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01-23-2010, 09:09 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Los Angeles area
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Weight Statistics October 16 2009 Start Date:
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275 lb Start Weight:
264 lb Current Weight:
150 lb Goal Weight:
11 lb Weight Loss:
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4 % % Lost:
January 2011 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index48.7087427564 BMI Start:
46.7603930461 BMI Current:
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I had RNY on thursday. I will probably be going home to day. Everything has been going well, no nausea or vomiting. But the gas pains have been very uncomfortable. They were exacerbated by the Optisource shakes that were served at meals. I am lactose intolerant so the gas pains got worse with the optisource shakes. Thank goodness I finally read the ingredient list. When I saw "milk protein isolate" I knew why I couldn't drink the shake, instant gas attack. Why do they even serve a milk based product if most people become lactose intolerant after surgery, if they weren't already intolerant before the procedure?
At home I have several types of shakes. I am sure that some of them will work. Right now it is difficult to distinguish between full pouch and gas pain. 
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01-23-2010, 09:34 AM
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Congratulations on joining the Losers' Bench.
Rest well, take things one day at a time, sip sip sip walk walk walk.
About the full feeling. Don't expect it yet, your pouch is still numb from the surgery, so it's going to take some time before you really *get* what the full feeling is. In the meanwhile, measure out everythingn and keep track of everything that goes into your mouth, to make sure you don't get dehydrated.
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01-23-2010, 12:04 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Los Angeles area
Posts: 4
Weight Statistics October 16 2009 Start Date:
1/21/10 Surgery Date:
5' 3"
Height:
275 lb Start Weight:
264 lb Current Weight:
150 lb Goal Weight:
11 lb Weight Loss:
114 lb Lb Left to Lose:
4 % % Lost:
January 2011 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index48.7087427564 BMI Start:
46.7603930461 BMI Current:
26.5684051398 BMI Goal:
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Thanks for info. I thought I should be feeling the pouch already.
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01-23-2010, 05:24 PM
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Join Date: May 2009 Location: Salida, CA
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121 lb Current Weight:
150 lb Goal Weight:
155 lb Weight Loss:
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Body Mass Index43.22298953 BMI Start:
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Hi, and welcome and like doc said you won't have a full feeling till the nerves in your new pouch heal, and that could be for a while. Hang in there hope you can find a protein that you can tolerate. Good luck, and see you on the losers bench.
Judy 
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01-23-2010, 06:31 PM
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Originally Posted by renanda  Thanks for info. I thought I should be feeling the pouch already. | You just had surgery. That means you were cut up here and there and not everywhere, but a lot. Whicn in turn means that, even though the large nerves aren't cut, the nerves at the end of the branches that directly cover the places that are cut, are cut along with the incisions. It's going to take some time before these nerves regenerate.
Think--when you cut your hand, you feel pain because the nerve ends are cut, but while the injury is healing, the sensation when you touch the area is not quite the same as before the cut, and for some time after the cut closes.
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01-23-2010, 07:33 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Oklahoma City, Okla USA
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Body Mass Index59.0686390533 BMI Start:
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sometimes it makes no sense what the hospitals will serve posties.
One of the ones here kept bringing in full meals...and yeah a few of those posties went ahead and ate 'em..! "they shouldn't have brought it in if I wasn't supposed to have it" LOL..
or worse..gatorade! full sugar..
We have to read the ingredients stuff all the time to watch out for ourselves. You might want to post a sign on the door to your room if you can that says NO MILK PRODUCTS. It wouldn't hurt!
Walking helps with those gas pains from the lap surgery..doesn't seem like it would. I've had 2 laproscopic surgeries and when it moves up into the shoulders that hurts like all get out, but walking got it to disperse quicker.
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