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LOVE HAS 4 PAWS. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

You girls are going to do just fine. We will be looking for updates when it's time. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

And if your urine is a nice light color you'll know you've been hydrating yourself properly. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Better pray your liver is nice and lean, surgeries have been canceled because it was too fat to be moved out of the way. You don't want to wake up the same way you went in. That would mean all your preparations were worth nothing. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Ah, that he was as wonderful and with-it as he thinks. The man is a legend in his own mind. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

If you have your insurance approval you get your surgery date, some practices will still require you to attend a pre surgery and a post surgery seminar before you're done. Best wishes in advance. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

You don't have a lactose so much as a lactalbumin one. That's the main Protein in human milk. The main one in cow's milk is casein. To answer your other one I couldn't see them refusing you after a couple months if your health is good enough. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

A lot of traffic on this March forum. People starting their diets, people having surgery and others making their way towards solid food. Makes me happy just to hang around all you guys! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Well good for you pollymatin.Now you're on your way to finer and littler things, you've made such a good start I think you'll achieve your last goals like Heather did. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

I see pictures of bikinis all the time, do I want one? Nope I have the commitment and good sense to know it's just not for me. Why put on something (assuming I was the right size) that would make me cold and ride up into my backside? And I feel that way about fast food. And curiously since I'm still pre surg I have no desire for breads and sweets, there are only a few I can eat as I'm allergic to chocolate. Hershey has recently come out with a white coated Reese cup, my son had gotten each of us one. I took one teensy bite, it was so super sweet and sickening I gave the rest to my son. Maybe it's Hector and the gastritis, but it will prevent the risk of dumping in the future. And the last bread product I ate sat in my stomach like a frozen hockey puck. If I can give them up now I feel I will be more compliant later. You know what I do crave? Vegetables, yeah the thought of steamed broccoli sounds yummy or a baked sweet potato. No butter, it's perfect just the way it is. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Let me tell,you about Endoscopy and Queen frust8. I had an endoscopy performed by a general surgeon. When I was going to need one in December 2017, I asked if my gastroenterologist would perform it. Last thing I remembered laying on my left side in the endoscopy suite. My doctor came in wearing shrubs,he is Pakistani and looked very handsome in his blue shrubs. I said Hi Dr Mujaba, the next thing I knew I was waking up in the recovery area. I had went to sleep effortlessly, woke up with no headache and no sore throat, 2 things the general surgeon had left me withj in addition to a slightly achy tummy. None of that with Dr M and it turned out he had done more biopsies , took,more pictures in color( which I got copies of) and did it all in less time. If I ever have another endoscopy,i hope its him that does it. Confirmed the start of damage from GERD,gastritis and the presence of Hector my little baby ulcer. Hector was the result of too many NSAIDS over the years. And no sign of h pylori in there. This confirmed that it is good I'm planning a RnY instead of a sleeve. And I had full anesthesia not just sedation but I felt really fine afterwards. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

He'll probably ask why you want the surgery? What are your expectations from it, how committed are you to following his instructions and are you willing to follow a,more restricted diet the rest of your life? Do you understand your body will be permanently changed? Are you doing this for yourself or to please someone else? ,,,,,,,,. You will probably,want to know how long his average patient stays in the hospital . Average is 1-2 days but I've heard on here anywhere from doing it as an b outpatient that was d omeone in Texas to 3 days. Will you have a weight restriction after surgery and for how long? When can you go up and down stairs? When can you drive again? Do you require a liquid diet before surgery? Most seem to but I've known who don't. Can I have a,loved one with me? Will I have a private or semi private room at your hospital? Will I see you again prior to surgery? I have known of people who saw surgeon,once and not again until the morning of surgery. One lady said it had been so long she barely recognized him! Those are what I can think of but I'm sure others may think of so n ething else. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

I hadn't thought of AZO, excellent advice. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

And CLee you are going to be a success story, I feel it in my bones. And since I've had arthritis since 25 my tired old bones have felt a lot. Onward toward surgery --'I'm marching right along side of you! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

And so do you and I hope you find it. Maybe you and your guy will also be blessed, 2019 or 2020 we all could be god-aunts and uncles. We will be praying your fondest dreams come true. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Do you have a favorite food? If you do ,see if you can alter it to a lower calorie or sugar free version. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

When you talk to your doctor and he prescibes something see if you have a drug store that makes deliveries. We have 1 in my town and they were of great value when I had my knee replacement. In the meantime drink as much Fluid as you can. Yeah you probably feel like,you are there all the time, but as a decorated veteran of the Urinary Tract Wars the more dilute you can make your urine the better you are going to feel and the sooner this will be over. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

How are all of you doing? I realize you have entered a Brand New World, how are you coming to terms with all the new sensations and limitations? I wish you each and every one a smooth road to recovery. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

It is a fairly well- known fact that catheterization, especially an in-dwelling, even for a few days will provoke an UTI. That is why medical staff try to keep the procedures as sterile as possible. Plus the catheter can irritate your urethra, that could cause the blood you've seen. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Now that you've had your WLSurgery is this all the surgery for you? Are you planning to have loose skin removed or Any other sort of surgery in the future? Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

I think I would be hurt if somebody wrote on a medical report I had a body part "abnormal" . Just because something isn't average it doesn't necessarily connote abnormal, if it's original equipment it's normal for me. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

I have a small patch on my lower arms, I worried at my age it could be skin cancer, my PCP just let out a small giggle and said it's just Mr P showing up again. I said I may just kill you Junior, he's like 45 or 46. I really do like the guy, I'm just enough older I want to rein him in. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Hw355 Cw323 Gw175ish, no surgery yet, sad subject I went completely thru one program at a Center of Excellence hospital, no less, surgeon's pulled the blanket from under me, had a committee meeting and decided not to preform my surgery, I re -enrolled at OSU and am praying for surgery soon. I have to meet with their staff psychologist, Then I go for an evaluation session with some of the staff, a plan of care will be formulated customized to moi, I meet with their surgeon, they have 2, and then it's Hello,Surgery-Land. I suspect within the next month or 2 since all my prerequirements transfer over. Think happy positive powerful thoughts and send them my way. I'm 72 and can't afford screwing over again.PS 5ft8in, shrunk down from 5ft 11 in my Prime & my birthday is December 26th. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Don't be nervous you are now part of a big loving worldwide Bariatric family and we take care of our own. Any questions, please ask, if I personally don't have an answer someone on Bariatric Pal will. Welcome and stay as long as you like. You are among friends now. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app