ssflbelle
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Has any one started from 500lbs
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one month shy of 58 years OLD, DOS - turned 64 years YOUNG today. i feel and look great!!
kathy
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This morning wanted to go swimming and put on on my swim suit that I wore before my breast surgery. OMGOSH I can't wear this swimsuit anymore. The tummy fits fine but the chest was so huge and the straps kept coming down and exposing my new little boobies. I love one piece suits with skirts but am going to have to figure out a way to take in this suit on top, if it is even possible. A friend gave me her size 16 swimsuit. The tops fits but I couldn't get the bottom passed my upper thighs and over my butt skin. Maybe I can attach my 32 bottom to her 16 top. Am very happy with eliminating 290 pounds but this excess skin transsformation and misshape body stage is something else. Hopefully by summer 2018 I will be able to look at this stage and have a great laugh in my new trim body.
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Thanks Kathy. I had another NSV today. I got to work and unloaded my electric mobility device to discover I didn't have the key. Must have lost it yesterday in the Walmart parking lot. From 9:30 until 4:00 had to walk to every place I went in that building. Thank Goodness I did have my cane because by 4 I was exhausted and bent over a bit but I walked. It felt really good but still see I have a lot more work to do.
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Pain Management
I am five days post op from my surgery. My abdomen is really burning around one of my incisions, but there is no discharge. My back is also so sore that I can't do my walking like I want to. It is just too painful. I am taking liquid Tylenol for pain, but that's all. Is there any more I can do for pain & how long does this part of recovery last?
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Weren't you given any prescription pain meds? If not I wiould call your Dr and let him know of this pain in your back. I had terrible pain in my back right shoulder. My pain was so bad the Doctor thought the nursing staff might have broken my ribs when they had to use the belt thing to get me off the toilet. Turns out I had gas that got trapped as I couldn't walk at the time. I took Gas-X which helped. Plus I used an electric massager on my back plus used a heating pad and even an ice pack wrapped up in a towel. Good luck I hope you feel better soon.
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Does the noise in your stomach after you eat ever goes away? Always everytime I eat certain foods it taste like I swallowed a nasty pill, does that ever goes away?
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Have no nasty pill taste but the noise I still have 18 months post op from the sleeve. I can deal with that noise but it is what i call the skin farts I have a hard time dealing with. I have lost over 290 pounds and when I stand up air get under my belly excess skin and when I sit back down the air pushing out making a farting noise. It mostly does that when I have no underwear on and am home. However there have been times when it has happened in public with underwear on. I just told my Dr about it and said corn starch might help.
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Sweet as peaches reacted to this
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Today 18 days after my 1st or 4 skin removal surgeries I was able to walk 1/4 mile with the walker. This is the farthest I have walked in over 30 year without any back pain. I am so excited that I was able to do this. When the 2nd skin removal surgery is done in the Fall I may be able to walk without the walker. To be able to do all the activities that were taken away from me over 30 years ago would make me so very happy and proud at what I have accomplished over all these years. Over 280 pounds gone, smaller boobies and soon a smaller tummy and than 2 more skin removal surgeries is a lot to go through but it is so worth it in the end.
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Thanks so much. No more back pain. As for the boobie surgery I still have some swelling under the armpits but the pain isn't severe enough that I need to take anything for it. I am icing the girls twice a day and the swelling is less.
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Lexington1020 reacted to this
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OOOOOOOHHHH THE HUMANITY!!!
My hair is coming out in clumps!!! I knew it would happen but omg!!! My heart. Being natural since 2013 and going through the crazy hair phases, I just did not expect this much hair.
Well, its hair and it will grow back.....eventually.
