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Congratulations on your surgeries! Can I ask who your surgeons were Sweetie and Ready to maintain?

My surgery is Dec 4 at Dr. Aceves and am not on a pre op yet..one week bf surg but I too am eating a little more than usual and most unusual want cokes, pop etc which I never hardly care about. I am going to get my protein shakes, unjury lined up, lots of good advice on what might work taste wise for me. I don't want to worry about chasing around after that post op. I have a great treadmill in the garage that is staring at me also, gathering dust. I put a pic of me taken 17 years ago that was my best weight on the refrig, there for any dithering I might have. Wish someone from here was going same time. I am getting excited!! Good luck to you!

Thanks Linda. Will check tomorrow.

I have a question about financing.. I have the money for the surgery now but my husband is in business for himself and is now going into the slow time of year and am worrying we will be short later on by using all the cash. He keeps reassuring me to go ahead and is supportive of everything, but my question, did anyone use the medical financing they advertise? Drawbacks, interest rate? It would be for part not all. I have never seen a thread about this. Thanks all

Thanks so much for the great info Vegas, I am saving all this for my post op in December, thank God for this site!

Hey Vegas, you said you will be back to Dr. Aceves in December, what dates? Maybe I could meet you there around Dec. 4?

Ky hen, I have my passport, did you need your birth cert?

There is a quick test done on CT that looks at the heart for blockages and in my area costs $99. It is another good check for heart and of course you will get radiation but a simple test.

Hi Free, I am scheduled for Dec. 4 with Dr. Aceves and also thinking about the pre-op diet. I am also nervous but know I will be worse when the time is shorter. Please keep us updated and we will all be thinking of you on Dec 2! Think where you will be in a few weeks after surgery with the pounds melting away..

Thank you for sharing, I learn so much from all the sleevers that have gone before me. Surg Dec. 4. Continued good luck and speedy healing to you!

:thumbup1:I'm scheduled for surgery Dec 4 by Dr. Aceves's. Is anyone else going to be there from here? I have to do a 7 day pre-op diet of high protein, low carb which starts the day after thanksgiving, hummmmm, will try and be good anyway. I hope to see someone from the Forum.

I went to my pcp today for a check up and wanted to tell her about my decision to have a vertical sleeve surgery. I had brought this up to her last year and she was not supportive at all, felt that diet and exercise would be better for me. My BMI has been near 36 and now 37 today so just kept plugging away last year but kept gaining weight with my cholesterol and tryglicerides going up also. I recently went to a local bariatric surgeon for a consult, who is well known as a good surgeon but has not done as many sleeves as Dr. Aceves. I am a self pay and in the meantime had started blogging on this blog and learned so many things about my concerns and issues involving the surgery and also about Dr. Aceves. I was afraid to tell her about the surgery, period, much less that I was going to mexico for it, but forged ahead and told her that I was going to get the sleeve surgery and told her it was the local surgeon. I know, not truthfull, but surprisingly she did not care at all, said she had recently had a seminar about this with good results. In the meantime I had asked the local surgeon's nurse how many sleeve surgerys he had done and she said 200 to 300. So guess what, who's done more? Well I know she will continue to do my followup, but need to tell her after the fact. I am going to have surgery with Dr. Aceves in December, talked to Nina today. I hope all goes well!!:sad0:

Downinsocal, you are too funny!! That is a milestone.

Thanks so much for the details Vegas! What spasms did you have? As far as the Upper GI, do you mean Dr. Aceves wants that done?

Okalani, So sorry about your friend. Very good advice from everyone and only want to add about the DVT in the legs. I did ultrasounds on patients post op with concerns about blood clots and you can do two things also to keep your blood flowing in your legs while sitting. The calf muscle is the heart for your leg veins. Just pumping your foot up and down squeezes the blood out of your calf, also your toes moving will do the same thing. The vein walls are very thin and respond. Also deep breathing compresses the diaphragm and with the release the blood flows back to the heart. Thats why they have you blow on the little instrument in the hospital. So keep walking and if you can't, just pump your calf muscles frequently, don't crimp your knee too long and deep breaths periodically. Of course stockings or support might help. But sounds like you are able to walk just fine. The risk increases when immobile.

I feel the same way about physical activity and am so glad my knees are good and will hang in there some more so that I can become much more active. This will help me to lose faster and maintain my weight once at goal. Seventeen years ago I could eat what I wanted bc I was walking every day for an hour. Then remarried, got busy, ate out a lot, wine with dinner, menopause and then 5 lbs here, there and everywhere... I look in the mirror and wonder where did she go?

I hear you, for something so small to be such a pain in the a..! Feel better soon ...

Thanks for the info, I feel better. I am still waiting on the paperwork to be emailed from Nina, might give her a call again. I am trying to plan ahead for the airlines, work schedule etc. That's funny about your pcp thinoneday! Mine is about 100 lbs also and a vegetarian but she will sit and try to give me advice about healthy eating and I get revved up, lose weight then it all goes to h.....ll and then some, back to worse than I was. I have a young at heart husband, will go anywhere, try anything and trys to make the most of his life. He wants me to come out and play and my world has been shrinking to the recliner. Not good! I feel I can vent here bc a lot of you can relate and have realized your dreams and I am ready to jump in also and improve my remaining years..

I have to find out what pre-op tests Dr. Aceves's orders. My local surgeon gave me a paper that had pulmonary function test, stresss test (if not had one in past two years), along with chest x-ray and labs, my age is 62. I don't have any problems that I am aware of but will ask Nina what tests can be done the day before. Don't think stress test or pul func test is part of that. I am self-pay for the surgeon here, sleeve not covered, so I would have to tell my pcp to put a complaint of sob or something to get it covered? That is my only concern, that I miss a health problem that I dont know about. Just being careful.

I am so happy for you and that you still love your sleeve. You are on a great journey to a new you! Keep us posted.