My gastric sleeve will be on February 15th!!! After the phone call I was so nervous and not excited at all. After a few days of letting it sink in I'm starting to get excited for this amazing journey ahead. I would love to make friends with other February sleevers! I have been very private about my surgery and could use the support.

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Congratulations! I was not excited at first. I actually had been recommended it by 4 doctors before I got into the required Options classes through Kaiser. The only way the surgeons would fix my hernia (that was HUGE), was if I first lost a lot of weight. All of them (except my primary care physician) believed weight loss surgery was the answer because I had been morbidly obese for 15 years. I did the classes, the psych eval, and the counseling. I opted for the bypass, but my hernia was too large and the surgeon said he would not do a bypass, only the sleeve. I almost backed out - I'm so glad I didn't!

I was sleeved 8/31/16. As I lost a great deal of weight, my hernia became very noticeable (the pic below you can see it - it's the bulge on the right side of my belly). I finally had my hernia repair surgery on 1/3/17. It took them 5 hours to fix it, but fortunately, my colon is still intact!

Having the sleeve surgery was the best decision in my life! I work out now (well, not right now because of my recent surgery - have to be cleared). I no longer am controlled by food. I play with my 4 and 3 year old grand babies. I no longer snore and sleep through the night. My hips no longer hurt. I had a BMI of 56 and now it's almost 35. I have been where you are, but I'm glad I had the surgery now.

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Edited January 22, 20179 yr by Omieliz

I just got scheduled for 2/15!! I also have been very private about my decision to have surgery. I haven't even told immediate family yet. Let's keep in touch!!

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I am scheduled for feb 15 also. Good luck to both of us![emoji6]

Best of luck to the 15th group! I hope you sail through surgery. I'm 7 weeks out now and have had zero issues. I'm down 40 lbs. which is hard for me to even believe. I have been pretty open about telling folks but I kind of regret that.

I had a panic attack after getting my date. 2 1/2 years later and I don't regret it ever!


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