FEBRUARY SLEEVERS 2013....how you doing after you've been Sleeved

[angelaet 23]

Angela' date=' this was a good idea--but don't be disappointed if you can't get it down right after surgery. I did well to get in 20 or 30 ounces of Fluid for the first couple of days (we couldn't drink for 24 hrs until the leak test, which was the worst part--SF popsicle after an all clear was nirvana!). My surgeon says fluids first then Protein for the first week, aiming for at least 48 oz of Fluid. I got up to 64 or more pretty quickly and 40-60 g of Protein within a few days that first week, which surprised/impressed the RD and PAs.[/quote']

Thanks!

[kkramer185 73]

Yes I've done it but the taste is so bad that it's made me dry heave. Is it too soon to try to half the pill and swallow? I'm scared to take these Meds now but I don't want Migraine and complications that could come along

My surgeon said I can swallow pills the size of my pinky nail or smaller but no capsules. If the pill is bigger I would half it.

[TES 858]

My surgeon said I can swallow pills the size of my pinky nail or smaller but no capsules. If the pill is bigger I would half it.

I take a tiny pill--levothyroxine--and my surgeon is still making me crush it for the first 6 weeks. He is pretty conservative but I just can't bring myself to try to swallow it whole!

[Patienlywtng on my Curves 73]

hey so Im 6 days post op and very confused. while i was in the hospital after my surgery i had no problems getting out of bed or coughing or doing anything really. I never had to ask for pain meds or anything. I had gas pains but that was about it... day 3 I left the hospital and ended up having uh sex that night, again no problem/pain what so ever and its like now the only way i know i had surgery is that it Takes me FOREVER to eat (drink) anything like tryig to drink a Protein shake is a 2 hour event, and sometimes i have a really bad pain in my stomach which ive come to realize means that im hungry. I dont get it.. i mean Im very greatful ive had way less pain than most.. but im also afraid all of it is gonna catch up to me somehow.. Is any of this normal? I havent taken any pain meds since i was released.. im just waiting for the other shoe to drop.. i guess

I too had no pain with the incisions. The nurses remarked about it. My pain comes from the gas. So I only asked for it when the gas was unbearable and walking did not help. I was more nauseated than anything and the only other time I asked for pain meds was due to a headache.

I thought the same the only way to really know that I've had the surgery is my intake. I would say, just take it slow, we have had major surgery and healing needs to be completed. The outside may not look like it but our organ was disected.

I think we will both do well. Congrats to you.

[Patienlywtng on my Curves 73]

Has anyone tried liquid b super complex? I got some today and it said tangerine flavor..... MY ARSE! its gross but better than the pills I guess.

I was going to buy the sublingual but my NUT was specific for how many mg's of something...oh...I can't think of what needed to be in there. So I just got the pill that had the exact amount.

However, why not try mixing with diluted juice or whatever one of your drinks may be during the day.

[Harpo 30]

I got sleeved last Tuesday...did a a 10 day liquid diet prior to surgery.

I'm already down 29lbs.!

I hate the way I feel

I hate not being able to eat real food

But, I love the scale.

Someone saw me today that hasn't seen me in a week. He said "So you've lost what, 25-30lbs.?"

Can't wait for the reactions when I'm down 100.

[Patienlywtng on my Curves 73]

Being 5 days PO, I feel like I should be doing more. I don't have to go out because, I tried to take care of everything prior to. Besides I'm on driving restriction for 2 weeks. Well, especially if taking the pain meds.

So my routine, sip, sip, walk, rest. Repeat. Most times there is more walking and sipping. But what else can I do right now? Any suggestions? I do realize I've had major surgery, so I'm not looking to overdo it.

[mactrio 41]

So today is day 6 post op. I was sleeve on Monday, discharged Wed morning. Had very minimal pain. The liquid pain meds were so gross I just didn't take it. Wednesday I had homemade chicken Soup broth. I had 4 teaspoons & was full. I had juice, Popsicles, Water, ice chips, Gatorade.

I tried soup broth a while later and it turned my stomach. I tried some beef veggie soup broth - couldn't do it. Made me sick. So all I can handle is a few sips of juice, Popsicles, SF Jello, water, ice & Gatorade. If I see food or smell I I begin to gag and retch. Serious dry heaving.

I'm weak, shaky, BP is hovering around 100/67

BS has been 72-113

I hope tomorrow when I begin Protein Drinks that I will feel better.

