It has been an adjustment!!

Feb 13, 2011

 Sorry that I haven't updated my profile in the last two months. These last two months have been CRAZY!! and not what I expected.  When I first had surgery in 2003, I had issues that made me stay in the hospital for 7 day.  Same thing happened with this surgery. With my first surgery I never had problem eating or taking my pills. Nothing bothered me.  Now I have been having issues with eating certain foods and taking my pills. Everything would get stuck and have to come back up/  They told me that this could happen, but since it didn't happen with the first surgery, I don't know what I thought would happen, but I guess having my RNY completely redone, to another RNY changed everything.

During these two months, I went into a deep depression.  All I wanted to do was sleep.  I didn't want to talk to anyone, or go out. Finally towards the end of January, I called my psychiatrist and explained how I was feeling and I couldn't wait until March to see her.  She didn't know that I had surgery,  when I told her that I did it  she was very happy that I did.  She has increased the dose of my anti depressant and it seems to be helping.

Since my meds have been increased, I have been feeling better. I have lost 66 lbs.  I never expected to lose this much weight. I thought it was going to be like my first surgery and the weight loss was going to be very slow.  I know that it will slow down.  I have noticed that my eating has been getting better. I have been really trying to find alternatives to beef and chicken breast. I have been eating ground turkey and chicken and meatless chicken, I haven't tried the beef yet.  Some days I still have difficulty with the pills.  I hope I will be off of most of them soon.

I have been going to gym and that has been making me feel better.  I would really like to work with a personal trainer.  I felt like it helped me when I surgery the first time.  So when all of my bills are paid off, I think might try that again.

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