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I have been on this waiting game since November I thought I would have been recovering by now but I haven't even gone to see the surgeon yet!!! I understand the process but boy this is so long I changed my mind a few times about which surgery I should have if any at all!!!

Amazing thank u for sharing

I am there with you I started this process in oct 2013 I was gunho ready to go and I fail my psych and everything came to a screeching halt. I am trying to find out if the sleeve is the best thing or should I go for the lap band if the psychiatrist was right or should I go for a second opinion. I am stuck because all I need is another therapist and my cardiac test results and I am in there but I am trying to see if I can do it on my own I know I can but will it last? Will it last with the surgery? What if I get a leak? Will I survey that? Am I being lazy or should go for it and hope and pray for the best? This is what I go through everyday

Since I went to a new psychologist and I told them about my post pardum depression which I dealt with over 1yr 1/2 but I told him to much so he wants me to wait another 3months so I guess I will have to wait till march or April

I am a little scared after reading the leak survivors story. I decided I am going to continue on my journey in-spite of my fear but I am gonna start the liquid diet soon and exercising even sooner so I can have better results

So I have 3 things that need to be done 2 already done one is easy and the other is where I have issues!!! My psych I always new I was off by a little but not enough to fail a psych eval so now I gotta see a psychiatrist and do a third evaluation so I may not have surgery till mid February and the longer I wait the more I read into the leak survivors page the more scared I am

I don't want to put it out there I just want my child to know something about me more.

I have a BMI of 41.9 I have shortness of breath severe back and joint pain. I been thinking about this for over 3yrs and I have a 2 yr old. I work on my feet all day at a hospital and I am in so much pain all the time from my hips to my knees back and ankle. I have figured out how to eat in small portions I need to hit the gym more but even with that I am not losing the weight like I thought I should. Since I started the program I lost 5lbs.

My question to all of u would u change the decision to have a sleeve or would u do it again! Would u inform and encourage people like myself who are still in the beginning stages not to go through it with the surgery

Congrats congrats!!! I am stuck cause my previous insurance denied me a sleep study so now I gotta start over with a new insurance and I am in limbo because my insurance change

I have been going through hoops and till have no date for surgery and sometimes I just want to say for get it. This is the only reason I haven't backed out!!! Your picture is inspiring thank u!!!

I think deductible starts every year so unless u can have the surgeon schedule u in the next few days u have to start over. January 1 is normally the start of insurance deductible or some places its the anniversary of the first month u started receiving insurance.

I thought I was gonna be February but I meet with my surgeon next week and have My last nutrition appt. jan 15 so hopefully next month. I am hoping I get down to 160 by Memorial Day

How long will the surgery last? How long will I stay in the hospital. When can Start taking

Pre-op I talked to a couple of nurses I work with the first thing they say is your not big enough. I am big enough. I know it's trying to be a compliment but that's how I felt for years and I just kept getting bigger and bigger and I know it's-partially my eating. Now that I said something there a discussion on how all u got to do is diet and exercise. And how I know someone who stopped drinking soda and sugar and they lost weight. I stopped eating all red meat and pork and I cut down on turkey and bread. I haven't drank soda in years and I try to keep my juice down. Even discussing that people still seem to feel I must be doing something wrong and its me. Sometimes I feel like that's all I need but I feel this surgery will give me a boost. I guess until I have the surgery I will know what to say but for now I think it's better not to say anything.

Pre-op I talked to a couple of nurses I work with the first thing they say is your not big enough. I am big enough. I know it's trying to be a compliment but that's how I felt for years and I just kept getting bigger and bigger and I know it's-partially my eating. Now that I said something there a discussion on how all u got to do is diet and exercise. And how I know someone who stopped drinking soda and sugar and they lost weight. I stopped eating all red meat and pork and I cut down on turkey and bread. I haven't drank soda in years and I try to keep my juice down. Even discussing that people still seem to feel I must be doing something wrong and its me. Sometimes I feel like that's all I need but I feel this surgery will give me a boost. I guess until I have the surgery I will know what to say but for now I think it's better not to say anything.

I have yet to be sleeved and I get negative statements, once you tell people your on a diet or your working on losing weight people have an opinion. I had a Caesar salad today with little to no dressing and someone said is that healthy should u be eating that. I can't even imagine it getting worse when u tell them I am get WLS soon they automatically I may not mind educating friends but it gets tiring when everyone has an opinion about your situation.

I addresses this with the nutritionist because I am 5'1 1/2 and I was 222 when this started I am now 218. She gave me a booklet About trying to lose most of the weight in 9 months my BMI 41.2. I had a BMI of 35 when I first heard o this and I was immediately dismissed now I am at the weight I am and I know that even though a part of me wants to try and do it myself and say forget it but I have a lot more riding. I just hope I can start losing and stop gaining.

So today I got my sonogram and chest X-ray and lab work I am getting my sleep test done on dec 28th and tomorrow I go to my cardiologist and see a psych tomorrow. The only thing I am waiting for is my GI doctors test results and my weight history. Once I receive my new insurance and records they will submit it to insurance

I had Oxford and as of jan 2012 they require 6 months and I changed to Aetna because its cheaper and found out they require 3 months I was wondering if they have any issues or other requirements that I maybe unaware of

Good luck and sending positive energy for your surgery tomorrow

Being able to excercise