Uomograsso

@ForMyBabies I want to address your questions because I recently had a sleeve revision (12.2.2019).
First, I will say yes it is possible and I had a sleeve to sleeve revision with a smaller sleeve. I too had success after the first surgery in 2013 and then regained the weight, plus some for good measure.
You talked about eating because you are depressed, feeling disgusted with yourself for eating, and then doing the same thing again because it is almost like why bother anyway. It is a very vicious cycle. I think the first time around I believed the surgery was sort of magic because the smaller stomach means eating less. That seemed simple enough, but the sad truth is the stomach is a muscle and can/will stretch to its original size or greater. However, I never dealt with the things that made me eat in the first place, including depression.
I went back to the same surgeon, had many long conversations about the revision, and spent about two years working through some of the mental stuff because the bottom line is - as you said, the surgery is only a tool. Eight weeks post-op I still grieve for what I call my inner fat girl even though I still weigh plenty. I want to eat - EVERYTHING! I am not hungry, but I miss it - pretending I didn't care what people thought, or how much weight I gained. I just wanted to eat and had many reasons for overeating. For me, moving forward means dealing with the issues that makes me eat or want to eat in the first place. Every day I see something and wish I could eat it. Fortunately, right now my inability to eat stops me, but that will change. I need to be ready to deal with when I can and finding different ways to deal with the poorly adaptive behaviors that I used when I couldn't deal.
In the long term, I have been advised that revision surgeries have even less success unless I am willing to work on it. I know statistically I am less likely to succeed, but I made a choice not to get on that table until I was ready to deal with the lifelong changes I will need to make to be successful. So far, I am beating the odds with 68 lbs down, but it is a daily struggle not to give in to my inner fat girl who wants the things that I used to think made me feel good. The reality is they never made me feel good and actually contributed to that vicious cycle of eating, feeling worse, eating that got me to nearly 400 lbs.
If you decide a revision is for you, I can promise you it won't be easy. You will be confronted by your prior success and also by the gradual things that allowed you to regain the weight again. For now, it is one day at a time. My nutritionist gave me a powerful thought - food is only fuel. You need to eat enough fuel to get you to the next time you need fuel in the tank. I have 6 small meals per day 2-3 oz to get me to the next meal. My silent prayer is for lifelong sustained success in the future. The scale is a motivator but less pain and the ability to move more freely propels me forward.
Only you can decide if a revision is for you, but you have to consider all the facts for you and decide from there. It took me over a year to decide to move forward and I had absolutely no pre-surgery weight loss requirements. One day I finally decided I was sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I hope this helps.
epicdreams

I am a veteran and use the VA for all of my medical and primary care. During some clinic visits this fall, I suggested to my doctor that I might be interested in getting Bariatric surgery. She gave me some reading literature and suggested I do some homework prior to making any requests formally. In my 12/26/19 visit, I asked her to make my request official and we started me on the journey. For you fellow Veterans out there, the VA supports weight loss surgery basically as potential long term health for the veteran as well as potential cost savings associated with your health long term.
My process started with getting an appointment referral from my doctor to get an appointment to meet with the Move Program Coordinator and ultimately withe a Move Dietitian and Nutritionist. From there, you must participate in the Move Program for 3 months (easy) and they sent me home with a scale and blood pressure cuff to monitor. The unit has built in wifi and sends your daily weight and blood pressure to the Move Coordinator daily. Ultimately, you must lose approximately 10% of your body weight (or at least show the ability to lose weight) and graduate from the Move program. To help my process, I was prescribed a weight loss supplement, multi Vitamin and Saxenda (injection weight loss medicine). Basically all are to help stimulate your appetite loss, it works! I weighed in this morning (1/21/20) and after 25 days, I am down 15.5 lbs from 351 lbs. My goal weight loss prior to surgery is 35 lbs and am I am on track to graduate the Move program on 3/26/20.
After you graduate the program, your Move Team will then present your case to the Surgery Team (assuming you meet the criteria, graduate and lose the preliminary weight). Once approved, you just need to get on the schedule for surgery. I am not sure what that process entails yet, but I was told to plan on surgery between mid April to mid May.
I will continue to update this process, but I wanted to assure Veterans that we too can get this surgery done within the VA.

