It seems like more and more new users forget to use the sidebar with surgery info and progress.

While it's obviously anyone's choice to keep the information private, it makes it so much easier to help with questions when you have an idea of where people are in their journey.

I'm wondering if it's simply because more users are mobile-only? Maybe they don't see the sidebars (I use BP on desktop only)? Maybe they don't even know it's there? It's especially helpful when someone asks about nutrition, complications, phase-specific worries and stalls to understand right off the bat where they are in their journey.

There's a world of difference between stalls happening for a BMI52 duodenal switch patient who had surgery 7 weeks ago and lost 10 lbs total and then a sleever who's a year out at BMI24. It's getting harder and harder to tell as fewer and fewer new users use the sidebar.

Maybe we the site could help nudge people to fill in the info?

Well the BP app looks completely different than desktop version. I don't really like the app, it looks so generic and you don't see any of the sidebar info that you do on desktop. So I'm guessing that's why so many people don't fill out their info.

It would be nice if BP upgraded their app so that it looks like the desktop version.

8 hours ago, MiniGastricBypassDude said:

It seems like more and more new users forget to use the sidebar with surgery info and progress.

While it's obviously anyone's choice to keep the information private, it makes it so much easier to help with questions when you have an idea of where people are in their journey.

I'm wondering if it's simply because more users are mobile-only? Maybe they don't see the sidebars (I use BP on desktop only)? Maybe they don't even know it's there? It's especially helpful when someone asks about nutrition, complications, phase-specific worries and stalls to understand right off the bat where they are in their journey.

There's a world of difference between stalls happening for a BMI52 duodenal switch patient who had surgery 7 weeks ago and lost 10 lbs total and then a sleever who's a year out at BMI24. It's getting harder and harder to tell as fewer and fewer new users use the sidebar.

Maybe we the site could help nudge people to fill in the info?

It took me quite awhile to actually work out how to add the info and how to keep my progress up to date, so maybe other people are having the same issue they just don't know how to

7 hours ago, WhispersOfAngel said:

Well the BP app looks completely different than desktop version. I don't really like the app, it looks so generic and you don't see any of the sidebar info that you do on desktop. So I'm guessing that's why so many people don't fill out their info.

It would be nice if BP upgraded their app so that it looks like the desktop version.

I use the app on my tablet and can see the sidebar info

7 minutes ago, SleeverSk said:

I use the app on my tablet and can see the sidebar info

Ah, I use the app on my phone. I can't see the sidebar. It's not as user friendly as the desktop version. I mostly use my laptop for BP.

i've been using my ipad and i'm not given the option to update this info for myself. i'll try it on my desktop computer though.

Nope, can't access it from my desktop either. My husband said i might have to post a certain number of things here before i'm allowed to add items to my profile.

So, be patient with all us newbies. We are all a work in progress

FOUND IT!

It is difficult to find where to to fill out the side bar info. When i filled in my profile information, the side bar info was there but i wasn't able to click into any of it. I finally found it somewhere else.

Edited March 8, 20224 yr by joanie pony

If I log in on my phone instead of the app, it looks like the desktop site if I enable the desktop site on the browser, otherwise I can't see the sidebar stuffies.

On 3/8/2022 at 12:25 PM, joanie pony said:

i've been using my ipad and i'm not given the option to update this info for myself. i'll try it on my desktop computer though.

Nope, can't access it from my desktop either. My husband said i might have to post a certain number of things here before i'm allowed to add items to my profile.

So, be patient with all us newbies. We are all a work in progress

FOUND IT!

It is difficult to find where to to fill out the side bar info. When i filled in my profile information, the side bar info was there but i wasn't able to click into any of it. I finally found it somewhere else.

Where did you find it? I've been trying to figure out how to fill it in and have looked everywhere I can think of.

20 minutes ago, Nifer72 said:

Where did you find it? I've been trying to figure out how to fill it in and have looked everywhere I can think of.

If you're using a browser on your phone or tablet, you have to enable the desktop version instead of the mobile version. Then go to the top of your profile and click your username and there'll be a drop down and you select, "My Surgery" and you can update your surgery and wls stats.

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