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Im feeling slightly bummed, I had a post op checkup yesterday (its been about 6 weeks) The first week i dropped 10 lbs the second week I lost a couple more, and the 3rd and 4 week I stalled out gaining a pound. My weight loss picked up again on week 5 and iv been losing between 2-4 lbs a week since then, wich brings me to a total of about 22 lbs in 6 weeks I Know that my weight loss isnt great but I was expecting to hear your doing a great job, it will come off ect ect. from my surgeon. When he looked at my chart he sits down and looks really disapointed, the first thing he says to me is, typically the average weight loss at your stage is much more, whats the problem? I just kinda sat there and then he asked me what I was eating, I told him what I eat in a day Wich is around 500-600 cals and that i walk/jog 30-40 min every day. I dont know If he believed me or not but then he went on to say well some people just take longer to lose weight than others. I left that appointment feeling like crap. I have been trying to keep myself positive and reasure myself that it will come off in time but I really felt down on myself and frusterated he couldnt give me any suggestions on what to change he just told me to stick with the excercise and no snaking inbetween meals (which I dont do) I guess going into this I thought being so young (24) and in general good health I would be one of the people that looses the weight quicker than average not slower ,sigh, im just really down on myself now...

SO After going to a few different doctors and seeing an endocrinologist and explaining my symptoms a few weeks ago my endocrinologist thought i must have low blood sugar, he gave me a blood sugar tester and asked me to moniter it and if i got the dizzy fainting spells to test it out right away. I was testing my blood sugar normally and found that I was always testing normal... I then had an appointment with my surgeon, explained all the concerns and he just looked at me like i was a hypocondriac i told him the endocrinologist was running lots of blood tests on me that i was awaiting the results of and that my bloodsugar so far was coming up normal all the time, he literally listened to me talk and then told me i was a normal healthy person and that if I REAAALY wanted too i could go get a ct scan to see everything going on if i really felt concerned but that he dosnt think i need too (im a cash pay) anyway i left his office and went home, a few days later i had another episode of nausea passing out ect.i had someone with me this time and he rushed me to the hospitol (i passed out in the car) woke up and debated going in, i walked around a little and started to feel better, i decided not to go in...then i went back to my endocrinologist this time i saw a different doctor (former er doc) and explained to him my symptoms that it happend again and that wen i tested my bloodsugar in the middle of all this it was normal. He consulted the other endo i had seen previously and they both came in to talk with me. They were fairly confident that during my surgery my surgeon damaged my vagus nerve. they seemed very concerned but at the same time there was really nothing they could do for me (they deal with blood disordered and all my blood work came out perfect) they told me that it is a huge concern but something that really dosnt have a fix and its something im going to have to learn to deal with for the rest of my life... i dont know where to go from here... the vagus nerve runs through your entire body...what does this mean? i guess i was so shocked at the diagnosis i didnt even ask all the questions i wanted too... what does this mean for me in the future when i want to have children? they seemed shocked that i saw my surgeon a few weeks ago and i explained my symptoms to him and he didnt say anything (almost like it was so obvious what was wrong with me that any experienced surgeon would KNOW what was going on and advise me of what could have happend) i feel so wronged like my surgeon was keeping this from me because he was scared of how my mother (who was with me at the appointment) would act.... i dont even know how seriouse this could be....this nerve runs through the whole body are there any people out there with maybe some knowledge on this subject that could shed some light?

im about a year and a half post op and i do not want to lose weight anymore. Unfortunately it seems like Im having trouble stoping. I feel like not matter what I do my weight is still slowely droping. im down to 110 lbs and i probably have close to 5 to 10 lbs in extra skin I need to get removed. I guess my question is, how do I stop? I also have been experiencing some less than normal things with my body... Its only happend a few times but sometimes when I eat too much at once I get extremely dizzy, sweaty, and then i pass out. Its happend to me a few times but the last time it happend the last thing i remember is laying in my bed knowing i was about to pass out and not being able to controll it, and then i remember waking up the next morning... it was kind of scarey. I dont know whats going on with me, anyone else experience anything like this?

