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Anyone morbidly obese and considering the gastric sleeve?

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Alex Brecher    10,516

Alex Brecher
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@@Kwilliams03,

I think most (or at least a lot of) people who have the sleeve were morbidly obese. The standard guidelines are to be morbidly obese, which is a BMI of 40 or over, or to have a BMI of 35 plus a comorbidity. Good luck with your decision! Let us know how it goes.

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SouthernRN    2

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Me!! I'm going through the steps for gastric sleeve (still pre-surgery - hoping for a September surgery).

KristenLe,

ME TOO! I go for my first visit in June!! Should be having surgery in SEPT!

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cavery77    39

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I was at 44.7 now 22.8 BMI. 294-140lbs 5'8post-239200-14632731169639_thumb.jpg

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cavery77    39

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SassyNanny    311

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6 months post op.

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kaitlynm    335

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I had a BMI of 50, and had the sleeve last October. Down 103 pounds since last July and loving it.

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SweetPotato    142

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Had my sleeve a few days before Halloween and am now down (including pre-op) 131 lbs. Started at 401.5 now 270. BMI has gone down 22 points. I also am one of the people with PCOS and hypothyroidism and weight has always been a struggle. I worried that the sleeve wouldn't work for me, but it has been working like a charm... albeit very slowly at times. I used to have terrible back pain which is almost gone, reflux issues... gone, GI issues... lessened drastically, and more energy to do things I couldn't do before, like walk up the stairs at work or the hated hills in SF. VSG was seriously the best decision I've made.

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Kwilliams03    16

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@@SassyNanny @@cavery77 you both look amazing!! I can't wait to post after my surgery.

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cavery77    39

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Kwilliams03    16

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I guess I need to clarify my topic. I was asking because some doctors actually require a person to get the gastric bypass procedure done instead of the sleeve if your a certain weight. So I was asking with that in mind. I'm well aware of the requirements to have the sleeve done because I'm in the process of trying to figure out what will work best for me. :)

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Inner Surfer Girl    12,015

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I guess I need to clarify my topic. I was asking because some doctors actually require a person to get the gastric bypass procedure done instead of the sleeve if your a certain weight. So I was asking with that in mind. I'm well aware of the requirements to have the sleeve done because I'm in the process of trying to figure out what will work best for me. :)

My understanding is that the sleeve started the other way around. Some extremely high BMI folks were given the sleeve as the first part of a two-step procedure so they could lose enough to safely undergo the second part. So many people did so well that they didn't need the second part that they started offering it as a standalone procedure.

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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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        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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