My surgery was on 6/27/11 so I am 9 days post op.  I too had some rough days in the beginning but am feeling better each day.  I have problems with nausea particularly in the morning when I first wake up.  Thank goodness my surgeon let me go to pureed foods after 7 days!  This is day 2 of pureed and am doing okay with it.  It's important I think to make sure to eat slowly.  My dietician said at least 30 mins per meal which is long considering you are only eating 6 to 10 tbsp of food.  For some reason too I am having problems digesting milk.  Have never had problems with milk.

Just wanted to check in with everyone and see how you all are doing?

I am two weeks out.  Next to no problems or issues from surgery.  Week one, had some bad sneezes that left lower left abdomen burning and tender.  Dr says that is one of the biggest muscles they cut through to get the instruments in there and that incision is the largest as that is the one the staple gun goes into.  Said I probably pulled on the staples used to close up the muscles as they were finishing up, but it is normal pain and not to worry.  Took it easy for a few days and was getting better, but this past week have been sick from allergies.  Coughing and sneezing were not my friends!! 

At one wk post-op apt Dr said I could try scrambled eggs and cottage cheese and if I tolerated those, I could slowly add in other foods as tolerated.  Because I wasn't feeling good, did not try many new foods.  Did well with a scrambled egg, cottage cheese was my friend , tried some tuna and some chicken salad.  I think I ate the chicken salad too fast because I felt like I was about to get sick, but I didn't.  It is SO HARD not to take a drink when that happens.

Have lost 30 lbs since pre-op apt and re-taped myself tonight and had great results!  I posted those on the RNY forum as well as on my blog.

Would love to hear how everyone else has been doing!

Well, 4 days out and I still have vertigo...does anyone else have these spells? 

My surgeon told me to use a pill cutter on larger pills. Everything else I take just as before surgery. I am on a LOT of medications and thought I would have to crush them. Not so. I was crushing my Loratabs and he told me to stop, that it wasn't necessary.

I take Loratab 10/500 (split in two)
Hypertension med (capsule, whole)
Thyroid (tablet, whole)
Xanax (tablet, whole)
Visteril (capsule, whole)
Vitamins-chewable

We had our WLS at the same TIME!!!  I had my VGS @ 7am on 6/30/11.  Came home yesterday from the hospital and I am really sore in my upper abdomen where my incisions are.  I have a really hard time getting out of bed without help from my husband.  I had to call my surgeon last night because I was running a temp of 100.9 and was really miserable.  No other problems so we are jus****ching it for now, haven't had a temp this morning.

Hope all goes well with your recovery.!