Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums

I can't believe it's already been 2 weeks! EGD today was a breeze! 14 day pre-op diet wasn't too unbearable. But I gotta tell ya - the Chic-Fil-A chicken biscuit was a real temptation yesterday as I drove around town buying yet more protein drinks! LOL. I stayed strong though and went back to my hotel room for yet another protein shake. Good luck October sleevers. See you on the other side!

2 tablespoos of Dijon mustard 3 tablespoons of soy sauce 1 tablespoon of brown sugar ( splenda ) 1/4 teaspoon of ginger Stir all three ingredients together chill for 10 minutes Spoon over fresh salmon and bake for 15 mins or until fish is done. Serve with fresh veggie. Delish !!!

I dont know if im the only one that feels this way and I would like somebody to talk to plz. Here it goes........I'm 21 about to be 22 and I've been fat a majority of my life. Since I was 8 I've been picked on, taunted and all that jazz. At the age of 13 I lost 60lbs. So when I started HS i was 150lbs and was still made fun of but not as much. Also I had to deal with this new found attention i was getting from boys because I was thinner and had large breast (14 and was a DD). It got to the point that I got punched in the head because I 'thought I was cute." By prom I was 189lbs. Now I'm 239 and I'm on the journey to getting the surgery but I'm SCARED OUTA MY SHORTS!!!!!! …

Where are all of you at, I would like to see how everyone sleeved in May of 2011 is doing. What is your progress, any complications? Any regrets?

Hi hi I was soooo excited to see a San Antonio group on this site! I'm hoping to connect with other local "sleevers" to create something of a real-life support network for us all... A little about me: I recently had my knee 'scoped to try & figure out why my torn meniscus wasn't healing (after 5 months) --- once inside, my knee doc saw that the cartilage was completely shredded (the pictures looked like cotton candy) & gave me the news that I needed total knee replacement. He also let me know that he wouldn't be able to do the surgery until I lost a significant amount of weight & referred me to Dr. Ramiro "Sonny" Cavazos, a bariatric surgeon at The Texas…

Had a nice 3.4lbs loss this week! Yeah!!!!!!!!! Just now starting not to have so much nausea when I eat dense Protein. Still using Protein drinks to up my levels. Saw my Bari this week and he is very happy with my progress. Said I was right on target and to keep up the good work. He said I was his lowest BMI patient he had ever performed the procedure on and that he was looking forward to seeing me to find out how I was doing. Now he is considering getting the sleeve done cuz he has now hit an obese rating on BMI. Interesting huh? Today the family is going for a 4 hour horseback ride so I will get my excercise in that way. And now that I am healed up from my falls I can…

Okay, so I have seen this mentioned on the side in a couple of places around the forum and am starting to put 2 and 2 together. Just 10 years ago, I was clearly and no doubt 5'7". A little over exactly. I was measured for my BMI the other day (and in a couple of different places) and I am 5'5". I am wondering if being heavy long term makes our "gravity" stronger and pulls us closer to the ground. This could sure account for the joint pain overweight people get. My husband is shorter from years of jumping out of aircraft. The constant impact compresses your joints and drops your arches if you do it enough. I wonder if it is the same for us?

Has anyone been in the position when the people of opposite sex in their life started to pay more attention to them because they were thinner? How did this make you feel? I've always kinda hoped that someone would like me for who I am on the inside, not what I look like on the outside...although I know that is unrealistic. I'm also worried about people asking me how I lost the weight so quickly. I've only told a handfull of people, and I really don't want to lie, but there are reasons I haven't told everyone. I feel this is right for me, and I don't want to hear other people's negative opininions. I know this may seem a little silly, but it's just been on my mind lately. …

Hi fellow October sleevers, this is for those of you who have already had the surgery. My surgery is on Oct 27. I really want to know if you guys think I'll be able to do a little trick or treating with my kiddos??? I love Halloween and taking the kids out is my favorite. Let me know what you all think. Thanks so much!