[mandi827 50]

So today is day 6 post op. I was sleeve on Monday' date=' discharged Wed morning. Had very minimal pain. The liquid pain meds were so gross I just didn't take it. Wednesday I had homemade chicken Soup broth. I had 4 teaspoons & was full. I had juice, Popsicles, Water, ice chips, Gatorade.

I tried soup broth a while later and it turned my stomach. I tried some beef veggie soup broth - couldn't do it. Made me sick. So all I can handle is a few sips of juice, Popsicles, SF Jello, Water, ice & Gatorade. If I see food or smell I I begin to gag and retch. Serious dry heaving.

I'm weak, shaky, BP is hovering around 100/67

BS has been 72-113

I hope tomorrow when I begin Protein drinks that I will feel better.[/quote']

I was sleeved 2/28. Doing well until this morning. Had shakes nausea vomiting etc...went to er for fliuds. Severe dehydration. Be careful....

[Kelly1334 52]

Okay so had my sleeve done on the 28th and they were very unclear on what to do i was told two weeks of liquids only but i don't know what type? Im confused about that can it be any type of juice or does it have to be specific kinds? Can anybody help with that?

My nutritionist said Water skim milk sugar free ice pops Jello crystal light Protein shakes.

http://www.ochsner.org/content/misc_files/BARIATRIC_NUTRITION_BIBLE.pdf

Also this is a good website I looked at this morning. It's not where I went but it's very specific for suggestions

[Lexsan 104]

Were do i start. Am I going to start. As many of you know I was sleeved on the 19th of Feb' date=' the surgery went quite well, my Dr said my liver was lovely. The problems for me started after the surgery and boy did they start. They went to remove the intubation tube and then it started, vocal chords started to spasm, Fluid started to fill my lungs, throat begin to swell, the it shut down, clamped closed. I WASN'T BREATHING!!!!!!they were able to reintubate me breathing begin again. I guessed they tried again to remove the tube later and again I WASN'T BREATHING!!!!!!!!! (long pause, this is very emotional for me) after 2 attempts ti reintubate me to help to breathe I was placed on a vetilator, I COULD NO LONGER BREATHE ON MY OWN!!!!!! For 3 days I was on the lifesaving machine and in the ICU for 3 days. on that morning I was able to be moved to med/surg and on the floor for 5 more days. My blood sugar stayed in the medium 60's nothing they did would keep it elevated for more than 10 minutes at a time, we had to do something. In addition my blood pressure stayed dangerously low, heart rate seemed to race just because it was 2 o clock. My throat was very very sure and felt as if something was stuck there. Which was very very possible due to all the trauma it endure ...BUT I WAS ALIVE, I WAS ALIVE!!!!!!!!! It seemed has though one problem gets fixed another erupted. Drinking anything even sucking on ice chips was a major task not because of the sleeve but because of my throat, yes you guessed it I WAS DEHYDRATED, SEVERELY DEHYDRATED!!!!!!!! so what do you do increase IV fluids, that seemed to pose another problem within itself.....THE Fluid WAS NOT LEAVING!!!!!!!!!They really wanted me to take in fluid on my own, not possible I told them, I felt like something was stuck in my throat, I was feeling full up to my nose ok, FULL UP TO MY NOSE!!!!!! All I did was watch trays come and go come and go. My urine output was disgustingly low, no where near what it should have been for all the fluids I was taking in. I forgot to mention I hadn't had a bowel movement since the day before surgery. So nothing is MOVING NOT GOING ANYWHERE. but guess what I WAS BREATHING AND I WAS ALIVE BREATHING WITHOUT ANYHELP!!!!!!!! Despite those problems I m still thankful to be alive. I could barely walk for various reason , being lightheaded and dizzy due to low sugar and blood pressure, pain my entire abdominal region, my vision was effected also it sucked it sucked to be me........BUT MY GOD I WAS ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!! so what did I do I got up and walked when physical therapy came in. Could I walk on my own BUT OF COURSE NOT!!!!!!!!SHE CAME IN WITH A WALKER......OMG A WALKER.... But I kept pushing.......I WAS GOING TO SURVIVE AND SURVIVE VICTORIOUSLY. There was no way I was walking out of that hospital with a walker, a cane, or oxygen....I neglected to tell you my oxygen level keep dropping down in the eighties.........BUT PEOPLE PLEASE LISTEN TO ME I AM ALIVE TO TELL HOW I BECAME A MIRACLE!!!!! This got really long and I am sorry. SOLUTIONS: how do we control the sugar fluids with D5 to keep sugars stabilized ...yes working, Blood pressure....still stumped on this one, increase the fluids, ahhh but a problem it is not leaving.....it's not were it is supposed to be either because my blood pressure is still low. feeling full to my nose, ahh lets try a suppository, embarrassed because someone now has to place something in my bottom, nope and why you ask, I AM ALIVE AND I BREATHE ON MY OWN... but guess what it didnt work, so what do we do , lets try 2 suppositories then, okay guess what nothing i mean nothing, but I am walking a little further now, refused to use the walker, just me a nurse and the trusty IV pole. I notice something strange though as i increase my walking distance, nurses, hospital staff members whom all see to know me were happy to see me up and walking, and so happy for me and how they prayed for me. I was none as the nurse in the ICU that works in corrections...During my 5 days on the medsurg floor those miss days from my life slowly begin to get filled in. One nurse Natalie even told me she was complaining to me one day she knew i would understand because i was a nurse, i asked her what I said she said i shook my head in agreement and went back out....But to finish up before I put you all to sleep, things got better slowly, I had a moment one evening wasn't pleasant, there was lots of tears lots of crying from me my nursing caregivers...my emotional stability was on the verge of eternal decline. I was nausea extremely nauseated, once i started vomiting which amounted to almost nothing except fluids were coming from everywhere, the pain during this episode was incredible, i was embarrassed wishing i had never done the surgery, hating myself for putting myself through this torture But all that was endure during was my turn around, my breaking point so to speak, after 2 days and night sleeping in a chair because laying was to painful and uncomfortable, that wonderful nursing staff at St Joseph East Hospital cleaned me up, restarted my iv which gave up after 4 days of fluids meds and blood draws had to be redone, dressed me in a clean gown dabbed my head with cool towels, held my hands, hug me cried put me to bed and assured me all is going to be okay as i cried and sniffled they covered me up with a sheet and my afghan brought from home, told me they love me and try and get some rest.....(crying now),things begin to get better.........and eventually i came home this week and have been reflecting over the past fews days and the changes that are going to take place in my life. Surprising to some reflecting doesn't really include loosing weight, it's going to happen that's why I had the surgery, but because I had a life altering experience living as i did prior to 2/19 can not be the same and will not be, am i going to crazy and start wilding out HECK NO, to old for that.......but life now has become even more precious to me than before and I am going to treat it as such...........I went in for a sleeve and came out with a new lease on life....................................[/quote']

