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Congrats!!!! I was thinking of you and wondering how things were going!!!! So happy for you!!!!!

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I can't wait to meet Dr. Aceves! Pretty scared about the surgery but it helps to see your experience... thanks so much for sharing... especially for those of use that will be following in your footsteps! Good luck with your next leak test... and I bet you will be glad to get that drain out!

Darcy

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I can't wait to meet Dr. Aceves! Pretty scared about the surgery but it helps to see your experience... thanks so much for sharing... especially for those of use that will be following in your footsteps! Good luck with your next leak test... and I bet you will be glad to get that drain out!

Darcy

I'm so ready to get the drain out! Dr Aceves is so nice and personable. My mom, who was extremely skeptical about surgery on Mx, is impressed and pleased.

It may sound a bit silly but after all the research I've been doing on this when I met him it was almost like meeting a celebrity. Smh... Silly.

Amanda Rae

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I'm so ready to get the drain out! Dr Aceves is so nice and personable. My mom' date=' who was extremely skeptical about surgery on Mx, is impressed and pleased.

It may sound a bit silly but after all the research I've been doing on this when I met him it was almost like meeting a celebrity. Smh... Silly.

Amanda Rae[/quote']

They kind of are like celebrities in a way... We all talk about them

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Ugh the barium... makes me want to vomit just to think about it.

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Ugh the barium... makes me want to vomit just to think about it.

Oh joy.

Amanda Rae

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Well... for me it almost feels more like I will meeting a family I have come to know instead of the experience I had with getting my lapband. I never felt familiar or comfortable with my lapband surgeon or staff and in the hospital I never saw the nurses or staff unless they were taking my vital signs. Already this is a much better experience and I'm not even in the same country!

Amanda... I saw somewhere that people held ice chips on their tongue before the barium study and that helped ease the icky taste... don't know if it is true but it's worth a try! Let us know how it goes and you will probably need to tell me about the drain removal... I hope it is quick and painless!

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Hey Darcy and Amanda Rae... your posts are helping me immensely! I will be in Mexicali on July 8th and your positive experiences are helping me to know I made a good decision to go with Dr. Aceves!

Amanda, so did you have 1, 2, or 3 leak tests now? I saw the blue stuff leak test, now barium... did you get one while under anesthesia?

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Hey Darcy and Amanda Rae... your posts are helping me immensely! I will be in Mexicali on July 8th and your positive experiences are helping me to know I made a good decision to go with Dr. Aceves!

Amanda' date=' so did you have 1, 2, or 3 leak tests now? I saw the blue stuff leak test, now barium... did you get one while under anesthesia?[/quote']

I had a leak test done while in surgery. Blue leak test yesterday. Barium swallow today.

Amanda Rae

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If it helps I didn't find that barium that bad after the blue yucky stuff!!!

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If it helps I didn't find that barium that bad after the blue yucky stuff!!!

I hope we are of like minds! I'm getting better at sipping. And burping. Not to be gross or tmi but I really want to toot!! I'm on the edge of a toot, I know it.

Amanda Rae

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It may also be because the lab tech told me "Just try not to vomit for 5 seconds or we'll have to start over" before I drank it, so I went in with very negative thoughts :)

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No leaks! I got to see my tiny stomach in action. Too cool. Graduated to chicken broth.

Totally better than the blue liquid.

Amanda Rae

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Hi Amanda! I am having surgery with Aceves on April 9!! Your posts have been a real inspiration! Congrats!

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Buffet, Sleeve Style!

Amanda Rae

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