Hi, I live in England and had the sleeve done on the 12th May 09. Although I am only a recent sleeve sister I am happy to help and try to answer questions from people in the UK. I did not uses the NHS though so I can't help with any questions on that.

Thanks willow, so I'm day 4 post and I feel great incision pain in minimal (bruised) gas pain almost gone drinking a good litre of fluid in a day slowly but constantly and feeling more normal! Roll a month post op feeling 100% and eating solid food!!!

That's great to hear bettygirl, my incision site (largest one) gave me a bit of trouble it was really painful and just as it eased off I discovered I had an infection in it so ended up on antibiotics. Since then I have done great the only things I can't eat is pork and anything with chilli which I loved so its a pain lol. Hopefully further down the road I will be OK with them again.

How's everyone doing??? I'm 7 weeks post op down 46lbs 27 of them from surgery and feeling great, no complication! I can eat more than I thought I'd be able to but it's still small portions I just expected smaller still! Anyone else feel like that?

Alls good though as I'm losing & smiling x hope you all are too x