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My name is Haley. I'm 19 years old and I got the vertical sleeve gastrectomy on October 22. My surgeon was Dr. Boorse at the Lehigh Valley Hospital in Pennsylvania. I choose to get the surgery because I have dealt with my weight all my life. I tried taking diet pills, did weight watchers and so on. But I always seemed to gain the weight back. What really hit me and made me choose to get the surgery would be my doctor telling me I was at a high risk for a heart attack. It made me think do I want to have a heart attack at the age of 19? So from then on I decided to change my life to a healthier life style than what I was use to. My highest weight was 265 pounds. The day of surgery I weighed in at 245 and as of today I weigh 180 pounds.

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@@hcruz Welcome and congrats on your progress!

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congrats on your progress.. Keep up the amazing work

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Great job on your progress!!! I got sleeved on January 7 but ran into complications. I started at 225 when I went in but am down to 204 now, after 2 months of TPN. The way I look at it, I am really starting my journey as of Saturday when I was able to eat my first meal since New Year's eve.

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I haven't had the surgery yet. I am in the process of going through the program. I have been to 2 classes and I have my first drs. appt with the surgeon on april 10th. You will be very welcomed here, I know I have in the short amount of time I have been on this site

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Thank you to all. I needed a support group for after surgery. To know what I'm going through maybe others are going through as well. What were your complications?

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      I have no clue where to upload this, so I'll put it here. This is pre-op vs the morning of my 6 month appointment! In office I weight 232, that's 88 lbs down since my highest weight, 75 lbs since my surgery weight! I can't believe this jacket fit... I am smaller now than the last time I was this size which the surgeon found really amusing. He's happy with where I am in my weight loss and estimates I'll be around 200 lbs by my 1 year anniversary! My lowest weight as an adult is 195, so that's pretty damn exciting to think I'll be near that at a year. Everything from there will be unknown territory!!

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