sylvia45

Call your doctor. It may or may not be gas pains. So many things can happen after surgery. It could be a pulmonary embolism but you need to call your doctor and let him know. This not the place for those kinds of questions. Any time you are having abnormal pain or symptoms call your doctor. I may or may not be serious but that should be his decision.

Well I was sleeved 5/21/14 and I'm down 63#'s I'm hoping to be down @ least 40 more by CHRISTmas!

I tryed it one time and gagged that was it I've been taking whole to just one at a time and I wait 10 and take the other. Haven't had no problems . I think we have to do what's best for us . I know we ain't docs but I do know if something ain't rite we will be the first to know.

I was banded on Aug 26th. Let me assure you, everything goes away and all will be back to feeling normal again even though you may not feel so confident about that. Very happy to have found this app

I am scheduled and all set for Gastric Bypass Surgery on Sept. 8th (Monday) and I get a call today at 4:50p from my surgeons office saying that I have not been approved by my insurance company.
Apparently my surgeons office asks for prior approval for a hernia repair just incase you have one. My insurance didn't like that part at all and wanted to go back and forth about it.
So I was told that I would have to wait until Monday morning (I'm supposed to be at the hospital at 12p) and they will call me and let me know if my surgery is happening as scheduled or if we have to reschedule. TALK ABOUT TORTURE!!!!!! I was freaking out.
10 minutes later.... I got a call from my Ins. Co. saying that my surgery is approved!!!!!!
She said she didn't want me to have to wait over the weekend not knowing.
I'm so freaken thankful!!!!!
Now for the nerves....

Ya funny how I waited a year for this was all excited about it and now I just want to feel better . I know it's only been 2 days but I'm ready just to move around and feel like my old self again. I've been walking and moving around but still got slot of gas .

I was banded yesterday !! How r u feeling ?? I'm having bad gas other then that I'm ok

Loving it. Lumps and bumps and fat rolls be gone! Holds in my belly roll too. Glad I'm 90 pounds down and I'm not too hot wearing it under my clothes. Correction. I AM hot. The good kind.

I was banded yesterday !! How r u feeling ?? I'm having bad gas other then that I'm ok

I saw my surgeon today for a routine visit & weigh-in. I went in expecting to still be above my goal but, much to my surprise, I weighed in at 154 lbs! My goal when I started this journey was to reach 155 lbs, putting me at a normal weight for my height and a normal BMI. I was shocked to realize that I met that goal TODAY!!! Needless to say, I'm ecstatic! Now that I'm there, I've decided I still have a little bit more that I want to lose(not much, maybe 5 or 10 lbs) but I'm still celebrating this HUGE milestone in my journey as I can now say that I am no longer overweight, much less morbidly obese!!! Wow!!!! I thought this day would NEVER come and now, 8 months post-op, here I am!

I had my rny revision last monday. I had a very extreme case. 2 months after having my son my band slipped and twisted causing lots of damage and had to be removed that morning. The rny is my new beginning I had gained all 100lbs lost in the 6 months between removal and rny. My preop started 8/15 and I lost 16 lbs prior to surgery. At my 1 week post op I was down 4 lbs on top of the Water weight from 6 days in the hospital. I came out of a 7 hr surgery with a tube down my nose into my bowel to keep my intestines from healing shut. I had to have a catheter and was medically induced sleep for 3 days. Once they removed the tube and catheter I was up and walking on day 4. By the end of day 5 I was walking on my own and progressed to be released on day 6. The nurses could not believe my determination to be released. Even with my complications rny was the right choice. I am 10 days out and am so grateful for this chance to renew my life.

Yay @@sylvia45!

Just want everyone to know that reading your post for the last year has help me a lot being a newbie on here. I've gained so much info and advise . Just wanted to let y'all know when u post things that y'all have gone through it really helps us new ones . Thanks again !!

Just want everyone to know that reading your post for the last year has help me a lot being a newbie on here. I've gained so much info and advise . Just wanted to let y'all know when u post things that y'all have gone through it really helps us new ones . Thanks again !!

Well tomorrow the day , just got back from picking all the odds and ends I needed . I'm feel like I have no energy since I've been on the liquid diet . I think I've got everything I need . Now today I'm gonna be a couch potato drink my fluids and go to bed early .IM READY !!!

Zero at surgery. 4.5 first fill. My band is 14cc. I later had another 3.0 and then a third one of either 0.25 or 0.5. Can't remember. I have another tomorrow. Honing in on my green zone.

Blessings to everyone who is having surgery this week! My surgery is tomorrow as well! POSITIVE VIBES :-)

Maybe you should read some of MY posts before judging MY personal experience. If you don't like my posts about my journey don't read them. I happen to have had a very hard time after surgery. We all can't be perfect.

I've been on this forum since before my surgery in April. I read A LOT of posts and find that many, definitely not all, of the regular posters are quite judgemental. We each walk our own journey, in relationships, religion, and weight loss. No one has the right to tell another their way is the best or only way and that one shouldn't eat a certain way. I've frequently been left with a bad taste in my mouth by something someone said, because let's face it...posting here is leaving oneself quite vulnerable. I truly feel for those with no support system who are looking for guidance and get scolded. I ask you please, if you don't have something nice to say, stay quiet.

Good Luck!! I go tomorrow as well

Here we go. Good luck and it'll be great. Keep us posted.

Good luck tomorrow... I'll send up a prayer for you. I'm right behind you on Wednesday! We can DO THIS....

Good luck tomorrow. Couldn't be a better day to get it done!!!

Good luck! And imagine your life in one year!!

Hi! My surgery is tomorrow,9/2 in Baton Rouge. I pray all goes well with our procedures!