I know there is an October group here somewhere but I thought I would start this off by introducing ourselves!

I'm 25 years old and from British Columbia, Canada. My surgery is set for October 2. My pre op ensure shake diet starts September 2 but I have started a week early for a head start I am

A nurse by profession and engaged but no kids. With my history of PCOS kids will come after I drop the weight. Starting weight: 280lbs Current Weight: 275 and losing everyday!!

I don't have a pre-op diet but 2 days before surgery I will have to drink clear liquids but if I get too hungry they said I can have a protein shake. The magnesium that I have to take the day before surgery will make me crap my brains out. I'm not looking forward to the magnesium and I heard it taste awful. My surgeon has been asking me what type of incision (5 incisions or 1 incision through the belly button). I plan to just have them go through my belly button because then I will only have to worry about 1 incision healing. He says it's mostly about anesthetics but he says the decision is up to me.

Where are you having surgery?

Where are you having surgery?

I'd love to have just one incision!

I'd love to have just one incision!

My surgeon is using the davinci robot' date=' one incision for some of his surgeries. I don't know if I want it if he has had many more surgeries doing it traditionally

Tracy, who is your doctor and where are you getting it done?

Tracy' date=' who is your doctor and where are you getting it done?[/quote']

SSF Kaiser and I have Dr. David Le.

I'm having the vsg on the Fort Carson Army base. He said the recovery tends to be easier. I have large breast and he said with the 5 incisions I would have a incision at the top of my tummy and I figured that would suck because my boobs rest on my belly where the incision would be. He's done several single incision surgeries and I'm confident that I wont have any problems. Plus he said that none of them developed hernias, so I'm confident that I more than likely wont either.

I'm having the vsg on the Fort Carson Army base. He said the recovery tends to be easier. I have large breast and he said with the 5 incisions I would have a incision at the top of my tummy and I figured that would suck because my boobs rest on my belly where the incision would be. He's done several single incision surgeries and I'm confident that I wont have any problems. Plus he said that none of them developed hernias, so I'm confident that I more than likely wont either.

Who is your surgeon Minky? I will be done at SAMMC formerly BAMC and one of the girls on here was sleeved their last year and has the single incision too but he PCSed.I am not sure what the new sleeve doc does....

Who is your surgeon Minky? I will be done at SAMMC formerly BAMC and one of the girls on here was sleeved their last year and has the single incision too but he PCSed.I am not sure what the new sleeve doc does....

Wilcox is my surgeon, he's been doing wls surgery at Carson for over 10yrs.

I'm also an October date. In fact mine is in two weeks whick I just learned last week. I'm kind of scared since I have not had much chance to practice chewing my food. I start my diet tomorrow. Need to go shopping tonight.

I'm also an October date. In fact mine is in two weeks whick I just learned last week. I'm kind of scared since I have not had much chance to practice chewing my food. I start my diet tomorrow. Need to go shopping tonight.

I am scheduled to be sleeved on Oct 22. I am very excited! (and a little scared)

So I have some large who ha's and wondering of there is anyway to get one incision. I didn't even think of that

October 8th...just got my official date!

October 8th...just got my official date!

I'm so jealous! I planned further out because I was told you needed a passport!

I'm so jealous! I planned further out because I was told you needed a passport!

I have been waiting for almost eight months for mine. I finally got the ok from the insurance five days ago. I scheduled the surgery two weeks from tomorrow. I start my new diet tomorrow. Recently everything has been moving so fast. I'm really excited and scarred at the same time. I'm 5'1 and weigh 200 pounds. To many it might be crazy that I'm doing a sleeve but they only see the 200 and not the fact that I'm short, really short for the weight. I really do not have anybody to share what I'm feeling so I'm glad I found this forum. Schedule date for the surgery is Oct 2. Does anyone have any good shakes that they recommend?