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PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A

Congratulations! You made a life-changing decision and are now benefiting from your new, positive lifestyle. Please share your Weight Loss Surgery success story with our community. You deserve to celebrate, and your story may make the difference in someone else's life.

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- February 2024 Surgery Budd…
- By BlueParis
- 3 hours ago
POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A

This is the place to talk about post-op questions. Discuss recovery, the post-op Weight Loss Surgery diet progression, nutrition, complications, medical tests, and other Weight Loss Surgery issues.

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- How Can I tell I’m Hungry?
- By SpringCleansing
- 3 hours ago
General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions

Talk about anything related to weight loss surgery, such as choosing a surgery and surgeon, preparing for surgery, pre-surgery and post-surgery diets, weight loss, exercise and mental challenges. Exchange recipes, find weight loss surgery buddies, get exercise advice, ask about cosmetic and reconstructive surgery and share your weight loss surgery story!

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- Food Before and After Phot…
- By GreenTealael
- 12 hours ago
Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums

In a gastric sleeve surgery or vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG), the surgeon removes most of your stomach and forms the rest into a tube-shaped sleeve from your throat to your small intestine. These forums are for sleevers, potential sleevers and revisional sleevers! Talk about the VSG diet, nutritional supplements, weight loss and sleeve complications.

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- Travel 6 months Post-op
- By ShoppGirl
- 7 hours ago
Gastric Bypass Surgery Forums

The Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) is restrictive and malabsorptive. You get a smaller stomach pouch, which attaches lower down your small intestine. In these forums, talk about dumping syndrome, nutrient deficiencies, weight loss, the bypass diet and complications. Forums are for pre-WLS patients and those already have the RYGB.

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- April 2024 Surgery Buddies
- By Elizabeth21again
- 10 hours ago
LAP-BAND Surgery Forums

The adjustable gastric band (LAP-BAND) is a less invasive type of weight loss surgery that works through restricting your stomach size. Discuss LAP-BAND related topics such as fills, LAP-BAND diets, nutritional supplements, complications and band over bypass. Share your experiences and be supportive!

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- Where is Dr. Bradley Schwa…
- By Jemma2
- April 11
Revision Weight Loss Surgery Forums (NEW!)

Weight loss surgery revisions are typically performed because of weight regain, complications resulting from the weight loss surgery procedure, or a reversal of the procedure altogether.

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- Getting Close to Year, An…
- By CarmenG
- 9 hours ago
Food and Nutrition
This forum is for questions about food and nutrition before and after all types of weight loss surgeries. Check out the sub-forums to see if there is a more specific place for your post, to help people find information more easily.
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- Question about fats.
- By ShoppGirl
- 14 hours ago
Tell Your Weight Loss Surgery Story

This is the place to share your Weight Loss Surgery journey with other members. Please start your own thread to tell us more about yourself. Do you have weight loss surgery? Who was/is your surgeon? How much weight have you lost, what changes have you noticed, and what challenges have you overcome?

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- DS or sleev, Mex or US- ov…
- By Jalapeño
- April 18
Weight Loss Surgery Success Stories

Congratulations! You made a life-changing decision and are now benefiting from your new, positive lifestyle. Please share your Weight Loss Surgery success story with our community. You deserve to celebrate, and your story may make the difference in someone else's life.

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- Finally in the 200s
- By BeanitoDiego
- April 14
Fitness & Exercise

This forum is devoted to discussions, questions, and answers dealing with fitness and exercise, routines, habits, etc.

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- Go to dessert or sugary pr…
- By ms.sss
- Tuesday at 10:14 PM
Weight Loss Surgeons & Hospitals

This forum is the place to share your personal experiences and discuss surgery costs, length, and quality of hospital stays, surgeon recommendations, and anything else related to weight loss surgeons and hospitals. You can search our Weight Loss Surgeon Directory to find a local Bariatric Surgeon here.

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- Best Gastric Bypass Revisi…
- By ChunkCat
- Thursday at 08:42 PM
Insurance & Financing

This forum is for discussions related to weight loss surgery insurance coverage and financing options. Gain from learning from others’ experiences!

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- Healthy food expense
- By Arabesque
- March 31
Mexico & Self-Pay Weight Loss Surgery

A forum for discussing travel to Mexico to have Gastric Sleeve, Gastric Bypass or another type of Weight Loss Surgery, as well as for discussing self-pay for weight loss surgery.

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- ? about post op care
- By SleeveToBypass2023
- February 11
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

Congratulations on achieving or approaching your goal weight! Are you thinking about skin removal, cosmetic, or reconstructive surgery? This is the forum dedicated to discussing tummy tucks, brachioplasty (arm lift), mastopexy (breast lift), and inner thigh lifts, and other cosmetic procedures after losing a lot of weight with weight loss surgery.

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- how do you know ....
- By heatherdbby
- Wednesday at 07:59 PM
WLS Veteran's Forum

Been around BariatricPal for a while? Then chat with other old-timers who also know the drill! Sometimes it just feels more comfortable to kick back and shoot the breeze with familiar faces. So, come on into the Vets Forum for some serious WLS talk or just to hang out. We're old pals here!

NOTE: You must be 18 months post-op to participate in the WLS Veterans's Forum.

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- How did your GS revision h…
- By starladustangel
- Monday at 02:04 AM
Rants & Raves

Want debate? Get it here. Gripe, complain, moan, fight, rant and rave. Enter at your own risk!

