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What's up with WLS people & collar bones?

So - take the question in the light it's meant, but seriously -- you guys have some of the biggest collar bones I've ever seen. And that's not just LB, that's DS, RNY, etc. They're way more protrusive than others I know who have lost the same weight through diet & exercise.

Between the neck & breastbone, everyone looks like they're about 15# below goal. :biggrin1:

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Wheetsin, I've noticed the same thing! Although last night on 60 Minutes they had an opera singer who had bypass surgery, and I was thinking to myself "where are her collarbones"? I'm thinking she has a ways to go yet. :(

But seriously, maybe we just are farther along above the waist? I don't know, but my collar bones were among the first things to emerge from my shell. It's really weird, but I love it!

I was sitting here last nigt, chatting with justamom and dawg in the LBT chat room (why dont more of us use that? what fun!) and I reached up and laid my hand on my chest near my shoulder. There was this instant flash of thought thru my mind.. "What the hell is that??" It was my collarbone! I forgot I had one! LOL

I never made the connection between WLS and collar bones... ??? not sure IF there is one.

I think its just the way our bodies are made. I met a -102 pounder RNY patient, and didnt notice her collar bones. And she and I weigh about the same thing right now.

hmmmm.....

Having broken one of my collarbones twice (wierd thing-my twin sister has broken one of hers twice) I've always been kind of "aware of my collarbones) If memory serves, your collarbone is just about the most easily broken bones in your body--it snaps at something like 14 pounds of pressure.

My collar bones look absolutely huge now that I've lost some weight. I don't mind the way they look, but they do look huge--I almost fainted when I saw my X-Rays of my knees (prior to knee surgery) I kept thinking how did they get that cow to stand still for an xray of it's leg??

I noticed the same phenomenon and love my collarbone. My husband was rubbing my shoulders awhile ago and felt my shoulder blades. He didn't know that is what they were and just thought I was really tense and had built up a mass of tense muscles. I nearly fell down laughing at his shock to find they were actual and true bones! Teresa

Collarbones yes! However, I've lost my butt at the beginning of this adventure. When I sit to take a bath, my tailbone is uncomfortable!

Shawn

I was rubbing my shoulders, and was amazed to feel my shoulder bone! I mean, I was really aware that I had not felt it for such a long time....then I wondered if I was going to like that feeling, all over? After that little brain sputter, I realized I would get used to being the healthy me, even if I did have bones I've never felt! Great idea for a thread, Wheetsin!

Cindy

yep I got'm toooo...Love the collarbone...means I am losing the fat that use to be there.

I never lost my collarbones, but the first place I've lost weight has been in that region, shoulders, upper chest, a chin or two disappeared. In a head shot, I'd look terrific but in reality it only emphasises even more how far south my boobs are.

I'd never convince my DH that I needed an eye lift or lipo but thank good men are boob obsessed and even if I'm not saving for the boob job, he sure is.

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