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To be perfectly honest, I was skeptical. This is a problem I have and it doesn't look like it's ever going to go away. Whatever someone tells me no, my first reaction is skepticism. Then I go look it up. Then I decide if it's true or not.
your surgical team just does everything it possibly can to make your surgical team just does everything it possibly can to make you feel good and comfortable after you enter the hospital. You may be nervous but if so they're generally give you a Xanax or Klonopin or most likely Ativan. Then when you have calmed down a little, they put in the IV. Then they leave you alone and someone comes back and tells you that you're going to get an injection of something that's going to make you sleepy.
From the pre-op room to the surgical theater, things go the way you perceive them, but that doesn't mean that the order you remember is actually the order they happened in. But there is no mistake about the fact that someone puts a mask over your face and tells you to count back from a hundred and you generally get to about 97 and 1/2 and you're out.
When you wake up, it's all done, and you feel like you didn't even go to sleep or that you may be were asleep for a minute, but not hours.
post surgically everybody has a different experience. But most of the time medical post surgically everybody has a different experience. But most of the time medical people will bug you to get up and walk and if you have a catheter and are peeing into a bag, they won't let you leave until you can pee in the toilet. That's just Hospital stuff.
I I happily push the button on the morphine machine. I pushed it as many times as I could because I really loved morphine. Other people don't want to use opiates, so they take Tylenol. You can never take NSAIDs again, including ibuprofen. Your doctor will tell you all about this.
I was there two or three days and then went home and laid in bed and took opiates. Because I didn't have a sleeve surgery and because I had an open procedure, they didn't have to pump gas into me. So I didn't have the muscle pains that you get with gas if you are sleeved.
I vomited a lot of bile because they took my gallbladder, which was awesome. When I felt like getting up I drank bouillon and comforting warm liquids. It was the best food I ever had. I made one mistake. I didn't use a laxative after surgery. I should have been taking in some Fiber laxative as soon as I got home. You can't eat vegetables or other fiber that will help you evacuate your bowels. So I got constipated for the first time in my life, like passing a loaf of bread. It took 2 days for it to leave my body. And most of those two days I spent on the toilet or doing other things you don't want the details about.
Nothing happened to me that I couldn't handle. And I started to lose weight immediately. I took my supplements, I drank my clear liquids, I pounded down that water and followed my surgeon and my nutritionist exactly.
I became as active I became as active as I could as soon as I was able to. And that activity help the weight loss to continue and also made me stronger and cured my fat girl depression.
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I haven't had even one second of regret or remorse. I wanted and needed to lose at least a hundred pounds, and I did it and since that time I have done amazing things because I could do them, physically. No regrets.
I think it's important to say that a lot of people do have significantly more pain and nausea than I did. If you are extremely or morbidly or super obese, and you have several comorbidities, you might have more difficulty shedding the pounds. You might find a whole bunch of new problems crop up and you have to deal with them. The higher the weight when you begin, the more possibility there is for discomfort during the year or two that you will now spend losing all that weight.
You are an Italian sports car. You're getting your engine rebuilt. And as soon as it's done you're going to win every race you enter.