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Today is the one-month anniversary of my surgery and while everything has progressed as expected, it has been a tough month of change and adjustment. However, to highlight how far I've come, here are the things I can now do:

-Take my morning meds in less than 10 mins

-Sleep in any position

-Be up and about all day

-Fit into many clothes 2 sizes smaller than I started

-Eat more solid Proteins

-Sleep without acid reflux

-Donate many of my clothes that were like-new but now too-big to a relief drive for Hurricane Harvey survivors.

These are all very good things, and I have to just keep paying attention to the very good things!

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Congratulations. ;-):rolleyes:B):rolleyes:B):lol::P:)

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Congratulations! My gastric bypass was just done Monday. This is tough! Much worse than I anticipated but hearing your progress gives me hope!


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That's awesome! And while I can relate to the bittersweet feeling of giving away almost new clothes (or even clothes with the tags still on them!!), it's great to know they're going to such a good cause. [emoji3]

HW 280
CW 263
SW 274
DOS 8/24/17

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Congratulations! My gastric bypass was just done Monday. This is tough! Much worse than I anticipated but hearing your progress gives me hope!





Hang in there! I'll be one month post op on the 10th, and trust me it gets better. The first 3-5 days I also thought it was much worse than I thought it would be, but by week 2 I was feeling pretty good.


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On 9/1/2017 at 8:07 AM, cariecorine said:

Congratulations! My gastric bypass was just done Monday. This is tough! Much worse than I anticipated but hearing your progress gives me hope!

For some of us it is a terrible time. It took me two solid months before I felt good. It was far more difficult than I anticipated. I had complications that made it tougher. Just know that it does get easier. I am four months out now and life is much easier. But during the rough times I really began to be concerned that I had made the right choice. Hang in there. It gets better.

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This gives me encouragement, as I am 11 days out. Dr. said do full liquids for 2 weeks (at my one week follow up) & am looking forward to pureed. Not sure if it will be for one or two weeks before soft foods. I've noticed all Dr.'s are different. CONGRATULATIONS on all the positive areas at one month out! :)

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