kcage

So glad that you posted this. I was also sleeved on Monday and am experiencing the same thing. In my mind I am hungry or my body knows I should be eating, I hope some of the experienced sleevers can help us out.

April 9.......aka this morning........biting nails.......ready to have surgery over already! Good luck everyone

Ok guys I am headed to hospital, please keep me in your prayers! If anyone else is getting sleeved today lets join together and not look back. I am a little nervous, the unknown is now the present reality and while i feel you guys have prepared me, I know it wont be until I wake up that the actual finality will set in. Ready to take back control of my health, my youthfulness, my identity outside being overweight. Soooooooooo with that said I will see you all on the takeback bench.

you know what Liberated I haven't even asked him!!!!!!!! I guess I better do that when I go in to see him on the 5th. And just when I thought I was well informed.......my sleeve has already thrown me a curveball lol

My surgeons office called me yesterday afternoon and gave me a date as the date I originially wanted I wont be able to get. So I will be sleeved April 9th. I am just worried now about driving. We have small children and so my husband will have to do all the dropping of and picking up from school while I am in hospital. How soon were some of you able to drive after surgery? Luckily no pre-op diet but I believe I am going to put myself on one just to wrap my obese brain around the upcominf changes so I will try for 7 days out????? And the nervous wait.......begins

Let me start by saying that is such a compliment!!!!! And congratulations on not only meeting but exceeding goal and making weight loss your .....! But I have a question did you have trouble with loose skin? If so how did you get it to go down? I am hoping meeting/exceeding my protein and p90x will keep me from needing to have any loose skin surgically removed. One surgery is enough! Again congrats and keep up the good work.

I am sure those are both standard. But neither one is anything worth stressing. I just did my upper gi last wednesday and my psych on Friday and I am completely done with all my preop, so I havr been stressing about getting everyrhing together for surgery. But we have each other and we wi all get through this together.

OMG......so glad I found this site. As I am pre-op I haven't the slightest clue on what to do...lol but as I am pre-op I always wondered when I lost weight would I lose that extra cushion down there???? So glad to know I will, but now scared to! I was with my husband when I was smaller and there were times that I was pretty tossed around after a good hoo-rah lol but I have never been as small as I will be after my vsg.........you have just invoked a new fear, but one I can't wait to conquer. I love you guys I have a new set of girlfriends that don't judge! How COOL.

My husband was not very supportive at first either, but I just presented him with the facts. Fact I work a full time job and have 4 small children he is back in school at night gym.....yeah right! Fact thos will ease if not end health problems. Fact I am not asking for your agreement with my decision just your respect and you understanding this is what it is going to take to get me to the place I need to be health wise. I also told my husband I understand he reasoning for reservations, and I let him know that the fact that he didnt jump for joy at the thought of him having his skinnh wife back reassured me I married the right man. The same way you are worried and anxious so is he! Keep your head up and know you do have support we are all here for you. He will be there on surgery day.

I would first like to say I am not sure how I found this forum but I am soooo glad I did. My wls journey began about less than a month ago. I have been obese for about 8 years and was overweight for about 3 yrs prior making mg total time struggling with weight 11 yrs. I am only 28 have 4 young children and have developed a laundry list of health issues I have been in denial about for the last 2-3 yrs. I noticed a friend at work began looking slimmer and then about 3 weeks later looked absolutely stunning. Probably because of my amazement and then me worrying that she might have been stressing, she told me she had the sleeve. The what??? I had never heard of it. I looked it up she told me about the surgery and I knew this could change my life. I called the same surgeon, we have the same insurance so I knew it was covered. I had my first appt with fhe surgeon on 3/8/12 and did all my labs, chest xrays and ekg in that same day. My appointment with the nutritonist, nutrition class and barrium swallow are scheduled for tbis wednesday and thursday and I will be scheduling my psych eval in the morn. I anticipate and would like a surgery date of April 5, but I was just blowing smoke I thought this was a long process and that fhe earliest I would see surgery would be May and I wojld have postponed bc of my family vacation in May. I am by no means complaining as I read post where ppl started this journey last yr. I am just trying to wrap my head around the fact this is really happening and I just dedcided to have this done like 2 weeks ago. My husband is supportive although he chooses the old fashioned method, and my sister in law has considered wls for over a yr and they are tired of hearing me go on and on about my new found info so I am zo thankful for you guys. But I am at a cross roads and dont know what to expect once I complete these last few appointments. If my surgeons office offers an earlier.date shojld I take it? Or stick with my original plan and give myself a little more time to truly grasp what is happening? Only my closest co-workers know I am phrsuing this and out of the 4 of them only 1 has been extremely judgemental and even mean about it, but I understand his reasoning why so I overlook that venom! Ahhhhhhh idk. Excited and nervous, worried about church members questioning me. But before i started this I told the Lord, if this is a way he is allowing me to get healthy I would encounter no problems and I have asked him to direct my path. I am comfortable and confident in my decision i just dont want ppl hounding me like the plauge about how I am losing the weight. Thanks for listening.......