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cls5186    23

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I'm in PA and considered Magee for my choice of surgery. I'm also considering Dr. Ramanathan, is she requiring you to lose weight on your own before she'll go surgery?

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Realself    19

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Im from pittsburgh as well getting mine done at magee! Dr. Ramanathan. Dont have a date yet. Still have to lose 40 more on my own

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Hi there! Awesome! Excited to have others in there area to share support!

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Realself    19

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I'm in PA and considered Magee for my choice of surgery. I'm also considering Dr. Ramanathan, is she requiring you to lose weight on your own before she'll go surgery?

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Hi! I have only met once with Dr.Ramanathan and he was very nice. He was also very positive which was helpful. I had a slightly negative experience with a nurse or it could of been a physician assistant...she was a little more challenging about my history with my emotional eating and eating disorder in general.

No, I was not asked to lose a specific amount. They were happy with my weekly weight loss of about .5 to 1 pound and total of 20 pounds I was able to do during the 6 months with the nutritionist. I recommend seeing nutritionist Kim E. If you are going good to continue at Magee. I have UPMC insurance and they required at least 5 months medically supervised weight loss.

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I live about 3 hours from Pittsburgh, and have a doctor in my hometown I've been going to see, and will need to see a nutritionist for 6 consecutive months before surgery. Is it ok for me to find a nutritionist around my area that's closer to me? I don't want to have to travel so far every month

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I live about 3 hours from Pittsburgh, and have a doctor in my hometown I've been going to see, and will need to see a nutritionist for 6 consecutive months before surgery. Is it ok for me to find a nutritionist around my area that's closer to me? I don't want to have to travel so far every month

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Yes, it really depends on your insurance. Magee requires either 6 months medically supervised with a nutritionist or pcp as they have paperwork they need to complete. Once you complete that they require a nutritional assessment and I'm not sure if it has to be done there. Then they will require a sleep study, ekg, chest xray, endoscopy and bloodwork (maybe some other stuff too it just depends on your medical history and so forth) once you get all of that done they send it to insurance for approval and then you get a surgery date! I am going to my pre-op appointment next week which I was told is 3-4 hours long with overview of surgery, post open and more education. Only thing left after that is getting pcp to clear for surgery (require you to have that Within 30 days from surgery). It's a process but it makes sense as it gives you time to shift your eating thoughts/patterns/behaviors to prepare for surgery.

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      I am new here today... and only two weeks out from my sleeve surgery on the 23rd. I am amazed I have kept my calories down to 467 today so far... that leaves me almost 750 left for dinner and maybe a snack. This is going to be tough for two weeks... but I have to believe I can do it!
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    • Alisa_S

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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. LeighaTR

        LeighaTR

        I hope your surgery on Wednesday goes well. You will be able to do all sorts of new things as you find your new normal after surgery. I don't know this from experience yet, but I am seeing a lot of positive things from people who have had it done. Best of luck!

    • Alisa_S

      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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      1. summerseeker

        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.

    • CaseyP1011

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      Officially here for a long time, not just a good time💪
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