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I had a mild gall bladder attack tonight I think. I have had the same thing before where it feels like my whole back is spasming. Awful. It made me wonder something too. I had an endoscopy a couple years ago and I was told I have a mild hiatal hernia. So I was wondering if during the surgery they fix the hernia and/or take out the gall bladder, if it would change anything about the surgery and what was covered. Maybe if the sleeve was just one part the out of pocket would be less. Do any of you know? Some people in the US have had luck with that.

I guess we didn't have any May 1 or 2? Who will be the first May sleever?

Yep! The couch is amazing. I also have a lovely covered deck!

I got some baggy track pants from Target for $15 to wear home from surgery. Found a liquid multivitamin, spray sublingual b12, chewable calcium. Bought a few different samples of protein shakes and some clear flavourless protein whey isolate. It's 12 days away.

Congratulations!

Congrats Bec and lessismore! We will all be changing our lives!

Wow that's amazing! I can't wait to read it. Do you have the URL of your YouTube handy? I tried to watch it before but it said mobile devices were blocked and I didn't bookmark it to watch on my computer. I know what you mean about the phrasing bring wrong. I think this therapist is a bit hippy dippy. But I feel a weird obligation to continue with her. Probably just me being nice. She wants me to try acupuncture and things and I am really skeptical about that kind of thing.

Yeah good luck! Let us know how it goes. I binged Monday, pretty badly. Also binged Wednesday on my trip. Last night I had a quarter pounder and fries for dinner. I need to STOP this. Not looking forward to my therapist on the 10th because I will need to talk about the bingeing and also tell her I am definitely having the surgery. She is not the most supportive of it. She is the one who asked if I was honoring my stomach. I'm really not sure if she is the best choice going forward.

What an amazing accomplishment!

That's great! How close is goal?

I am nothing but jazzed!!

I'm pre-op and praying I get my mojo back by losing weight. It has been absent for 8 years and I am only 35. I have PCOS. I had a total hysterectomy three years ago due to cancer and I was hopeful that the extra estrogen my ovaries had been pumping out was the cause, but things haven't changed even though I'm not having any other hormonal side effects. Abdominal fat produces estrogen too so I'm hoping that as it goes down I might find my sex drive under there.

The percent doesn't even matter. Some people might have bigger stomachs to start with. The surgeon is going for a specific capacity of volume as the end result. That's why they use a bougie. The main difference will be with stomach length at that point. From what I have read, most people have a capacity between 8 and 10 ounces when their stomach is fully healed. Doctors are not being mean or horrible by doing this surgery. What a weird attitude to take.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/national/obesity-surgeon-banned-for-life-sues-for-millions-in-damages/story-fncyva0b-1226629598666 Russell Broadbent is an obesity surgeon in Victoria who was banned for life in 2010. Just putting this here in case someone is searching for the name.

Congratulations!

Awesome! How much weight have you lost and what is your BMI? This might put someone else's mind to rest who is in the same boat.

I'm having this one done at the Wesley, but I have had a knee surgery, a hysterectomy, a colonoscopy, and an endoscopy at Greenslopes. It is a wonderful hospital. You have nothing to worry about with regard to the hospital.

As part of yiur research, please ask the same question in reverse on the RNYtalk board, to get the other side of the opinion. Most people on VST will have a pretty obvious bias. For myself I am getting the sleeve because it is medically less complicated. I was prepared to get the RNY if the doctor recommended it because I have GERD, but he was not concerned about GERD and the sleeve. I have about 115 lbs to lose.

I totally understand being excited! Let us know how it goes!

Yes but Mirena keeps the lining from building up. That means you almost can't have a heavy period on it. That's how it keeps you from being able to conceive. I was on Mirena because the PCOS was making my lining build up every month but not shed. My whole uterus was full of it. Had to have a d&c and the Mirena to prevent it happening again.

Mirena doesn't distribute hormones throughout your body, only to the uterus. It shouldn't cause any weight changes. Certainly didn't for me. It's not the same sort of thing as depo or pills.

If you have mirena you won't probably get real periods. Just a couple days of panty liners for the smudges. I used mirena to keep the lining from over growing due to PCOS, before my hyst.

So good to be back in Australia! Although I won't be back in Brissie for another couple of hours. A,Erica just doesn't feel like home anymore. I didn't eat the best on this trip but I didn't do too much last-suppering. I did go overboard with sushi one night but I stopped before it got too ridiculous. I tasted a sip of a diet coke and it was sooooo overly sweet. I've been off it for about a month and I think I've kicked it this time. I did have a bit more coffee on this trip than the one a day I have been having but I was so tired so I guess it was not the end of the world. May 4 is when my deposit is due! It's coming up so fast.

You know how you hear about quitting smoking, that your lungs start to recover in X days and are fully recovered in X months or whatever? I wonder if that happens with obesity. I'm not talking about things like stretch marks or saggy skin. But does obesity make changes to the ways our bodies work, and are any of those changes permanent even after being at a healthy weight for months or years? Or does your body just bounce back after so long and have a normal metabolism, normal food cravings, etc? I hope this makes sense. Maybe some of the veterans will weigh in. I wonder if there is research into this. Maybe someone can fix the title. Sorry about that. I'm on my iPad.