I pretty much bought clothes the whole way through, Shopping is something I have always Loved and it was something I allowed myself to do for myself instead of eating i guess?... Like someone else said LEGGINGS were and still are (cuz they look great on,are super comfortable and their cheap!) my go to peice of clothing. I shopped alot when I was losing alot and because of that I have many things I didnt get much use of, some I never even got to wear! Its hard to go into a store, find a size that at one time u never thought u could fit into, being able to fit into it, and then NOT buying it. I think shoping is a good healthy way to reward yourself for looking so good. The weight loss process is a good year or more for some so you gatta allow yourself to have a little joy and get a few things fun (even if your not at your goal weight) For me buying my size 10 jeans then 8 then 6 then 4's (hopefully 2's soon) is kinda fun even if i only got to wear the 10's once it dosnt matter its motivating! =)

I had my surgery just over a year ago ( about 14 months) I am 25 and before I had my surgery part of my reasoning for doing it was because my cholesterol was so dangerously high. I was excited to see in June (6 month bloodwork checkup) that my Cholesterol level had gone down alot (almost 100 points) Well I just got back my newest results and my Cholesterol has skyrocketed even higher than ever before. I have lost more than half my total body weight i am well in the normal rage for my bmi but my cholesterol is even higher now, how is this possible!? Im so angry, frusterated, and dissapointed in myself. My cholesterol is 389 and Ldl 317. I feel like as a 120lb 25 year old female this is unheard of. Also, my bloodwork keeps coming back with my insulin level "less than 2.0" (normal range being between 6.0-27.0) the insulin was like this just before my surgery as well, both my surgeon and doctor brushed it off as a lab mistake but this is now the 3rd time my insulin is showing up as <2 my glucose level is normal and everything else is pretty normal. Is there anyone out there that has ever expierenced either an increase in cholesterol AFTER surgery or the extremely low insulin levels either before or after? I guess im just so confused and hoping someone on here can shed some light on what could possibly be going on.

i have pcos and was sleeved just a little over a year ago, iv found that wen ui follow the doctors dietary guidlines of avoiding carbs the weight just seems to drop off maybe even more quickly than someone without pcos. around 6 months my periods started to regulate. I also noticed a direct link between my cycle and my weight loss. I stall for 2 or 3 weeks and then the week of my period i just drop weight like nothing. But I truely believe if you avoid all the startchy carby food, you will lose the weight! =)

Im about 10 months out and I can say that I think this surgery IS the cure for PCOS. Those of you that seem worried about it maybe being harder then normal to lose weight after surgery because of the PCOS I would say dont worry. I have followed my doctors recomended diet (no startches) low carbs (healthy carbs fruits, yogurt, ect.) and I have found that I am loseing weight faster than maybe someone without PCOS. For the first time in 5 years my periods are normal again (i would go 3 months without a period before) I have also noticed a direct association between my weight loss and my cycle. About a week after my period my weight loss stalls, then about a week before my period i drop 3-5 lbs and again during the week of my period I drop another 3-5 lbs. I dont have any structered excercise that I do I try to keep moving but diet is key. Stay away from startches/ bad carbs and the sleeve will be a success! I hope wen i go for my one year checkup in december I will be at my goal weight of 125. Dont let yourself think that because of the PCOS you are just naturally going to lose slower because I believe it to be the exact opposite.

So havent been on in a while but im hoping to get some advice from anyone that might have some. It seems like lately iv found that im eating less and less.... about 2months ago i was up to around 600 cals a day, Since then Iv found that iv been eating less and less now im down to under 200cals a day. Its not because I am trying not to eat,(or i dont think thats what it is) its because I am not hungry, and when I am hungry, such a small amount fills me that im full after eating very little. I rarely feel hungry and when I do I usually eat something very small (100 cals or under) and then im pretty much full for the rest of the day. I think maybe some of it could be phycological, I guess part of me is terrified to ever get where I was before, and I feel like I might hold some resentment towards food now.I cry when I think about how I let MY body... the only body that I will ever have get so out of control...I understand that food isnt the enemy and its the food choices you make that matter, but I feel like the more weight i lose the more i dislike food. I feel like im almost scared of food and the power it had over me in the past...Its weird because when your addicted to drugs, alcohol, or gambeling, the only way to break the addiction is to eliminate the addiction completely from your life and be "sober" but you cant completely eliminate food... so its a bit trickier i guess. Has anyone else felt so scared of food that you hate to eat now? oh ya....I am just over 8 months out and am down 80lbs from my day of surgery. I did this surgery not just to look and feel better about myself but also to be healthy... Does anyone have any help/advice? Maybe someone else has felt this way at some point...? Is this normal?

Thanks to everyone who responded, I definitely acknowledge that even though I am still losing weight I am not taking care of my body, I understand that this has become unhealthy I guess maybe some of it has to do with everything happening so quick because I was cash pay, I literally went in for a consult and came back the next time and made my surgery date, I didnt have the long insurance process that most have (and that is probably an important part of the process for preparing). I guess iv kinda kept this whole thing a secret from everyone close to me, my mom who paid for my surgery and has always been very thin comes to visit me and the first thing she says is "well you dont eat anymore so we dont need to get lunch" her attitude is, you wanted this surgery, you better not screw it up. And my dad who im much closer to and lives right near me, was and still is completely against it. He thinks I turned into a different person, he thinks i always look sick and literally HATES my mom for helping me "butcher" my body. So to admit to either of them that now I seem to have a new problem is going to be difficult but I acknowledge that I need help and I am going to try and talk to my surgeon next time I have an appointment to see what kind of help there is out there for someone in my situation. Thanks again to everyone that responded, It really helps to know that no matter what, there are other people out there that went through this surgery too, and understand me and how im feeling.

