Twin Cities/metro area MN

[mandiole 1]

Hey all! I'm 3 weeks post surgery and would love to connect with others from the area!

[Mariew24 51]

Hi, I am also from the Twin Cities area and I'm just a little over four weeks post-op. How are you doing?

[mandiole 1]

I'm doing pretty well minus not being able to take tylenol (I'm allergic to it) or ibuprofen now. How are you doing? I've lost about 32lbs so far

[Mariew24 51]

I'm doing great. I had trouble in the beginning with pain medication. I had terrible itching all over from it. I'm down a total of 31 pounds, so you're ahead of me on that even with me being a week longer out from surgery. I just moved from pureed food to soft and that is going well. Where did you have your surgery? I had mine at Fairview Southdale.

[mandiole 1]

I had mine at Abbott Northwestern in downtown. Pain medication will do that to ya! I just switched to full solid/normal diet and for the most part it seems to be going well. There's a few things I know I have to stay away from but for the most part meats and things are going really well. The surgeon I had fast tracks the diet so I started on the pureed and skipped the liquid diets and then was only on the soft solid for about a week. Although I do notice myself kind of falling back some days as sometimes my body doesn't like the full solids. I'm glad things are going well for you, hitting the 30lbs loss was a huge deal for me as I haven't been able to lose more than about 15lbs at a time in 8 years! Where in the metro are you from? I live in the Burnsville/Eagan area.

[Mariew24 51]

Wow. I see that some surgeons do fast track the diet. Sounds like you are doing great with it. Congrats on your weight loss. I live in Eagan. Wow. Small world.

[mandiole 1]

It is a small world! I hope everything is going well for you with the diet change! Congrats on your weight loss as well!