waterlover

i noticed a few people saying they hate the taste of water after they have their sleeve. okay this is me, i have a 2.2 litre water bottle (74.4 oz) and i drink about two or three of those a day. i have been checked for diabetes and i have great blood sugars, so my doctor thinks i'm just kind of addicted to drinking water (who would think that was possible). after i have my surgery will i not be able to drink that much water anymore? will it interfere with my eating by making me full? is it going to hurt me to still drink so much or help me? i'm just wondering if i should try to cut back to a 'normal' amount in the couple of months pre surgery, which would be hellish, seriously.

Even when I was my thin I always had big thighs. Saddlebags I guess you could call them. I was wondering if when you lose all this weight after being larger, does your body goes back to what it was or does it change? Like will I ever not have fat thighs? I know that's a weird question but it interests me about how your body changes as it gets older, with fat distribution and when you have rapid weight loss does it come off evenly. Another question and this is difficult and embarrassing. Does your 'lady' area lose weight?

nvm

you are right that's what i asked. i was curious because i was planning to order a large amount for after surgery, unless i could get some other ideas on things that might taste better. we have health food stores where i live but they don't carry all the brands you can find online. i wanted to have a wide variety of Protein drinks for after surgery, in case i didn't feel up to shopping after, or i end up not liking one or the other. nothing like being prepared right? in no way was i sabotaging myself, not doing any work, or any of the other rude things the poster implied i was doing. honestly it was just a question lol. i'm still blown away about this and just disappointed so much at this board. i thought it was for support not baseless paranoid accusations. and thank you i have ordered syntrex too, it was suggested to me on the OH board.

holy crap dude you need to chill. im not putting in any work and self sabotaging, because you used a rude google programme to find six or seven stores in my area that might sell Protein drinks? you don't think i don't already know where they are and have been there, since I stated earlier they don't sell the products i want to try, so i have to order them online? jeesh. talk about a major MAJOR over reaction. i hope you were just having a bad day or maybe have issues with people buying protein drinks online for you to freak out like that. that was a nasty attack you pulled on me lol. kinda weird actually. offputting.

I was just wondering how long it generally took people to decide to do the surgery from the time they started reading up about it and doing their research. It's only been a few weeks for me, I'm just pouring over message boards and blogs and trying to educate myself and choose a doctor. I'm in a funk right now because I'm thinking about how permanent this is. I'm afraid of complications (leaks, clots, infections & stents and being tube fed etc). I don't know if this is a phase. When I first heard of it I met some people who had gone through the surgery and they were so excited and I was excited and 100% sure I was going to do this. I'm not sure if the bad things I read are proportionate to the successes. Is this normal to feel confusion?

i know how to google stuff... i hate when people use that 'let me google that for you, now was that so hard' thing... it's so condescending. i know all of those stores. (except the Protein one) i said we don't carry all the exotic brands i have to order them online. nvm.

i don't have a lot of options for shopping where i live (that i know of right now). i would probably have to buy things off the internet. it seems like our health food & supplement stores carry their own weird brands and not much of anything else. darn it though! those isopuke drinks look so REFRESHING! haha. i'm a sucker for advertising i guess. i will look on the syntrex. i might get an order of each thing and deal with them one pack at a time then get more of what i like before i run out. i don't suppose a bombshelter worth of a drink im going to end up grossing out over is a good idea. i just would feel so much better having myself stocked and ready.

does this go on for the rest of your life do you think? or is it just in the beginning?

mememee, on a scale of 1-10 how bad was your shoulder pain? were you 'oversewn' on your stomach during surgery? how do you feel while being treated? i know it must be scary and the treatment a bit of a setback (or a big one?) are you in pain and in danger? i need to research why they don't just go back in and fix it. is it more dangerous to do another surgery than to put in a drain? leaks, blood clots & infections scare me so bad. i'm leaning on not having this surgery. especially after spending all day reading the memorial board on OH. ugh. don't know if this is a phase i'm going through or normal 'research' but i'm just obsessed with searching for deaths and complications right at this time. i don't even feel happiness in imagining weight loss anymore. when i first discovered the sleeve i met some people who had had it and they were SO happy and i wanted it so bad. thinking about how healthy and thin and fit i could become, even getting my mom to want it too. thought it would be a great thing for us to go through together. now i'm scared for her to have it and scared for me. and the funny thing is i've been through brain surgery, thymus removal surgery (cracked my ribs right open and operated near my heart) had a tummy tuck and revision plus two sinus surgeries and i somehow i think this is going to be the scariest surgery of all. i guess the thing about doing 'research' is sometimes you find out TOO MUCH info. i was excited to have brain surgery! i thought oh cool i feel special. how dumb was i? lol. i remember the doctors coming in with a brain and telling me if the surgery had complications i could lose my ability to name objects or have to learn language all over again, and that was the simple complications, death was the worst. never was scared. the doctors said they had never seen anyone recover so well and it was because of my attitude, i remember escaping the hospital with my IV bag and bald stapled head to go eat supper with my parents. and now? i've got 8 bookmarks on blood clot prevention and i'm just so anxious.

