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Its the weight loss that is making you cold. Trust me if you put on a 20 pound coat of fat you would be nice and toasty. In the last few years I have been the hot one amongst all the cold and comfortable people. The last few years i have also been at my heaviest weight. I have recently lost 25 lbs and am starting to notice the cold. Thank god i live in southern california not so sunny recently... Anyhow, I know several people who have had the bypass and they ALL are annoyingly cold. You just have to "climatize" yourself all over again. The feak that wears a sweatshirt in summer while everyone else is in shorts. Heck when i lived in the desert and then went to lake tahoe in late june I was the one wearing the sweatshirt. I also sat in the backseat on the trip cuz the ac was too cold. I looked pretty strange when we filled up at a gas station in the middle of the mojave desert and never took off the sweatshirt.

Have you tried an herbal tea to calm the dry heaves? My Mother would always give us kids lemon tea when the dry heaves started. I loved/hated lemon tea I knew it WOULD come back up again ...but it was always the last thing. Also ginger and peppermint are good for calming the stomach.

Shoot my BCBS took the full three weeks. It was submitted on Feb 23rd too!!!! Sure wish mine had come back in 24 hrs I more than likely would be POST OP instead of still pre -op. Oh well I do have a surgery date. So it is all good. So how did your surgery go???

You can totally ask the surgeon's office of Aetna insurance timeline. My timeframe for BCBS was up to 3 weeks for authorization and then the surgery schedule was roughly 2-3 weeks out. I was notified by my insurance on 3-9-11 exactly 3 weeks after submission. The surgery coordinator called me 3-14-11 (3 business days and the whole weekend i waited...ahhh) My surgery date is set for April 11th... first date that fit's into my sisters schedule. I wanted her there and she well... demanded to be there Otherwise I would have gotten it done april first (cool date) due to a cancellation. In the end 10 days won't make much of a difference (i keep telling myself) So total wait time was/is 6.5 weeks... GEEZ that seems a lifetime when i put that way.

LOL I totally went around my PCP since I have PPO insurance and it does not require referrals (the bonus of PPO). Anyhow I avoided my PCP simply due to the fact she made a comment regarding her not being a fan of WLS. So I did everything I needed without her. Well come to find out I did need "history" from my PCP. I made an appointment for my yearly physical and while I was there told her of my pending surgery. To my surprise she was supportive (things can change in 2 yrs). I ended up educating her about VSG since she was only familiar with the band and bypass. She also said she never sees her patients after they have had bypass I think you should at least tell your PCP, it is another professional who's business it is... is to see to your good health.

Monday April 11th is my big day Also how do you make friends in this forum? I can't figure out how to negotiate that in this particular forum. I would like to befriend the other April 11 surgery dates. There seems to be a handful of us.

Oopsseedaisy is correct. Insurance approvals are very specific when it comes to the doctor preforming the surgery. my weightloss program is thru a huge hospital and ya they do go to a review board. Its weird I know and I don't know why specifically could only hazzard a guess. My advice is hound them!!!! And tell them they can still put in for the review board before the classes start!!! My Doctor wanted to wait and see how my newly diagnosed low thyroid would do with meds and after 5 weeks then submit for authorization. I just about flipped my lid especially when she just got done saying a thyroid problem would(n't) be a reason not to do surgery. So she went ahead and submitted the papers. I have had my surgery date scheduled for 4-11-11 since 3-15-11. I just had my follow up appointment today 3-23-11 (one day shy of the "5" weeks ) regarding my thyroid and other low Vitamins... and everything was normal. by bad i didn't communicate that well. dr said thyroid would not keep me from having the surgery. Thats why i was freaking out when it looked like she wanted to wait and see how the meds worked before submitting to the review board and insurance company

