I had spasms for the first week. Sometimes as frequent as once a minute. I found that if I drank luke warm liquids instead of cold ones that helped. They do stop after a while I promise. :)

I had 2 weeks of liquids after surgery and then 2 weeks of mushy. Then I was on solids.

So I'm doing massage throughout my weight loss in hopes that it will help my skins elasticity. I've heard good things about doing this. Anyway, just an idea.

I would tend to agree that it's really hard to tell on liquids. As soon as you move to mushy or normal food your body will start to let you know. I start to feel a little nausea. I don't actually...

I had to remove ALL jewelry.

I have always been a stomach sleeper. About 5 days after surgery I woke up and found that I was on my stomach. I had no pain at all, but though OH NO! I talked to surgeon at my one week appointment...

I'm glad to hear everyone else is having this problem. I started adding flavorless fiber to my gatorade twice a day, but I still wouldn't call myself regular. Maybe every other day regular.

So I had a plication done on 12/16/2012 and I'm almost 1 month post-op and I haven't had any issues or weird side effects. Just thought I'd share that not all plication experiences are bad.

I also had the plication. I just did mine on 2/26/2012. So I'm almost 4 weeks out. I've haven't lost all that much so far, but am keeping the faith. I was really glad I chose the plication over the...

OMG I'm so glad you posted this! I was sleeved on 2/16 as well. From my surgery day I've lost 10.6 pounds. The majority of that was lost the first week. Then nothing... then last week I actually...

Hello,

I'm in Kirkland and I had my surgery on 2/16. I've only lost 14 pounds so far and have been stuck at 14 pounds for over a week now. Hopefully things will pick up again soon. It's good to...