JerseyGirl_22

I have blue cross blue shield and was approved right away. The first consult my surgery day was scheduled for 3 months later in August.

Tonight I do my sleep study. Not really looking foward to sleeping away from home. Once I get this over with they can send my info to the insurance for approval. Can't wait :-)

The worse part is getting the goo out of your hair from the wires being stuck on your scalp!!! You will do fine. Good luck.

Hi JerseyGirl. I'm your neighbor across the Hudson in NY. I know you are concerned because you don't understand right now how you can feel satisfied on so much less food but as a person banded almost 6 months, I can tell you it's very possible. Understand...you will no longer be full. That does not exist anymore. What you will be looking for is a feeling of not being hungry. That's different than full. It's hard to explain if you haven't been through it but that's the goal here. Some folks do it through multiple fills...some like me do not need any fills. I track my calories and eat around 1,000 a day. I plugged in a typical day of meals that I ate pre-band and it totaled more than 4,000 calories. What that works out to is a loss of 67 lbs. since the pre-op diet.... Good luck, you will do great.

Thank you. That makes so much sense. I had not even looked at it in that way.

Thanks everyone. Your insight was very helpful. Hopefully I can get over the "what ifs" and focus on my new healthy future

Wow a lot of you guys are saying that you take the gummies but my nutritionist said that I absolutely could not have gummies after surgey. Anyone know why that could be?

I just googled these and they sound great. I've never even heard of them before. I will be ordering some tomorrow

Hello Everyone. I'm new to the site and decided to get some support from people who are going through the same procedure that I am as oppose to suffering alone and in silence. At first my biggest concern was bleeding during the surgery (as I am a 22 year old with a ton of medical issues including one of which causing me to be on a blood thinner), however, my new concern is if I will feel as if I am being deprived of food or feel like I haven't really eaten and I need more after just a small meal. Has anyone else gone through this? And if so how did you deal with it? Thanks in advance