BrianChesteen
Glad to be a Loser!
Three weeks post op today. Everything is still going well and thanks to the help and knowledge provided here, I have not managed to mangle or kill myself yet.
Second week back to work. Really better than being stuck in the house. I have made it a couple times over to the airport to play around with my airplane. (No I am not rich, I built my own airplane from a kit, took over 10 years to spread out the cost). That is my hobby and I love to tinker on it. I am not going to fly again till at least 2 months out. I am just a private pilot that fly's for fun.
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2 week post op apt went well last week. In and out with nothing but nod and grin when it came to the supplement advice.
I have lost 40lbs as of my weekly weigh-in yesterday. I know it will start to slow as I add more food options in.
Right now I am still on liquids. The nurse said stay on them till 4 weeks out. I have tasted a few phase II items but have been very limited and careful about that. I get at lest 90g of mostly protein shake protein a day and have no issues getting in my liquid. I just carry a bottle with me everywhere I go and every time I think about it I swish down ~ 4oz. I have been averaging 60g carbs a day. I will work toward 50 when I can get more food choices.
Not sure what the average sleeve size is for the VSG portion of the DS but it looks like my surgeon is one of the ones that leaves you with a bigger sleeve. I think this may explain how his patients that he did this to are able to get stuff in earlier out than others. My op report says that he did a ~50% VSG. At this point and it appears to be stable, I can drink about 8oz liquid in 10 minutes. Thicker liquid and more solid stuff is limited to 4-5oz. On the thin liquids about 4 oz and wait till it moves down before I can take another swish. One swallow too many and I don't get nauseated, I just get that full feeling with a little spasm.
Can't wait till the Lovenox series is over. I am all bruised from the injections.
I have had no issues taking my medicines post op. Most of them are temporary and are to prevent stuff like high uric acid, gallstones etc. Hopefully in a few months, I will be down to just a baby aspirin and the PPI.
I have started working on adding in a modified Vitalady vitamin regimen. I have tweaked it a little to fit me as well as I can at this point without any labs to compare. I have to talk to my heart Dr. on Feb 4th before adding any K vits. I don't do well with Niacin so I do not take the B Complex 55. I do 3 Kirkland multi's a day so hopefully that will take care of the B's along with the other B supplements that are in that regimen.
The only one so far I have struggled with is the Tender Iron. At first I took too many and it ran thru me in a few hours and came out black water. I am now back to 1 a day and will give that some time before increasing. I can tolerate the burp taste and they do not upset my stomach, I just don't know yet on how the lower end is going to tolerate them. I wanted to get on some iron supplement as soon as I can due to the fact that I was a little low on iron pre-op. D was low, K was high, A was high, B12 was 670, B1 was high, all the others were in normal ranges for a normal person.
So ready to move to a full phase II. The advice from the surgeon's office is to stay on phase II for 4 weeks but I know I will be able to tolerate it better since many of the ok options are stuff I like.
That's about it for this week....
Second week back to work. Really better than being stuck in the house. I have made it a couple times over to the airport to play around with my airplane. (No I am not rich, I built my own airplane from a kit, took over 10 years to spread out the cost). That is my hobby and I love to tinker on it. I am not going to fly again till at least 2 months out. I am just a private pilot that fly's for fun.
Here is a pic for reference:
2 week post op apt went well last week. In and out with nothing but nod and grin when it came to the supplement advice.
I have lost 40lbs as of my weekly weigh-in yesterday. I know it will start to slow as I add more food options in.
Right now I am still on liquids. The nurse said stay on them till 4 weeks out. I have tasted a few phase II items but have been very limited and careful about that. I get at lest 90g of mostly protein shake protein a day and have no issues getting in my liquid. I just carry a bottle with me everywhere I go and every time I think about it I swish down ~ 4oz. I have been averaging 60g carbs a day. I will work toward 50 when I can get more food choices.
Not sure what the average sleeve size is for the VSG portion of the DS but it looks like my surgeon is one of the ones that leaves you with a bigger sleeve. I think this may explain how his patients that he did this to are able to get stuff in earlier out than others. My op report says that he did a ~50% VSG. At this point and it appears to be stable, I can drink about 8oz liquid in 10 minutes. Thicker liquid and more solid stuff is limited to 4-5oz. On the thin liquids about 4 oz and wait till it moves down before I can take another swish. One swallow too many and I don't get nauseated, I just get that full feeling with a little spasm.
Can't wait till the Lovenox series is over. I am all bruised from the injections.
I have had no issues taking my medicines post op. Most of them are temporary and are to prevent stuff like high uric acid, gallstones etc. Hopefully in a few months, I will be down to just a baby aspirin and the PPI.
I have started working on adding in a modified Vitalady vitamin regimen. I have tweaked it a little to fit me as well as I can at this point without any labs to compare. I have to talk to my heart Dr. on Feb 4th before adding any K vits. I don't do well with Niacin so I do not take the B Complex 55. I do 3 Kirkland multi's a day so hopefully that will take care of the B's along with the other B supplements that are in that regimen.
The only one so far I have struggled with is the Tender Iron. At first I took too many and it ran thru me in a few hours and came out black water. I am now back to 1 a day and will give that some time before increasing. I can tolerate the burp taste and they do not upset my stomach, I just don't know yet on how the lower end is going to tolerate them. I wanted to get on some iron supplement as soon as I can due to the fact that I was a little low on iron pre-op. D was low, K was high, A was high, B12 was 670, B1 was high, all the others were in normal ranges for a normal person.
So ready to move to a full phase II. The advice from the surgeon's office is to stay on phase II for 4 weeks but I know I will be able to tolerate it better since many of the ok options are stuff I like.
That's about it for this week....
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