OCT 2011 Sexy Sleevers!!
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Topic: feeling good, just missin food.
I am feeling pretty good, but I have to say that I miss food. Today is Football Day in my house and my MIL is over here cooking up a bunch of yummy food (she is staying with us for 2 weeks to help me out). I keep telling myself that I really don't want that food... my clothes are already fitting better and Ihave just today started on full liquids. I am going to have some strained soup and pretend its fried fish ;-)
I hope everyone is doing great and I wish us all perserverence in this journey.
-Jodie
I hope everyone is doing great and I wish us all perserverence in this journey.
-Jodie
Topic: RE: Need Advice Please!
Hi I had a lil bit of mashed potatoes today thought I would try something a lil less dairy although I did add milk and butter to my potatoes and the pain wasn't as bad I think it is subsiding a lil bit. I am not sure about the irritable bowels as I am having bowel movements, it seems everything I am eating is going right through me and giving me a small amount of diahrreah before having a solid one. Wow I feel like this is just a lil to much information yet I know that we all have been through this at some time or the other a lil embarrassing yet I know someone out there has gone through the same thing. 
. I was able to tolerate egg before just recently I have developed this pain issue. Yes My doctor seems to be skipping the mushies not sure why though I am still on liquids but have added potatoes now and than to help me get through the small bumps. My doc wants me to start next week on boost for brkfst and lunch and a full meal for dinner and when I asked you want me to start eating like food food or blended he said no eat a meal like chicken, turkey, fish and a vegetable but make it a small portion. Thank you for the advice that you all are sharing with me and allowing me to have these fears and upsets GOD BLESS
RAQUEL
. I was able to tolerate egg before just recently I have developed this pain issue. Yes My doctor seems to be skipping the mushies not sure why though I am still on liquids but have added potatoes now and than to help me get through the small bumps. My doc wants me to start next week on boost for brkfst and lunch and a full meal for dinner and when I asked you want me to start eating like food food or blended he said no eat a meal like chicken, turkey, fish and a vegetable but make it a small portion. Thank you for the advice that you all are sharing with me and allowing me to have these fears and upsets GOD BLESSRAQUEL
Topic: RE: Need Advice Please!
Your doctor isn't concerned at all? I was sleeved on the same day and am on a mushy diet but I have been able to tolerate even small chunks of food, except egg. Is is a dairy intolerance? Have you tried the soy or Lactaid products? If even the Jello is causing issues I would ask the doctors advice, possible an irritable bowel issue?
I wish you much luck!
I wish you much luck!
Success is not an option, its a requirement
vdcthiessen
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tman0730
on 10/29/11 9:37 am
on 10/29/11 9:37 am
Topic: RE: im sleeved!! 5 days out and feeling good!!
Congrats! Glad you are doing well. Please keep us posted?
I can do all things through Christ who strenghtens me. Phil 4:13
HW 270 Pre-OP 263 SW 256 CW 193 GW 155
HW 270 Pre-OP 263 SW 256 CW 193 GW 155
Topic: RE: Need Advice Please!
I've heard Gas-x works, but I didn't use any. I think they have in those strips that desolve on your tongue.
So, I keep thinking about this and I wonder if you have drainage or possibly a sinus infection from the cold. That would definitely upset your stomach. Maybe you should go see your PCP and have that checked out.
I've had allergies and sinus infections for years and a lot of drainage from a cold can be very rough on a tummy, especially a new tummy.
Don't give up. You deserve to have an answer to this and have this resolved. If you aren't getting the answers you need, try a different approach. A stomach surgeon may not think about a sinus infection, but a PCP or an Allergist would.
Keep advocating for yourself until you get what you need. It's your right to feel good and be healthy. If you have to, go to the ER and they will check you out from the hood to the trunk, so to speak.
Let us know how it goes.
So, I keep thinking about this and I wonder if you have drainage or possibly a sinus infection from the cold. That would definitely upset your stomach. Maybe you should go see your PCP and have that checked out.