So today I started my 2 wk pre op diet. 3 shakes and 2 protien bars a day and I can have lettuce, cucumbers, carrots, celery and bell pepper with FF dressing if I need. Today I needed the veggies. I am so hungry. I have been drinking my water all day and have in about 96oz, but I'm just hungry and making dinner for my family was torture. I thought I would get a pizza crust and make homemade pizza for them and it was so tough to not pick at the toppings. It smelled so good. I'm reading that day 2 or 3 it will get better? I sure hope so cuz this is HARD!

Today is mixed bag, saw my doctor yesterday and I am stalled on weight loss for the last week. On the good news, my sleep study results came in and I am no longer diagnosed with Sleep Apnea so I get to turn in the CPAP equipment.

We will be meeting at our new place for the first time at Piedmont Fayette Hospital Building 1279 :Weightloss Surgery to Weightloss Success Meeting the 2nd Saturday of the month at 9 a.m. This is for pre op, post op and the curious. Contact me at bludecke@gmail.com for additional information. Thanks

I was so happy this morning, I have been at 200 lbs. for the past 3 days. Yesterday I gave blood (a pint's a pound, but yesterday was my 22nd pint over the past 10 years here in California) and drank tons of Water to make up for the Fluid loss. They make you stay 15 minutes after you donate in case you start feeling unwell, and there are Cookies and juice besides water. I had a water and took a package of snack-size Oreos. They were my first cookies since...Christmas, maybe? Anyway, I ate a cookie, looked that the other three in the package, and threw the rest away. They didn't taste all that good and I didn't feel like I needed to eat them all. I drank my water an…

Hi all. I had my surgery on October 11th at Shawnee Mission Medical Center in Kansas City under the care of Stan Hoehn. Day of surgery: Surgery at 10:30 am. I woke up in a lot of pain in my abdomen. The original recovery room pain meds didn’t help. The next meds they tried caused an allergic reaction - rash, trouble breathing, inability to focus, nausea. It took hours to convince the nurse that the Dilaudid was a problem. In retrospect, as I am allergic to morphine, I can’t believe they gave me a morphine derivative and then denied I was having a reaction, but that is having a bad nurse vs. a good nurse, I suppose. For the record, all of my other nurses and CAs were t…

Well, I feel like a true initiate now. Got a little too complacent, I guess. What with being in the mushies stage and having no trouble whatsoever with tuna salad, egg salad, chopped liver, unblended lentil Soup and the like, I thought I give some lovely fresh king salmon a whirl. Maybe not a mistake in itself, but maybe I was a little too nonchalant when I actually ate it? There it was, a lovely little 4 oz. chunk of filet. I cooked it nicely seasoned with salt, pepper and dill, in a little foil envelope in the oven. Came out looking delish as could be. Squeezed a little fresh lemon juice on it. Got busy. I maybe got down somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 oz., w…

Wahooo!!! Surgery tomorrow! I have butterflies in my stomach; good thing it is getting cut out tomorrow.

Well..it's here! Tuesday 10/18 - Sleeve Day is here!! I feel like I've been thinking and praying for this day for SO long, I dont think it'll feel real until I actually get to the hospital!! My nerves are a wreck and the butterflies in my tummy are doing all sorts of tricks! Good luck to all of the other sleevers today!! :-)

Hello all! I am trying my darndest to win a pumpkin contest on facebook for moogfest tickets. If you wouldn't mind voting for me that would be great! I was talking to hubby and he said, "With all those people you talk to online you should be okay." Little does he know I mostly read Here is the link and mine is the silverspaceship one, you just hit like under the picture! Since losing my weight I'm crazy about going to festivals now! I'll be sure to post pics too when I get home!

When getting this surgery I was worried about complications like blot clots and leakage ect. When do you think we can stop stressing so much about these complications and just focus on being healthy?

