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Thank you! It is a great feeling!!!!!

For the first time in probably about five years I am under 200 pounds! That is a good feeling for sure! The strange thing is that I know my clothes don't fit anymore and everything is loose on me. I have to keep going down in sizes. When I look at myself, I can see it a little, but looking at my stomach, it almost looks the same. I know it isn't...it can't be! My face is back to looking thin, and that is nice for sure!!!

I would say that no two people are the same as far as their surgeries and recovery so it is hard to tell. I have had a lot of issues where as many others here have not..

they are like scar tissue that causes the esophagus to close up.

Oh gosh. I am not at home right now. I have the Breville juice something or another.....

You know I got a bill yesterday that doesn't make sense to me either. My surgery was paid for and I paid the $1,216 co pay. I got this bill that says I owe $568.00 which is less than 20% of what the charges were and more than 20% of what insurance paid. I was under the impression that once I paid all the crap they maid me pay before the surgery, my insurance paying for the surgery,and me paying the co pay that that was it. Now I get this bill that doesn't add up and of course the billing person is not at her desk when I call. See with me, I will take all the time in the world to get that stuff figured out. The medical field and their billing, what they charge, etc is a racket! When I had my daughter 18 years ago, the hospital charged my insurance company for 2 births and my insurance paid it! I don't stand for that crap! I am trying to take less meds too because I have such a hard time with them all since surgery. I have not been taking all of the Vitamins I am supposed to take. Feels like an all day job getting the meds I absolutely must take in.

It really is rough seeing all of that hair come out. I guess the best thing to do is stay positive if we can!!!

OMG we are such twins! I am off of cholesterol meds and GERD meds. I have had a couple of those stalls and I pood yesterday too! (finally!) lol. You know, I am not even following my dietitian stuff. I know that is awful. For the most part I have greek yogurt, cheese, Water, and not much else. food just makes me feel bad. I had a second stricture opened up a couple of weeks ago and have another endoscopy scheduled for this Thursday. This one surgeon in the office has been taking care of me, listening to what I am saying...which is such a good thing. I have been doing a lot more walking and feeling a lot better, so that is a good thing. Right now I feel awful, but it is because of my RA meds. I have just started back on the chemo and have been on the biologic again for about a month. These meds are supposed to stop your joints from getting messed up but they make you feel so bad. Just awful. I had a good stretch where my joints felt good and I felt good in that respect because I was off of the medicine, but I know I can't stay off of them.

If you are Vit D deficient, you exp more pain. I have Rheumatoid Arthritis and when my levels are below normal, I cantell it. I take 100,000 iu per week to stay where I need to be. I am having a lot of hair loss. Handfuls after showers. You and I can be a couple of baldies together and just rock it!

I am almost three months out. My case could be different. Well, we are all different, of course. I do not work and have Rheumatoid Arthritis and other illnesses so things were a bit rougher for me. They still are.

After about 2 weeks, I would say.

It took me around five weeks before I was pain free. I don't know when I stopped being emotional. All I know is it was there and then one day it was gone.

I have no idea how old mine was but I went to the ER several years ago with chest pain and was released. I keep my records, so when I got a copy of the report, I saw where the radiologist noted a large hiatal hernia. No one ever told me. I would have never known if I was not one to keep my own personal chart at home.

Isn't that crazy?!?!?

I got mine last month. I have an auto-immune disease (RA) so I have got to get it every year. I had no adverse effects because of it.

I did not have the choice of the sleeve. My insurance did not cover it. My Rheumatologist wanted me to have the sleeve due to absorption. My main surgery was the hernia. I have known about it for a few years and it caused my stomach to be up in my chest and it started to twist, which is bad. They only wanted to do the hernia surgery if I also had WLS. They said that the hernia repairs keep coming undone with people who are overweight and I would be in and out of surgery.

My dr told me GERD could be an issue with the sleeve. I have had the bypass. I had a pretty bad problem with GERD before the surgery due to a large Hiatal hernia I had repaired when I had the bypass.

Which surgery did you have?

I don't have a hard time with sweet things so far, but I am not eating a lot of them. I had a sliver of cake about a month ago and did fine. I have had issue with beef at times, but not always. I think I am going to start keeping some kind of food journal. The time of day I ate something, what it was, and how my body reacted. Maybe I can keep up with what not to eat if I do it that way. What does the Zantac do for you? I was taking that for acid before. Now when I am nauseous I take a zofran.

It is normal for people to lose up to a hundred hairs a day. I think that is insane, but is what I have always read. I will say that if you have long hair, it is much more noticeable. Mine is long and dark and you can spot a lost hair from a million miles away! Oh wait, I meant a million lost hairs! =/

Yep, I guess it's been 3-4 times for me. I should know better. Today I didn't realize the chicken was going to be fried. I even took the skin off and still got sick!

Oh I have had issue with a lot of different foods for sure...

Nope. I still have my gallbladder. I had a hernia, maybe that's what you were thinking of. At any rate, I think I will probably never eat pizza again. That is the only sad part about it! ;0)

What do your drs say about this allergy? I have the same problem....

It is one thing to ask but another that all staff follow through. That was my big problem.