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Us men can be stubborn knot heads sometimes. Especailly if it is not OUR idea. I raised the dickens with my wife for wanting a Roux N Y. I had many arguments and they all sounded logical to me. Then I went to a couple support meetings and somehow I melted down. My wife was shocked when I said I was interested for myself! Wife is beaming from buying new clothes and her new energy. We are finding out we weren't that old after all!

I had my surgery 2 weeks and 2 days from today. I went from an original weight of 330 down to 302 at time of surgery and now I am at 283. My pants went from 50 to 42. I have a great deal more energy, I even ran at the gym the other day with weights in my hands! I couldn't believe the energy. I kept waiting to hit the wall but it never came. I stopped for the sake of not overdoing it and paying later. My goal is 220 and after that I will see if any more is needed. This is like going back in time, what fun! Oh, yeah, no more diabetes, the disease that killed my father at age 46.

I went through the 6 month diet and was denied anyway. The reason was the psych reported that I told him I was a drug taking hippy in the 60's. It was for 1 1/2 years, I quit and have been clean since. My doc immediately appealed and they approved. It probably was a delay to get us into the new year and higher co-pays.

Levi's Jeans, 501 Original, Medium Stonewash ...when I get my hipbones back.

Egg drop soup goes down so easy that it is easy to eat too much. Be sure to put the portion in a lttle bowl and don't go back and get more. I can get a quart for $2.75 and it lasts for a week. Gets you out of the Cambells rut.

Egg drop is a friendly soup. Hot and sour is a little antagonistic. I just brought it back up, my first rejection since my surgery, It could be that I ate it too fast, though. Hot and sour was my dear friend during chemo therapy, the only food that tasted right.

Our psych eval was $100, refunded us $30. As we saw it the eval was for the sake of the insurance company, nothing to do with helping us cope, no advice, no help. He just delved into our past and made us answer hundreds of questions on a computer. My wife was promptly approved by insurance, I was promptly turned down. I was turned down because I told him about the short period in the 60's that I was a hippy and smoked dope,(erratic lifestyle). I would advise not just blabbing everything no matter how friendly they seem. I was later approved, after the first of the year and we were into a new copay period

I have been treated for prostate cancer and have had diverticuitus a number of times. My urologist, who is lead on my prostate cancer treatment, was less than enthusiastic about my sleeve, saying it was hard on kidneys, but grudgingly gave his approval, (my sleeve doctor said that the urologist may be going on old information and that with proper water consumption, kidneys are in no danger). My doctor who was in charge of my chemo was supportive saying that losing fat will help keep the cancer away. My family physician was enthusiastic forseeing an end to my mild diabetes and high blood pressure brought on by obesity, (the diabetes is gone and there is a marked improvement in blood pressure). What has not been addressed at length is diverticulitus. The normal way to handle diverticulitus is to ramp up the fiber, pretty difficult to do in the early stages of recovery. I am afraid to take Metamucil, the gold standard for fiber, because of my knowledge of how it swells up. I am on my second week of recovery on full liquids and haven't had any diverticulitus symptoms, in quite a while come to think of it, perhaps due to my reduced diet on the way to insurance approval. . I am hoping the reduced volume of my intake will in itself keep the divers away. I have been deficating but with much less volume than before. I have lost 14 pounds in one week after my surgery and am surprised at how much energy that I have for my walking. I have gone from pre-program weight of 330 down to 286. My tentative goal is 220 but we will see if further loss is needed when I arrive there. :smile1:

Just got home a couple of hours ago. Surgery went well. They weren't kidding when they said you have to watch how you eat. So far just Water and crystal light type drinks. Tomorrow I go on non-Clear liquids as well. I have adjusted to the fact that I will never eat the same. I was a 2 mountain buffet buster. No more. Wife and I will order one meal, split it into fourths, eat 2/4 and take the other half home. There is much more to life than eating. Eat to live, don't live to eat, that's our motto.