So I just had to put this somewhere because I have to say the first 80-85 came off quick. These last 15 not so much.
I have been in a stall since Thanksgiving going down and up a few at a time while allowing myself to live a little and have some holiday treats.
Got most everything out of the house, got my butt to the gym, started tracking carefully again and today finally weighed in at 100 down. Will be 8 months post 2/4 and I would say most of the work is on me at this point. I can absolutely overeat right now if I eat the wrong things. Just making that statement for anyone who is out there wondering what restriction may look like at this point. It’s there but I certainly have to choose right. No more “free ride” LOL

Wow feeling amazing woke up today another 2lbs gone finally hit my next major milestone.
130lbs gone officially.
HW 322
SW 257
CW 192
GW 180/185
130lbs total gone in just under 5 months since I started this journey.
With 65lbs since surgery 10/28 😀
Going out today to pick up my brand new rowing machine 😀
Mike.

I finally got my time! I have to be at the hospital tomorrow morning at 7:00 am, the surgery is at 9:30 am. Hoping and praying that everything goes well and I have an easy recovery. Good luck to everyone else having surgery this week. I can’t wait to hear how all of you are doing.

I’m two weeks post-op VSG and lost 13 pounds since surgery. Following every detail of liquid diet and walking and beginning to think I’m not losing fast enough. Thank you to everyone for your answers. I also thought I should have lost 20 pounds in the first two weeks? So easy to get discouraged. Today was first day eating purées so I opted for baby food (green beans) and was able to eat 3 oz with no problem so then thought my sleeve might be too large. No Water 1/2 hour before or after meals either. Vitamin water and Powerade zero mixed with water and hot lemon water are my only fluids. Thanks for the encouragement.

If you have to do 6 months of physician supervised weight management, you might be able to do that with your primary care physician. I had 90 day program my insurance required and was able to do it with my PCP. You might be able to do things via video chat as well. A lot of insurance companies are pushing that now. Don't be afraid to call doctor and insurance company to ask a lot of questions.

I think you have untentionally been consuming a lot more calories than you think you have...regular gatorade and Powerade do have a lot of calories and sugar in them. Two bottles of 600mls gatorade for instance has nearly 300cals and 66 grams of sugar. The sugar is probably playing havoc with your insulin levels too.
I think once you reduce the gatorade and powerade that you will find your weight loss will improve.

Please call the doctor. It's not bothering them and I'm concerned for you.

In the hospital they gave me a stack of 1 oz cups with a goal to do 4 cups per hour. At home I am continuing with a 2 oz cup every 15 minutes. Takes me 1 1/2 hours to finish a Protein Shake. Very hard to just sip sip sip when I have gulped my whole life. My stomach does flip flops if I drink to much, but I haven't had any dumping yet.

Do you have any friends nearby who would walk or workout with you ? Sometimes things are a lot less scary with a partner !

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There are no hard bodies at the community center. Lots of Winnie the Pooh bodies though ;)

There are no hard bodies at the community center. Lots of Winnie the Pooh bodies though ;)

No, I just have a squeaky old recumbent bike at home. I work out at our local community center and the have a wide array of machines to use.

I kept exercising during my pre-op and that helped boomy energy. I cut back on the intensity though. Would do 30 minutes on elliptical or recumbent at a very easy pace. Even just walking might help.

I kept exercising during my pre-op and that helped boomy energy. I cut back on the intensity though. Would do 30 minutes on elliptical or recumbent at a very easy pace. Even just walking might help.

How much Protein are you getting? Make sure you are getting recommended grams of protein. I had energy ups & downs during my 1 week liquid diets. Just hang in there.

Well here's my surgery story. My surgery was pushed back from 7:15 to 9:45am on Thursday, so at least I got to sleep later. Spent an hour of pre-OP getting IV, stomach shaved, pre-OP meds. Surgery started at 10 am, they gave versed and the only thing I remember was sliding over to operating table, then it wa lights out.
Post-OP had quite a bit of pain, but nurses quickly gave meds to help, dilaudid works great. Had to spend some time in post OP waiting for a room. Once I got to roommgot some more dilaudid. Didn't have much nausea or pain. Got ice chips to suck on at first then switched to Water. Has some stomach cramping when I sipped but it's just a small twinge and then it was OK. My biggest complaint is the kept coming every hour and waking me up for vitals, draw blood, get my blood sugar. I couldn't get any rest. Next day was better as I just asked them to try and group things so to give me more time to rest.
Switched from IV pain meds to oral, liquid hydrocodone and liquid tylenol. The gave me some issues with nausea. Got about 4 hour sleep on Friday and Saturday morning got discharged. My incisions don't hurt much at all and I am doing good sipping water and Protein Shake. Takes me about 2 hours to get one shake down. Popsicles go down much easier for me. I got these below an fill the with Protein Shakes and Protein water to make protein sicles
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MTZWW22/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Actually, my leak was not caused through ANY fault of mine. I followed the recovery process TO A T. I wasn’t even back on solids, yet. It was caused from pressure of vomiting due to the flu. If you mean NOW, I am still following the doctors orders. But as someone who hasn’t eaten solid food since October 6, it’s a little frustrating.

