Finally!

[blondeblueeyes 3]

I have been overweight for the majority of my life but I do remember what being thin felt & looked like. I now know that I want health for the second part of my life and to wrap my head around a new & improved person. My insurance company required 8 wks of a dr monitored diet which in the end because of a minimum bmi I didn't lose anything. Have some health issues & if I just "diet and exercise" like everyone states I shouldn't need the surgery. So mentally being approved was a strange thought and really up to the time that I had surgery I wanted out of the hospital. Crazy huh? I knew though that I needed to get off the merri go round of diet/not diet cycle.

Anyways, arrived at the Surgical Hospital at 9 with husband, had a pre-op room where I was weighed, urine tested for pregnancy, blood drawn when IV was put in, shot in tummy for blood clotting, nausea medicine put into IV too. Surgery was scheduled at 11 but moved to 1:00. Gave me medicine to relax me & then finally into surgery. Woke up in recovery with a really sore throat, sleepy and was up to go to the bathroom. Walked behind my wheelchair to my room and proceded to throw up some nasty Fluid. Not the thing to do after having surgery. Really had a issue with the gas that they balloon your belly with (so that they can see your insides) and the nausea was over the top. I cannot go home till I no longer had nausea and could keep down warm tea.

Taken to xray room to drink barium that tasted like the worst cough medicine so that they could see if the Fluid was passing down to my stomach. It was, but because the medicine that they use to knock me out was still in me I couldn't go home till 9pm. Really nauseated. I told the doctor about my issues with the anethesia but still had problems. Will walk up & down the hallways to help get rid of the gas in body. Brought Jello, broth, sugar free drink, & Water. Only thing that helped was warm peppermint tea.

Take a pillow for your stomach because every bump you will feel. Couldn't take pain medicine that was prescribed because I knew I would just throw up again. So toughing it out was what I had to do. sleeping upright on the corner of the couch because laying down really hurt the stomach & the gas in the shoulders was painful too. It has now been 5 full days since the surgery and I have lost 10 lbs so far but still have pain in my stomach

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I have been full pretty much from the moment I wake up and I stay true to drinking full fluids for three full weeks. Protein drinks, coffee, hot tea, juice, Water, Jello, pudding, broth, all low - fat and sugar free. I have felt that I have a elephant sitting on my chest and burping everytime I stand up and the doctor states that he needs to take some of the fluid out. I am going to rough it till my first visit at 3 weeks for I know that the weight loss will slow down and I'll have to take some fluid out at that time. If living on fluid causes these issues than trying to eat soft food will make me sick for sure. Take one day at a time for we didn't get here overnight. Love & Peace

[elcee 3,342]

Congrats on getting your band. The worst part is over, now the journey begins.