African American Sleevers

Sleeve Siren · May 15, 2014

Well said Barb. I totally agree with your last two posts. You just saved my fingers a workout!

jaylowe32 · May 15, 2014

Hi I am 2 weeks post op. I am very happy about having my wls but already feeling pressure regarding keeping the weight off. Does anyone else feel this way?

Edited May 15, 2014 by jaylowe32

jaylowe32 · May 15, 2014

Hi I am 2 weeks post op. I am very happy about having my wls but skyway feeling Nevis about keeping the weight off. Died anyone else feel this way?

cherrytree15 · May 15, 2014

Hey guys. I have surgery next week on Wed. How soon before you guys were able to drive?

back2barb78 · May 16, 2014

Cherrytree, I had surgery on a Monday and was out shopping by myself that Saturday. However everyone's surgeon's techniques, medications and postop routines are different. In my case my surgery was around 12noon and they had me out of bed walking @ 4pm and I walked and had fluids that whole night. I never received or needed any narcotic pain medication (I had a non-narcotic med I was given to take around the clock for 3 days postop and after that I took children's liquid Tylenol when I had pain). I was released the next morning and had daily visits to the doctor for dressing changes on day 3 and 4 and had a JP drain that was removed day 4 as well.

Hope that helps. Someone else's story may be very different

Jaylowe, I am most definitely nervous about maintenance down the road. Everything changes so quickly after the sleeve it almost doesn't seem real to begin with. This is not something that will solve all of our problems. Someone (stupid) asked me about my weight loss and when I told him my method, he said "oh, you took the easy way out" (refer to previous posts regarding people's commentary). I can only be hopeful that down the line this will be a tool that will assist me with being more healthy and maintaining a decent weight so I'm not excessively heavy like I was again.

newbody2014 · May 16, 2014