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Does anyone else actually want to see their stomach after surgery? The portion that's removed? I dont know why, but I'm just curious to see how big it is... Guess that makes me a weirdo! Lol

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Does anyone else actually want to see their stomach after surgery? The portion that's removed? I dont know why' date=' but I'm just curious to see how big it is... Guess that makes me a weirdo! Lol[/quote']

My friend had a DS and we have the same surgeon. He uses the DaVinci and because of that he got surgery pictures. I hope hope hope I get the same pictures! I really believe my stomach is much larger than normal. I wanna see it, too. If we're weird for that, that's ok with me :)

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I believe mine is too because no matter how much I eat, I'm never full! So, I wanna see how big that sucker is!!! Haha

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Me too! I can eat more than a man and just keep going. I really don't know what full is! I keep getting this picture in my head of my removed stomach sagging from the surgeon's hands like a slab of pizza dough haha

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Lol I wonder just how much the stomach can actually stretch??? Mine is probably at maximum capacity by now...

Mine HAS to be! They say it can be 2 liters when full? I think that's how big mine is when it's empty!

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We saw my daughters and even took a picture of it. It was huge! They have it filled with gas. They said her's was extra long and it took 2 more staple cartridges than normal and an extra 15 minutes in the OR. So we figure that's why she can eat more than I can can and she never felt full before the VSG. Let me know if you want to see the picture of it. Kinda cool to see that came out.

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My surgeon gave me a little photo album of pictures taken during the surgery. I couldn't look at them close up for a while, too gory for me! My stomach looked huge but they didn't have pictures after it was cut or stapled, but there are photos of the hernia repair, which looked like a crazy person went wild in there with black thread! (I told him my Grandmother was a seamstress for Bergdof-Goodman and is rolling in her grave with that kind of sewing going on!-lol!) I wish I could see a before and after sonogram or something to see difference in size after surgery. I bet mine was big, but I suffered from gastritis for so long I'm hoping that will be forever gone with my stomach!

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I want to see it. I think it would be cool!

Amanda Rae

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My surgeon took pics during the entire procedure and gave me a copy, he said I had the biggest stomach that he had seen in all the surgerys he has done (he has done over 2500 so far), leave it to me to break a record!

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My surgeon took pics during the entire procedure and gave me a copy' date=' he said I had the biggest stomach that he had seen in all the surgerys he has done (he has done over 2500 so far), leave it to me to break a record![/quote']

OMG-you cracked me up!! That is amazing! Does anyone know the size of average stomach compared to a large (Gaye's record breaking size!) one. My surgeon said it goes from shape of a football to that of a banana. A football! Really? That seems huge!

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Your stomach is about ten inches long (average) and the size of your closed fist when empty. When full it can hold up to 4 liters :o

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Your stomach is about ten inches long (average) and the size of your closed fist when empty. When full it can hold up to 4 liters :o

Thanks, Iggy. My surgeon also said it's very elastic, like a nylon sock. When they remove the portion of it, it's empty and deflated so they can pull it out. But it stretches (and stretches) to accommodate food and over-eating. Very interesting!

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That's that four liter capacity :) Most people's stomach stretches to the size of their hand open on average, but they can go further! Maybe you were in the four liter category :P

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I dont know. I could never really eat a lot, it's more what I ate. Certain foods were starting to bother me so I avoided them for about the past 10 months, like pizza. I love it, it hates me! But I certainly made up for lost calories by filling up on bread. I could live on toast and butter! I hope to stay far, far away from bread until I make my goal. Easier said than done, I'm sure!

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