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I started my pre-op sleeve journey in May of this year and found out the hospital group I wanted to go through was not part of my insurance plan (despite the headaches, trials and tribulations of getting emails on the contrary, thanks Anthem) and ended up being a shoo-in for another program in the area since all my pre-op workups were done.

Since working with this new surgical group, I feel like I have been completely on my own. My surgeon was great, he answered my questions, but the office staff, the nurses, the scheduling, the prescription refills.... all a disaster. I'm so beyond frustrated with this group, as I called for over a week to get a refill on my omeprazole and was told my MD was in surgery and he'd get to it, his directions were to double up on my dose (was having some acid issues) and he'd eventually call it in, and the receptionist would email him "when she had a chance".

They messed up my surgery date three times, I booked it on a specific day as my boyfriend travels for work but was planning to fly home the day before surgery to be here for me. They changed my surgery date without my approval and no notification and was a battle for a week (the week before surgery, mind you) to get the date back to the originally planned date/time. I only found out because they never sent me my pre-op paperwork to meet with a nurse to do an EKG and tell me which medication I can take the morning of surgery, and the nurse said her paperwork said 8/26, when it was originally planned for 8/28.

I've reached out to the nutritionists office (they are in the surgeons office) for help only to repeatedly get to voicemail with no call back. These aren't the only issues I've faced and I've been struggling.

I'm supposed to have my one month post op follow up tomorrow and I'm going to cancel the appointment. Is it worth it to follow up with another bariatric surgeons office? This is a huge life changing surgery and I have felt really alone without any support from my healthcare team, but I'm not sure if it's just worth it to follow up only with my PCP going forward.

Any help/advice is greatly appreciated. I've been regretting this surgery since day one, despite almost 30lbs lost, I feel really alone in this.

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I'm new here but I would go to the appointment because you can now voice your concerns with the surgeon, whose practice it is and he needs to know how his office staff treats patients and your frustration. Hopefully this will help him realize what's going on and you can get the answers you need.

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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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