KCgirl061

I've had the IUD for 10 years. I never felt it contributed to my weight gain. The extreme weight loss over the last year hasn't caused any problems with it's placement either. I highly advise you to have it placed by a GYN doctor and not a general practice physician though. It's more likely to be improperly placed by a GP than a GYN.

When I remember to take it! LOL sometimes I forget ?

My Multi makes me sick too. I take it at night before bed and that helps . Careful though too that your multi doesn’t contain your iron supplement, because you shouldn’t take that with dairy products like yogurt or shakes. I usually have mine with a rice cake and PB2 and it does a good job keeping the nausea at bay.

Push up bra or like get on the floor and exercise?!? Any way here are my swim suits for this season. No bikinis. Just not my style. I love the black one but my butt squooshes out. Probably not noticeable to anyone but me though.

Gah! You guys all look so great! My breasts are practically non existent so I don't think I could pull off a bikini. But I'll post pictures in my swimwear soon too!

I wish I had known that it can cause lactose intolerance. It wouldn't have slowed my decision to have the surgery by any means but once I started getting really bad gas it would have helped me solve the problem with medication quicker.

Yes it's normal for your menstrual cycles to be a little off after surgery. I have an IUD so my cycles don't come on a regular basis, usually only a light flow every 3-4 months or so. After surgery I had a heavy flow a couple weeks after and then more random cycles for a couple months after that. I'm 10 months out and now its more like it was before.

Congrats on a successful surgery! You'll move in and out of those high school clothes faster than you can imagine. That was the only slightly frustrating thing - having to buy transition clothes and wearing them for only a short time. I went from a size 18 to old pairs of 16s and 14s I had around. Then I was finally able to buy 12s at a thrift store. I skipped right past size 10 and picked up 8s (again at thrift stores). When those got too big and I was nearing my goal weight I finally bought some size 6 jeans at nicer stores. I've surpassed my goal another 15 pounds and can actually fit into size 4 now but since I don't anticipate staying at this weight long term I'm not going nuts buying a bunch of size 4. Sex is a nice NSV. I have a lot more sensitivity, flexibility and endurance than I did before. I love being able to cross my legs. Shoe shopping is a lot more fun. I don't need wide width shoes anymore and my feet don't hurt as much carrying around all the weight that was previously there. I could wear my wedges at a wedding last weekend for several hours and they never became uncomfortable. I might be able to tolerate heels now! Exercising is a lot easier. I exercise for fun and its actually fun now. Bike riding and dancing, even just evening walks with my husband aren't as difficult and I'm more willing to do it. I do need to start a muscle building regime though because I lost all the padding on my butt and my tailbone hurts A LOT with sitting a long time and hard chairs are awful. Shaving my legs is easier. So is painting my toe nails. Shaving my arm pits is NOT. They are a lot more concave and I can't quite figure out how to maneuver the razor.

My surgery was scheduled for 11 am. I was NPO at midnight but could have clear liquids until 6 am. The NPO didnt bother me and after my shake for dinner I didn't feel the need for anything else. I got up at 5 and had a cup of tea and watched the news. Then I showered and put on comfy clothes and waiting until it was time to head to the hospital. I got registered and only had to wait about 10 minutes before heading back. In preop they got my IV in and took a bunch of health questions. Then I got to walk. And walk and walk and walk. My surgeon wants all his bariatric patients walking before surgery to prevent blood clots. No laying on the cart watching Price is Right for me. And after 45 minutes of walking up and down the same small hallway I definitely wanted to. 11 oclock came and went, as it sometimes can in the surgery world. His first case started a little later than scheduled and was more complicated than anticipated. I talked with anesthesia and walked some more. Then I finally talked to my surgeon. It was getting closer. My preop nurse then gave me a couple medications including IV pepcid and a shot of Lovenox (blood thinner) in my abdomen. I waited another 15 minutes or so while the OR Team got the operating room ready and when the nurse came to get me it was a couple more questions from him and then I was wheeled back. HA! I wish. I got to walk back to the operating room as well, hop up on the OR table and wait for anesthesia to kick in. I woke from surgery it seems only minutes after and remember being in a lot of pain. That kept me in the recovery room longer than normal. It only felt like half an hour to me but I'm told I was there closer to an hour and a half.