thanks for the info. im trying so hard to 'get organized' and try to learn all i can. it helps get my mind off my fears. i don't know if can do this. i'm really scared..

awesome!!

do you feel more confident about the surgery now?

hey i'm from saskatoon too, and i met lots of ladies who used pompa at a consultation with WLF. they were all glowing and so happy. you will be just like that too!

you know i didn't realize this was in the post operative section. i saw the subject on the recent topics side of the page.

oh gosh i just realized my list of questions are morbid as hell. what happens if you nick an artery or perforate another organ during surgery (thanks to some darn laproscopic site i read that went on about how easy it is for a surgeon to hurt you in these ways) how do i know if i'm dying of internal bleeding? do i get any medication or special stockings to prevent blood clots? do you have proper ICU facilities if i code or go into some kind of anesthesia coma? those are just a few. i'm sure my answer will be a giant dose of valium.

oh yeah, if you are vomiting what you do drink, defo you are gonna have dehydration! i hope you start to feel better soon, and thank you for your post, even though i haven't had surgery yet i am learning so much from reading stories like yours and the answers that are given. looking forward to you feeling great and sharing that with us in the near future.

i believe everyone has the right to choose their own surgery for their own reasons. these are mine... i'm not trying to convince or scare anyone it's just why i am choosing what i'm choosing. first i wanna say, we already have titanium in our bodies so i wouldn't worry about the staples. its an organic element. now with the plication, can they see inside the folds? can you still get ulcers and gastritis and cancer in that part that has been sewn up? does it meld together over time (which would make it, i guess, irreversible?). i could not do plication because i already have gerd, so it was never an option as they don't recommend it. but i'm curious about the procedure and will follow the long term results. i hope it's successful in the future for the sake of all the people choosing it right now and not something short lived due to failure and complications... i chose the sleeve over the lapband because 1. my doctor advised me not to have the band (he doesn't perform either procedure and i'm going self pay to Mexico so he has no vested interest or kickback from my procedure). he just said he's had a lot of lapband patients end up having to be revised to sleeves and it would probably be better for me to skip the whole in between and go straight to the sleeve. i understand his thought process and i can see it's something that happens just looking at the revisions forum. 2. i do have a freaky feeling about having a foreign item in my body that's not organic material. i'm afraid of developing more auto immune problems from it. 3. i truly believe once your sleeve has healed up, you should not have to worry about complications and live your life. this might take up to six months (as i've read about people springing leaks a time out but not past that mark i believe). with a band people can have a complication any time, even after a couple years of great results. the plication is too new, and again, i don't like the idea of not being able to scope the tissue in case i had cancer ... now i know i could get cancer in my sleeve but i am sure that it would be found much sooner than with a plication therefore giving you a better chance for treatment before metastasis took place. i was freaked out about losing 85% of my stomach forever at first. but then realized it's still my stomach and will still work like a stomach, it's not being rewired (like with a bypass or ds) and if i looked at it with an xray it would still be a stomach but smaller. i also have had a history of peptic uclers in the fundus of my stomach, so seriously this is something that they would do for me if my ulcers ever got so bad they would bleed etc. i'm just kinda nipping it in the bud this way. my doctor told me they have been doing this for years (the gastrectomy) on ulcer patients and their life expectancy and quality of live has improved.

lol. thanks....lady station, good one. i feel ya on the underwire. i wear like 14 dollar sportsbras right now, sqeeeeeeze myself into them. no wonder i only wear underwear when i go out, i'm doing the 3 sizes too small thing. so if i'm a 38DD now, i could potentially end up a DD still? oh man.

maybe the difference in price has to do with time in the hospital? don't you spend three nights in the hospital with aceves and two with kelly? i would imagine it costs more to have that extra night in the hospital rather than a hotel.

i'm still not sure if i want to have surgery. my mind changes every day. today is a bad day and i don't want to do it. there is still a part of my head saying that i am being lazy and i can do this on my own, i'm just not trying hard enough. enjoy those meds! i agree with lissa totally. if you need them take them. i actually like the painkillers, they calm me down after surgery and i don't worry as much lol.

thanks for sharing your story. get well! hope you get everything you dream of. you surely deserve it.

your motivation is awesome. just a bump in the road, soon you will feel better.

i haven't had surgery so i probably don't know what i'm talking about, but maybe your stomach is still quite swollen and tender at this stage? plus you had hernia repair which might be tender too. last year i had two surgeries (not in my abdomen) and i was on oxycodone every four hours for a week!

i have HUGE boobs, even at 220lbs they are out of proportion to my body. in a way i hope they get smaller so i don't look so top heavy, but at the same time i don't want them to end up on my lap when i sit. is it delusional to think they will shrink down to perky b's from DD's? haha! i never wear a bra, i guess my theory that bras contribute to sagging will be tested after this. i hate wearing bras and underwear. i dont like that flap of fat that hangs over my panties in the front and bras make me feel like i'm being choked.