Summer 2018 Surgery Buddies: POST-OP Discussion

[photogirl70 142]

@Megan Sadler Dollar General, Walgreens, Walmart, etc have enemas and they are $2-3.

Walgreens has a single enema for $1.89.

Edited September 12, 2018 by photogirl70

[ALFxRNY 540]

I go back and forth between milk of magnesia and smooth moves tea, good luck!

[ChellNC 162]

@Megan Sadler hope you get relief soon. That's a miserable feeling. Mirilax has been a close friend of mine for several years. If I have one day without a BM I have to drink it.

[Megan Sadler 186]

My husband is seeing about some day jobs he can do to get some quick money to pay for some mirilax for me. :(

[ChellNC 162]

Hope he can get one quickly. Hugs!

[Megan Sadler 186]

He might have a thing on Saturday. In the mean time we’re working as hard as we can to just be frugal which sucks because I’m running out of food I can eat. We have plenty of Pasta, rice, Beans etc. someone just dropped off a squash. Maybe if I can get an eggplant 🍆 I can pull off a veggie stew that I can have for a few days hopefully some Fiber in the veggies will help.

[Vizslamom 92]

I had the same stuck problem for 6 days right after surgery. Like a golf ball. Was instructed to try glycerin suppository. I had to have my husband assist - I was not happy. I also used leftover flexeril and gabapentine to relax muscles down there and cut down on pain. I had similar before and urogynecologist game me muscle relaxant injections right where I needed them. Good luck - I truly feel your pain.

[charob 1]

I was the same and Dr told me to take one dose of Dulcolax to “break the dam” then Miralax every other day. It worked.

[ElanBri 36]

Hi everyone. After a tough recovery, I have returned to work this week. It's an adjustment. I'm REALLY tired by noon and having a hard time concentrating.

I've got a timer set to do a couple laps around the building every hour and a half. I haven't been doing great with my liquids. It's hard to get everything in, but Protein has been fine.

I'm hoping things improve.

Edited September 13, 2018 by ElanBri

[Ylime 453]

2 hours ago, ElanBri said:

Hi everyone. After a tough recovery, I have returned to work this week. It's an adjustment. I'm REALLY tired by noon and having a hard time concentrating.

I've got a timer set to do a couple laps around the building every hour and a half. I haven't been doing great with my liquids. It's hard to get everything in, but Protein has been fine.

I'm hoping things improve.

I'm struggling with my Water too. It was easier when that's all I had to do, but now that I'm eating 5 times a day and can't drink before or after my meal, I'm finding it hard to fit it all in!

[ysocial 4]

3 weeks post op today!

[ellie123 374]

40 minutes ago, ysocial said:

3 weeks post op today!

40 minutes ago, ysocial said:

3 weeks post op today!

Hi woohoo Congrats! I’m 3 w and 1 day and 12 lb down since surgery. How is your progress?

Edited September 13, 2018 by ellie123

[ellie123 374]

Help! Need your brains to help me think this through...

Folks, all I've had today is a half a cup Optifast Protein Drink, a half a cup Water and half cup tea. That's it....I was mid teaching an online class and I got SUPER naucious. Sliming and all! Kept belching with my stomach in a knot. Had to give them an assignment while I threw up all my pitiful hydration for the day.... Not cool...

Anyone experiencing this? What in the world! I'm mortified I could have been presenting in person when this happened!

This happened on two other occations. Once when I was having Vitamine water and the other time, I had a clacium chew and some water. The only common denominator seems to be the time. Around 2:30pm. And I feel better right after I throw up...

In other news yesterday night I had my first food following 3 weeks Protein Drinks and Clear Liquids. It was a Soup with very soft vegie chunks in it. It went down quite nicely and I was in heaven

[sassysleever76 97]

On 09/13/2018 at 13:35, ellie123 said:

Help! Need your brains to help me think this through...

Folks, all I've had today is a half a cup Optifast Protein Drink, a half a cup Water and half cup tea. That's it....I was mid teaching an online class and I got SUPER naucious. Sliming and all! Kept belching with my stomach in a knot. Had to give them an assignment while I threw up all my pitiful hydration for the day.... Not cool...

Anyone experiencing this? What in the world! I'm mortified I could have been presenting in person when this happened!

This happened on two other occations. Once when I was having Vitamine Water and the other time, I had a clacium chew and some water. The only common denominator seems to be the time. Around 2:30pm. And I feel better right after I throw up...

In other news yesterday night I had my first food following 3 weeks Protein Drinks and Clear Liquids. It was a Soup with very soft vegie chunks in it. It went down quite nicely and I was in heaven

Sadly, I puked quite a few times between weeks 3 and 4. For me there were a couple reasons: 1) my meds needed to be adjusted sooner than my one month visit 2) I was not hydrated enough 3) I was eating / drinking too fast.
It sucked. Literally. However I can say I’m doing much much better now that I’m in Week 5. Hang in there!

[ellie123 374]

20 minutes ago, sassysleever76 said:

Sadly, I puked quite a few times between weeks 3 and 4. For me there were a couple reasons: 1) my meds needed to be adjusted sooner than my one month visit 2) I was not hydrated enough 3) I was eating / drinking too fast.
It sucked. Literally. However I can say I’m doing much much better now that I’m in Week 5. Hang in there!

Thank you. GlD to know there is light. I am a Sleeve to RNY revision and I never lpuked even once with Sleeve :/