SetPhasersToStun99
One Week Postop
Mar 14, 2013
One week postop already! I seems like this week has gone by really fast and really slow. I guess because I'm not used to just sitting at home and not running around to work and school. lol I like having a break though. It was much needed.
Last time I weighed myself at like 6:30 today I was 237.8. WOW. I have not seen that number in...years. Beginning of last year I think I was 245 and just climbed from there. So I haven't been this low in weight for over almost two years. INSANE.
Highest weight (around beginning of February): 268
Start of liquid diet weight (Feb. 22. 2013) : 258.3
Surgery weight (Mar. 7, 2013): 248.8
Total lost from highest weight: 30.2 lbs!
again...WOW. This is just crazy for me. I knew it would be fast, but I had no idea it would be this fast. Like I can literally see the change with my own eyes and I didn't think I would be able to so quickly. I can see my love handles going down and my stomach looks like it's shrinking too! It's been tough. I was in the ER Monday morning because I was throwing up stomach acid pretty much all night Sunday night. I think that's because I was really dumb and was laying on my stomach for almost two hours. (Dumb, I know) Right after that, I was really really nauseous and dizzy. Laid down on the couch thinking that maybe I was just getting a little head rush or something. But then I started dry heaving about a half hour later (2ish am). Called the clinic, they said to rest...uh duh. About 20 mins after that I had to run to the bathroom again and was dry heaving and this time actually started throwing up pure stomach acid. :( I felt way better for a little while and laid down in my bed and "slept" for about 2 1/2 hours. (AKA laid in bed and drifted in and out while trying to ignore my nausea.) Then at around 5:30am I sat up and felt the heaves coming on again. Ran to the toliet, and this time I threw up like 5 times. It was horrible. That was the point where I was like, "I can't take this anymore, Mom. We need to go in." So we got ready and my mom drove me to the ER. They gave me IV fluids and meds and x-rayed to make sure everything was ok. They kept me there for about 5 hours. Thank God I didn't mess anything up by laying on my stomach this soon after major surgery. :/
So yeah. It hasn't been all peaches and cream, the way I thought it was the first few days home. I was really suprised at home good I felt and maybe I got a little too overexcited...I don't know if I pushed myself or what. But thankful I haven't had any more incidents like that. Overall I've been feeling pretty good. Only issue earlier on was when I was try and sip water I'd get TONS of gas in my chest. It felt like I really needed to burp...even with tiny tiny sips. It was horrible. Thank goodness that that's going away though and I've been able to drink a little better. I think the anti-gas meds that they sent home with me are really helping too. Other than that little issue, it's just been the random attacks of being super tired.
Like yesterday I tried running some errands with my mom. We went to Sears, then went to Bath & Body Works. I felt a little tired, but once I got to the car and sat, I was ok. Then we went to Home Depot, was ok at first but after ten mins I started getting that dizzy feeling and sort of nauseous. I had to hold on to my mom on the walk back to the car. :( Last place we went was the cable company and I'm pretty sure the lady probably was wondering wtf was wrong with me cause I had to keep laying my head on the counter. I felt really dizzy. Ugh. I'm a fan of that at all. It's almost the same as when I first started taking Phentermine and I would black out/faint.
I had one of those incidents today. Tunnel vision, rushing noise in ears then kinda sound dampening, then womp...pass out. Great.
I'm pretty sure it's because I'm not getting enough fluids in and NO protein yet. I'm trying to do as much ice chips and popsicles as I can though because those of the things I seem to tolerate pretty well. I did have a little nibble of the cheese from a piece of my mom's pizza earlier, and I made sure I chewed it up really well.
Hopefully I'll be able to start purees tomorrow when I go for my 1-week postop checkup. Pretty excited about that.
Gotta say I really miss solid foods, but I know it's all gonna be worth it in the end!
This is definitely the best decision I ever made.
