ShrinkyDinkMe22

that would be swell if it was an after effect! im 32 and my sides and the front are going grey

congrats!

i too have a desk job and my surgeon said to be safe and get the "hang" of things he would not let me go back for at least two weeks.

Hello! I'm 32 have a DH and have a 2.5 year old. She keeps us mighty busy. Hoping to get sleeved in November!

Hi all. Not sleeved yet but had a thought today as I suffered through a reaction to antibiotic for a bacterial infection. Anyways. When I have the flu I also drink sprite and eat soups or buttered noodles and crackers to help settle my stomach. I know after the sleeve those are no-nos. any of you get the flu weeks,months, years after sleeving? If so what did you eat/drink to help you? Thanks

Good luck! I was 324 at my consult on aug 29. Have my sleep study tonight, psych eval and edg on sept 21 and nut in the 25. So excited to get this done!

I plan on it although I was not given a schedule yet. Not sure when they meet. I have my sleepy study this evening....yikes How you doing?

anyone use a spreadsheet to track your progress? i am trying to think of a way to make this easy. any thoughts? did you find one online?

thanks ssriley! that's what i was looking for!

yeah, i;m trying to figure out how to track my measurements and weight with graphs on a spreadsheet . i will be up playing for a while tonight

i'm assuming that you lose everywhere but everyone is different. for that reason i have taken a LOT of measurements every hwere on my body. i did the most common ones, but also added stuff like my face, neck shoulders, i did each finger, wrists, ankles and calves. we shall see

Excellent everyone. Thank you! Dexter I will check my surgeon great idea. An I already have Xanax

Last Friday I went to my pulmanologist apt. The doctor was very surprised that I am"fairly" healthy other than high BMI. No known comorbidities. He was trying to bypass the sleep test if I didn't need it and sent me home with a pulse ox tester to wear overnight. If that was positive or signs of apnea then I would have to schedule the sleep study. Well got the call today and I failed the overnight pulse ox. So now I have to go fr a sleep study. If I do have apnea knowing that the surgery and losing weight will hopefully make that go away. Can you rent those cpap machines or do you have to buy them? Anyone know?

once sleeved are protein shakes a forever thing or just so many weeks/months after surgery? thanks!

haha, awesome

awesome. thanks! i am seeing the nut soon so i will see what our surgeon requires then. thanks again!

i am sure all will turn out great! good luck wednesday

Hi all. Fairly new here in the beginning stages of my journey! I have my apt with the surgeon August 29! Anyways I suffir from acid reflux already (not sure if it's heartburn or acid reflux) and take lansoprazale. I heard that the sleeve can cause reflux/heartburn. Anyone out there that had either one prior to surgery and let me know if it got any worse or better after surgery? And by after I mean a few months after. Mines not that bad but enough that it exists. I take my medicine every other day. Thanks!

Thank you for posting this. I've been going through the same thoughts and emotions. I think it's very real and a step towards our decisions! Thank you for posting because I thought I was the only one who felt this way.

Congrats! You look amazing!

So I made a list of cons today and every one of the cons had something to do with never being able to eat certains foods anymore. Not one of them had something to do with risk factors .... Is that wrong? Or unusually? Ever since I started this journey (and I am at the very beginning stages) I realized how focused my life is around food. I am so excited and so happy about the sleeve because I feel like that will helpe break this terrible cycle I have been on for a long time. Tonight we celebrated my hubs bday and we drank, ate lots of food, etc. the entire time we sat there I was thinking in the back of my head...I'll never be able to drink again, il never be able to have a coke, il never be able to eat like this. Then I think but that's how I got in this situation. Are these normal thoughts of the unknown? Of what's to come after sleeving? I know down the road I'll be able to enjoy some of these things again but in smaller portions... Oh I'm just ranting...too many beers, too much thinking. Please don't be mean. Just want to know if these thoughts are normal?

You look fantastic. Brag away you deserve it! What was you starting weight?

Lol urkel! Congrats to you on your weight loss. That is fantastic!

Glad I can help some of you

Thank you all got the responses.