mrchris

So I'm roughly 2 1/2 years out (surgery November 2012) and I've done quite well. Never quite hit my goal weight but damn close. This past year has been rough health wise for reasons outside of weight or weight loss. I've had some pretty severe arthritis in a couple of knuckles and my knees but generally avoided needing to take anything for it. A year ago February we did a Caribbean cruise and on the second to last day while in St. Marten I got bit by a mosquito. A couple days later and I had a severe fever, horrible bone/joint pain and was absolutely miserable. The suspect was a mosquito born illness either Dengue or Chikingunya. One of the things prescribed was Diclofenec. Within days my stomach was so irritated I couldn't keep anything down. Stopped that and started taking some Prilosec. Eventually things calmed down but wound up getting my sleeve dilated as I really couldn't eat much thankfully though no signs of an ulcer. However a few months ago I took some Aleve/Naproxen after a run. Within a couple hours it felt like I had a golf ball stuck in my gut and couldn't even get Water down. Wasn't like vomiting it back up, it would just sit there in my esophagus until there was enough Fluid from drinking or saliva until it overflowed back out my mouth. sleep was impossible that night as I would just choke on saliva every 30 minutes and drench the pillow in drool. After about 12 hours it calmed down and within a day or two things were back to normal. Well in June I was in a really bad car accident and have been battling severe headaches daily. Again I try not to take anything for them but this Saturday was really bad so I took two Excedrin hoping for some relief. Just that little bit of aspirin and it was a repeat of the Aleve. Same thing lasted roughly a day but then resolved without any real lingering effects. One it seems really odd that mild OTC drugs that never gave me an issue before could cause such a profound response now even after just one dose. And two it really limits the options when you do need something? Anyone else experience anything like this?

You can actually get fat from other areas of your body injected into your shaft to gain girth, it's pretty painful from what I have heard and only temporary before your body moves it elsewhere. Length comes strictly by changing the surroundings, it's not actually getting any longer, it's just the neighborhood got smaller.

Well I'll be 8 months out from surgery on Monday. Did another before/after pic. Weight loss is definitely slowing down but I'm quite close to my goal and perfectly content where I am. I wouldn't mind dropping a few more pounds and I'm still losing, just slowly (7 pounds in the last 7 weeks). Overall though I feel a million times better.... I've gone from a 3XT/4X shirt to a regular Large shirt and waist was as big as a 50 at one point but generally a 46/48 and now down to a 34. Absolutely ZERO regrets!

My doc keeps telling me not to weigh myself more than once a week for that very reason. We do fluctuate, time of day, time since last bowel movement, fullness or emptiness of bladder, etc. I mean if you drink 32 oz of fluids and weigh yourself before peeing, you'll be 2 lbs heavier. I wouldn't necessarily think it should fluctuate 8 or 10 pounds in a short period of time but 2 to 5 pounds isn't unreasonable.

Very weird for me... Being predominantly Irish I had always had an extremely high tolerance and could drink nearly anyone (except my 90lb Irish grandmother) under the table. That said i was a very infrequent drinker, and drank a lot less as I got older. Now it's a whole different ballgame. Only have had a couple drinks (7 months post op). Each time it was the same. Drunk and loopy nearly instantly and from very little. Over with nearly as fast. So instead of a long build, a nice mellow buzz for a while and a slow slide to sober. It's now drink a few sips, count to 10, totally buzzed in a very intense way, wait 5 minutes and it's over. Really quite different and not any fun. If we are out for Mexican food and my wife orders a Margarita, I'll sip a tiny bit but otherwise it's not worth it for me.

Gosh I didn't think it was that typical to be on a PPI 6 months out? My doc's normal routine is Prilosec for 4 weeks, I tried weaning off it then and the heartburn quickly came back, went 2 more weeks and tried again and had no issues at all. Never used anything since and haven't even remotely needed anything. I have heard of some people needing them long term but I didn't think it was very common?

Uhmm.... My doc said shave from nipples to knees. He left out the part about skipping the nether regions. Wife sent me in to get a men's brazillian wax. Couldn't have been smoother down there but unfortunately it was unnecessary. That said I think every guy should get waxed down there once just to be able to relate to what the women do.

Yes but.... With a little outpatient cosmetic surgery you can have the breasts of my your dreams. For us guys there really isn't any surgical options (that work). So for those of us who have had our luster restored we are fortunate yes, but I feel a lot worse for the poor bastards that are still tiny even after losing the surrounding area.

Way to go! It gets easier, especially once you get past any post op restrictions. I bbq'd some baby back ribs today. Stubbs has a bbq sauce that tastes pretty good and has very little sugar in it so the carbs are surprisingly low. I could only eat two little ribs (which really isn't that much) and a spoonful baked beans but it was enough to feel like I wasn't missing out on anything.

Surgery was 11/15/12, before pic was taken on 11/13/12 after losing 25lbs roughly on the Clear liquids. and the new pic was from this past Saturday 5/25/13 so roughly 6 months plus 10 days. I guess its safe to say their is a visible difference. Strangely at times I still feel like a have a long ways to go, but those around me are astounded at the progress.

I'm always surprised at the popularity of penis' (or is that "peni") Someone should start a before and after gallery of penis' and see what kind of reactions we get?

For some it's a big deal. For me, I was totally freaking out the morning of. They couldn't get an IV started (took 5 different people including the chief of anesthesia and they still took hours to get it going and hundreds of pokes with a needle). Apparently my initial wakeup in the recovery room didn't go so well. Something about being very agitated and throwing things around. They had to knock me back out. But when I woke up 8 hours later I actually didn't feel too bad at all. I had mine on a Thursday morning. Friday wasn't too bad, especially that afternoon when I got home. Just a little mild heartburn and the gas pain. Saturday was like nothing ever happened. Off the pain meds except some liquid tylenol. Sunday was a cakewalk and I worked a full 10 hour day that Monday. Some people have it even easier, some have it far worse. I think it's a combination of a few things, some of which no one wants to admit to. Surgeons skill plays a role, big role. Personal pain tolerance and not being a wuss (this is what no one wants to admit to). I personally hate needles and I am scared to death of them (as a 12 year old I got bucked off a horse and landed in a wasp nest, suffered hundreds of stings) but I have a very high pain tolerance. And lastly is just a little bit of luck. All else being equal there will be different results because of a million different factors from time of day to simple dumb luck.

It was the worst... The liquid diet after wasn't so terrible. But doing it while otherwise normally being able to eat and doing it out of sheer willpower was tough. Actually just the first few days are bad and then it's not that big a deal. Day 3 was far and away the worst of it. Horrible headache, terrible moodiness. A guy cut me off in a parking lot and I was in such a mood that I ripped him inside out for a solid 15 minutes, reduced him to tears. By day 5 I was fine, the rest wasn't so bad.

Awry??? Hell... anything starting off with a subject line of of "penis size" had no where to go but awry....

Eventually your body adjusts... But as my doc put it to me, liquid in, liquid out..... Pretty normal at this stage of the process.