My stats and yours are very similar. My surgery is tomorrow. I hope I do as well as you have been. I have been working on head hunger since my liquid diet started. I have been examining my philosophies about eating, too. The recreational part of eating will be nearly non-exsitent. Eating will be to live and be healthy and strong, recreation will be experienced through my interests and activities. I must become the master of my body not a slave to it's urges. My wife is a lttle over a month post RouyNY sugery and is doing great. We will support each other and never return to overweight misery.

Aetna must be a pretty good company. My wife and I submitted to Med Mutual Ohio. She was approved pretty quickly, I was turned down...get this... because the psychiatrist told them I did drugs in the 60's! Pot and acid, off and on for 1-2 years, over in 1969. I became a born-again Christian and eventually a preacher, living quite a drug free life. The doc sent in an appeal and I was approved, surgery on Monday. They are wondering if the turndown was a delay tactic to wait until the new year for bigger co-pays, we had just about maxed 2011. Just saw your new post. Good for you!!!!

Well, it looks like I'm the first man to chime in here. Be gentle with me ladies. There is a famine in this world for men who act like men. Real men are not abusive, insensitive, self-centered, and mean. That is just being stupid jerks. Many men have the emotional maturity of a 3 year old. A real man is strong and knows he is. He doesn't have to prove it to himself by pushing a woman or kids around. His knowledge of his own worth and power frees him to be gentle and kind. He knows he's a man so he is secure enough to cry, feel love, give love, and cherish his wife and kids. He doesn't have to have phony machismo. A man isn't a man because he is an ignorant barbarian. I have been married for over 40 years to the same sweety. We've had our hard times especially during my "mid-life crisis". But our deep love for each other and our faith in God pulled us back together. She was so loving to me during my cancer treatment and has proven herself to be the best thing that ever happened to me. Picking on a woman because she is overweight just shows what a dredfully shallow, insecure, weak man you are. I pray that your husbands will get a good look at themselves and join the ranks of real men. My sweety is 4 weeks out of RouxNY and is beeming because of her new body. I am crying as I write this because I a SO happy for her! I get the sleeve surgery on the 16th. We are going to live out the remainder of our days just as we started together; two very much in love, slender, healthy people walking on the beach and thanking God for the gift of our marraige.

Thanks, Misha. My urologist is pessimistic despite my low psa level but my chemo and radiation doctors say that the slight rise (went from 0.174 to 0.3 in 6 months. Anything 4.0 and under is considered normal)is to be expected due to the prostate healing itself after treatment. I go along with "glass half full" guys. I am glad I found this forum. I found one for my RNY wife too so she could hob nob with fellow diminishers. We plan on moving to Florida and having a lot of fun during our remaining years, our daughter and grandaughters are moving, too. I just turned 63, she is a young chick of 60. We are getting lean and mean and stripped down for action. No more not fitting into roller coaster seats. No more fat pants that I have to wear over my belly button and when I suck my gut in they head for the floor causing me to drop everything and do a quick grab. I know, suspenders. Just don't like em. I have no intention of going gently into that good night. I am a preacher and intend to put a hurtin on the Devil while I enjoy the wonderful family God has blessed me with.

Hi all! My first post here. I was treated for prostate cancer in 2009-2010. I recieved external beam radiation, chemo and was put on lupron, the testosterone killer. I was given steroids to help me with the chemo and them added to the lupron put 50 pounds on me very quickly putting me up to 330. I am a 6'2" man. The doctor predicted the added weight would be hard to get off and he was right. I have had acid reflux problems off and on for quite a while and my surgeon, who favors the Roux N Y warned me that I could be on Prilosec the rest of my life after the operation but the RNY folks don't have a problem with it.. I can see some here do indeed have reflux problems. Any advice would be appreciated. I am still going through with it. The surgery will help with my mild diabetes and the weight loss will lessen my chances of the cancer advancing again acording to the doc. My psa is at 0.3 right now. I have after-effects from chemo; numbness in my feet. In the past if I laid off the coffee and took Prilosec for a few days the heartburn went away. I am hoping the VSG will not put an eternal fire in my belly. My wife had the RNY recently and is working me over for new clothes. Doggone Macy's gives out charge cards mighty easy. Oh, well, I will be looking forward to running it up myself soon. It will be nice to have hip bones again so I don't have to wear my pants at my belly button.