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I was wondering what the recovery time frame was and how much time will I need to be off work? Thank you Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I will be having my surgery at the Barix Clinic in Ypsilanti, MI with Dr. Nunn Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Who is your insurance provider? Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Has anyone heard of Vitamins by "Garden of Life"? Thank you Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Someone please tell me it will all be worth it? My surgery is scheduled for Feb 1st. I'm excited even though a few are against it. I.e.: co-workers who either weigh 100 lbs wet or who are 100 or more lbs overweight themselves. I will admit at 5'5 and 246lbs I do hide my weight well but the countless other health issues behind it, I don't care what I look like! I care how I feel! But learning that my $2500 insurance deductible with BCBS of MI rolls over in January not August anymore and I am already $900 out of pocket, and to my knowledge about $1000 out of budget on what I had set aside for surgery... the only thing that's losing weight is my bank account! I meet for my pre-op surgery next month on the 16th and I'm scared of what they will bill me with next. Is there anyone else feeling the pressure of paying for all of this? Or anyone who knows if there are payment plans, grants or scholarships for this? I mean my only option here is becoming a part time belly or pole dancer after surgery to afford surgery! Lol I'm sorry but I can't talk to family and friends about this because I am already too far in to be told I shouldn't go through with this. Suggestions and encouragement are welcomed! Thank you!☺ Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Well I'm in the pre-stage and I guess several family members and really close friends tried to convince me not to have it done. The closer it gets to my surgery they all seem to be coming around but I don't know I just hope that my pre warning them that I'm still going to need their support and love. So far they all seem to be on board even if they still don't agree. My husband didn't really get why I would have it but the more research I shared with him the more involved he became. I think in time people come around. Maybe your friends issue isn't even you at all. Maybe it's her own self esteem. I keep encouraging my family and friends to do clean eating with me after surgery. Trying to include them in my change because regardless of how our appearance changes our hearts never will. They just need to know that. Ask her why she's acting differently. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Thank you all so much!!! Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Just curious how much is the Bypass vs the Sleeve? I'm asking because they are changing my request from the Sleeve to the Bypass. The insurance company covers both but it just needs to be approved. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

February 6th!!!! Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I mean if he was already in the extracting my wisdom teeth then there had to be a way to take out that darn sweet tooth! Lol So I am the person that silently throws darts at the person in the room that says "I have never been big on sweets" I'm always like "Dude, did your mother make you suck on lines with your Similac?" Well I'm trying to cut back and off of sweets. My pre-opp appointment is next Monday so I'm sure I'm going to be told when my "new normal" eating should begin. I just don't want to shock my system but slowly ease into not eating sweets ever again in life. But today I am struggling and it's the first day that I'm starting. Yeah Breakfast was a bust. IHOP French toast. lunch was Soup and dinner is stew but I really want to go to 7 Eleven and grab a "Big Kat" kit kat bar!!! What can you guys tell me on how to deal with this? How bad can dumping be? I mean I've been dumping my whole life is it nothing like what they talk about? Any vets out there? Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I mean if he was already in the extracting my wisdom teeth then there had to be a way to take out that darn sweet tooth! Lol So I am the person that silently throws darts at the person in the room that says "I have never been big on sweets" I'm always like "Dude, did your mother make you suck on lines with your Similac?" Well I'm trying to cut back and off of sweets. My pre-opp appointment is next Monday so I'm sure I'm going to be told when my "new normal" eating should begin. I just don't want to shock my system but slowly ease into not eating sweets ever again in life. But today I am struggling and it's the first day that I'm starting. Yeah Breakfast was a bust. IHOP French toast. lunch was Soup and dinner is stew but I really want to go to 7 Eleven and grab a "Big Kat" kit kat bar!!! What can you guys tell me on how to deal with this? How bad can dumping be? I mean I've been dumping my whole life is it nothing like what they talk about? Any vets out there? Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I haven't had my surgery yet however I remember an article I once read said something about Protein and Fiber determining the color of your stool. May be true or false but I would definitely call my doctor. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Thank you so much!!!! I was begging to consider obsession myself. lol I come here before I even think of social media. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I think hubby treatment killed my sex life. Oh that's grounds for divorce!!!! Lol (just kidding) Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I just read a response from someone on my thread who said that Bypass and Sleeve choices should be a personal choice and they really were right about that! Lol I just wish I had of seen that bit of advice when texting to my sister in-law who will be sleeved on 1/31 and she wanted to know why the Bypass for me since again "you're not that big" so I listed my reasons to the Bypass vs the sleeve for ME and she stopped texting. I'm not saying that the Sleeve is a bad choice but I know of a few people who have been sleeved and two years later they want a revision and they are trying to get approvals or they are trying to diet like they did post opp and losing the battle. I have heard from several people that they wish that they would of had the RNY over the Sleeve but I have never heard or seen anyone post about having the RNY and wishing that they had Sleeved instead... So my pre-opp appointment will be 1/16 and I will ask the surgeon about the mini RNY as well. I love this site. I haven't even been on Facebook as much!! Lol Thank you all for your comments and truths. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I was 2/1 but they had an OR conflict so they changed it to the 6th but then I decided that I wanted RNY instead of the Sleeve so now they are hoping I will not need another surgery date change. I am so excited!!!! I can't wait!!! Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