My daughter put this together for me because I had not seen pictures of myself side by side showing the changes. Hope I can upload it correctly. 5 Months Post-Op

Hi There! I'm Jes. I'm twenty four.. from Baltimore, Maryland. I had my sleeve on December 20th, 2010. So I will be ten months out in just three dates. I started my journey at 317 pounds, day of surgery I was 292. And, today I'm at 175 pounds. To date the brings me to a total f 142 pounds lost. My original goal weight was 150 pounds. But, even then at 5'5 my BMI would be considered over weight. So at my last visit my surgeon and I jokingly agreed my new goal weight was 147. So either way you look at it I have 25lbs or 27 lbs. I started wearing a 24/26 and a 2/3 x top. I'm now in a 12/14 and a Medium top. SUPER…

I want to tell you guys about the realization I made today. Its kind of a personal story but I think there may be a few of us that can relate to it. Before surgery, I asked my husband what kind of eater did he think I was... emotional, stress, volume etc... I thought I was just a volume eater. He immediately said stress and emotional. I argued with this and was very defensive about it. He said when I seemed sad and depressed, i ate more. I just thought, no way and that he was wrong. I said I dont get hungry when I am upset! The story began yesterday when I got a voicemail from my 17 year old son's school that he had been arrested and taken to adult jail. I panick…

I am a little over 5 months out from my VSG and I am thrilled with the results. However, I am having crazy issues with my blood pressure. Before the surgery I was averaging 130/80 taking lisinipril and metoprolol daily. Around the third month post-op, I started feeling extremely sluggish and would come home from work and go straight to bed. I never said anything to anybody because I thought I was being a wimp and I should keep feeling better everyday and not feeling worse. Eventually, I decided to check my blood pressure and it was 90/60. My PCP had me try different combos of my meds to see what worked. When I went off the metoprolol, but took the lisinipril my diastol…

1 month after getting my lapband unfilled I had my pre op today and I actually lost 3 lbs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was soooooooooooo happy!!! 1 month from tomorrow I will be in sleeveland!!!

Hello everyone, I got the vsg on Monday 9/26/11. All the way up to the time they put me to sleep I wasent 100% that I wanted to do it I was like 98%, well I woke up and it was done. Im now 6 days post op and Im really struggling mentaly. I cant stop waking up and going to sleep thinking about all the things that can possibly go wrong from not getting enough liquids down to possible stomach leaks and liver problems in the future. I wake up or go to sleep freaking out big time. During the day I seem to cope pretty good its just reaaly bad in the morning and when I go to bed. Has anyone gone through anything like this. Other than the mental aspect I'm feeling pretty darn …

Hi there. I am female, 5'9, with a BMI of 35 and hypertension being treated with medicine. I am trying to decide between the lap band, GB, and the sleeve. Does anyone with the "minimum" qualifying requirements give me some advice on how to decide? In my opinion, I have about 65 lbs to lose. I am worried about losing too much with any of the procedures (who would have thought that would be a concern...LOL!). thanks so much. Shan

Here is some good info put out by the Bariatric Coordinator at Baptist Hospital East. If you don't already follow Baptist east weight loss on Facebook you should check it out. Link

Just wanted to see how many of you are thinking of attending this?

I'm finally home from my surgery!! I went in on Friday and had my surgery at about 7:30 a.m. For the first several hours after surgery I was in soooo much pain it was pretty much a blur from all of the pain meds and anesthesia. By Friday night I was doing alot better, still had alot of gas pain and pain in my shoulder from my drain pushing on my diaphragm. I still had alot of fluids going in and a catheter too, but I got up Friday evening about 12 hrs post-op and walked around the halls. Saturday morning I got my Upper GI done, and that didn't go so well. The bottom part of my sleeve was pretty much swollen shut, and the gastrograffin was barely trickling thru. The dr.…

I am 5 days post op and home. Had a great experience with Dr Aceves. Walked within 10 minutes of getting out of recovery and had IV removed 24 hours after surgery. The only problem I've had is an EXTREMELY sore throat from the breathing tube.

