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Umm, how do you tell if the wraps are actually working or if it's really the TIME that is working? ANSWER: You CAN'T. While I'm sure to feels good and eases your mind as it has already been mentioned this "skin tightening" stuff is basically a hoax. The body has a good mechanism to create more skin, as it stretches collagen bonds are broken and the body creates new skin in between the breaks, and when you lose weight that is what puckers up and creates stretch marks - the new skin filling in the broken bonds. There is no real bodily mechanism to consume the new excess skin and remove it other than starve yourself so much that the body eats up and available tissue that it can - we've all seen pictures of concentration camp survivors and people who are anorexic with their paper thin skin pulled tight across their bones and believe me you DON'T want to go THERE. It all depends on a few factors, age, genetic disposition and TIME. You can also exercise more which can fill out some fat with muscle but this has limited effect if the skin is stretched badly. It will shrink SOME and then stop and there is nothing that can really get it back to it's original size once it's been stretched too far. Barring all this the only real solution is surgical, removal of the skin that leaves visible scars that is VERY painful.

We wish you the best friend! Stick with it, keep your goals REAL and don't expect it all to go away instantly and you'll be there.

For the first 6 months or so VERY easy to stick to the diet, when eating too much - and too much is like ONE teaspoon too much - you get sick and want to vomit. At 6 months things settle down and you still find it pretty easy to follow the diet, after a year it seems another bump in capacity is typical and then it becomes a tad more difficult to be good. BUT, and that's a BIG but, it is nowhere near as hard pre-op. I remember being famished ALL the time and constantly eating, now I just eat a little too much and I am full. At going on two years I have to watch what I eat still but I do exercise a lot more and have not gained much back, I just bounce up and down a few pounds a few times. Given the choice I'd rather be this way then the way I was pre-op. And as usual YMMV.

I'm not sure where to post this but I just got an email from someone at http://www.medicaltourismco.com/ stating they wanted to send me a "token of appreciation" for just confirming my street address to them - which they had (correctly) listed in the body of the email. Forever be cautious I didn't respond an deleted it - it just sounded too much like a hoax, the email address it would of returned to was genuinely at the medicaltourismco.com domain do it was not being redirected somewhere else. Anyone else get one of these emails? I am listing this as a warning being that it was unsolicited and I can imagine a dozen ways this could go wrong.

Umm, like this: https://www.shakeweight.com/

Congrats to pop! It is unfortunate but not impossible to things to go wrong with even the simplest of procedures or actions. It is good to see dad back in good health and over his complications, we all hope this is the end of the road for his difficulties and wish you all the bes of luck!

Did you request wheelchair help? Nope, should have it was like from one end of the airport to the other and I was late. I had to RUN to get to my plane and - of course it was delayed making my rush completely unnecessary. Did you board before others? Yes, only because I too upgraded to first class, best $75 I ever spent, they treat you royal. Did you feel sick or get sick at all on the plane? No, generally felt like crap which I did for MONTHS prior to the WLS and MONTHS afterward too, my system was so screwed up from everything. The plane ride was fine, no effects from altitude or anything that I noticed, just traveling itself was a b***** in general.

It's a Festivus miracle!

I would say the latter, I was on a SSRI and anti-anxiety drug and gained about 75 pounds, it certainly wasn't the pills doing it, it was all the food I was pushing in my pie hole. I guess I just didn't care. I would further support this as after I got off them (and a nasty withdrawal period too) I immediately WANTED to lose weight and determined I could not, so I decided on WLS. I doubt that I would have done anything about my weight had I remained on the pills.

As they say on the internet: PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN

Size 48 (tight) to size 36 (loose).

Depends on what you call "dumping". From what I understand dumping is the stomach pushing food out into the small intestine when it's not properly treated with acid and begun to break down, the result is the small intestine spasming and objecting to the raw food, typically either accompanied by a severe nausea or diarrhea. It is MORE common in those getting RNY bypass surgeries as they no linger have a functioning pyloric valve in their functioning digestive tract. The typical reason for dumping is eating too much, too fast or eating too rich a food. Truth be told ANYONE regardless of WLS or not, and if you think back you probably have had it before too, you remember that meal that just made you sick right away and had diarrhea soon afterward? That was probably dumping. It is casued by the pyloric valve opening up before the food was ready to be passed to the small intestine. Perhaps it WAS eating to fast and a mechanical misfunction or somehow the valve got the wrong signal and opened too soon, or a food that sat wrong with you and made it open. IF you do experience it it seems to lessen after 6 months or so poast-op, in a year you may never have it again, then again get a case of stupids and eat too much too fast and you could most definatly have it many years post-op.

