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I'm 25, was sleeved back in august lost 40 lbs for pre op and down 80 lbs since surgery.

Well I still have a gallbladder for now anyway. I've been in the hospital since Wednesday night. They think a gall stone has caused a block in my digestive system, there going to put a scope down my throut tomorrow to see if it's there and get it out. Then sometime in to next few days my gall bladder is suppose to be taken out.

I had a panic attack earlier today and am still in pain. This is the second I've had since being sleeved back in august. The first was when I woke up from the anesthesia in the operating room after being sleeve and I was put on the pain med drip and that took care of it. Today I was in a store shopping and it hit me, the pain toned down a lot after about an hour. But now it's back again, feels like somebody is stabbing me right under my rib cage and hurts in the back to. I was just wondering if anybody else has had these kind of issues with panic attacks since being sleeved. I don't think that the pain has anything to do with not taking an acid blocker because I have not taken an acid blocker in over 4 months now. I tried to call my doctors nurse today but all I got was voicemail, any suggestions?

I am finally starting to feel and notice the differences in myself since my surgery. I was sleeve back in august starting at 383 lbs and I weighed my spec after I got home from work tonight and I'm at 311. I really can't remember the last time I weighed that much. I do remember being in the 6 th grade and being 277, although I just remember felling trapped. I don't know it's the little stuff like sitting in group with my clients and being able to cross my legs or this my sound strange but when I was playing DDR tonight I realized that I can clap my hands behind my back. It's really the little stuff that makes me realize that I made the choice that was right for me. I mean I'm still single and I still notice that my self esteem is getting better. I just hope that my sharing this with others will help them realize that is is not just looking at the scale going down that matters but the effect it has on your frame of mind.

I'm in st Joseph, mo. Had surgery august 16, had dr. Price at st lukes hospital in kcmo.

I have hungry girl cookbooks, their great. One of the is called 200 under 200 (calories). They may not be wls, but they are still great if your on solids.

I meant a chicken thigh, I'm on a mobile device that corrects itself.

I'm about 4 months post op and have lost about 65 lbs. I have been on solids for like 2 1/2 months now. I am so afraid that I am eating to much, like I've seen people say that they can only eat like the size of a chicken. But with me it varies, I realize the density and consistency of the food makes a difference but it still worries me. Like I take a fiber 1 yogurt and emerald 100 calorie pack nuts to work for lunch, then when I get home I eat like amsmall bowl of chili or something and find myself like eating like 5 or 6 triscuts throughout the evening. I'm just wondering if its all in my head from all the years of being forced to clean up my plate as a child and then uncontrolled eating for the last 15 years. I really want this to work so that I can finally have the life that I feel that I deserve, but at times I feel so guilty about eating that I make myself purge.

I had my surgery back in august in kcmo, cost 16k but all my all my pre surgery tests, lab work, all visits were covered until my 3 month visit and they had bliss insurance on me with it for 30 days just in case something happened. I actually had my surgery in a hospital, rather than a clinic.

Ok, I bought dance dance revolution tonight and I really like it. Is the calorie calculator on that really right? I did it for like 45 min and it was only like 50 calories burned.

Well it looks like I may be finally getting somewhere. I've been talking to a guy I met on okcupid and he's seen a picture that I have taken with my phone. He did no blow me off like I expected, he thought it was cute. Well I guess it's a wait and see thing.

I really appreciate the words of encouragement, I really have problems with when I get a compliment of any kind. I've always felt that when someone was giving me a compliment they were just sucking up or wanting something. Like I work in a men's prison and that is the frame of mind that I am always in, no matter if it's an offender or staff. I've even had one of my offenders get upset with me because I could not deal with getting a compliment and that was just on my shoes. I've always been a loner and kept to myself because of my poor self image. I've always used my sarcasm to hide and honestly I think that my sarcasm may be a part of why I'm alone. I wish that there was just some way that someone could tell me exactly what to do to change everything around. And the fact that I can't seem to get below 330 pounds for the last couple of weeks is not helping either.

I really can't get to excited about the video I have, biggest loser last chance. I have a wii and was gonna get on of those wii boards since I am now down below the weight limit, yea! Does anybody have some suggestions, I really am not a fan of going outside, I live downtown and it not exactly safe to go outside.

I'll be 25 next month, and to be completely honest I've never been on a date or anything. If someone were to come on to me I don't even think I would realize it. I've been overweight my whole life and being ignored by the opposite sex is the norm for me. What is really bad is that one of the nurses at the hospital were my mom has been for a while was hitting on me I did not even know it, my mom called me after I left to go home to tell me that he kept asking where I went. I feel like maybe this is just the way that my life is gonna go and that I'll be alone my whole life. I've lost like 50 lbs since my surgery in august and really don't know how how to start acting or if I really need to change at all.

Hey hollytx, I got sleeved back in august, I've lost like 50 lbs since then. My starting weight before surgery was like 383 and I had to do a 6 month diet before that, starting weight for that was 427 that was last December. I was told by my surgeons nurse who had the full open gastric bypass 10 years ago that the numbers for weight loss are just as good for the sleeve as the gastric bypass, just takes a little longer because there is no malabsorbtion.

I had surgery on Aug. 16 and I lost like 18 pounds or so from my pre op visit to my first post op visit 2 weeks ago. I feel fine and have noticed that the issues with I had with metabolic syndrome are gone, but the scale has not moved and its very depressing. I'm so afraid I am going to stretch the thing that I have been purging when I start to feel discomfort, even though i was told that the discomfort was from taking to big of bites. I have been getting sick or anything but since I started on soft foods nothings been happening.

I was sleeved last week (8/16/2010) and today I feel pretty much the same as I did before, with the exception of the staples. It feels like to me that the surgeon did not take out enough stomach when he did my surgery. I don't have the problems with drinking and eating like others do, it may just be that I have been overeating my whole life and I just feel as though I am overeating now as compared to others. I do not know I've never known what it is like to be normal and honestly I am wondering know if this will even work for me.

August 16, Dr. Price in KC.