Just wondering if anyone in the Oklahoma area has used Bailey Bariatrics in Owasso and has or is having the VSG and what their experience is/was? I am set for my first appointment with Dr. Kirk on 11/17 and am a little bit nervous and a lot excited. I'm self-pay so I think the process is a bit easier but just wanting to get some idea of what to expect...any help is appreciated!

Thanks, not big on egg drop. Probably eat some strained cream of chicken and tomato soup.

Is anybody going to make it to support group tomorrow in Owasso? I would love to meet some of you all ????

I won't be able to. Still recovering from surgery. Hopefully next month! Over did it by going shopping at walmart for stuff to make my mom dinner today, then opened up one of my Incisions cooking dinner, lol. No worries it was healed enough to only open up a little bit. So fixed with a bandaid and liquid skin. Lesson for all who have yet to have surgery. Even a week out if you feel good you can still over do it!

So how is everyone doing? So I have joined a few different bariatric forums and noticed alot tend to die in and out. So I thought I'd pose some thought I have been having. I have also started a blog that I'm not sure what I'm doing with it but am wondering if anyone else has blogs on here.

This is mainly because the closest support group for me was my home town. But the closed the group. I got to go to my required group then literally 3 months later they closed the Cushing group, lol. I guess only 1 or 2 people were going. The time I went there were only 2 other. One lady was arou d a year after surgery and another girl going to her mandatory group as well. I am going to try to make the next owasso group. But no way can I go every month when my group was only 5 blocks away. I feel like I missed my opportunity lol.

Hello all I had surgery on the 27th and am still in the hospital but should be going home today. Dr. Varnell said the surgery went great I'm just having trouble with pain other than that I'm fine. I hope everyone is doing well. @@jade2015 I hope to start going to the support groups once I get to feeling better.

Martene81 I hope you get to feeling better soon. They wanted to keep me an extra night because I couldn't get my liquids in but I was self pay and begged them to let me go lol. I hope you get to feeling better soon.

@@jade2015 I was supposed to go to the Cushing group but I go to the Owasso one instead. You should come to it. Lots of people are there.

So I had my surgery March 2015, and I've never had a problem with my thyroid. I did my 3 month blood work the other day and it came back that I had hypothyroidism. When I talked to the nurse, I asked her if it had anything to do with the surgery. She said no, but I find it hard to believe that. Has anyone heard that there is a correlation with thyroid issues and bariatric surgery?

Oh no @"martene81", I hope you get the pain undercontrol. I know the gas from surgery was horrible. I walked as much as I could that first day and it finally let up. Good luck with recovery!

@"cota1262" I want to go to the meeting in Owasso but I can barely afford my doctor visit trips. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism December 2012. I had actually been misdiagnosed my whole life. My new doctor went back through my records over the last 10 years and every time I saw a new doctor the test they said was fine, was actually high. My current doctor explained it like this: your thyroid should be tested every 3 months to confirm it is high. The thyroid fluctuates just like sugar levels. So one month it could be high but the next it could be low. So you could have had hypothyroidism this whole time or its a fluke. What were your levels. Mine was up to 12. It took almost 9 months to get it below 4. I am now on the regular T4 hormone and then Dr. Kirk added the T3 hormone. I would take the medicine because it's a natural hormone and honestly doest affect me in a negative way at all! That actually says alot because I tend to have reactions to everything! Even that glue they used on me for my incisions wouldn't stay! I am thankful the doctors found the thyroid problem. I can think clearer and my hands and feet don't stay cold all the time like they used to. Don't take it as a bad thing because anyone with a level over 4 can take the medicine to keep it in check.

@Jade2015... I have no idea what my level is. They didn't even call me they just sent in 2 prescriptions for it. The only way I knew they called them in was my pharmacy sent me a text saying my prescriptions were ready. I called Dr Kirks office and a lady called me back and said that it was low. I see Dr Varnell on Tuesday so I will talk to him about it.

Ya I would double check and ask them the number. Anything over 4 is considered high and can cause problems. Ideally 2.5 is what Dr. Kirk shoots for. It could be temporary but it really doesn't hurt anything. It helps boost your metabolism and helps with the weightloss. I'm guessing it was levothyroxine and liothyronine. That's what I am on. 125micrograms levothyroxine 50 or 75 of liothyronine. It really helps!

Oh that's how they did me with the Vitamin D. They said mine was the lowest they ever saw. But I just got an alert from walgreens. No phone call. I called them because it was a $60 prescription not covered by my insurance. So I understand the concern.

Really? They did the same with the Vitamin D with me but I got mine at Walmart and I pay $4. You might check there to see if it's cheaper. I hate that your insurance doesn't cover it. I think insurance should have to cover whatever our doctors prescribe us, but that's just wishful thinking on my part lol

And yep, those are the 2 prescriptions that I got.

No way! I called my local walmart and they told me it was not on the $4 prescription list! More reason I avoid that place. No one knows what they are doing anymore.