People including family are just ignorant sometimes or self absorbed hard to tell It goes past just WLS. Years ago at a desk job we celebrated everyones birthday. It was nice... you knew your cubicle would be done up somehow, you'd get a group card, a small thoughtful gift or giftcard. AND you would get a "birthday" cake. Well we all decided since it was OUR birthday we should be able to dictate just what kind of "b-day cake" we wanted. We had quite the variety: rootbeer floats, cheesecake and mine was brownies. For my birthday my boss brought it a lime Jello mold cake!!! . It gets better... Someone did bring in some brownies and guess who ate 1/4 of them??? Yep the boss after her chow down there wasn't enough for everyone... one person was going to miss out...ONE!!! ME!!! To add insult to injury she didn't even touch the lime jello cake she was so proud of. I was pissed. I hate Jello. I say the only thing jello is good for is jello shooters LOL!!! Cant have those for a while So hopefully your Sis in law will get a clue soon!!! Also whats up with not at least getting you a red velvet cake yogurt. They have them you know and they are quite tasty.

Maybe more regional get togethers would be best. For example Portland, OR; Lasvegas,NV; Colorado Springs,CO; New Orleans,LA; Nashville, TN; Orlando, FL; and somewhere in New England like New York City or Boston

If you guys are planning a summer get together weather is going to be the deciding factor. The south is miserable in the summer and so is the east coast in my opinion. Since the consensus is to meet up centrally I think colorado is a good option. The springs has some fun things to do and the garden of the gods is breathtaking plus you could challenge yourself to a hike up pikes peak. There is also an airport so you wouldn't have to drive in from Denver but it isn't that far of a drive anyhow.

LOL some good advice!!! I didn't think of the advice given on point #2 IV in the right hand ... the wiping hand. I personally was thinking since I sleep on my right side and like to have my hands under my face that I might pull out or tug on the IV. So now there are TWO good reasons to consider the IV in the left hand. PS. I never trust a fart :lol: pre-op for that matter... so post op I would assume would go double for untrustworthy

Looks like the big day for me is April 11th... a popular date it seems. Could have had surgery on April 1st but my sister was out of town. I posted a thread of my dilema and got lots of good feed back. So sis will be there April 11th.

Thanks for the story. Details are good. I felt like i was right there on the table crying with you. My surgery is April 11th and I just know I will be crying on the table too Shoot I was almost crying when getting the endoscopy done... luckily the nurses had me talking so much I didn't get a chance. Surgery virgin here sooo everything will be new and weird.

Thanks Everyone for your help. I have decided to wait for sis So that means My big day will be Monday April 11th at high noon I have seen quite of few others with that date so I will be in good company. In lieu of flowers send protien shakes ;) ha,ha!!!

Hey you got back right up and started doing stuff the right way and that is what matters. Don't kick yourself over a chicken pita.

ooooh,oooh me too!!! What are you doing 4-11-11??? Honestly, Tiffikins... it was reading some of your posts that I said I gotta sign up to this forum. You have good advice thats well written & funny too.

There is always lite beer... didn't budweiser get a beer down to 55 calories. Just watch out for the really cold ones Might take awhile for it to get back to a liquid state. Thanks Tom for the additional question on spicy foods. I also like spicy stuff ... Cajun and Jerk spices and buffalo wing sauce and the list continues... Also whenever my "co-workers" were especially "trying" I always claimed they were idiots with an E (ediots) they were not good enough for the correct spelling

Hey Everyone... my first topic thread, just joined last night...well really early this am Anyhow I need some opionions...PLEASE!!! I am a surgery virgin... never had stitches or broken limbs... Well I got the call today to schedule the sleeve surgery (april 1st) and wouldn't you know it... it is smack dab in the middle of the two weeks my sister is out of town!!!! I was afraid that might happen so she wants me to wait till she gets back so that would mean 4-11-11. I want this done yesterday but I want my sister at the hospital too. :o

A friend just had bypass surgery two months ago and she started her period the day after. She wasn't suppose to start for another 10days or so. She was told by the nurses at the hospital that its very common for that to happen. She wished would have known earlier since she has very BAD periods... it kept her in the hospital longer. I am glad she clued me in