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DonRodolfo

Gastric Sleeve Patients
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  1. There is absolutely a difference between the two pictures, keep up the good work!
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    Calcium citrate chews?

    How about this: Celebrate Calcium Plus 500 Berries N' Cream or this Celebrate calcium citrate Soft Chews Caramel 60 count
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    Dallas, Texas Sleevers! !

    Hi Everyone! Forney here. I'm one of Dr. Castro's patients, surgery tentatively in May sometime.
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    Why has Tricare denied gastric sleeve?

    When I researched self-pay, I didn't find anywhere near $46k. Here is my surgeon's website, the self-pay rates are on the bottom-left of the page: New Beginnings Surgical
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    Liquid Protien?

    It appears that that the "Yes Whey" protein shot sold by Bariatric Advantage is a better choice over the "New Whey" bullets. The collagen protein used in "New Whey" has a PDCAAS score of 0.08 out of 1 where the 100% pure whey protein used in "Yes Whey" has a score of 1 out of 1.
  6. The rest: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/woman-suffers-life-threatening-allergy-exercise/story?id=18774866#.UUxzNBeGzDt Counting my blessings today!
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    From the album: DonRodolfo

    Picture taken 3/20/2013 at about 398lbs.
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    Who Are You?

    Pleasure to meet you, NtvTxn! Yes I am in the DFW area, but in Forney. I was told about support groups at my last pre-surgery appt, can you tell me what you like/don't like about them? I have to fulfill two more appointments with my nutritionist before my Dr. gives me a firm surgery date. I'm told it will be some time in May.
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    Who Are You?

    Howdy Y'all! My name is Carlos . Vertical Sleeve Talk was suggested by my nutritionist on my first visit with her in February. I've been lurking here since and I believe this is my first post. I am a 50 year old male. I am married going on 23 years. I have a 20 year old daughter that should be graduating college this December. I'm an Information Technology type currently in the role of a Datacenter Specialist. I've struggled with weight my whole life. I grew up in basically a poor household where cleaning your plate was mandatory at every meal whether you were full or not. My weight started gaining rapidly in college and I basically starved myself to lose 88 lbs. It got me in the weight range acceptable to join the Air Force but little did I know the weight would come back several times over. To say I caught grief over my weight in the military would be an understatement. As soon as I got out my weight started going up again. Many time I would start exercising and eating better and lost 30 - 50 lbs only to put it on again. There's a price to be paid for doing this over and over again and for me it was finding myself at 415lbs at the end of last year. This is fine if you're 8 feet tall, not so much if you're 5'9". I finally gave in to my wife's repeated suggestion that I consider weight loss surgery. So many people we knew had it and were doing well with it. It's my turn now. I'm going to be able to enjoy life again, to go out and do things with my family without having to constantly worry about a place nearby to sit. Or having to worry about fitting in an airplane seat. Too many more things to list. Thanks for having me.

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