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jenrae1

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jenrae1    23

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Hi! I'm JenRae and I am new to the site. I wanted a place to be able to track my thoughts and feelings as I go through my journey as well as get feedback from others who have been where I am now.

I've been to the WLS seminar and I just had my first appointment with the surgeon who said I am a good candidate for the sleeve surgery. The only concern he had was that I have acid reflux and he said that it can sometimes get worse after surgery. So I do have to have an upper GI soon. I really liked him. I had a ton of questions for him and he patiently answered them all. He and his staff both seem to be very nice.

I weigh 250 lbs and my goal healthy weight for my height is around 150. So 100 lbs to lose!

Tomorrow is my appointment with the counselor. And I have a nutrition class scheduled on September 6th. Doc said it could be as early as only 2 months before the surgery. Wow! So maybe an October 2016 surgery date?

Looking for encouragement and friends as I embark on my sleeve journey!

Thanks for reading,

Jenny

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Hiraeth    515

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While it is true that acid reflux can get worse with WLS, you should also know that MOST of the time, it lessens it, and sometimes, cures it. Some people finally decide to get the weight loss surgery because they want to cure the acid reflux. Do you have a hiatal hernia? If you don't know, there's a good chance you have one. My mom has one and her acid reflux is severe. If she goes one day without her Nexium, she's suffering. She drank orange juice one time and choked on it for a good 20 minutes. It was a scary ordeal. Nexium and Prilosec are great for acid reflux, but they're also horrible on your bones. My mom already has bone degeneration in her spine, and she's only 54. So, she's getting this surgery in hopes that her acid reflux will get better.

A lot of people with acid reflux have a hiatal hernia. When they go in to do the gastric sleeve, if they find a hernia, they fix it. I had one and I had no idea. I barely ever had acid reflux. The only time I had it is when I ate certain spicy foods, and even then it wasn't that bad.

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laceemouse    631

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Hi! I'm JenRae and I am new to the site. I wanted a place to be able to track my thoughts and feelings as I go through my journey as well as get feedback from others who have been where I am now.

I've been to the WLS seminar and I just had my first appointment with the surgeon who said I am a good candidate for the sleeve surgery. The only concern he had was that I have acid reflux and he said that it can sometimes get worse after surgery. So I do have to have an upper GI soon. I really liked him. I had a ton of questions for him and he patiently answered them all. He and his staff both seem to be very nice.

I weigh 250 lbs and my goal healthy weight for my height is around 150. So 100 lbs to lose!

Tomorrow is my appointment with the counselor. And I have a nutrition class scheduled on September 6th. Doc said it could be as early as only 2 months before the surgery. Wow! So maybe an October 2016 surgery date?

Looking for encouragement and friends as I embark on my sleeve journey!

Thanks for reading,

Jenny

Welcome! I don't know much about reflux but I just wanted to say my stats are the same as yours. I had my psych eval last Thursday, I hope to have an insurance approval and surgery date soon. Best of luck to you!!

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jenrae1    23

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@@laceemouse - our stats are very similar. Good luck to you too. My psych evaluation is tomorrow. I sure get nervous reading some of these posts. Do you?

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laceemouse    631

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I waffle back and forth between being nervous and being really excited and ready! Last week we went on vacation, flew from Dallas and Orlando and back. The plane going was newer and the seat belts were fine, but coming back it was an older plane and I could barely buckle it. I told my husband I don't want to fly again until I lose weight.

Do you follow any blogs or watch YouTube? There are a ton of video blogs on YouTube of people who have had WLS. I am kinda obsessed with watching them, there are lots of people who have lost lots of weight and are doing great, it gives me hope!

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LisaMergs    2,857

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Good luck and WELCOME!!!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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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. summerseeker

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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.

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