I Wish Someone Had Told Me....

[polican 32]

@100% sleeved----why did they have you wake up with the tube in your mouth? What was the explanation they gave you? I'm just wondering, thanks.

[IlyssaDel 42]

???!!!!!! WHAT, I have never heard this, I will wake up with a tube in my throat??!! Is that standard for every doctor???

Omg!! This can't even be true!...? Can it? Omg now I'm freaked out..please someone tell me this isn't so....please?

[IlyssaDel 42]

Things I wish I had known before surgery:

I would be cold all the time

I would be praying not to sneeze or cough for the first 2 weeks after surgery

Watching a really funny movie 2 days after surgery hurts like hell

That all hunger is not gone and head hunger is worse than true hunger

That I would have so much gas

That I would have loud embarrassing noises coming from my stomach

And wth is this slime!!!

Ok ...can i ask about the slime??! ...and do the embarrassing noises ever stop?

[HopeThruFaith 30]

Omg!! This can't even be true!...? Can it? Omg now I'm freaked out..please someone tell me this isn't so....please?

This happened to be also. Fortunately for me though it was while I was still under the influence. I could feel it there somewhat but not enough to where it freaked me out. I vaguely remember when they were taking it out (still under the influence) I THINK I heard someone say blow or breathe or something (needless to say I did nothing) and I felt the tube glide right on out. As I became more lucid I noticed that my right nostril was numb and without feeling. Apparently they numbed it prior to inserting the tube. It was a piece of cake. Nothing to be scared of. You will do great!!!

[IlyssaDel 42]

This happened to be also. Fortunately for me though it was while I was still under the influence. I could feel it there somewhat but not enough to where it freaked me out. I vaguely remember when they were taking it out (still under the influence) I THINK I heard someone say blow or breathe or something (needless to say I did nothing) and I felt the tube glide right on out. As I became more lucid I noticed that my right nostril was numb and without feeling. Apparently they numbed it prior to inserting the tube. It was a piece of cake. Nothing to be scared of. You will do great!!!

that's freaks me out still..but thanks for trying LOL

[Spirit Fire 115]

Very happy I found this website and forums before and after I had surgery. Almost all of my questions and concerns were addressed via this website as well as a couple calls to my surgeon's office. But to answer the original question, during my first month, I was not expecting:

• to feel so fatigued during the first month.
  
• to have the 3-week stall which lasted almost two weeks.
  
• to have the nausea during the first week and am grateful I finally got some anti-nausea medicine.
  
• the Constipation.< br />
• to feel hungry.
  
• to panic over how I would eat out or even eat when I returned to work.
  

Now that I am 10-weeks into this process, I was not expecting:

• to have such amazing self confidence.
  
• to look at online shopping catalogs saying, "oh, that's too baggy (big, unfitted, etc.)"
  
• to enjoy participating in family gatherings and work events.
  
• to have such a good handle on what I can eat and what my sleeve can tolerate.
  
• to walk 3 plus miles a day comfortably, while talking and smiling.
  
• to allow the "slowness" of my post-surgery weightloss to be a good thing.
  
• to enjoy the levels of flavors that 3 oz of food can offer.
  

Again, I just want to reinforce that scanning through the forum topics truly helps to open your eyes to the multitude of experiences everyone has on this journey.

[sheallyd 2]

???!!!!!! WHAT' date=' I have never heard this, I will wake up with a tube in my throat??!! Is that standard for every doctor???[/quote']

I knew that during surgery I would have the breathing tube, but when I woke up it wasn't there.

[Dooter 1,457]

Ok ...can i ask about the slime??! ...and do the embarrassing noises ever stop?

Not everyone gets all this stuff. I did not have a tube, I have never once "slimed" and my stomach does not make any noises that anyone else can hear. Everyone has a different assortment of all the things you hear about. None of it is 100% sure of having them. No worries!!

[goofycathy 89]

Not everyone gets all this stuff. I did not have a tube' date=' I have never once "slimed" and my stomach does not make any noises that anyone else can hear. Everyone has a different assortment of all the things you hear about. None of it is 100% sure of having them. No worries!![/quote']

You did have a tube. Chances are the Nurse extubated (removed your tube) you before u were fully awake. Everyone has a tube, it's what supplies you with anesthesia and oxygen during your surgery.

[Dooter 1,457]

You did have a tube. Chances are the Nurse extubated (removed your tube) you before u were fully awake. Everyone has a tube, it's what supplies you with anesthesia and oxygen during your surgery.

Oh, ya, I know they USED the tube. I'm just saying most of us don't wake UP with the nasty thing.

[goofycathy 89]

Sorry, when I read "I did not have a tube" I just assumed you thought you actually didn't have one. Guess I read that wrong...

[Dooter 1,457]

Sorry, when I read "I did not have a tube" I just assumed you thought you actually didn't have one. Guess I read that wrong...

LOL no, I should have stated that more clearly

[reallyrosy 161]

Invisble woul be nice right now. Both to others and to my stupid critical eye. I don't like this. I lost the 1.8 and now at 50.8# at 11 weeks out. Everybody out there who saw me before: thanks for noticing, now shut up and let me deal with it.

Gah. Where's my atavan???

Ok I'm quoting myself but just to give a reference point. Want to say in f/up 1. I survived. 2. I'm not grabing atavan for survival any more. 3. I'm going for my 6 mo check and am @ 80# down.

Its a little easier now because I still have to lose over 100# more and I can stil see the old fat lady. I'm so fat that I really didn't need to worry @ losing the 50.

And I'm adding this because someone liked my original post so if you're still reaading, I guess to say it does get a wee bit easier...the 30 more since feb is not that big a deal.

Not sure if I'm expressing this right....

[IlyssaDel 42]

Not everyone gets all this stuff. I did not have a tube, I have never once "slimed" and my stomach does not make any noises that anyone else can hear. Everyone has a different assortment of all the things you hear about. None of it is 100% sure of having them. No worries!!

Thanks! I know I'll have a tube ..as long a it's out before I wake up!....what's this slime??? I never heard of this?

[amr2393 16]

Slime is when u eat something ur stomach is not ready for so the esophagus and stomach go into overdrive making excess mucous to help move it along. Sometimes u throw it up from the nausea u also feel.