Hi I'm Irene and I have 27 Lbs to my ultimate goal. I'm finding that in the last few months my weight loss has really trailed off. I have to really workout hard and eat so perfectly just to post a 6 Lbs loss for the entire month. It stinks!! However, that said I am extremely happy with my results so far. I was a size 24W/2X on surgery day and today I'm wearing 10-12's and size M tops. I can even wear some smalls if they allow the room in the bust area and arms (darned extra skin!!) I would like to make my final goal to be in sizes 4-6 bottoms and around 165 Lbs. My tops will probably just end up in mostly S which is fine. My target area is pretty much my bo…

Some of this may be TMI for folks but thought i'd put it out there Got to the hospital on 10/11 surgery was at 7:25 on the dot and at 11:30 am I was in recovery not feeling a thing the doctor calle my daughter to let her know how I was doing, I had made the decision that I wasn't going to let anyone know in my family which I have stuck too its been hard because I'm excited to see the changes. any how on to the way i'm feeling- by 2 pm on Tuesday my heart was pounding I was not doing well, I ended up getting two blood transfusions, way to many pin sticks my orginal IV went bad by the beginning of night one so they had to fight to find another place for a new one- I ha…

When I was banded- I only told a FEW close friends and associates. I am not close with much family and didnt want any scrutiny or swaying out of my decision. When I succeeded with the band and everyone saw my weight loss (because it was gradual) I basically told them when asked that I dieted and exercised. No one suspected anything. I don't feel like I lied to them I just don't think it is everyone's business. Now that I need to have the band removed and am getting the sleeve- and will be in the hospital 2-3 days AND off work for at least 10 days... I can't keep that too much on the down-low- I have already shared my issues and such with the people that already knew and …

My therapist talks a lot about having to learn new coping skills since food has always been it for me. I joked that I don't know anyone with good coping skills Seems like it always...alcohol, drugs, food, shopping, gambling, workaholic, sex addition etc. I asked if "real" people have good coping skills, lol. She insist they do. I'm planning on getting sleeved next month, and was wondering without food, what new habits have others learned for coping? Right now if I have a terrible day, I stop for fast food or ice cream....with an almost "I owe it to myself" mindset, for comfort. I desperately want to be successful after WLS and never want to be this large ever ag…

Whew! After three long days of traveling I have finally made it here! I am getting giddy now about the surgery. Good luck everyone in October!!!

Is October 17th really tmorrow? Is my surgery day finally upon me? I can't believe it! Reporting to the hospital at 7:30 am. Getting my bag packed and ready to go! Just sent my 11 year old son off to stay with close friends for the next two days so HE won't be a nervous wreck. The friend he is styaing with also has a son on the autism spectrum, and she is GREAT with my son. She has lots of fun activities planned for him, and I am so grateful that he will be in good hands. It's an ordeal to pack all his favorite things, his daily regimine of supplements, his special food and more, but he will be much happier having a two day "sleepover" than being home in surgery reality…

My daughter was sleeved Wed she is 21 and is having a hard time kicking the anesthesia she is still extremely nauseated and sleeping (like right out) in between vomiting good chance they are keeping her in yet another night.

Hello, kygal1982, Terry H,. Bakomom, A New Day, Pixie Jen, Courtines, Angelica. Wanted to wish you guys a huge good luck today and let you know we're thinking about you! Feel free to share your experiences with us when you are feeling up to it and please at least drop a quick note to let us know you're safely on the other side so we don't worry about you! Take care, sip, sip, walk, rest, repeat!!

Oh, my gosh...it's finally here! Here's to Heller2U, smallgirlsxthree (SlenderStephSleeveSisters - say that ten times fast!), terrih1, oknev, and AmberP. You will all be waking up tomorrow nervous and ready to get this show on the road, and you will wake up after your surgeries ready for a wonderful new life full of awesome opportunities! We'll be thinking about and praying for you all day tomorrow. Please check in as soon as you can so we all know you're all right! Be strong and we'll be waiting for you on the other side!!!

We are on our way!! Today we start our travels from our remote community in the Yukon. Here is the travel plan for the next few days (it is nuts): -today drive 400km to Whitehorse -tomorrow fly to Vancouver and then Edmonton where we are dropping the kids off with the grandparents -Sunday fly back to Vancouver and then to Seattle Oh my! We will get there eventually. Thankfully, it looks like the airline we are taking will no longer be striking- so my head will not be exploding from the stress of that anymore. Monday I have a few pre-op appointments and then surgery on Wednesday. We will be in a hotel outside of Seattle for 10 days. Good thing I booked up a ni…

Looking to have my sleeve done with Dr. Alvrarez on November 7th in Mexico. anyone else considering this time too?