When I first read this post I was originally thinking the same thing (trapped air) Im 8 months post op and i have experienced the same excruciating pain that i found got much better wen i burped....But now im questioning whether the pain iv been experiencing could be my gallbladder, I was never really informed about what could go wrong with the gallblader post op and didnt even think I needed to be watching out for that ... Keep us posted, I hope it all works out for you!

Yes, I Drink water religiously and make sure I get a minimum of 64 oz a day. I DO feel the restriction with the sleeve, I never complained about that. Im not sure about the fat content of my food but I plan on calculating that for a few days to see where im at. I tryed calling the NUT my surgeon recomends again and still, no answer. I have my next appointment with the other NUT next wednesday. I was never given strict guidlines or stages as what to eat and what not to eat as many people have. I went for my first post op appoinment 10 days after surgery and was given the green light to eat what I wanted but to stay away from startches (those were my instructions and I have followed them) Im going to try to push myself more on my workouts and maybe up it to 3 or 4 miles but after 2 I litterally feel exhausted. I stayed at home all day today sulking, forced myself to go workout, took a shower, and then came back home again. I feel like im slipping into a depression. I feel like im trying SO hard and taking all the advice and its getting me nowhere. I dont even care about food or eating anymore I dont miss the foods I used to eat, I just want to lose this weight. I had most of my stomach cut out of my body, I baraley eat anything, im excercising everyday, and its still not working

Its more frusterating to me that he couldnt give me anything to change. I get it that if my weightloss is this much slower than others that I must be doing something wrong, but what? Thats whats so frusterating. I did meet with a NUT and she told me that I was doing great also and then tryed to encourage me to get bread and Pasta (startches) into my diet wich I have NOT done. The NUT my doc recomends never answers the phone at the office so I have yet to get in contact with her. I have been getting a minimum of 60 g of protien a day. My diet is pretty much the same thing everyday I wake up and drink 16 oz of Water, have a greek yogurt for Breakfast (100 cal and 10 g of protien) then I have about 8 oz of water, and a protien drink ( 26g of protien and like 90 cals) for lunch I usually have a string cheese (100 cals) and then another 16 oz of water, later i have another protien drink (26g 90 cals) and then for dinner I will have anything from some beef Jerky (80cals), 4 oz of mahi mahi (around 200 cals) or some ground hamburger some sort of protien but it never exceeds 200 cals (usually under 200) then I have another water and a Fiber one bar (100 cals) thats my day everything is always the same except dinner changes slightly. Yes I make sure to get all my Vitamins (multi, Calcium citrate, and b12) I walk/jog around 2-3 miles everyday. Any suggestions?

Before I made my decision to get WLS I will admit, I was one of the critics. My boyfriends mother had the bypass quite a few years ago and she always tryed to give me diet advice, I used to get SO upset because she "cheated" I guess growing up with very traditional, strict, and thin parents and family members It was taught to me that if you make yourself fat its your fault, and either live with it or diet and excercise and lose weight "the right" way. 6 months ago I came to the conclusion that I didnt care if i had to cheat to get there, I was guna lose this weight and not care what anyone thought about it, I asked myself do i want to be fat the rest of my life and look at those that had WLS and say "o they cheated" or do I just want to lose this weight and say who cares how I got here.. Anyway I never actually thought that hey, WLS patients still have to work their BUTT off to lose that weight. I am now 6 weeks post op and I now realize this is NOT easy. There is absolutely Zero difference between strictly dieting and excercising without the surgery. The only difference is, that when that stall comes we dont have the option to take the "F it" attitude anymore. We still have to work really hard to get this weight off and I guess in the end it will make it that much sweeter for me when it does all come off, I will know that I didnt cheat and that I earned and deserved every lb that I lost.