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- Did you cheat too?
- By K Ramirez
- Thursday at 10:04 PM
The Lounge

This forum is for general conversation, sharing interests, having a laugh or discussing anything not specifically related to Weight Loss Surgery surgery.

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- OOTD
- By GreenTealael
- Wednesday at 01:51 AM
The Gals' Room

This is a place for ladies to discuss everything from Weight Loss Surgery complications, diet, and concerns, to any other off-topic subjects.

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- Scared to do this but more…
- By NickelChip
- Tuesday at 01:36 AM
Pregnancy with Weight Loss Surgery

This is the place for support for pregnant, trying-to-get-pregnant, and new parents after weight loss surgery. Share your tips and support here regarding breastfeeding, good nutrition, and taking care of yourself and your baby.

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- Vitamins
- By summerseeker
- February 22
The Guys’ Room

This is a place for men to discuss everything from Weight Loss Surgery complications, diet, and concerns, to any other off-topic subjects.

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- Gamers?
- By Bypass2Freedom
- Wednesday at 08:27 AM
Singles Forum

Looking for that special someone? Once you start on your weight loss surgery journey, everything from your lifestyle to your body to the way you think about yourself and the world changes. Here is a forum to meet other weight loss surgery singles who know what you’re going through and who are have the same health goals and lifestyle as you do. Have fun!

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- New Dating Site for Bariat…
- By mnorwood52
- April 2
Other Types of Weight Loss Surgery & Procedures
The Gastric Plication (sleeve plication or greater curvature plication), Duodenal Switch (DS), Mini Gastric Bypass (MGB), Gastric Balloon (intragastric balloon), and other Endolumenal Bariatric procedures are also options for treating obesity. This is where you can talk about these weight loss surgeries and procedures. Share your experiences and ask questions in these forums!
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- Modified Duodenal Switch
- By ShoppGirl
- 6 hours ago
Weight Loss Medications & Popular Diets

Before or after weight loss surgery, you may be following one of the popular diet plans to guide your eating. This is the place to talk about the Paleo diet, Atkins, Jenny Craig, SlimFast, Weight Watchers, South Beach, and any other diet. Talk about recipes, meal plans, do’s and don’ts, and how to get your popular diet to fit into your weight loss surgery diet.

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- Healthy positive diets
- By ms.sss
- April 15
Weight Loss Surgery Magazine

Weight Loss Surgery Magazine is an online publication made up of informative articles written by weight loss professionals who have experience with weight loss surgery.

WLS Magazine covers many aspects of weight loss surgery and is written by health professionals from across the healthcare spectrum, including: Physicians/Surgeons, Dietitians/Nutritionists, Health & Wellness Experts, Psychologists, Life Coaches and Others who are at the forefront in the fight against obesity.

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- Premier Protein – Not Prem…
- By Suzybelle
- April 20
Website Assistance & Suggestions

Technical questions? Comments about BariatricPal? We welcome feedback and suggestions on any aspect of BariatricPal.com. This is also the place to visit for updates about new features and updates.

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Recent Status Updates
- ChunkCat
  
  Thank you everyone for your well wishes! I totally forgot I wrote an update here... I'm one week post op today. I gained 15 lbs in water weight overnight because they had to give me tons of fluids to bring my BP up after surgery! I stayed one night in the hospital. Everything has been fine except I seem to have picked up a bug while I was there and I've been running a low grade fever, coughing, and a sore throat. So I've been hydrating well and sleeping a ton. So far the Covid tests are negative.
  I haven't been able to advance my diet past purees. Everything I eat other than tofu makes me choke and feels like trying to swallow rocks. They warned me it would get worse before it gets better, so lets hope this is all normal. I have my follow up on Monday so we'll see. Living on shakes and soup again is not fun. I had enough of them the first time!! LOL
  
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- BeanitoDiego
  
  Still purging all of the larger clothing. This morning, a shirt that I ADORED wearing ended up on top. Hard to let it go, but it was also hard to let go of those habits that also no longer serve my highest good. Onward and upward!
  
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- Onedayatatime365
  
  Looking to connect with others who are also on the journey of better health. Post-Op Gastric Sleeve (4/11/24).
  
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- jparadigm
  
  Happy Wednesday!
  
  I hope everyone is having a lovely week so far!
  It's been a bit of a struggle this last week...I'm hungry ALL the time.
  
  April 17 · 1 reply
  1. BlondePatriotInCDA
    
    Have a great Wednesday too! Sorry you're hungry all the time, I'm pretty much the same..and I'm sick of eating the same food all the time.
    
    April 18
- ChunkCat
  
  Well, tomorrow I go in for an impromptu hiatal hernia repair after ending up in the ER over the weekend because I couldn't get food down and water was moving at a trickle... I've been having these symptoms on and off for a few weeks but Sunday was the worst by far and came with chest pain and trouble breathing. The ER PA thinks it is just esophagitis and that the surgeon and radiologist are wrong. But the bariatric surgeon swears it is a hernia, possibly a sliding one based on my symptoms. So he fit me into his schedule this week to repair it! I hope he's right and this sorts it out. He's going to do a scope afterwards to be sure there is nothing wrong with the esophagus. Here's hoping it all goes well!!
  
  April 16 · 4 replies
  1. AmberFL
    
    omgsh!! Hope all goes well!! Keeping you in my thoughts!
    
    April 17
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    Hope you’re doing well!
    
    April 18
  3. NickelChip
    
    I hope it goes well! Sending positive thoughts for a speedy recovery!
    
    April 20
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    How are you doing? any update?!
    
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