I'm just about decided to have a sleeve gastrectomy instead of the options my insurance company is willing to pay for. If there anyone out there who has had a sleeve gastrectomy for at least 2 years or more? If so, would you please tell me your experience with hunger vs time. I've heard at first you aren't hungry at all. Does hunger increase over time? If so, how much? Are you hungry to the point of wanting to eat a lot more frequently?

Thanks so much!

If you don't get a lot of responses here, I have a post on my ObesityHelp.com profile that has links to people's "surgiversary" reports that are at least 1 year out. There are plenty of 2 year reports you can look through. If they don't talk about hunger directly, then maybe you can PM the person and just ask....

I went to ObestityHelp.com, but couldn't figure out how to find the surgery anniversary dates you were talking about. Could you please be a lot more specific about how to find these surgery anniversary dates?

Could you also explain to me how to send a message to someone personally instead of the whole group?

Thanks so much

You have to go to my profile. Look up MacMadame on there and in my profile will have some blog posts. I have saved all the links to all these posts because otherwise you can never find them. The search over there SUCKS! (I don't have time to get a direct link right now because I'm at work and they get mad if they catch me on here during work hours.)

You can send PMs to people by clicking on their name in a post. A drop-down menu comes up and one of the choices is "Send a private message to <their name>"

LOL, thats funny MAC, my boss doesnt like it either, What do they want me to do, Work?

Bosses and IT people can be very annoying like that!

What pissed me off is that someone complained that I was on Facebook "all the time" during work hours. They claimed I was updating my status during the day. First of all, I hadn't updated my status during the day in the past two weeks and secondly, the only way you can know if someone updates their status is to BE ON FACEBOOK. So the person was basically saying "MacMadame is on FaceBook all the time and I know that because I am too."

Stupid weasels.

Anyway, here's the link to the post. (I'm WAH today so I don't have to worry about people peeping over my shoulder.)

http://www.obesityhelp.com/member/macmadame/blog/2009/06/08/long-term-sleeve-experiences/