Yes, I suppose you can but try and resist if at all possible, post-op it won't take any effort at all to not eat so anything you can do before hand will jump start the weight loss. The pre-op diet is just a precaution and as I stated a weight loss jump start. ANYONE can do a starvation diet for a few days knowing surgery is just around the corner. I know 2 guys who went out the night before their surgery and pigged out, nachos, chicken wings, tequila and anything else they thought they may miss post-op. They went ahead with surgery and it went OK, however they were sick as dogs and miserable. The combination of anesthesia, surgical trauma and being hung over made them really regret doing it. Having to take a massive dump 2 days post-op after getting dehydrated and constipated didn't feel good either. Pushing hard post-op just doesn't male for a pleasant day.

Going to hit 2 years out i less than 2 months and it still bugs me, although it's not as bad as it once was it's still there. For me it's a thick foamy spit accompanied by tiny little "beads" of something that I can roll around in my cheeks, almost like a tiny un-popable bubble. I'm not sure what causes it or what a cure may be.

Well, the truth has already been mentioned, it's hard if not impossible to get rid of. The body has an excellent way of growing new skin as we fatten up and no real way to get rid of it once it's not needed. I had it pretty bad, lucked out in the belly for the most part but my inner and back thighs looked nasty. I've been seriously biking for a few months - about 100 miles a week - and while they are better they are still gross. Compression garments just cover it up. So exercise helps but nothing will really CURE it, except surgery, and I am loathe to do that.

Yeah I've run adblock stuff before but I also realize that sites like this have to have SOME sort of funding, we just can't TAKE and not GIVE something - even if it's simply being subjected to ads. As much as I don't like them I know the guys running this site are not getting rich and deserve whatever income they can derive on a free to sue site. I just wanted to vent and rant and hopefully the advertiser will realize they are alienating the very people they are hoping to contact with their nasty ads. They won't know unless they get feedback - and hopefully this will somehow come to their attention - at least without me clicking on the pic of that nasty belly.

I know how the forum works with advertisement that make it available for us free of charge BUT I REALLY hate those INTERDRY ads, they are, well, GROSS! I know it's a problem for some people but seeing that illustration of that bib like thing tucked into that red nasty ulcerated pendulous stomach just makes me want to barf. I have not and WILL NOT click on those ads. I'd rather be poked in the eye with a sharp stick.

In actuality I don't think that there is a whole lot of difference and the amount removed has more to do with the shape of the stomach rather than the size of the bougie. Also, if you get TOO big a sleeve then the old nemesis hunger will play a larger part in your diet than it would with a smaller one. You could always eat more often with a smaller sleeve but having to diet severely and put up with hunger may sabotage your weight loss. I also would not worry about eating. After a year, year and a half you can eat just about anything you want and it is quite easy for most to simply NOT eat as much and maintain the weight level. The LAST thing you want to do is lose a bunch and then gain a lot back, that would be discouraging and detrimental to your health. I'd go with what the doc recommends.

As a guy I BEG you NOT to do it We would appreciate more pics too Really, I would wait at least a year to stabilize and make sure that they don't change any more.

Like Buckeye said, like you we were healthy, then things go to hell in a handbasket in a hurry. Blood pressure, blood sugar issues and all the rest. Trouble is by the time they manifest they are harder to correct and may cause permanant damage.

Same here, how do those skinny ass people do it anyhow I fell off my bike TWICE and have really got it bad now. Time and pain relievers is what it's going to take. Padded bike shorts help on the bike, perhaps they'd help in your situation?

Sorry to hear it, it was a life changing decision for me - and quite literally SAVED my life. No one can guarantee that something won't go wrong but it's almost a sure bet that something WILL go wrong if you don't lose the excess weight. Talk it over with docs, loved ones, spiritual advisors, friends family - what have you. It's YOUR decision.

Now I look at my jeans and the WAIST is about as big as the LEG used to be.

Well that's something I haven't done in about 20 years or so I remember last time I was so fat I nearly broke my neck! Congrats, it's these little gems we find that really make it all worth it.

What you are describing is usually called body dysmorphic disorder. Here's a link to some more info: https://en.wikipedia...orphic_disorder I think that nearly everyone in our situation has it to some degree. We just can't see the "truth" about our weight. At first we don't see the fat because we don't want to deal with it and when we do something about it like the VSG we can't see anything else BUT. The mind is a funny thing. For the most part your mind catches up to your actual body and you seem to reconcile what you think with what you see. If it continues to be an issue I would strongly urge you to seek a mental professionals help. There is NOTHING wrong with seeking help.