dukenewcomb21

Thank you!

Thanks for all the encouragement and kind words! It really helps drive me and hopefully i helped someone bc I know I love looking at others pictures for inspiration.

I still don't see a difference in a mirror but I can see them in pictures and the way clothes fit. I was sleeved on 12/20 and was 385 and am 309 today. 76lbs and counting! Hoping to lose around another 90-100 lbs, but ill take 76 in a little more then 2 months. Love my sleeve!

So I'm 7 days post op and everything is going well. Incisions are healing well and still have glue on them but they are very itchy ( my whole stomach is itchy). Anyone else have this? Any remedies?

Sleeved on 12/20. Weight on 1st day of pre op diet : 385. Weight today is 352! Down 33 pounds!

I'm getting sleeved Thursday and yea I'm starting to get nervous too!

Anyone else have this? I'm having surgery Thursday and on my pre op diet. But I'm having paid stomach pains. Not diareehia but painful

I am scheduled for the 20th as well! Had my send off meal tonight lol. Pre op diet starts tomorrow!

Yea they are taking the blood from my arm vein but they are doing the arterial blood gases test as well. Not sure why ( that's the artery blood test) not looking forward to it at all.

Hello All! I am new to the forum but have been reading for a while. My date is December 20th and I am super excited. I was approved by insurance on the first try and everything has been smooth so far! I really am very excited and all I have left is the liver shrinking diet (starts Thursday) and some lab work. I went to my educational classes my hospital makes us you do and they were fine but something they said made me nervous. Normally I am not afraid or nervous about shots or needles (and have a pretty high pain tolerance) but other patients in the class kept talking about blood they draw from the artery in your wrist during lab day and how painful it was. Well my lab day is Monday and for some reason now I am freaking out about this. Anybody else had this done? What was your experience? Other then that I am super excited and cant wait to be on the losers bench!