I just read the thread about Gabriela's "nightmare" journey with her sleeve and someone suggested it might have been a "false" posting because she hasn't been back to post again in a long time. As someone with a similar story, I'm here to tell you a. she could not have made that up and b. getting on the computer to post isn't exactly a priority when you're fighting her kind of battle. Five months ago tomorrow -- may 10 -- i was admitted to the hospital with multiple leaks and became septic. i too had stents and drains put in. my friends and family tell me i was close to death... the next two months were miserable...no energy...being fed only by IV...five antibiotics f…

Hello Everyone! I am hoping this post will be read by those who can give me some advice. I have been a member of this forum over a year now, and this will be my first official post. I am struggling deeply I was sleeved on October 16th, 2010 by Dr. Alvarez, whom might I add was an amazing Doctor and I have absolutly no regrets! He was wonderful and I could not have asked for a better Doctor, I have had absolutly no problems since my surgery to present! My forum topic is in regards to my sleeve and that I feel I have possibly stretced it out For the past four to five months I have basically been able to eat whatever I want and the quanity size is well ove…

Hey everyone! im new to VerticalSleevetalk, as I have been giving a lot of time to OH, glad I found this site that focuses on the procedure I will be getting.......YAY!! anyways Im looking for some new buddies that have gone through or are currently in the process of being sleeved. Im from New York and would like a buddy(ies) that are in somewhat in my geographical area although I don't mind and would not turn away a buddy(ies) from other areas!!!! I look forward to hearing from you!!!!

Hi there, I am about 2 1/2 weeks out from being sleeved and I would love to have someone to email with...someone who doesn't mind a lot of questions. Any takers? I'm in Washington but I don't think that matters much.

Kind of a long story - Six years ago I was in a car wreck that totalled my car. I severely damaged the ligaments in my right ankle - all three that attach the foot to the ankle. I am left with an ankle that rolls over on me with the slightest provocation. For the past six years I have slowly been adapting my life to dealing with my ankle. I gave up wearing any shoes except tennis shoes with my custom orthotics. Even flat womens shoes make my ankle ache by the end of the day. I normally wear some kind of ankle brace every day - depending on what I am planning on doing. I have about every kind on the market. Driving any distance makes it ache (I commute two hours each…

I met my surgeon today for the final time. I wanted surgery on Oct 31st or November 1st. He had an opening on October 25th for me. I took it. I am just a roller coaster of emotions!!!!! I am excited, scared and praying I made the right decision!!!!

I feel like I've been gearing up for this forever...now that it's here, I'm beginning to panic. No second thoughts or doubts, just a case of the nerves. Tomorrow I have my last appt with my sugeon and then I head to the hospital for blood work. I've been counting down so long...I can't believe next Tuesday is right around the corner. YIKES!!

Hey everyone! I was sleeved on May 17, and I've been doing great with it, but a week after I went back to college in August I began having an unusual problem: I started burping all the time. It happened basically overnight; one morning I woke up and realized I could bring up a burp whenever I wanted to and I could not rid myself of it. Gas-X did nothing, and both the Reglin and some other medicine my surgeon had me try did nothing (and that Reglin made me feel really bad!) On top of that, I just didn't feel right and knew something was wrong. Well, last Thursday when I went for my check-up and had some bloodwork done, I talked about this with my surgeon and he had me und…

I have been so good about avoiding bread since I was sleeved back in April. But today---- I don't know what happened! It just called me and I ended up having 3 slices with butter no less! I feel terrible, like my self control just went out the window. I know that we all leave the path, but I feel awful. What worries me is that I think it's tied to my visit to the doctor. Not my surgeon, but my internest for my yearly checkup. He was kind of a downer. I was so happy that I finally am in the ones even though it's 199. He didn't seem impressed. He wasn't over the moon about my numbers going down for blood pressure, etc. either. He said that sure the numbers are good when one…