Surgery 3/8/17

[Slightly_tachy 2]

I had my sleeve 3/8/17. Surgery went great, struggled a little with gas pain and nausea/vomiting. No pain medication worked for me (morphine or dilaudid!) and the nausea medication didn't help either. One of the things the nurse told me the surgeon told her was to sniff alcohol pads......IDK if that really worked but I had to handle the situation internally. I was discharged the next day at my request and continued my healing at home. As of this morning, I am down 9 pounds from 3/8/17.

I am on day 2 of full liquids. Struggling to get all my Water and Protein in. At this point I am going by how my body feels....If I feel thirsty, I sip and if I don't, I don't. I never feel hungry so I drink broth at certain time intervals and usually just sip on sugar free crystal light, eat sugar free popsicles, drink Water and eat sugar free Jello in between.

Pain is at minimum, only the incisions hurt (or mainly that abdominal wall hurts when I move), but gas has subsided and I had my first bowel movement in maybe 5 days today, which made me feel even better. So everything is grand right?

I never understood how much of a mental test this is. I am not physically hungry but mentally i want to eat the Snacks and foods I ate before surgery. Its like I CRAVE the physical part of chewing and crunching more than anything. To aid, I've been crunching on pickles and then spitting them out as I KNOW I cannot eat anything right now....I DON'T want to screw anything up!!

Pre-op I was diabetic. My A1C was as high as 11.6. A year ago, my blood sugars were out of control, I was on a couple medications for my glucose as well as a pill for blood pressure and cholesterol. I always told myself that I was going to lose weight but after trying for so long and failing, I gave accepted the fact that I was probably always going to be big. I would go to doctors appointments after doctors appointments making excuses as to why I hadn't lost as much as I should have. Eventually I found the surgeon who I wanted to do my sleeve. He asked if I had ever tried diet pills and I told him no because NONE of my doctors felt comfortable prescribing them (d/t cardiac side effects). Anyway, I eventually started phentermine and slowly making dietary changes (low carb, low sugar, cutting out soda).....and the weight slowly came off. Pre-op I managed to lose 50 pounds and only had to do 3 days liquid diet pre-op (not even 3 days) since I lost a good amount beforehand..... so this 2 weeks liquid diet is killing me.

All I want to do is EAT...even though I am NOT hungry! Its so mentally hard. I remind myself of the reasons why I did this and how it is not a permanent thing having to do liquids but I just find myself counting down to the pureed stage just to at least be able to eat some of the things I like.....

I've read on various Facebook posts where people did not follow the surgeons directions and started eating sooner, but I am terrified to even try it...

Edited March 14, 2017 by Slightly_tachy

[BrightEyes77375 9]

You have lost a lot of weight in a short time! My top weight was 284 lb. In January, I went on Atkin's Diet and then the liquid

pre-op diet before my surgery on March 8, 2017. I weighed 261 on the day of my surgery. I now weigh 241. My weight is coming off slowly (3-4 pounds a week). I haven't started walking yet. Only excuses are that I have absolutely zero energy and my feet hurt. I'm looking for shoes with decent support to walk in, but the lack of energy is what bothers me. How are you doing on energy and exercise?