Well yesterday was my one month anniversary of getting my sleeve. For four days I stalled at 301 (I was 331 on the day of surgery. Well I weighed myself this morning and I am at 296! I finallly am under 300 pounds. I have not been there in years. My 46 pants are falling off of me and I am on 1/8 my regular dose of BP meds. I checked my BP this morning and my BP was 90/56. I think I will be completely off the BP meds this week. I can't wait to see what my cholesterol it.

I have only had problems with constipation. I just had a BM after over a week. Does anyone have a recommendation on what laxative they take which does the job but does not cause severe cramping?

Thanks, Mark

I like Miralax. It's very gentle, and you can take it daily for a very long time with no harmful effects. It can take a few days to start working on me, but it's worth it to not deal with the icky cramps other laxatives tend to cause. Just make sure you drink a lot of water, since it works by drawing water into the bowels.

congratulations on your weight loss so far!

Congrats! I recently read a blog post in which the person recommended that sleevers eat a small portion of raisins each day to keep things moving. She said one of those little kid-size boxes of Sun Maid raisins was perfect for her.

Hey Shells, It sounds like you are pre-surgery like me? Good tip on the raisins. I will for sure remember this.. it is an on going problem for me. How do you make friends on here? I just joined? I'm removing my Lapband, Than having the Sleeve Done. Their will be 3 months in between. Talk soon I hope.

JewelJ

Congrats! The constipation gets better (at least it did for me) as time went on. I never took anything but I could definitely go 4-5 days with nothing