Gastric Sleeve W/ a Lower BMI.

My pain is much better. I take a tramadol occasionally to help. The physician only made me do one week of liquids, and I can start soft food now, but still fill a little swollen. Because I've tried mashed potatoes and macaroni, and soft mushed fruit but as I take a bite it hurts going through my stomach. It's hurts as if it's still struggling to pass. So, I am just going to stay on liquids for another week. Which is completely fine with me. I'm not an eater anyways. I can get yogurt and soup down just fine so that's part of my liquid diet.

Definitely speak with your surgeon is you're having trouble. Each doctor is different. Mine had me on liquids only for 3 weeks, then soft foods for 3 weeks and then regular food. You will also find that complex carbs, like potato, pasta, bread, etc will give you more trouble because they expand in your stomach. You're still very swollen internally, so you need to be careful what you're taking in. :-)

Right. I know this. But there are only so many things that are soft. I just tried them, no big deal. Again it depends on the person. I was not told to watch what I consume like most because I'm not severly overweight.

Thank you so much! And good for you! Congrats!

Hi it's so refreshing to hear honest open experience. I had a accident many years ago and have one leg shorter 2 inch 5'3 5'5 I suffer a lot of pain. Thanks for sharing and all the best with your weight loss.

Good for you...you've done an amazing job for yourself...

A week is just fine. The first three days sucked, but not unbearable. My one week I was picking up babies and cleaning my house. You'll do great! Especially being a woman.

One week is fine they removed my drain on the 3rd day and I felt so much better went shopping after that. Make sure you walk as soon as you wake up from the surgery and do very soft massages on your belly to help with gas pain.

i think one week is possible but not enough to heal. I went back after 5 days, to light office work, but that was at a price, exhaustion. It took several weeks to get my strength back and I think if I gave it two weeks, I would have been a whole lot less tired.

Thanks Zen Lady! That's what I was thinking. I will have to put in for FMLA in that case. I have a lot to think about.

Thursday will be 1week PostOp for me. The pain is minimal. You will be sore, you will have gas and bloating but it subsides. The biggest issue I'm having is getting in 64oz of fluid a day and knowing when I'm full. I took 8 days of sick leave. I'll find out soon if it was too quick to return to work. Plus side is my job is sedentary.

Sending well wishes for your return to work.

The first 3 days were kinda poopy, I was nauseous nearly all the time but that quickly vanished and I started feeling great. No pain really to speak of after the 1st couple of days, then you're good to go. I pro,I see, you will start feeling great as the weight does start coming off pretty fast. It's a mental thing (or not) but you begin to feel lighter and that's so encouraging! 1 week is the maximum you will need and you'll be amazed how good you feel, very quickly!

Ha ha! I know. You wait for people to tell you it's ok. Me I am more like I want it and I want it now! Once I have my mind set I do it. I am a very realistic person. Waiting does nothing but cause more health problems and more weight to pack on! Like I said to my doctor, I know why my knees hurt, and my feet hurt. I'm not in denial. I'm overweight!

This is a very personal decision, I'm pleased to see you are taking action before you are morbidly obese with major health issues. You go girl.

Thanks girly! I love your reviews as well. You're just a positive person! I love your outlook on life... I posted pictures for you by the way.

Thanks CrazyJersey - is your story in this mysterious REVIEWS area? 30 lbs wow! Take a long time? I always double the amount in my head when I lose weight to include what I would likely put on had I not been in a losing cycle. Female logic!

Lol I don't know if mine shows yet but it's on my page. I didn't put if it was worth it or not yet. I wasn't veryyy fat to start with and I didn't need a pre op diet nor did I follow half the eating :/ else I could've loses A LOT more. Took two months I'm aiming for 10 pounds a month. I hope I can get there this month. I bought a spinning bike today!

Thank you!!! I feel like people think I am crazy on here! Ha ha... I never did a preop diet, ate until the morning of, and even after surgery was told to eat normal when I could. I am thinking the calorie restrictions are for people who have a significant amount of weight to lose.

CrazyJersey - I've a plan to lose 15 lb for each of the first 2 months, October 24 -December 24th, so on Christmas Day I can slip into a size 14. Maybe I'm being overly optimistic huh? Might need to make a little more pre op effort perhaps...

They want you to have a bmi over 35 or 40 with health problems. But check with your doc if you have tje health problems and not a high bmi. Insurance companies will rule a lot too.

The surgery wasn't really painful at all......the most problem in the beginning that I had was just twisting too fast when forgetting I had just had surgery, but all-in-all there was not much pain at all! It bothered me for about a month after surgery about not being able to eat much or what I wanted only because it seemed like food commercial came on all the time to tempt me! But after a little while I got to the point where I was easily able to ignore the commercials! And even when my husband would bring home take-out it would get on my nerves but just like with the commercials I began to easily ignore him with take-out too! Emotionally I began to feel like I was being hated on once the weight started coming off because people saw me only one way for so long that they just couldn't get over the fact that I lost so much weight so soon! Some would ask questions out of curiosity or wanted to know about the surgery because they were thinking of having it done for them and others would ask questions just to have something or someone to talk about! Otherthan that I've always loved myself wether large or smaller but it would set an emotional toll on me when certain people treated me like I'd done something wrong when to me I'd actually done something right! After a while I remembered why I'd had the surgery in the beginning and it put me back in that place I knew so well which was HAPPY, HEALTHY, NEW ME! I felt my spirit rejuvenate and my lifestyle set on a New High! Don't get me wrong I sometimes look in the mirror and still see the larger me because I was a larger size for so long, but when I look at photos and hear my loving supportive family which is my husband and children, family members and friends or even people I didn't even think noticed me say "you've lost weight and look so good" and "I've never seen you with so much energy and glowing," I feel so much better and see myself at where I am today and no longer see the larger me in the mirror! I'm glad I had the surgery and don't regret it a bit! Now I'm living life Happier, Healthier one day at a time and enjoying every moment of it!

Thank you so much. In still undecided at 31.5 bmi. But your posts have helped a ton

Thanks for sharing truly appreciated.