~Primrose~

Thank you both! Makes a lot of sense. I truly appreciate it!!😊

Yes very exciting. I already told her I’m wearing a Hot but classy dress. 😂🎊

Thank you! Congratulations to you as well on your weight loss success! I'll let you know if I figure anything out.😉 You have a year and you've come this far I know you can do it. Even if it's slow, it should be doable by December. Good luck and congratulations on your daughters wedding! How exciting!

Primrose, Congrats on loosing the 137. 😍🤩 Proud of the great job you have done. Yes it feels that the closer you get to the goal we set up for ourselves the harder it gets. My goal is my daughter's wedding in Dec. 2019 and I'm already stressing out. I have another 40 to go and can not get go down on the scale. I keep hearing that we have to change things up because our body's know what to expect. Best of luck! Please share if you find something that is working for you.

I had my surgery 2/7/17 starting out at 335. I now weigh 198. I'm very happy with how far I've come but I didn't reach my goal weight by the first of the year like I had planned. I have a special occasion coming up in April and I really want to lose the last 48 pounds by then. I don't know what else I can do to lose it. That gives me about 11 weeks and I don't know what to do to lost that much weight in that amount of time. Please don't think I'm not thankful or grateful for where I am. I'm so much healthier. But I just want to be at my goal weight. I eat a low amount of calories and I'm moving much more. Maybe I need to up my physical activity but I feel as though that will make me more hungry. Any suggestions?

Thank you both! Makes a lot of sense. I truly appreciate it!!😊

I agree.
Taking it a step further, it is likely an unrealistic goal that you will lose 4 pounds a week to make goal weight in the time frame you have selected. Once you have less to lose, the losses are going to get smaller and it’s going to take longer to lose weight.
You have done fantastic so far and if you keep following your plan, you will probably lose the 15-20 pounds like Wanda mentioned. If you lose more great!
Either way you will look better in April than you could have dreamed two years ago, and that is worth celebrating!

Hi there..why don't you try the intermittant fasting...a lot of folks are doing it on this site and everywhere, Doctor Oz had a segment on his show about how great it is, you can google him. There is a thread that you can follow to guide you along on this site. Just do a search in the search section.
Try not to focus so much on the number because if you do not get to that exact number then you will be dissapointed with yourself. You may lose 15-20 and that's still great and you will be closer to goal. The woman that started the thread, I think that she's at goal and doing very well, you could ask her questions and she'll be happy to explain it to you.
I wish you all the best. You can do it!! 😉

I had my surgery 2/7/17 starting out at 335. I now weigh 198. I'm very happy with how far I've come but I didn't reach my goal weight by the first of the year like I had planned. I have a special occasion coming up in April and I really want to lose the last 48 pounds by then. I don't know what else I can do to lose it. That gives me about 11 weeks and I don't know what to do to lost that much weight in that amount of time. Please don't think I'm not thankful or grateful for where I am. I'm so much healthier. But I just want to be at my goal weight. I eat a low amount of calories and I'm moving much more. Maybe I need to up my physical activity but I feel as though that will make me more hungry. Any suggestions?

I had my surgery 2/7/17 starting out at 335. I now weigh 198. I'm very happy with how far I've come but I didn't reach my goal weight by the first of the year like I had planned. I have a special occasion coming up in April and I really want to lose the last 48 pounds by then. I don't know what else I can do to lose it. That gives me about 11 weeks and I don't know what to do to lost that much weight in that amount of time. Please don't think I'm not thankful or grateful for where I am. I'm so much healthier. But I just want to be at my goal weight. I eat a low amount of calories and I'm moving much more. Maybe I need to up my physical activity but I feel as though that will make me more hungry. Any suggestions?

I had the gastric sleeve surgery the beginning of February. I was fine for about 2 weeks after. I started vomiting after anything I ate (and the most I ate was maybe 3 teeny tiny bites of something). Then I couldn't even take a sip of Water without vomiting it back up. Then I started having food aversion. I couldn't look, eat, smell anything food. I spent my days vomiting, dry heaves, and it would last all day. The doctor did a ton of tests....some of them twice and said it was just something that could happen to maybe like 1% of patients. I was admitted to the hospital twice. The second time was for dehydration and malnutrition. While in there the doctor inserted a feeding tube in my nose that bypasses my stomach and goes straight to my intestines. I actually had it done 4 different times and it was terrible. This last time I was sent home with it and now I have 12 hour feedings out of a bag during the night. I am so weak. I haven't driven in probably 6 weeks. I've been only wearing Depends for the last month because the feedings give me terrible diarrhea and not to be gross but my body gives me no notice so I never make it to the bathroom without having an accident. I am nauseas and feel sick to my stomach every day. The tube is supposed to come out in the middle of May but there is no way I am eating enough food by mouth because I feel sick all the time. I would give anything if I could go back in time and I would have never had this procedure. It just isn't worth all of this. Today I was at the ER because my feeding tube was clogged and wasted a whole afternoon there. I guess it doesn't really matter because I don't do anything anyway. I'm seriously at my wits end. I know this isn't what most people experience but it has been mine and I'm sick of it. I'd rather be 335 lbs again. Is there possibly ANYONE who has had something similar happen to them? I don't know how it is ever going to get better. Thank you in advance to anyone with any suggestions.