This was something my grandfather use to say to me growing up. I keep reminding myself this when I start to become scared about having the surgery. I am still waiting to hear back from my surgeons office on what surgery would be best for me to have (Bypass or Sleeve) considering some medicines that I have to take. Then reading some post about the pain and suffering from having one or the other during recovery. But I always fall to sleep at night thinking about the transformation of the butterfly. Then I realize that I'm ready to shed this cocoon and live a healthy and full life. Both of my grandmothers lived to see 90! One past away at 92 and the other is still bossing us all around at 94! We buried a great uncle last month and he was 101!! So I'm prone to have a long life but I also want to live it and not just exists in it. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I'm Feb 6th as well! Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Hi everyone! I up at 3:30 and must be to work at 8 AM! But I can't sleep. My surgery date was originally for February 1st but scheduling conflict it was changed to the 6th. I freaked out on having the Sleeve and called to ask if I can have the Bypass instead. Well they are working in making that change and hoping I can still keep my original date. I am 240 lbs at 5'5 I have sleep apnea, PCOS and Fibromyalgia not to mention rheumatoid arthritis.... I just turned 40!!!!! This extra weight has had me out and about at the mall and worried about how I'm going to make it to my car because I am so out of breath. I have had my big friends and family tell me I'm not that big. I'm taking the easy way out. But then one admitted to wanting to do it as well after baby #4 and a coworker who frowned and said all the negative wanted to know how it all worked with our insurance because she was thinking about having it. I have also had supportive family members who just don't know what to say other than "you are going to be skinny!" My boss is all of 100 lbs wet at 4'11 and she is so dead set against it because I'm not that big. She has said this so much that I have stopped wearing a spanx to work! Now she blames it in everything I think I want to eat! She's all about herbal medicine. Meanwhile I'm worried about if I can take Cymbalta with the Bypass or should I go back to the Sleeve? I'm worried about losing my hair... I have dread locs! The last thing I need is to look like Stevie Wonder!!!Lol But I do know that I want this surgery! I just don't know which one to have. It feels like Election Day 2008 all over again!!!! Lol Ok I'm getting sleepy but advice is welcomed.... thank you. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

So what was your deciding factor to have the Bypass over the sleeve surgery? Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

A friend of mine had the sleeve and she swears that the Bypass is NOT reversible. How true is that? Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

So what made you decide to have the sleeve surgery vs. Bypass? Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

So I have been back and forth from making the decision on if I should have the Sleeve or the Roux Y Gastric Bypass surgery. Finally after much debating and interviewing family and friends who have had one or the other I made the choice. My surgery is/was set for Feb 6 for the Sleeve but I am going to call them tomorrow to change my procedure. I also found that my surgeon has been a pro and has had way more experience with the RYG Bypass even having it done himself. So I am hoping that this doesn't change my surgery date and that my insurance (that actually sucks because it rolled over Jan 1 vs August like I was told) will cover it and etc... I am thanking all of you for being so transparent on these post and helping me make the decision I need. Someone even said "It's your body and your choice!" This was very encouraging. So I'm going to call tomorrow to see if I can have everything changed around. Thank you all so much again!!! Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

So in the beginning my husband was hesitant about being on board with me having the surgery. But after meeting with my surgeon he felt better about it. My mom was on board my father not so much. But the one thing my sisters, cousins and friends all keep saying the same thing. " You don't need surgery. You are not that big. You just need Will Power" blah blah blah... I have a BMI of 39, hbp, sleep apnea, PCOS, rheumatoid arthritis in my lower back from my surgeries (2 to be exact) and of course Fibromyalgia! I just turned 40 years old!!! I have a family history of diabetes and obesity.... Trying to explain to them that doctors don't just perform the surgery because I want to wear T shirts to show off my belly button, if it's even still there! Or that insurance companies don't pay thousands of dollars just so I can find out where my thong ran off too back in 2002! Lol This is real and I'm tired of hurting, tired of the excuses of not going out because I'm exhausted....tired of living without existing. Yes the surgery scares me but so is my husband waking me up in the middle of the night because I stopped breathing. So a part of me wants to just stop sharing my Feb 1st surgery date and just tell people post surgery when they ask me how I lost the weight that I just kept my New Year Resolution and avoided negativity! Lol I wish you all the best and please share your concerns from family and friends and how you overcame it....thank you!! Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Awesome!! How do you feel? What was your reason for changing the procedure? Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App