Sooo im Sitting in my generals practitioners office for routine check up ( not related to Bariatric center doctor) 6 days post opp... 282, no official weight loss, only the Fluid weight from surgery & IV's (281 at hospital admission 12/15 & 287 @ hospital release 12/17) & Doc is thinkin something's wrong because if ive been on liquid s this whole time, there should be a few more pounds off the scale , especially, since i was exactly 282 exactly 30 days ago in his office... SO He give me the Thyroid neck test where you swallow.... and there it was... Doc was puzzled as to why he had not noticed it b4, since i go see him every 30 days for my Adipex 37.5! So im schedule for some kind of X ray & scan.... im still hanging in there!!! Im very active and go to the gym no problem... but i couldn't figure out why i was still gaining weight at a not so slow rate! If anyone knows about this Thyroid thing, please give me some insight, ive never had many health problems & im still mildly young so not sure what all this mean, if it means , DOES IT MEAN MY SLEEVE NIT GONE WORK?

⚠️GUYS NO MATTER HOW MUCH U SPEND ON QUICK FIXES, ITS ALWAYS A SLOW PROCESS TRYING TO BEAT THE BATTLE OF THE BULDGE

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Several things can cause an enlarged thyroid. Mine is enlarged because I have a "toxic nodule" and am hyperthyroid, which should have left me skinny as a whippet. But I am one of those rare snowflakes who could outeat the increase in metabolism. When I met my bariatric surgeon and told him I had medically controlled hyperthyroidism, he looked at me and said "really?" Grrr. Not a lot of fat hyperthyroid patients.

Hashimoto's disease is another cause. A rare one is thyroid cancer (VERY treatable). Bottom line, thyroid problems are treatable. It can take some trial and error to get it right, but they can treat them!

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No offense but is your neck big? How do you prevent the big knot on the neck? I can fel mine, it the size of a small golf ball

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& thank you

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I can hardly feel mine luckily. I really have to push on my neck. If they are too big that they look bad or interfere with swallowing or if they can't control it with medication, they sometimes remove it and then give you replacement hormones.

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I don't have a goiter, but I have Hashimotos. It was my endocrinologist who recommended my surgery. He thinks this can help with my thyroid problems as well as other endocrine issues. He explains that without the surgery, it would be very difficult to lose weight and nearly impossible to maintain a loss.

I'm surprised your doctor hasn't done thyroid checks on you before, but if you have issues, I'm glad he's catching them now.

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Oh, and my surgery was 12/15 as well and I'm only 2 pounds below what I weighed at home the morning of my surgery. I think we are still swollen and have extra Fluid. I know my drain is still draining. Not a lot, but a little.

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Oh, and my surgery was 12/15 as well and I'm only 2 pounds below what I weighed at home the morning of my surgery. I think we are still swollen and have extra Fluid. I know my drain is still draining. Not a lot, but a little.

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Hi & thank you for your input, yes i read that Hishimoto is common in middle aged women& im middle aged, so did you already get the gland removed

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@@Gucci no, he hasn't mentioned any need to remove it. I'm hoping it doesn't get to that.

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