I had the gastric sleeve surgery the beginning of February. I was fine for about 2 weeks after. I started vomiting after anything I ate (and the most I ate was maybe 3 teeny tiny bites of something). Then I couldn't even take a sip of Water without vomiting it back up. Then I started having food aversion. I couldn't look, eat, smell anything food. I spent my days vomiting, dry heaves, and it would last all day. The doctor did a ton of tests....some of them twice and said it was just something that could happen to maybe like 1% of patients. I was admitted to the hospital twice. The second time was for dehydration and malnutrition. While in there the doctor inserted a feeding tube in my nose that bypasses my stomach and goes straight to my intestines. I actually had it done 4 different times and it was terrible. This last time I was sent home with it and now I have 12 hour feedings out of a bag during the night. I am so weak. I haven't driven in probably 6 weeks. I've been only wearing Depends for the last month because the feedings give me terrible diarrhea and not to be gross but my body gives me no notice so I never make it to the bathroom without having an accident. I am nauseas and feel sick to my stomach every day. The tube is supposed to come out in the middle of May but there is no way I am eating enough food by mouth because I feel sick all the time. I would give anything if I could go back in time and I would have never had this procedure. It just isn't worth all of this. Today I was at the ER because my feeding tube was clogged and wasted a whole afternoon there. I guess it doesn't really matter because I don't do anything anyway. I'm seriously at my wits end. I know this isn't what most people experience but it has been mine and I'm sick of it. I'd rather be 335 lbs again. Is there possibly ANYONE who has had something similar happen to them? I don't know how it is ever going to get better. Thank you in advance to anyone with any suggestions.

My niece had this experience and like this poster mentioned she had an emergency bypass and all of her problems went away.

I’m sorry about your experience with the sleeve. I had a terrible experience as well but mine wasn’t like yours. I got my surgery in November and by December I was throwing up non stop. I was admitted for four days because of the vomiting and then I was allowed to come home. In January I ended up being rushed to the hospital by ambulance because I lost consciousness in the shower and fell. I ended up losing all the Fluid in my brain and had nerve damage in my leg. I’m almost 6 months out now and I’m doing great. I’m happy I got the surgery but I’m saddened by my outcome. I’m glad you’re okay. If you need anyone to talk to I’m hear to listen

Thank you to everyone that wrote back. And thank you Acts238girl for sending me the link. I will definitely check it out. Thank you for the well wishes and support. I truly appreciate it!

I have been debating on posting all of this because I’m tired of living it day to day
I am 4 weeks post op and feel like this is the most horrible decision I’ve made. Here is a list of what has been going on :
- I am unable to drink anything other than Water and sometimes apple juice or popsicles. Anything thicker comes right back up. broth, flavored drinks, etc will not stay down.
- I have acid that brings me to tears and wakes me up at night (all night), it makes me feel like I’m going to vomit fire. I am currently taking Prilosec, Zantac, Carafate, and Magic Mouthwash.
- I’m exhausted because I’m not consuming any Protein or other nutrients. I’m exhausted because I try to sleep sitting straight up. Any incline makes the acid worse.
- I feel like there is a lump rising up right before I vomit and/or get the acid burn.
My doctor is aware of everything that is going on. He said I’m in a small percent that gets this really bad GERD or reflux and later down the road we might have to do a sleeve to bypass revision. I’m really not okay with that option because I had complications after the sleeve surgery. He isn’t really worried about my lack of nutrients at this point because I’m “only” 4 weeks out. I know guys, only four weeks, but in all honesty I’m miserable 24 hours a day. I have kids, I have a full time job, and I seriously can’t continue like this.
I was also told I now have sludge in my gallbladder so it may need to be removed later.
If anyone can relate to this or tell me it will all be okay I would really appreciate it. I’m at my breaking point and am very disappointed in myself for electing to have this surgery.

Hi
I too was in this same situation after having gastric sleeve last year. Mine was due to a stricture in the middle of the stomach pouch. This was found by doing an endoscopy. I was on picc lines and feeding tubes for dehydration and severe malnutrition. My doctor decided the only option was to revise to the full bypass. (This was after he attempted dilation and placing a stent). Having a revision was not ideal but at 4 months out from revision i am glad i did. No more vomiting i have regained my strength and best part no more tubes coming out of my body. Message me if you want to talk more.

I am so sorry this has happened to you. I cannot relate to this but I have read stories and seen some people’s vlogs about this exact same thing. And they have all over come their issues with a little bit of time.
i read a story where one young woman had to have a g-tube for a few months because of her aversions to food and not keeping anything down...her body just needed time to get use to her new life. Literally all of our senses change.
Maybe you can see a GI doctor and they can get together with your surgeon to help you more.

I messaged you the link!

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There ARE people here that had this same thing happen. Ultimately, they had regular bypass done, and feel 100% better! Look up in the search bar "wish I never had" and see if it pops up. I will try to find the link too so you can message her! She was SO discouraged, but things really turned around for her!

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I cannot relate to what you are going through, but I do sympathize with you. I’m so sorry that you are going through so much. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

Have u had another endoscopy? I have known people that have developed a small flap of tissue over the top of there stomach so the only thing u can do is throw up cause there is no way for it to enter the stomach

Stay strong hang in there it will get better I thought I had problems cause I couldn't take a Doo Doo my wife put on a glove and pulled it out I'm three weeks post op I love the new me ...I will be praying for you and everyone that has the surgery and to GOD be the glory cause during surgery my kidneys fail woke up throwing up so much blood this is no easy task but with faith and support you will make it though

I'm so sorry you're going through this.

I read about stenosis and the sleeve and too much scar tissue formation causing excessive vomiting. I would check with my dr or get a second opinion. It sounds to me like that could be an issue considering it started so quickly after surgery about the time scar tissue would start forming. I am not a doctor but it is a worthy thought. Best wishes for a quick recovery.