Hi! I’ve been in pre op since January and just started school. My instructor has been giving me a hard time about choosing to start school while working towards getting this surgery. I’ve completed the dietitian visits, did the EGD procedure, as well as the psych evaluation. I have appointment with GI in two days. I’ve been trying to scrape up money for the at home sleep study as well. Can anyone tell me what’s next? What happens after I do the GI visit and complete the sleep study? Just trying to make a decision on whether or not I should continue school.

Edited September 2, 20251 yr by Danj2025
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All of the programs are a little different but you should be done or close to it other than the pre op labs, your family Dr Signing off and your pre op appt with the surgeon. If you have any issues come up in the labs or the physical they may send you to a specialist but if you have been going to the doctor regularly it’s not super likely anything new will pop up.

If it were me and I thought I could handle it I would do both. You don’t want to lose momentum with school if you don’t have to. You should only be down a couple of weeks and after a week or so I would think you will be well enough to study and with online options I bet the professor could work with you if they wanted to for another week. Honestly if you are younger and relatively healthy since your body just tends to bounce back from stuff a little quicker you may be good right away. I was fine with my sleeve but not my revision. I wouldn’t have been doing much studying for about 5 days after the revision, but with the sleeve my husband had to remind me I couldn’t play horse when he was shooting hoops and I gestured for him to pass me the ball the next day!! If you are the later, or even worse off, you should be able to apply for an incomplete and finish the courses during the break between semesters or a little at a time throughout the next semester.

I believe the difference for the most part comes down to gas and swelling. The gas pains are awful and it just depends on what it gets stuck behind. Once I passed a few toots I felt better and better with each one.

I would call the college and see where their rules are for incomplete if you have to do it and ask the doctor. I’m sure they can appreciate that you want to try and juggle both of anyone can since they went for so long they surely had something they had to multitask with during their schooling.

Just don’t forget to ask the college how it could affect any scholarships, grants or other aid if you are getting any.

Ooh. You could also consider online courses this semester since there should be more Alex ability. I had to turn in assignments by the end of the week instead of MWF or TTH. also do consider that it may impact your GPA a tad so if you need a certain GPA for grad school or something and you don’t have much wiggle room maybe it’s not worth risking it.