Nate

LOL I do find it funny, yet rather... a little disheartening maybe... when I see some of the people on here talking about their highest weights being around 250lbs when that is my goal weight. But I take it in stride and remember that I'm a big dude. Since people were sharing their stats here's mine: Height... 6'5" Weight... 442 (was 550 at my first WLS Consult last year) Shirts... 5xl down from 9xl Pants... 5xl down from 8xl Shoes... 15 4E (always wore wide shoes, but may drop down to a 3E soon, current shoes seem to be getting a tad loose) My unofficial goal is to get down to 235. That's what I weighed when I was 25, back when I was at my healthiest and I was forged steel and sex appeal with the body of a Greek God lol

Looking good man!

Indeed, buy something to wear. Not only do you deserve it. But aren't ya just plain tired of wearing super baggy clothes?

Sleevie Ray Vaughan

Looking awesome. WTG

Thats awesome! congrats!

I'm 6'5" But I'm not a lady, so I guess I shouldn't have responded huh? LOL

I'm not pre surgery, I was sleeved in early June. But thats right around the amount I'm looking to lose. I know you're nervous but dont worry, youre going to do great! Good luck at the Doc!

UPDATE: I've gone back and forth with my insurance company. Talked to everyone from supervisors, to loss prevention and fraud report people. They will allow me to get my dentures from my new dentist! They are also starting an investigation into the other dentist for charging for work they didn't do. hopefully this will all be over soon.

Hi new person!

I was told Coffer and Tea were fine once full liquids were started as long as it was Decaf.

WTG, looking good!

Congrats!

When I was a kid I used to walk 3 miles to school in snow knee deep up hill in both directions! And my Doc let me drive as soon as my drain was out... about a week after surgery. Ask your Doc for the OK just to se sure, they're all different.

Hopefully you end up like me. I had absolutely no pain after surgery whatsoever. Good luck!

I think after about 6 months your stomach if fully healed and the risk of a leak is virtually nil. Like I always say though, when in doubt, ask your Doctor. Others more in the know will weigh in on the subject I'm sure.

Congrats!

I know when I was first sleeved I went through a lot of "Head Hunger." I was so conditioned to eating anything and everything whenever I wanted that my mind, and subconscious were all going "HEY JERK WHERES THE FOOD!?!" even though my body didn't want anything to do with food. Being on a liquid diet for so long after surgery just compounded the problem. And if I was ever around my family while they were eating it was really bad. So I would end up leaving the room and going for a walk or coming here and checking the forum. With time I was able to overcome the head hunger and now I barely even want to eat and have to set a timer to remind myself its time for my meals or I would end up skipping them. i'm sure others have other experiences, but that's how it was with me.

How are your incisions? As long as they are healed or not giving you any problems you should be just fine. I if they're not healed all the way yet I wouldn't go trying any acrobatics or swinging from the ceiling fan just yet. LOL

Very nice. Good Job!

I've been cutting my food into really tiny pieces and gumming/chewing with the few teeth I have left. The more I sit here and think about the whole mess today the madder I get. I think tomorrow I'm going to call my Insurance Company and find out about about bringing the lame ass dentist up on fraud charges or something. I'm also going to call their Corporate office and raise hell.

Thats great... WTG!

Seeing as we're allowed to post off topic stuff here in the Man Room I figured I'd rant a while before I kill somebody. It all started last July. I was in a car accident in an older vehicle that didn't have an airbag. You'd think my fat belly would have saved me, but nope. I ended up kissing the steering wheel and knocking out and or shattering almost every tooth in my head. When all was said and done They were able to save 10 of my bottom teeth, the top were too far messed up so what was left were pulled so I could get a full denture on top and a partial on bottom. I was dealing with one of the major chain Dentists to get the work done. They were ready and willing to pull all the teeth and do the bone adjustments to get me ready to be fitted for dentures. They even went as far as taking casts of my jaws. After that I was told it was just a waiting game. I had to wait for them to submit to my insurance and receive approval on the dentures to get them made. So I wait. And wait. And Wait. After 3 Months I call the Dentist and inquire about whats going on. They say "Oh we're not sure, maybe they didn't get the request properly, we'll submit again." And I wait, and wait, and wait some more. In Feb I Call the Insurance Company and ask what the hold up is. They inform me that they never had any request submitted from the Dentist. So I call the Dentist and tell them. They say that they will submit the request for dentures again. And I wait. After a month i receive an approval letter from the Insurance Company saying I was approved for upper dentures. No mention of the lower partial at all. So I call the Insurance Company. They inform me that they only received a request for upper dentures from the Dentist, no lowers. That I would need to have the Dentist submit for the lowers and they would have no problem approving them for me. I call the Dentist and have them submit for the bottom partials, and I wait. And Wait. And Wait. Call the Insurance Company yet again. They said they have received nothing from the Dentist regarding lower partials. They call the Dentist for me and give them the Fax Number of where to submit the paperwork instead of mailing it in and they tell me to call back in a month. That brings me to June when I'm being sleeved. I decide to lay off a month to recuperate and not stress over this garbage.Come July i call the Insurance Company back. Surprise! No request for bottom partials has been submitted. So I call the Dentist yet again and this time I'm told "No we're not submitting for them. We've already submitted for them too many times." That was the final straw. I called the Insurance Company back and informed them that I wasn't dealing with this Dentist any longer and that I would like help finding a new one. They help line me up with a new one, I go in, tell them my story and they're very sympathetic and ready to make everything right. The staff even showed me as they Faxed in the request for my dentures, both upper and lowers. So I wait a month. And that brings me to this morning. I receive a call from the new Dentist's office this morning. They informed me that they received the approval for my bottom partial denture, but the Insurance Company wont approve the upper denture because they've paid off on one once already at the previous Dentist. The previous Dentist never made them! So I've spent the last 2 hours on the phone bouncing back and forth between the old Dentist, the new Dentist, and the Insurance Company. The new Dentist is very nice and willing to work with me no matter what happens. The insurance Company told me I have 2 options. Get one denture made at each Dentist, or try to get the old Dentist to refund the payment to the Insurance Company, then once that is accomplished have the new Dentist resubmit for my upper denture. So I called the old Dentist and fought it out with them and they said their Corporate Office could take up to 6 months to review the reason for the refund and to actually refund the payment to the Insurance Company if I want to wait that long. I think it's a line of bull crap, but I'm so frustrated and want all this to end, and I want my teeth already. So it looks like I'm going to have to have each denture made at different Dentists. I'm not happy at all! Anyways that's all. Thanks for letting me vent. I feel a little better.

if you're having problems using a traditional CPAP mask that covers the nose and mouth completely, you can get one that just goes over the nose. That would prevent the air from getting down in your stomach while you sleep.

I can't wait... I live about an hour away from Cedar Point. Roller Coaster Capital Of The Universe.