Diva this made me cry so happy you are Alive and breathing!

[mom10oreo 1]

I had my sleeve surgery done on Feb. 12.

My weight when I first started this process (Aug. 2012) w/ the bariatric surgery team was 262. I was 241 at my last pre-op weigh in and was 234 at my 2 week post op check up. I think I am down about 5 more lbs. now. So including pre & post op that's a total of just over 30#!!

Question: How (where) do you get the surgery countdown/weight loss ticker on here?

[JackieV 246]

Wow, I can't believe it's already been a month since I was sleeved. So far it's been an amazing journey. I have decided to weigh weekly from here on out and measurements biweekly.

My stats so far:

Starting weight: 315

Surgery weight-294

PO 1 month: 276

I hit a wall at 10 days out and haven't been able to get that steady loss streak back. It's been very slow since then. I am working the program and trying to add more calories. I am also going to ramp out my work outs. I am going to aim to walk/run 2 miles 5 days a week.

Hope everyone is doing well. I will be praying for a quick recovery for all the new sleevers.

[Ballermom 803]

I was sleeved on 2/27. Home by 3/1 Friday. Actually walked 4 blocks day 3 Saturday.

I had pain with taking fluids but each day I seem to be tolerating fluids better.

Had 1 bout of nausea weaknesses. Since surgery. Thank God that didn't last.

Feeling better each day. Will sip sip

Walk rest. repeat.

Had Protein shake took as much as I could. Yay

Not having much pain either.

Tolerating tea broth Popsicles Isopure.

Congrats

Everyone

[yvette626 18]

Ok I am 7 days post OP and I want some refried Beans damn it! These liquids are driving me looney tunes and if I don't get some sustenance soon I will surely die....ugh...sorry for the vent but I want to eat something! I'm not starved.I don't want Cookies or cake or anything bad...simply want some warm soft food and these liquids for another week is for the birds! Help

Good morning! I am on my last week of liquids! I have had my refried beans and mashed potatos already! Trust me, I understand. Hang in there, we will make it!