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I got my biopsy results back today. I am so thrilled to be able to tell you all the biopsy is benign. Thank the Lord
there is NO Cancer. Now I go back to the breast surgeon, get insurance approval again and go to the Plastic Surgeon to get these hugmongous breast and excess skin off my chest. Who knows maybe it will even help my back so I can walk again without the back surgery
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Thanks everyone for the congratulations. Yes it will be a pain to have to start all over again with approval and reschedule date for plastic surgery but at least now we know there is nothing there to cause any harm once it has been done. I hope it is soon as my back is getting worse with the more weight I lose. Not sure why that is, perhaps because my fat cushions are gone
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Had my breast biopsy yesterday. Results should be told to me on Wednesday. Friends please pray it is benign and the excess skin removal surgery can be reschedule soon. It has been 6 weeks since it was canceled. Never thought it would take that long to schedule a biopsy.
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Thanks Kathy Have been on pins and needles since March 20th when excess skin removal surgery was canceled because of this. Have let so many bad foods and drinks into my life due to the stress of having to wait 6 weeks for this biopsy. Hopefully tomorrow will be good results and I my stress will leave and I can get back to the food plan and the rescheduled surgery. Am seeing my NUT tomorrow and my mental health counselor Friday as I have really messed up during these 6 weeks and need to to get this back under control so I can get off the last 37 pounds.
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Had mammogram, EKG, chest x-ray urine and blood drawn today. I have to see a cardiologist as the EKG showed something they didn't like. In 2016 something also showed before I had my 3 procedure surgeries. However the Cardiologist cleared me then. So I am hoping I get to see him fast and he clears me again as March 21 Breast surgery is right around the corner and I would hate to postphone it. Please pray that everything will be ok! Thanks
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OMG I am thrilled!
Happy Happy Dance! I just got approved for breast reduction and reconstruction nipple/areolar Surgery is March 21st.
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Had all of my excess tummy skin removed yesterday (panniculectomy) and I cannot wait to see my belly button! Its been 36 years since I've seen it!
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- Hope recovery is going well. I am waiting to get approve for the girl to be reduced.
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fatontheinside reacted to this
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I DID IT! This former 497 pound 61 years old who has lost 280 pounds, but still can't walk biked 6 miles for the Loop for Literacy. Raised $310.00 for the Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County. I won a cap for raising the money and a medal for crossing the finish line. My Team was in the top 10 for raising money. Thanks to all my friends who supported me both financially and emotionally. 1 1/2 years ago I never could have done it. IT SURE FELT GREAT! Look at my profile to find today's pictures.
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Despite taking biotin and B-12 since June of 2015, it has finally happened to me! 10 months post op and I am seeing hair breakage around my temples and frontal scalp. Isn't this a bit late for hair breakage? I was expecting it around 3 to 6 months not 10 months post op. Veterans, how long did it take for you to go through this phase before hair started to grow back?
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I survived Matthew. Without eating all day. Stressed day but safe, no yacht in my yard, only one ginormous tree down in the yard.
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After losing a total of 266 I have finally been referred to a neurosurgeon. When I got that referral from the spine surgeon I cried. I may finally have surgery which will allow me to once again walk, dance and do all the things I use to do over 26 years ago.
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After losing a total of 266 I have finally been referred to a neurosurgeon. When I got that referral from the spine surgeon I cried. I may finally have surgery which will allow me to once again walk, dance and do all the things I use to do over 26 years ago.
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I think I lost all my tailbone cushioning, hurts to sit for periods of time! Owww
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I think I lost all my tailbone cushioning, hurts to sit for periods of time! Owww
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Just saw it for the first time ever and was surprised by my reaction: It's tacky to park one's butt on a website such as this to hawk one's pyramid-scheme products. And I'm just a disinterested user of the site.
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How is it that a newbie can post in a veteran's forum, but I can't?
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Ok I'm so flippin tired of summer! It's hot enough already. UGH.
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When I read of other peoples pre and post non weight loss surgeries and medical problem they have had I am so grateful for the health that I did have despite being obese most of my life. The WLS, hernia repair and gallbladder removal all at the same time was the first surgery I ever had and I am 60 years old.
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I never knew my Grandmothers or Grandfathers but my Mom was the one who taught me to be grateful for what we had.
Yes I was very lucky not to have had the diseased gallbladder or hernia explode. I had them for at least a year before the
surgeon was willing to remove and repair them when he did the weight loss surgery.
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Oh good! My stalker is back!
