Ms skinniness

Welcome newbie! Congrats on making the decision to start a new journey in your life to a new healthier you.....

I only had an EKG.

Is this Dr LePort's office? I had my surgery with Dr Kelly Francis.......

GT: thank you for letting us know how your doing.....I hope your looking into a free clinic somewhere.....Nausea doesn't sound good and the right shoulder blade pain is worrisome........Sending you healing energy your way...... HUGS!

Congrats! You are now on your journey to a new healthier life style with many many benefits coming your way! Welcome to the BIG LOSER'S BENCH!

I live in Fullerton California about 5 miles from Disneyland.....

Just reading about this makes me really angry ! How dare that nurse make such an ignorant comment to you! At my surgeon's office they told me that I wasn't big enough because they hadn't checked the diagnosis of diabetes. I was so confused up to the time I was being admitted for the surgery whether or not I was going to have the surgery. This was such a stressful period for me. I did complain to the surgeon about it and she wasn't too happy with them......I'd call the office and report her comments to the surgeon because she is also sabotaging many more patients there that will put themselves in harms way by not choosing the surgery because of her incompetence. Hang in there and do this for you and your health! You deserve it....

This is really scary for me to hear that your having all these difficulties, you've had more than your fair share. Please search for a free clinic and as a last result, check into the ER if it gets really bad. Let us know how your doing......HUGS!

Good job everybody! Keep it up! Proud gramy I am so proud of you! :wub:

I did it with a BMI of 36 and I would make the same decision again........ I love my sleeve!

My surgeon ok'd yogurt and sf pudding for the second couple of weeks.......

Wow you are really freaking out here. Take some deep breaths, go for a walk, talk to a friend, but stop thinking about this. You will not get cancer for the sleeve procedure, and if you did, they would just remove the stomach. Either way it's the same result......you will be so much healthier after your weight loss, that the probability of stomach cancer decreases significantly......Hang in there and try to use deep breathing when feeling anxious..... It will pass.

Your stomach has acid. Are you on a PPI (nexium, omeprazole, prilosec)? If not call your doctor and ask if it's ok for you to take one.

All you need to do is get up and walk around on the plane every 30 minutes if possible. Try to move as much as possible....

Don't do it again! Keep focused and move forward! You are doing great and it shouldn't interfere with your surgery. we have all cheated in some way. Forgive thy self.

Hey Coops, I feel you here. I have a lot of soft spongy stuff in my torso area too. I think it's fat, but when I asked my surgeon, she said it was skin.....Somehow, I have a hard time believing her.... But I am so tired of all this number on the scales too. I have had a very long Thanksgiving here where I had a lot of sugars. Now it's back on track and i am going to keep working at getting a few more stubborn lbs off now. No more sugar for me. You have been stuck for 13 months and have had a lot of trauma's that caused you a lot of emotional dilemma's. When our body is stressed, the body releases cortisol that causes us to hang on to our weight and causes additional hunger. now that things are calming down, maybe your body will start letting go of those pesky unwanted, uninvited lbs off your body. BTW, you are one hot sexy woman! Perfect in my eyes. "HUGS!" :wub: some day I will come over the pond just to meet you........

I think that you need to do some research on your own. I believe (I'm not a medical doctor) that your pro's and con's list is totally inaccurate. All the research I have read reports that the sleeve has a lot less complications than the RnY. It is one of the safer wls out there. From my understanding the RnY is not reversible and people do regain their weight because their pouches stretch. In fact for individuals that are extremely obese, they would first do the gastric sleeve before the RnY procedure. I have a friend that had an RnY and she regained 40 lbs of what she had lost. Other people I have spoken with have had weight gain too. Plus there's a lot of dumping and malabsorption issues with RnY. Your friend has good intentions but is grossly misinformed....... Please do the research.... I love my sleeve and would do it over in a heart beat. BTW I have had no complications from my surgery. My problem is my head hunger and sugar addiction. If you have any questions, please ask.....

You are doing really good girl.... Fluffylibra is right, I might add calling your doctor and asking him/her if you can take a PPI (prilosec, tagamet, tums, omeprazole) to help with the stomach acid. Stomach acid mimicks hunger. Keep up the good work...

This is such a wonderful transformation. There are so many wonderful things to come your way. Please don't close the door to allowing new and exciting things into your life.... Keep it up and look forward to hearing more about your transformations...

I like that your building muscle because that will help you burn the fat a lot quicker! That is a big benefit of exercising....

Shayv123 I wouldn't wait until tomorrow, I'd go to urgent care and have them check for blood clots. It is life threatening. Mean while start drinking a lot more water and some gatorade. It could also be dehydration. Hope your feeling better.....

We are all so unique in every aspect of ourselves. The thing that scares me the most is when I put things in terms of my excess weight being gone forever. I know that this is false and that if I go back to eating the way i ate previous to my sleeve, then I will gain that weight back. I have to always be vigilant and stay on my healthy eating habits and keep portion sizes really small. I will always work on eating protein first then veggies. But there are times I just want sugary stuff and that is my addiction. So i have to real myself back in and insist on everyone living in this house not bringing that stuff here...... So beware, this is hard work but the benefits are fabulous! Keep it up and remember this is for life.......

The hardest part for me is dealing with my head hunger and staying away from my food addiction that involves sugar. Everything else has been relatively easy. I did find myself sitting with a friend in a bar and looking around at all the alcohol and carbonated drinks and deciding on having some cheetos. The bar tender kept questioning me on needing something to drink and I would give her a little info that I can't drink while eating and that lead to more questions. I finally just explained that I had wls and she then stopped. I just wasn't interested in talking about my surgery. That was the first time.....Next time I will just order water. It's really been hard getting into exercising. I do it, and then I don't do it.....

I love hearing this! Before you know it, you will be in the normal weight BMI and then the celebration continues.....

I am in! CW 146 lbs, Xmas 140 lbs + I will stop eating all sugar like candies. This stupid addiction is horrible.