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My surgery is Jan 6. My wife wants to buy me a new ring for Christmas. Does anyone know how much a ring size could change in the first year?should I ask her to hold off?

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Fingers do shrink. Depending on how much you need to lose it could change a few sizes. I'm currently waiting for my wedding ring to fit again.

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Yes my wedding band did..im.only 6weeks out...keeps falling off

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5 months out my wedding ring has gone from size 9 1/4 to a solid 7

Still have 25 pounds to go

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Thanks for the relies. This all makes sense to me. I am right at 300 lbs. I don't know how much I will lose but 210 would be awesome. Haven't been there for 30 years. I may asks her to wait until July 4 for the ring. My surgery is Jan 6.

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This is kind of funny, I am 7 weeks post op tomorrow. I wear two very beautiful rings that I will never take off. In fact I made my husband hold them in his pocket while I went in for surgery and made them give them back when I got to my room. I started losing weight so quickly that withi two weeks post off one of them was spinning completely around and the other was quite loose as well. At 4 weeks 1 went flinging off my ring hang when I went to pick something up off the table.

I went into the jeweler and the actually put an insert on them that will allow me to tighten them as I continue to lose weight. Once I have reached my goal, we will permanently size them. One of my rings was actually 3 sizes too big in a matter of weeks. It seems like the first place to lose.

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Mine went from a 9 to a 6.5!

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Mine went from a 9 to a 6.5!

My jeweler also put a sizer on when I was around an 8

Then I returned because sizer wasn't holding it on any more

So she added some large balls on the ring and then a sizer on top of that.

She won't size it finally until I am stable because it will hurt the ring structure.

Here is how it looks on inside

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Mine went from a 9 to a 6.5!

Mine did exactly the same!

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I haven't even had my surgery yet and have lost enough (33 pounds) that I lost my wedding band in a meatloaf I was making for dinner!

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I am 6 days post and my class ring is almost free to the point I might be able to flick it off if tried real hard!

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I haven't even had my surgery yet and have lost enough (33 pounds) that I lost my wedding band in a meatloaf I was making for dinner!

Ha new meaning to meatloaf surprise!

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My first NSV was that my rings fit again. Now every one of them is too big and fall off. I even found my HS ring and it's too big... And I was not overweight in HS!

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I am waiting for my rings to fit too....I miss wearing them....I had them sized up twice.

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