem to be slowing down so WLS was a must at this point. Comparing the two, I feel like I had less pain with the WLS. I actually asked my mom if she was sure they even did anything! 1. I didn’t need any painkillers after WLS, but I took them for about a week after gallbladder removal. 2. I’m typically a stomach sleeper and was also able to go back to sleeping on my stomach faster after the sleeve. 3. i only needed to sleep on a recliner for 2 days after WLS, but slept in a recliner for about 10 days after gallbladder removal. 4. Moving around was also easier for me after the sleeve, mainly because I felt like I couldn’t stand up straight after the gallbladder removal. 5. I was sleepier after the sleeve and generally had less energy the first week. 6. I had a bowel movement faster after WLS and going to the bathroom was easier in general. 7. TMI but I had sex sooner after WLS than I did after gallbladder removal. 8. Oh, my surgeon used my main gallbladder removal incision (the top one) so I only had 2 new tiny incisions for a total of 3 incisions for WLS. He felt like it was unnecessary for me to have more scars than I should so maybe that’s an individual thing that differs from surgeon to surgeon so I’d ask if that was possible. I only have the 3 WLS incisions visible and the gallbladder ones were so tiny they disappeared (you can only see them if you know where to look). So all in all I’d say my recovery from the sleeve was easier than the gallbladder removal, but of course that’s just me. I’m sure other people have it the other way around. Either way, you can do it! For me, the hardest step was actually deciding and committing to the WLS. Don’t worry, you got this!! Please feel free to message me if you feel like you have more questions or if I missed anything. -
I am so happy for you Kathy, you will not even believe how much better you will feel in a week.
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Is there such a thing as "240's LAND" ?
kemo46 posted a topic in Weight Loss Surgery Success Stories
I am too far off from onederland but I reached 240 land. I weighed in at 248 this morning and it has been over 20 years since that has happened. I had a long stall but it is finally broken. I am a little over 3 months post-op and I am down about 67lbs. I feel like a different person. My next stop, the real onederland. -
I lost 45lbs. in the first 9 weeks. So I think you're doing fine. Think about coming to a meeting if you'd like to speak w/other DSers.
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I was excited to see I broke my stall
_Kate_ replied to grandmaofone's topic in Tell Your Weight Loss Surgery Story
Congratulations and well done on the loss. You are so determined and hearing your journey is very inspiring. I'm 3 weeks out tomorrow and still very tired, which I expected. I can't wait to get in the gym though, hopefully I will get the go ahead after my 6 week checkup! It's nice that you have set yourself a reward too. I think that's a really good idea- 1 reply
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I was excited to see I broke my stall
grandmaofone posted a topic in Tell Your Weight Loss Surgery Story
For the last 3 weeks I would go up and down about a pound on the scales. I got pretty bummed. I finally took it all out at the gym on my body on Monday. I walked on the treadmill at a pace of 4.0 and did two miles then I went to bikes and did another 4 miles. I was so worn out I came home and passed out. I woke up the next morning (Tuesday) and had lost a pound and half. Today I weighed myself again and had lost 0.8 lbs. I am now 10 lbs away from my first big reward of an hour massage!!! I can not wait till I hit the 199 mark!!! I have not felt this good, energetic, and happy in years. I have already gotten rid of all my fat clothes and just bought some leggings until I can get down to closer to where I want to be. As an added bonus, my hubby was rubbing my shoulders yesterday and said "you have nothing here anymore, it is all bone" which made me feel good also!!! I can finally see the changes in my body after losing 50 lbs!! BTW: surgery was on June 15 Starting weight 260 Surgery weight 245 Today 210- 1 reply
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So I have my endoscopy tomorrow... I am getting nervous and excited... It's my last test for approval and assuming it all goes well I will get my surgery date this week! I do have a question about the endoscopy... Last time I had surgery they made me remove my contacts... Will they make me do the same for the endoscopy? I hate not being able to see! Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App
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Trust me when I say that your body will MAKE YOU fight to be in One-derland. Try eating super high calories in one day. As .many as you can..this tends trick.your body into thinking its nolonger I starvation and you should see a decline in weight the following day. Also... Try and cut out any breads, Pasta, rice and sugar until you break the stall. Also... Enter your food into an app like MyFitnessPal. Maybe your carbs are too high. Just a few suggestions. ~Leticia **HW: 259**PreOp: 216**SURG: 3/21/13 **Discharged @: 221** 3 mons post op. CW: 165.0 lbs. --- Only 15 lbs to my goal ---
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I am working on my three month process...Calorie Counting and going to all my pre-op appointments. I am catching myself falling deeper into depression over my weight. I am constantly thinking about my weight, the surgery, the whole process and finding myself getting pretty emotional (at the most inconvienent of times). I am nervous, scared, and so forth. I keep thinking of my food addiction, can I really beat it? What if I fail? What if I don't like what I look like after I reach my goal weight? I see a lot of before and after photos and a lot of people look completely different. What if I loose all my friends? I am living in the land of what ifs and it is driving me crazy and since I am dieting I do not have my binge eating to cope with all the crazy. Am I loosing my mind??
