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oh my goodness....you guys are making me so excited to get my sleeve and get to work! I wanna know what MY "after photo" looks like! April 20th baby!
Thank you all for your inspiration!

Just a quick check-in! Today is Tuesday, and I had my surgery on Saturday. At the moment I am sitting on the absolutely beautiful beaches of Cancun, sipping a v-8 Splash. To be honest, 2 days ago I couldn't even imagine that it was possible to feel this good by now. I felt like miserable. But it is amazing how each day, you literally feel 100% better.
I got to meet my fellow sleeve sister "superbly insane"! She's awesome, and I was glad to have someone to bounce thoughts off of. My husband had the surgery with me too, and he is doing well too.
I will post my whole experience when I get back, but just wanted y'all to know I survived!

I had mine on April 17th. Already down 12 lbs! I love this website!

Just a quick check-in! Today is Tuesday, and I had my surgery on Saturday. At the moment I am sitting on the absolutely beautiful beaches of Cancun, sipping a v-8 Splash. To be honest, 2 days ago I couldn't even imagine that it was possible to feel this good by now. I felt like miserable. But it is amazing how each day, you literally feel 100% better.
I got to meet my fellow sleeve sister "superbly insane"! She's awesome, and I was glad to have someone to bounce thoughts off of. My husband had the surgery with me too, and he is doing well too.
I will post my whole experience when I get back, but just wanted y'all to know I survived!

Hi abmc, thanks for the well wishes! I had my surgery on Saturday, and everything went smoothly. I am recovering at the coolest resort I've ever seen, Westin Lagunamar. I will write up everything when I get back, but so far so good!

Surgery was December 10, 2012 surgery weight was 379, as of yesterday April 19, 2013 current weight is 277.

Good Luck and have a safe journey!

I had my surgery in Cancun! Your in good hands.

Good luck to you! I can't wait to hear about your trip. I'm going to Cancun in June.

oh my goodness....you guys are making me so excited to get my sleeve and get to work! I wanna know what MY "after photo" looks like! April 20th baby!
Thank you all for your inspiration!

I am new as a member to this forum, but I have been reading your posts anonymously for months. I am so grateful for this site. I was out of options and then I found this. I was so confident in my research and the stories here that I booked with Dr. Garcia and will have the sleeve done on 3/29. Just want to say that I am happy I found this site and will share my story for it to benefit someone as your stories have helped me tremendously.

oh my goodness....you guys are making me so excited to get my sleeve and get to work! I wanna know what MY "after photo" looks like! April 20th baby!
Thank you all for your inspiration!

I am scheduled for April 20th with Dr. Perez in Cancun, and it can't get here quick enough!

I am scheduled for April 20th with Dr. Perez in Cancun, and it can't get here quick enough!

I am scheduled for April 20th with Dr. Perez in Cancun, and it can't get here quick enough!

I'm very happy with my decision to have surgery, and I tell anyone who asks how I'm doing it. After all everyone could see how big I was and obviously couldn't stick to anything long term to lose it. I would be more embarrassed to have someone find out later that I had not told the truth about it. No shame in the truth.

Well, I have excellent insurance so good that there is 50 co-pay. I am born into a high socioeconomic class. My husband has an extremely successful remodeling company. But I would never take money from my family or my husbands family who has plenty of it! My insurance having a small co pay comes with a price! I'm not a hoop jumper. So off to Mexico I went. Has nothing to do with my status, my family, where I am on the food chain! Plus 25000 can go towards a good college for my oldest boy. I would rather go to Mexico 1000x over then spend one more second in my fat suit!!!!!

Great job! Huge difference! Keep it up....what you're doing is working!

Great job! You look beautiful!

Dr Garcia in MX has stockings for my legs too and I got up and started walking right away, then I'd get nausea, a nurse would give me a shot, I'd sleep, then wake up and do it all over again for the first day. There were also doctors and nurses around all the time which I found comforting! I was really worried about blood clots, especially if they travel and cause a pulmonary embolism. That was probably my biggest fear.. and that they'd remove and sell a kidney on the black market!

Also different clothing labels really vary in how they are sized. I hit sales in January for some cocktail style dresses that I need for upcoming weddings. I feel in love with one of the first dresses I tried on .....a size 10 fit perfect.....I was thrilled. Next dress I loved was a 12 and couldn't even come close to closing the zip. I hated to but grabbed the 14 in the same dress. Fit but still tight, a Calvin Klein. I decided Calvin was bad for my self esteem and left the store with my one dress, the size 10:).

great article! Thanks for sharing! I've been really worried about the hair loss issue after surgery (scheduled 4/20/13) because my hair has already begun thinning, especially in the front-top. I started taking Biotin, and applying Mioxinol solution (the main ingredient found in Rogain). I'm also taking a supplement called NuHair. I am trying to get my hair as healthy as possible BEFORE surgery....who knows if it will do one darn thing, but I wanted to at least give it a shot. I only started a couple of weeks ago and the Mioxinol says it will take 4 months to work! I'll have to report back later if I had any success.