Thank you so much for visiting and sharing your experiences. Its great to hear from veterans. Good luck with that last 8 pounds!

I think sex is much better now. Everything is more sensitive down there. Not to mention I'm in better shape now and have more endurance as well.

Mine had to be 40 at my first consultation with the PCP. I was the same as you, my weight fluctuated depending on how much water I was retaining at the time. It made me nervous that I would be 39.8 at that appointment and not qualify. So the days before the appointment I ate high sodium meals and really binged. I also wore a pair of boot cut jeans with 5 pound ankle weights on. Got my BMI up to 41.1 on that first appointment.

Hair loss - for most its unavoidable but it is temporary Saggy breasts and loose skin - THATS A BADGE OF HONOR. You have to get there first and successfully lose the weight and keep it off. Plastic surgery is the only way to deal with loose skin and its up to you whether it bothers you enough to spend the thousands of dollars on it. Insurance doesn't cover plastic surgery. Sometime the loose skin causes rashes and pain and then you can try to get insurance to cover it. Start saving now if you think you'll need plastics. $10 a day for 3 years should get you over $10K saved to afford something like a tummy tuck.

Yay! Keep up the good work!

I don't think its the lack of vitamins, its the lack of calories plus the fact that you just had surgery and your body is recovering.

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Nope, my surgeon just feels like there is enough reserves during that time that its not necessary and that healing of the stomach is more important. You hear how those multivitamins can make you sick to your stomach? He doesn't want that happening early on so he has his patients wait.

My friend is a runner and takes something from GNC to help her muscles recover after long runs. It might be those map pills... I don't quite remember, but if you went to GNC or a similar store you could get some guidance there. For dealing with the inflammation in your body, you could combat that with CBD oil. It is great for reducing inflammation and I use it for just that - keeping my sore, aching back from screaming for ibuprofen which I used to pop like tic tacs before my surgery. You simply may not be getting in enough calories to be exercising that intensely. I think this is an unpopular opinion and I may get some push back on here but I buy into Dr Duc Vuong's theory about why you should NOT exercise for 6 months after surgery. After trying to exercise early out post op and being too exhausted to function at work I gave it up. When I later came across Dr Vuong's video about exercising it made a lot of sense to me:

Go YOU! Hopefully after some time to adjust they'll appreciate and respect the new you and there won't be a strain on those relationships anymore!

You absolutely did it the right way though. Youre tracking your food intake, you made sure your protein was in, you limited your snack. Don't be so hard on yourself. It is okay to treat yourself without feeling guilty about it!

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It sounds like he was doing something really sweet buying you a dress and you were a total brat about it. Both in that you were too good for a Walmart dress and then you somehow blame him for not finding one to your liking: "If he would of let me do it myself I may have been able to go to my boys graduation" or that he expected you to dress up to go to a graduation ceremony? Have you been to a graduation before? Of course he expected you to dress up. Vent all you want but in my opinion he didn't do a damn thing wrong.

I started out taking ProCare Now bariatric vitamins. They are one a day and I felt very affordable at $11 or less (if bought in bulk). I recently switched to Bariatric Pal One and bought them in bulk at $9 a month. Both vitamins meet ASMBS requirements and are taken only ONCE daily which is a huge perk for me.

My surgeon tells me that the first 6 months is the biggest time you're at risk for developing a leak but that after that you're pretty much healed and its not a risk unless you eat something really crazy and swallow it whole. You're pretty close to that so you're safer now than if you'd have done this 3 months ago. Eating and drinking at the same time allows food to push through the sleeve faster, not leaving you full as long and then you find yourself eating more, but not necessarily stretching your sleeve. It could be that when you were on your cruise you were eating more slider foods that you could easily fit in. Then when you came back and was eating more wholesome food you were out of practice and either ate it too fast or didn't chew it well enough and it caused pain because you overfilled your sleeve. When I do that it helps to put a warm compress on my tummy and walking around to try to get the digestive system going.

It does. But I never in my life swallowed gum and while I repeatedly tell my husband that he still insists that I don't chew it. Sometimes I'll sneak some for a short time just to freshen my breath anyway.