txaggiemom

Kat - I don't know anything about the revision, because I am just getting my sleeve on March 8th and haven't had a band, but having done low carb many times, it is not unusual to have a stall within the first few weeks. If you've done low carb before it seems to be worse the second time. I have had that happen my self and have seen posters on low carb forums post on the same thing.

Yeah....what Lee said

So far so good, but I had a terrible headache from the carb withdrawals. I feel better now, but I know I always feel better after the third day so looking forward to Thursday. How did you do today?

Thanks for the encouragement everyone. Katldy - Yes that would be great to have a buddy. I went to a local support group last night. The only thing is that everyone was a RNY patient and most of them were a year or more out. They had lost lots of weight but they all complained of hunger. I hope that is better with the sleeve.

I got my surgery date today of March 8th so I am exactly a month away. I started low carb today just to make it easier after the surgery. My surgeon is Dr McDaniels in Victoria, Texas. I want to lose 100 pounds.

I got my firm surgery date today of March 8th, so I am one week after you. I also started low carb today so if you started today how did you do? I have done low carb quite a bit and usually the third day is the hardest as you go through carb withdrawals, but if you can hold on and make it through that you got it made.

Thanks Judy! 37 pounds so far, that is great!

My surgery is March too but I won't find out the exact day until tomorrow. I am thinking March 8th. My doctor didn't put me on any special diet. He said it depended on your other conditions and I didn't have any. He did say I could do low carb if I wanted so I am going to start that tomorrow. Did your doctor say anything about low carb?

Thanks Deedee and congratulations on being so close to goal!

Well those numbers are very encouraging then because my BMI is 44.5%. You don't know how much better that makes me feel. I am really getting excited that this is actually going to happen and I am going to be able to do this.:biggrin2: I have lost this weight so many times just to gain it all back and more. I have been dieting since I was 14 and I am now 46. I had pretty much given up.

Thanks Thinoneday. I am going to post your stats because you have already done amazing. I will update them when you post after your weigh in. My doctor didn't require a preop diet either. He said it depended on your comorbidities, and I didn't have any. He said a could do low carb if I wanted to so I am going to start that tomorrow.

Thanks Tiifykins and thanks for the video. On that slide broken down by BMI, do you think that was at 4 years out?

Good info Loser. This could be why the stats look like they do. Also, congratulations on the 37 pounds since starting your preop diet. That is awesome! I am just very analytical, but even if you think that 50% of patients with the sleeve gain back their weight it would still be worth it to try when you consider over 90% of dieters gain all their weight back within a year (and 100% of the time that I diet I gain it back within a year). I'm just hoping I can figure out if people did gain their weight back then why and how can you prevent that. I know you if watch what you eat and exersize you won't gain it back, but if I was very successful at that in the past, I wouldn't be here in the first place. I schedule my sleeve on Monday and I am very excited about that but I guess I am just looking for more proof that I made the right decision.

Can you post when you had your surgery, how much you wanted to lose and how much you have lost so far. I will move all the stats into this post. This is my own crude form of research and I think it will help my motivations to see how much people have lost. Also I read the research that says 5 years out sleevers have lost 45 - 50% of their exccess weight and kept it off. I would love to see a scatter chart on this because does that mean half gained it all back and the rest kept is off, or are the majority in the middle deeping of half the weight they lost, or is ir pretty much all over the place. This may not answer my questions since I don't think there are too many people 5 years out on the forum, but I still would like to see where everyone is at. User Name/Date of surgery/Goal Weight Loss/Current Weight Loss: Tiffykins 6-3-2009 113 122 Thinoneday 12-29-2009 162 32 Deedee 8-4-2009 90 89.5 Judyjudyjudy 12-1-2009 100 37

The Dr. said they looked into offering that coverage, but since they had only had 2 serious complications on cash pay, they felt is wasn't worth it to charge that when they could just work it out with the few that might have a problem. He does a lot of WLS, but his numbers probably don't compare with those in the larger cities or even Mexico. I am sure those that do would offer the insurance.

I saw the doctor today and he said they have only had 2 patients with serious complications that the insurance wouldn't pay. He said he worked out a deal with the hospital to forgive the charges on those because he does so many surgeries there. (These surgeries were not sleeves) He said for infections, gallstones, etc. they are coded that way and insurance will cover those things. He also said he has not had 1 leak yet. So now I am getting excited because I scheduled my consultation with the dietitician and the counselor and on Monday i will get my surgery date. (Probably for this second week in March.)

Inside2Out - have you picked a surgeon yet?

Motherof4 - I hope your surgery went well today. I am thinking of trying Dr. Jay. My appointment with the surgeon here is on Friday, but I am not sure how many sleeve surgeries he has done. I know he has done thousands of RNYs because everyone I know went to him. Do you know how many VSGs Dr. Jay has done?

Thanks everyone for your replies. I guess I better just cross my fingers and hope for the best. I have United Health Care and WLS in excluded. Suryfer - I have not had the surgery yet. My very first doctors appointment with the surgeon is this Friday.

I see my Dr. for the first time this Friday and am so glad I found this forum. I was originally checking into RNY until I did more research and found this forum and I think the VSG is the way to go, but I was wondering... I am paying cash, but what happens if you have a leak and you are a cash pay. Could you end up with an astronomical medical bill? At one point does you insurance cover side effects. I am thinking what if 2 years down the road you have some scar tissue and have to have something done about it?

Marci Did you ever pick a surgeon? I am looking into TLC Edge also and am wondering about that myself. I live in Corpus Christi so there is no one around here to ask.