# Weight loss surgery dopers: I'm coming! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 4, 2006, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246 "2006-04-04T13:31:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/121 "2006-06-07T04:56:02Z")
Yep, and you couldn’t eat any potatoes, which I had specifically made extra knowing you liked them. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/122 "2006-06-07T07:41:49Z")
Now that I’m this far out, I can eat potatoes 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/123 "2006-06-07T07:56:38Z")
OK, guys, enough impatinence! Mr. Norinew brought me home yesterday, as well as a lovely new monitor so I have access! So good of **Gingy** to call me in the hospital for a status report! Thanks! My surgeon is also generous with the Dilaudid he gives you to take home. I have 4 mg. every three hours. Have to go back in a week to get the staples, drain, and IV port removed. I don’t expect that will be fun, but he gave me instrucitons for using a little extra Dilaudid first so it won’t be so bad. Right now, I’m very limited. Four oz. of clear liquids an hour, two oz. of pureed food every two hours. Fortunately, right now that’s plenty. I am planning to stay sugar-free through the rapid weight loss phase (about a year to a 18 mos.) to maximize weight loss. After that, I’ll see if I can eat some regular sugar without it driving me to binge! It’ll all be trial and error. Thanks so much, everyone, for your support! ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/124 "2006-06-07T08:46:43Z")
YAY! I’m so happy that you are on “the losing side” of this experience! _jumps around all excited_ ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/125 "2006-06-07T09:19:22Z")
**norinew** , I’ve come into this very late, but I wanted to add my support, encouragement and congratulations. I’m thinking about lap banding for myself. I’m probably going to an informational seminar at a local hospital in the next month or so. I asked my doctor about last year, but my health cooperative decided I wasn’t sick enough to need any help. My BMI is nearly 50, but I don’t have any complications yet. :dubious: So, I’m going to check on the self pay route. If we can afford it, I’m in. Glad you’re doing well. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/126 "2006-06-07T09:33:07Z")
If you have to go the self-pay route, check for doctors in Brazil. It’s much cheaper to have surgery there and it’s as safe as having it here. (I had my post-weight-loss plastic surgery done there). ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/127 "2006-06-07T10:38:39Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > OK, guys, enough impatinence! Mr. Norinew brought me home yesterday, as well as a lovely new monitor so I have access! > > So good of **Gingy** to call me in the hospital for a status report! Thanks! > > My surgeon is also generous with the Dilaudid he gives you to take home. I have 4 mg. every three hours. > > Have to go back in a week to get the staples, drain, and IV port removed. I don’t expect that will be fun, but he gave me instrucitons for using a little extra Dilaudid first so it won’t be so bad. > > Right now, I’m very limited. Four oz. of clear liquids an hour, two oz. of pureed food every two hours. Fortunately, right now that’s plenty. > > I am planning to stay sugar-free through the rapid weight loss phase (about a year to a 18 mos.) to maximize weight loss. After that, I’ll see if I can eat some regular sugar without it driving me to binge! It’ll all be trial and error. > > Thanks so much, everyone, for your support! Norinew: Congratulations - I was thinking of you and am glad you’re home & doing well! VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/128 "2006-06-07T11:57:48Z")
So, _now_ are you thin and beautiful? ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/129 "2006-06-07T12:27:42Z")
Congratulations on making it to the other side! I’m glad it went well. Although I had the RNY, like **OpalCat** , I also lost about a pound a day. I kept track of it on paper, as well as measurements of my waist, hips, arms, etc. In terms of weight loss, this is the fun part. In terms of eating…not so much. But the time will fly by and you’ll be healthy and svelte in no time! ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/130 "2006-06-07T16:52:07Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > So, _now_ are you thin and beautiful? Sigh. Not yet. In fact, as of Sunday, the hospital scale (they didn’t weigh me, but on one of our walks down the hall, hubby and I couldn’t resist the urge for me to get on the scale to just see), I’d gained 4 lbs! :eek: Actually, at this point, I’m still lugging around a lot of excess IV fluids, and am very swollen. An acquaintaince who saw me last night wanted to know if I was pregnant again! :eek: 😉 But, I kinda sorta am, in a way. Approx 10 mos. from now, I will have delivered myself of the weight of a smallish person! And damn you anyway, **Ginger** , you got me thinking about sugar-free popsicles and I haven’t been able to get to the store to get any yet! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/131 "2006-06-07T17:03:17Z")
Fluid-retention right after surgery is super common and a lot of WLS patients artificially “gain” weight for a short period immediately following surgery. I bet when the fluid weight is gone you will have lost some mass as well 🙂 🙂 🙂 I can’t tell you how happy and excited I am for you! ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/132 "2006-06-08T10:38:29Z")
Thanks, Opal. I’m happy and excited, too. I’m trying not to focus too much on the weight loss aspect right now. I’m trying to focus more on the healing aspect. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246.md?page=6)