Entries for April 29, 2008

Hi, everyone, I am 3 weeks post op. I have tried to be very careful with my diet. I have had exercise every day. I have had terrible shoulder pain, meds, diet exercise do not help.
I have lost average of 10 pounds so far.
I am worried about where to get my first fill (and how many I might need.) I am between Toronto Canada (London Ontario area) and Detroit Michigan. I have been told floros with your fill is the best route. ??????? I am worried about the ultimate cost of this all, but...

i'm 199.5 today.
Tom too. I have found that when its TOM i swell up and cant do food very well at all for a day or two. Its okay, because two days before i was eating everything in the house. I shop well so its not a huge problem.

Whew...what ive found..i can eat BREAD sometimes without much problem, even a quarter to a half of a sandwich sometimes. it comes and goes and i can tell when its going to be okay. Best advice my surgeon gave me was that if i had a pb or threw up, liquids...

Well, I'm one week after surgery and doing just fine. The worst part of the surgery was staying in the recovery room for over 7 hours because there was no inpatient bed for me. Luckily, I work in a hospital and was not shocked by everything going on around me. The pain wasn't as bad as I expected it to be and I wasn't even as bruised as I thought I would be. I am supposed to be on lliquids only for the next week and then progress to pureed foods, but the protein drinks gave me horrible diarrhea...

I had my fourth fill last Thursday, April 24. I did liquids Thursday & Friday. Saturday I tried eating soft solids, got sick. Got sick several times on Sunday. Now, I feel like I have constant heartburn, and can't hardly eat or drink anything without getting sick. It was a little like this after my third fill, but it got better after a week or so. This time is worse. I haven't called my doctor yet. I was hoping that it would get better. Anybody else experience this?