My doctor said all liquids count including Protein Shakes, Protein Water, sugar free popsicles etc. Keep that in mind.

Definitely monitor the color of your urine for dehydration

Well here's my surgery story. My surgery was pushed back from 7:15 to 9:45am on Thursday, so at least I got to sleep later. Spent an hour of pre-OP getting IV, stomach shaved, pre-OP meds. Surgery started at 10 am, they gave versed and the only thing I remember was sliding over to operating table, then it wa lights out.
Post-OP had quite a bit of pain, but nurses quickly gave meds to help, dilaudid works great. Had to spend some time in post OP waiting for a room. Once I got to roommgot some more dilaudid. Didn't have much nausea or pain. Got ice chips to suck on at first then switched to Water. Has some stomach cramping when I sipped but it's just a small twinge and then it was OK. My biggest complaint is the kept coming every hour and waking me up for vitals, draw blood, get my blood sugar. I couldn't get any rest. Next day was better as I just asked them to try and group things so to give me more time to rest.
Switched from IV pain meds to oral, liquid hydrocodone and liquid tylenol. The gave me some issues with nausea. Got about 4 hour sleep on Friday and Saturday morning got discharged. My incisions don't hurt much at all and I am doing good sipping water and Protein Shake. Takes me about 2 hours to get one shake down. Popsicles go down much easier for me. I got these below an fill the with Protein Shakes and Protein water to make protein sicles
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MTZWW22/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Well here's my surgery story. My surgery was pushed back from 7:15 to 9:45am on Thursday, so at least I got to sleep later. Spent an hour of pre-OP getting IV, stomach shaved, pre-OP meds. Surgery started at 10 am, they gave versed and the only thing I remember was sliding over to operating table, then it wa lights out.
Post-OP had quite a bit of pain, but nurses quickly gave meds to help, dilaudid works great. Had to spend some time in post OP waiting for a room. Once I got to roommgot some more dilaudid. Didn't have much nausea or pain. Got ice chips to suck on at first then switched to Water. Has some stomach cramping when I sipped but it's just a small twinge and then it was OK. My biggest complaint is the kept coming every hour and waking me up for vitals, draw blood, get my blood sugar. I couldn't get any rest. Next day was better as I just asked them to try and group things so to give me more time to rest.
Switched from IV pain meds to oral, liquid hydrocodone and liquid tylenol. The gave me some issues with nausea. Got about 4 hour sleep on Friday and Saturday morning got discharged. My incisions don't hurt much at all and I am doing good sipping water and Protein Shake. Takes me about 2 hours to get one shake down. Popsicles go down much easier for me. I got these below an fill the with Protein Shakes and Protein water to make protein sicles
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MTZWW22/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

That sounds like it went pretty well. I am hoping mine goes that easily. I’ve got the freeze sleeves for protein water, so I’m glad those are working well. Thank you so much for sharing! I hope your recovery continues to go well.

Here are some things that happened and no one told me about:
I lost my boobs - like LOST them. They are down there somewhere. 42DD to 34A. I have to special order bras.
My bottom is so bony that it hurts to sit on hard chairs.
I had so much energy during the active weight loss and ketosis that I couldn't sleep. I was the energizer bunny on steroids.
I lost my food shelf - you know, that convenient bulge where you can put your plate when you sit in the recliner.
I had to buy a whole new wardrobe. Size 24 pants to 10.
I was actually comfortable this past summer in the heat.... but I am freezing all the time now.
I have saggy skin, but I lost my triple chin, my thighs don't rub, and no more fungal infections from folds and heat. My little grandson squeezes my upper arms and says, "Squishy."
I can't swim very well anymore. I just sink. I lost all my buoyancy.
I had to get a new wedding band.
I found new bones I didn't ever remember having - collar bones, ribs, hips.
But on the flip side, I don't have GERD, sleep apnea, or high blood pressure anymore. My HDL, triglyceride, and A1c numbers are awesome. I can sit in any chair in the room, my seat belt doesn't rub on my neck, I can walk, hike, and ride my bike for hours without stopping, my resting pulse rate is in the 40's, I can get down on the floor and get up by myself, my bath towel goes all the way around me plus extra left over, I am one of the smallest people in a room instead of the largest, my necklaces hang down onto my chest, I can buy clothes in any store and in regular departments, and people call me "skinny." Unbelievable!