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rolo626    12

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I'm getting sleeved tomorrow morning at Kaiser west LA. Excited but a little nervous. I haven't found too many peeps on here going through Kaiser. I want to start a discussion board but not sure how to do it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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@@prelz, good luck tomorrow! I hear great things about Kaiser

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i had my sleeve done fri at west la

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I'm getting sleeved tomorrow morning at Kaiser west LA. Excited but a little nervous. I haven't found too many peeps on here going through Kaiser. I want to start a discussion board but not sure how to do it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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@@prelz, good luck tomorrow! I hear great things about Kaiser

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i had my sleeve done fri at west la kaiser

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jhemp85    106

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Helloo . Im from L.A and im getting ready for surgery it will be on the 20th. Im excited.. I need this change. Where will you get it?.

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Congrats! I am excited for you. My surgery is next month on the 20th and it will be at Southern California Hospital.

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echokitty32    6

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Hello folks, I had my sleeve done at KAISER Harbor City on Jan 9th. I've lost 20 lbs so far. I can't believe it!
I'm onto the puréed stage but I'm really sick of them already. I'm also finding that my sleeve does not like a lot of foods in this stage. I take a few cautious bites and start to feel nauseated. But when I switch back to liquids I'm fine.
Has anyone else experienced this?


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My5queens5    4

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I'm in baldwin park,ca sgv I have been attending my options classes at the baldwin park location. I don't finish my classes until Feb 10th. I'm hoping it won't take too long to get scheduled for surgery when I'm done. I'll be referred to either kaiser west la or kaiser south bay not sure yet.

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Good morning I'm from southgate california I attended my first options class on February 23rd. Can you plz tell me if you had anyone denied at the way in because their bmi at weigh in was no 40 anymore but 38 or 39? when the doctor gave me the refferral my bmi is at 40 but I read on a forum that a person was denied bc it went down

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Good morning I'm from southgate california I attended my first options class on February 23rd. Can you plz tell me if you had anyone denied at the way in because their bmi at weigh in was no 40 anymore but 38 or 39? when the doctor gave me the refferral my bmi is at 40 but I read on a forum that a person was denied bc it went down

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I just want to my orientation with KAISER last week and they said they had one person that their BMI was too low I'm not exactly sure if they told them they couldn't be in the class


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Kmalloy    9

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Hi kmalloy, I am in Fountain valley, and just went to kaiser orientation this week. Have u started the process?

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Yes i have completed the 6 month nutrition classes, the phyciatric evaluation and the support group. My insurance has approved the surgery now waiting on date and other things.

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Phoinixe    13

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Long beach here!

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I am also with Kaiser. Met with Dr. Zane for the 1st time last week. He put me on the schedule for March and asked me to lose 30 pounds in 4 weeks. I'm terrified. They didn't give me a diet to follow and I have no idea what to do. I've researched pre op diets and have cut down everything. I'll probably just stop eating entirely the last week to try to lose as much as possible. I am a little freaked out that they are so unhelpful and require such extraordinary measures. I definitely didn't expect to have surgery so quickly!

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I am also with Kaiser. Met with Dr. Zane for the 1st time last week. He put me on the schedule for March and asked me to lose 30 pounds in 4 weeks. I'm terrified. They didn't give me a diet to follow and I have no idea what to do. I've researched pre op diets and have cut down everything. I'll probably just stop eating entirely the last week to try to lose as much as possible. I am a little freaked out that they are so unhelpful and require such extraordinary measures. I definitely didn't expect to have surgery so quickly!


Hi Phoinixe
Have you already finished your option classes, I am just getting ready to start mine next week from what I understood is when you have Kaiser and you take these classes they teach you everything that you need to do and eat I would think your doctor would've given you a diet to follow.

Also if you took the option classes did they tell you that you need to lose 10% body mass when I went to orientation last week they stated everybody needed to lose 10% during the 12 weeks that we have class.

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