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Hi, I just found out my insurance approved the surgery! My surgery date is 12/15/2017 at 12:45 pm. I wish it was earlier in the day. Does anyone else have the same surgery date or close to my date?

When i first started in april i had a few doubts. i was on the borderline of being qualified. i kept up wth most of your posts behind the scenes, i did not want to get easily discouraged, all those on this journey i wish you luck, and hang in there!!

So I am still playing the waiting game. Just got Pre-Approved from insurance for surgery. My Dr. originally told me it would be in December. But the nurse thinks it more realistically will be in January now. All hoops have been jumped through and now I sit and wait! I am not the worlds most patient person, but I am working on it. This process has been pretty long but I am ready! So I am playing the hurry up & wait game!

This sounds a lot like hypoglycemia or hypotension syncope. If you had high blood sugars or blood pressure pre-op it is not uncommon to go the other way post op. Happened to me.

Check out vaping, man. You're not that deep into nicotine so nicotine free liquid would satisfy the cravings and is delicious. If you're interested, I can shoot you some hardware and liquid recommendations for starting out.

While I agree, it's not so easy. I mean how many times do you see posts on here about somebody eating pizza or a cheeseburger one week after having bariatric surgery (not to suggest you can't incorporate them in a balanced diet) . Unfortunately most of us have addictive behavior, and to get ahead of the curve you just have to acknowledge it and actively attempt to improve it. The OP acknowledges this, and I think was trying to justify their behavior as not that bad. But at least she's willing to learn and hopefully will use that knowledge to make better decisions going forward. I mean there's a big difference between thinking smoking will just delay your healing, and learning that it could cause a perforated ulcer causing you to completely get cut open possibly septic and have a visit to the ICU for a few weeks. Honestly I've seen that ****, and I'd rather them just kill me than put me through it.

Are you going to tell is what your eating. Can't suggest things to change not knowing what your doing. Sent from my Vivo 5R using BariatricPal mobile app

So smoking isn't about just healing. I'm an OR nurse in a facility that does a ton of bariatric cases (and a bariatric patient). Ive seen previous bariatric patients smoke and have to come back to the OR to completely get cut open to fix all the damage smoking caused them. Obviously it's much worse in bypass patients, but it's still terrible in sleeve patients as well. Knowing what I know seeing what I've seen, I think someone would have to be absolutely out of their mind to smoke after bariatric surgery, the risks are exponentially greater than just smoking (without bariatric) Of course I've also seen lots of thoracic cases, of which almost 100% of those patients are smokers... If you could completley keep it under control its still bad , but if it grows into something more well than its REALLY bad

I completely understand. I hated eating for probably the first three months after my surgery. I hated that I could only eat certain stuff, I hated that if I took one bite too many I would be in pain, I hated not knowing if it was going to upset my stomach, and I hated how long it took me to eat a small quantity. Now that I'm more familiar with my new stomach I know what to expect so it isn't so bad anymore. I still don't enjoy eating like I used to, but that's fine. I just want eat to live instead of the other way around. I'm now grateful for all of the restrictions.

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