Obesity surgery

I was wondering if this was a preop or postop support group?

I am having surgery on November 13th. It will be the Open RYN.

Hi everyone. I am new to this group. Have been reading for a while
though but have never posted. After almost 9 months of waiting I
finally have a date and it is Nov. 26. May I ask for support and
prayers from the group? I am both excited and nervous. Keep waking
up during the night and having difficulty sleeping. Hope this is
normal. Does anyone have any pre-op suggestions that will make my
hospital stay and home recup go more smoothly? I will be pretty much
on my own following surgery. My husband will help out but he works
shifts so I will have to do a lot on my own. After such a long wait
this seems just unbelievable.!!!

thanks to those who responded - I’m trying not to be so out of control

No one answered the ? about liquid though - Was anyone else asked to
do a week or two of liquid pre-op?

Lauren

thanks everyone on the advice for the gas!!
Chrissy

i think I spoke too soon yesterday because last night and this morning all I
have done is get up and goto the bathroom and have had severe gas and
belching. Is this normal. i am now 5 days post op and am miserable. My mom
just went to get me some quick dissolve phayzme for the gas. I pray it
helps. i just want to cry. I am trying to figure out if I drank too fast or
if I introduced any new liquids yesterday, and I think it could only be the
first step bananas or i had a few popsicles, and some diluted apple juice.

Help
Chrissy

Hey everyone,
I wish would have told me how good I would feel after some rest. I feel
great! Much better than yesterday. I am followind doctor’s orders and
walking, already had my protein for the day took some naps actually stayed up
for 4hours between naps, paid bills. Yesterday I was hating life, Today I am
loving it. Ok I am off to watch trading spaces. I will check in later

Chrissy

Hi,
I just got home surgery went well on the 30th. Just wanted to say thanks for
the prayers and support. I will write more later

Chrissy

Hello everyone,

I just finished reading all the posts for the past week. yea! It is nice to see
the group is growing. I am sorry to read about the sadness in many of your
lives. I am sorry I am not real good with names. Please know that I have sent a
prayer for each of you. (I do this as I read so as not to forget names)

I have been pretty busy over the last week and a half. I have fax-ed all the
additional information to the insurance com. (Aetna) now it is another waiting
game. It has been two weeks, I plan on calling them the first part of November.

Last week (Wed. Oct. 23rd) I has elbow surgery. It is keeping me from doing lost
of things. I went to the doctor yesterday (Oct.30) was able to get the half cast
off and stitches out. I was so excited I told my doctor "now I can pick up my
granddaughters" his reply was NO. He knows me very well. Now I will start PT
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Hi all, I was just wondering if there was anyone here that was from
the Omaha Nebraska area. Let me know if there is…:o)
Misty
post-op
7-23-02
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Hello to all, my name is Carla and I am from Canada. I would like to
know if there are people here who have self paid for WLS and if so,
maybe they would share what they had to pay. I would be looking for
a surgeon in the northeast US probably.
Thanks a lot and I look forward to getting to know other members
here.
Carla