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Ive had 4 out of my six monthly visits to the bariatric surgeon. Have my psych eval scheduled for this saturday sept 21st. And picking up my letter of necessity next week from my primary then my 5th appt is on oct 9th. Last one is my pre surgery labs and ekg then surgery we are pushing for surgery date no later than nov 20th. Soo excited.
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I thought all the same things when I was too tight...it will go down as soon as I lose some weight...I don't feel like driving back to my doc (5 hours away) to get .1 cc out, it will loosen up, etc. I ended up ignoring the reflux, the not eating, the throwing up and I irritated my stomach so badly that after SEVEN MONTHS of this (yeah, that's how goofy I was) I went back and had to get a complete UNFILL! Talk about terrifying! Had to let my stomach rest and take prevacid for 30 days. After 6 weeks of healing, I was fine and started back up on fills. I'm not at my optimum level yet, but am close now. DON'T be miserable and wait. Learn from my stupidity! If you are that restricted, it is miserable! I didn't even realize how bad I felt until I was unfilled and it was an instant cure! Call your doc!
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I am in the same boat. Got a fill almost 4 weeks ago and can hardly eat anything, unless it's after 11pm. My coffee takes me about 2 hours to drink in the morning, and the same for my Protein shake for lunch. Around 11pm I can have about 1/2 cup of soft foods. This is my 3rd fill and the first time I've felt "true" restriction. I thought I had restriction before but I could eat well over 1 cup of food at a time as long as it wasn't bread. I was considering an unfill, but I know they say as you loose more weight your band will loosen up and I hate to get an unfill and then have to go get a fill again later. I keep hoping it will get better because I am uncomfortable most of the time-that lump in your chest feeling and instant headache. On a good note-lost 12 pounds in those few weeks. I'm going to try and stick it out for a few more weeks and hopefully I will feel better!
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G'Day All Well it is the 10th day since my surgery and currently loosing at 3 pounds a day average, a Lot more than I expected , doing fine getting in 100 grams Protein per day plus almost 100 oz Water. I know that this will slow down but I am under dr's orders due to the major damage my stomach had suffered from previous operations I am on 4 weeks of the clear Fluid diet, I think that I will loose fast for these 4 weeks atleast. I have been walking between 1 and 2 miles per day, since I got home 1 week ago. Surgery took 8 hrs to remove the old lap-band and repair all the damage to my stomach area, my Dr was so tired after it and still had another one to do after me, my op was at 11.30 am I was pushed into my room at 11.30 pm and he came by at 1 am to see how I was doing, he expected me to spend easter in hospital due to the long operation but to his and the staffs amazement I was up walking Thursday morning and showered , walked the ward 3 times thursday and again friday morning he came by with a smile saying are you ready to go home I said hell yes , the care there was the best I have ever had in a hospital the staff so friendly and caring. OK my Dr was Dr Cirangle from LAPSF and was operated on at California pacific medical center in sf. Ok wednesday was my 1 week post op check up and weigh in and in those 7 days post op I had lost 20 pounds from the weight I was in pre op. I'm loosing faster than I did with my lapband in 1999 and then I was loosing 2 pounds a day for 8 weeks, I may just loose weight fast I'm not sure but diets never worked like this and this I know was the best choice ever I have made in my life. Cheers Malcolm
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10 days post op over the moon
aussiemalcolm replied to aussiemalcolm's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
Hi All well i'm now 4 weeks post op and down to 382.4 pounds and doing great feel great no hunger pains or other issues either just loosing the pounds fast. Eating lots of Proteins and drinking 120 oz a day. -
Hi there! My doctor does require a 2 week liquid diet. He requires Meal Replacement shakes up to 800 calories. My shakes have 25 grams of Protein each in them and 200 calories each. I am allowed 4. You can drink all the sugar-free drinks you want (Crystal Light, Water, coffee (artificial sweetener and no cream), sugar-free Jello and sugar free popsicles. I just started my liquid diet on Thursday. It's been going pretty well, for the most part. I just always have a drink next to me and drinking constantly. I hope this helps a little. Good luck!
