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I was sleeved on Saturday 01/19/13 in Tijuana with Dr. Garcia. I was very impressed with the care I recieved and the cleanliness of the facility! Everyone was so nice and kind! The surgery went well, very uneventful. I did have some of the side effects. Vomiting, severe nausea and horrible gas pains in my left shoulder. I will be honest and say they are fairly selfish with the pain meds. I had to walk off my pain. Which I do understand. But I have had surgeries here and they are all about masking the pain. This is the first surgery I have had that I had to deal with it myself.

By Monday once the drain was taken out I felt SO much better. The gas pains stopped the moment the drain came out! Dr. Luna is the greatest!

On Tuesday I felt like walking around the mall for a short time.

I am having issues getting my allotted liquids down. I sip and sip but get so full I'm miserable. My incisions are healing nicely and not to sore.

Over all the experience was exciting, scary, painful. But each day I am getting better! I am down 20.8 pounds since pre op. . That helps make it all better!

Dealing with the psychological part of the head hunger has been the hardest part for me! I am told it takes about a month to retrain the brain so I am looking forward to that!

Would I do it all over again? I'm not at that stage yet but I'm sure I will be before long. :rolleyes:

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I was sleeved on Saturday 01/19/13 in Tijuana with Dr. Garcia. I was very impressed with the care I recieved and the cleanliness of the facility! Everyone was so nice and kind! The surgery went well' date=' very uneventful. I did have some of the side effects. Vomiting, severe nausea and horrible gas pains in my left shoulder. I will be honest and say they are fairly selfish with the pain meds. I had to walk off my pain. Which I do understand. But I have had surgeries here and they are all about masking the pain. This is the first surgery I have had that I had to deal with it myself.

By Monday once the drain was taken out I felt SO much better. The gas pains stopped the moment the drain came out! Dr. Luna is the greatest!

On Tuesday I felt like walking around the mall for a short time.

I am having issues getting my allotted liquids down. I sip and sip but get so full I'm miserable. My incisions are healing nicely and not to sore.

Over all the experience was exciting, scary, painful. But each day I am getting better! I am down 20.8 pounds since pre op. . That helps make it all better!

Dealing with the psychological part of the head hunger has been the hardest part for me! I am told it takes about a month to retrain the brain so I am looking forward to that!

Would I do it all over again? I'm not at that stage yet but I'm sure I will be before long. :rolleyes:[/quote']

I empathize with you! I was sleeved 1/10/13 and its been a difficult journey. Some meals I am happy I have help feeling full faster and some meals I am mad I can't eat more. It's a crazy, desperate feeling where I just want normalcy.

I feel like I am not losing enough. Then one minute I think I ate too much all day and then realize I am worried about the 1/4 cup of cottage cheese I just ate and feel fine! I guilt myself for eating 5x a day when it's doctors' orders. It's a wild ride. I just want to see the scale change. Sigh. Soon I hope.

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