I've had allergies and sinus infections for years and a lot of drainage from a cold can be very rough on a tummy, especially a new tummy.
Don't give up. You deserve to have an answer to this and have this resolved. If you aren't getting the answers you need, try a different approach. A stomach surgeon may not think about a sinus infection, but a PCP or an Allergist would.
Keep advocating for yourself until you get what you need. It's your right to feel good and be healthy. If you have to, go to the ER and they will check you out from the hood to the trunk, so to speak.
Let us know how it goes.
VSG 10/18/11 If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.-Dolly Parton
Topic: RE: im sleeved!! 5 days out and feeling good!!
CONGRATULATIONS! Glad to hear you are doing so well. May you have a speedy recovery!
GOD BLESS and moving over extremely slow haha
RAQUEL
GOD BLESS and moving over extremely slow haha
RAQUEL
Topic: RE: Need Advice Please!
Thank you slim I am so miserable right now. I have been walking but I can't seem to get in as much as I was walking before I caught the cold. I was just wondering if it was a possibility of gas and if so I was wondering if anyone knows if taking GAS-X to help relieve it. But I am just worried and scared so if I seem as if I am worrying to much I'm sorry I just didn't have this much pain before I got this cold and now that I am getting over it and have seen my doctor all of a sudden I have this pain in my stomach that reaches my back and it hurts so much that all I can do is lay down. I only drink a few swigs of my boost and it is like pain and diahrreah FAST! I used to have it in my throat but that has gone away now it is just in my stomach and back. I'm just lost for words and just like the prior post I keep asking What did I do so wrong that I am in so much pain! I read how everyone's life has changed for the better and yet I seem to have gone in the opposite direction 
Sorry for being such a downer but happiness is nothing I am feeling right now
GOD BLESS
RAQUEL
Sorry for being such a downer but happiness is nothing I am feeling right nowGOD BLESS
RAQUEL
Topic: RE: Need Advice Please!
If it's traveling around it might be gas.
If you can walk, if the surgeon cleared you for walking, get as much in as you can tolerate.
Let it out. don't hold it in which ever direction it decides to go. I know that's gross, but we are all kind of pre-wired to hold farts in. That is not a good thing for you to do.
Stay away from dairy for now until you start feeling better. It could make you more gasy. Try bland things, like mashed potatoes and cream of wheat (watered down to a thin consistency).
I hope you feel better soon.
If you can walk, if the surgeon cleared you for walking, get as much in as you can tolerate.
Let it out. don't hold it in which ever direction it decides to go. I know that's gross, but we are all kind of pre-wired to hold farts in. That is not a good thing for you to do.
Stay away from dairy for now until you start feeling better. It could make you more gasy. Try bland things, like mashed potatoes and cream of wheat (watered down to a thin consistency).
I hope you feel better soon.
VSG 10/18/11 If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.-Dolly Parton
Topic: RE: Need Advice Please!
Thank you for answering my posts I am in so much pain right now that nothing is going down! The thing about it is that I was doing really good but than got hit with a cold which set me back and now that it is leaving and I have had my 2 week check up it seems that all of a sudden I am in such pain that it is almost unbearable I am miserable and not happy at all. I was having fear that something is going wrong with my new tummy that I would have such pain. The doc/nut wants me to go to eating one meal a day in another week, drinking fluids still than moving to protein twice a day breakfast and lunch and a full meal for dinner, I don't know how I am going to do this when I can't even drink my boost, sf popsicles, jello, without being in so much pain. I was wondering if maybe it would be gas too because it travels right from my tummy to my back it all hurts my lower part of my body! PAIN PAIN PAIN!
GOD BLESS
RAQUEL
GOD BLESS
RAQUEL
Topic: RE: im sleeved!! 5 days out and feeling good!!
I'm so glad things are going well... here is to our new life! 
~Mashelle~
