Hey guys! After many months of lurking around on here almost daily, I've decided to finally create an account, lol! I don't know what I was so afraid of I am 25 years old and from Pennsylvania. I am currently on month 4 of the 6 month physician supervised diet. Starting to feel a bit overwhelmed, but I'm sure this feeling will pass...at some point :/

Hey guys! After many months of lurking around on here almost daily' date=' I've decided to finally create an account, lol! I don't know what I was so afraid of I am 25 years old and from Pennsylvania. I am currently on month 4 of the 6 month physician supervised diet. Starting to feel a bit overwhelmed, but I'm sure this feeling will pass...at some point :/[/quote']

hello! what part of pa? I am 22 and from pa also the Philadelphia area . I just started the process so far I have had my psych eval, upper gi, chest X-ray, an blood work. my pulmonary appt is Wednesday and my endoscopy is June 12. I am looking at a surgery date of early sept. I could get I earlier but I am

traveling this summer. good luck on your journey !

Hi tomato. Welcome! I'm having surgery tomorrow! Yay. This site has been so helpful to me. Hope it's the same for you.

Kah1213- good luck tomorrow!!! That's awesome!

Kristin's mommy, I Live about 10 minutes outside of Reading. My doctor never mentioned the tests you mentioned ( upper GI, chest x-ray). I hope he doesn't spring that all on me at the last minute.

Kah1213- good luck tomorrow!!! That's awesome!

Kristin's mommy' date=' I Live about 10 minutes outside of Reading. My doctor never mentioned the tests you mentioned ( upper GI, chest x-ray). I hope he doesn't spring that all on me at the last minute.[/quote']

every doctor is different. my doctor seems to require Alot more test than most.

I told my Mom that the only advantage to being severely overweight is that my doctor is waiving a lot of the prereq's for me. I just have to do a barium swallow, EKG, and lab work. It's about time being this big was beneficial, or at least it's nice that it's going to benefit me in being smaller lol.