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My surgery was one week ago tomorrow, I want to eat so bad, it all looks so good, my family is sitting here eating in front of me and I want it, this sucks, I almost feel like I wish I didn't do this because it is so good and comforts me. Will I ever not miss food!!!
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How did you quit smoking?
mysleeve2011 replied to LadyIvy's topic in PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Five days is awesome!! I guess even with the gum, the first week was the hardest. I smoked the most sitting at my computer so I made sure I moved around more and got out of the house. You can beat the nicotine addiction! I cannot imagine leaving the house without brushing my teeth! I would love to get to the point where I can't imagine not eating healthy foods. -
Thank you both for the responses. I just ordered from amazon the premier only $7 and change for 4 - 11 oz. containers. After surgery , each one should last a full day. If i spend $ 14 a week on food, that's cheap compared to what i regularly spend. I have read many lime the taste of premeir before and after surgery. I purchased both the chocolate and vanilla and i have EAS powder here in the house. I think i am pretty well set up for my first two weeks. Any other suggestions of what i may need? Sent from my SM-G920P using the BariatricPal App
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Just sitting here downing yet another protein shake. Yep living the dream! Surgery is on May 30th and with the exception of post-op I'm so glad I never have to do this again! Not that it's extremely difficult. It's also not easy but it's tolerable. I haven't cheated once and I have no intention of doing that. Just can't wait to be done with it! I had two weeks of protein shakes with one meal in the evening with guidelines of course then two weeks of just protein shakes until surgery. Some people have it easy on here with their pre-op diet mines been strict so like I said,"Living the dream!".
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it is very difficult to answer this question, remember you are on a sleeve board. wls is very personal. never go to a surgeon that only does one or 2 surgery types as they will sway you the way of the surgeries they perform, example rny and band. also remember that information you recieve really should be of 5+ years as before that it is really the honeymoon phase, those experiences are very different as I had no issue with the band before 6+ years. The band has excellent short term results but the worse long term complications of all wls (band, sleeve, rny, and DS) I had the band going on 8 years, got down to 125lbs, excellent results no issues whatsoever but in my 7th year it was like a snowball no matter what the surgeon or I did there was jsut no fixing it, so permanent band explantation last week. I believe the band is great for short term only there should be a time limit on it like 2 years or whatever that time limit is, the allergan rx for drs specifically states it is not a permanent implant. I am waiting insurance info for my sleeve, found out wednesday they denied me, i was expecting that, now just have to wait to see why the denied me as they would not tell me on the phone, investigationa/experimental is an oldie but goodie for bcbs, but i will appeal. keep researching and talk to both sides that have been out 5+ years, for the sleeve talking to DS patients that were stagged is a good start. So your question is not easy to answer. hope that helps....good luck in your choice it is not an easy one to make when you take everything into consideration. Mila
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Hello all - new poster. 11 days post op for my gastric sleeve, spent the first seven days post op on liquids only and have been on a pre-select soft food diet for the past 5 days (oh what fun). Coming up with more and more odd combinations of refried bean, greek yogurt, egg white, sugar free pudding, and cottage cheese. Sad what passes for an "omelet" at the moment. Something odd I noted almost immediately upon arriving home was my sense of smell, particularly with regard to how foods smell, seem particularly altered. Have a household that has always enjoyed cooking and have done so several times for my lady as a thank you for how well she has been nursing me and the aroma of the foods is just nowhere near as full as pre op. Is this common? At least one other full bypass patient at my 1 week check in mentioned a similar change. Is it permanent or something that changes over time? Thanks all - and best of luck to all those on or getting ready for the same journey.
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A little over a year ago my weight had started to creep up until before I knew it, I was 15 lbs heavier. I had missed an appoitment with my lap band surgeon and thought I could just wait until my next one. Thankfully, like you, I came to my senses and called my surgeons office and got a fresh fill. I was able to lose those 15 lbs pretty quickly and even a few more. Just had a check up last week and didn't need a fill.. but going to make sure not to miss my next one.. so I can make sure to maintain my fill level. Good job getting back on track & good luck!! Kortni
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My doctor has me doing the Bariatric Advantage Meal Replacement shakes 3-5 times a day for the 2 weeks...its about $65 for 35 servings
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Wow 4 weeks sound long but if you have to do it then you must
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2nd Week Of The All Liquid Post Gastric Sleeve Surgery Diet
Afro_Cyster replied to CowgirlJane's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Lucky you! I am still on clears until Monday, then I go into full liquids which mean yogurts and cream soups. This happens for two weeks. Then on to mushies!!!