Ok so I will be 4 weeks post op this friday and because I was a cash pay patient, i wasnt really required to go through many classes before the surgery. It was kinda like, ok u made up your mind that you want the surgery, get surgical clearance from your doctor, take this physc exam, and then go to the 1 hr group nutrition class (which didnt really cover much) and then I had surgery. Im not complaining, cuz I know theres alot of people that have to jump through hoops just to get the insurance company to pay for the surgery, but my point is, not having to do so many things pre op, coupled with a surgeon with a seemingly more relaxed aproach than alot of other surgeons ( at my 10 day check up he cleared me to pretty much eat watever I wanted but to avoid startches and to take it slow) i wasnt really sure exactly what I needed to do/ eat post op reading on here it seems like post op people have very strict guidlines so that made me decide I needed to get a nutritionist. Well I went to my nuts appointment today and she went over what im eating (mainly protien and water intake) and pretty much said she had nothing to tell me, im doing it all right. She did say that she would like to see me incorporate more startches in my diet (bread, potatoes ect) and it just kinda confused me, I mean whos right? My surgeon or my Nut startches or no starches? Im wondering if i even should be going back to this nut she didnt really help me, if my surgeon gave me any instructions it was to be avoiding startches. Is there any of you that didnt have a nut and didnt feel you needed one? Or vice versa was there any of you that had/have a nut and found them important in your journy.

Im not really sure if shes experienced with bariatric surgery. It took me alot of calling around and searching to find someone that seemed to know what they were talking about when it came to WLS and when I called her to make an appointment with her after I had already scheduled the appointment she said, "Oh wait wednesday.....im guna be at the other office wednesday.... well I have another dietician that works for me and she will be at that office will that be ok?" and me being stupid said sure. So The dietician I saw who was really nice maybe just dosnt have the experience that I had hoped for. As for losing too fast, definately not. Tomorrow is my 4 week post op mark and I might be at around a 15lb loss.

couldnt agree more. My surgeon gave me one of these cards last week at my 2 week check up and me and my boyfriend (once we got in the car) laughed about how silly it would be to show a waiter that card

I live in las vegas (well henderson to be exact) and im having trouble finding a good nutritionist. Is there anyone that lives in the area that can recomend one?

I will be 4 weeks post op on new years eve (which is also my birthday) I asked my doc the same questions and he said that in no way will it harm my sleeve at 4 weeks out. And if I want to drink Its up to me, he did remind me that its not recomended because it is empty calories, and when people drink they tend to not pay much attention to what they eat. But he told me that I was fine if i wanted to have a drink or two.

Im so frusterated im on my 3rd week out from surgery, The first week I got on the scale and was exstatic to see that i lost 9.6 lbs. the second week I got on the scale and was a little disapointed to see a 2.6 lb loss im in the middle of my third week now and weighed myself tonight (my official weigh ins are every friday but i just was curious) and i actually gained 2 lbs. I feel so frusterated, i knew that i would stall like almost everyone else does but i wasnt expecting it so soon, nor was i expecting to gain weight. I feel so embarassed my mom who paid for my surgery is coming to visit me tomorrow and she hasnt seen my since before the surgery she hasnt said anytthing but i know that shes expecting to see me noticably skinner, i feel like im failing myself and my family. Im just sitting here telling myself that this whole thing was too good to be true and im just going to stay this way forever. I cant stop crying im so mad at myself. I know everyone says oh dont worry it will come off but i just feel convinced that its just not guna work for me. I am getting in all my protein Im drinking all my water im going to the gym Today for example I had 2 oz of yogurt for breakfast a couple bites of chicken for lunch and a few more bites of chicken for dinner. and then a protien drink. I dont feel like im eating too much I just dont know what im doing wrong or if im just supposed to be in this body forever. I feel like im letting everyone down and im so depressed any advice?

Thanks guys, i really needed that boost of encouragement. This whole journey is turning out to be more of a mental thing than a physical one. Im just wondering if maybe I went on solids too quickly, most people on here seem to have a much stricter diet at my stage. I went in for my post op check up 10 days after surgery and thats when my doctor said I can start eating regular foods again is that normal? It seems like thats when my weight loss halted (middle of week 2) should I put myself back on the liquid stage? Or just continue to trust in everything and continue the way I have? Thanks again for all the encouragment, I had a breakdown yesterday and felt so lost, im feeling much better today.

I was told as soon as i felt up to it. I was 2 weeks post op yesterday and i went to the gym for the first time since surgery yesterday I walked and jogged a little for 30 min did the eliptical and a little weights too, it felt great. going again today.

glad to hear im not the only one. I was sleeved dec 3rd and today is my 2 week mark. After the first week i lost 9.6 lbs today when i weighed in i only lost 2.6lbs =( i was really disapointed with myself but i guess our bodys are still adjusting to the huge change. Hopefully next week will be better for us all.

My original plan was to, yes, i bought a bottle about 1 month pre op but after taking it 3 times with the same reaction i gave up.

i was sleeved dec 3rd and it was outpatient as well. I wouldnt have had it any other way. The idea of having to stay in the hospitol freaks me out. I loved that i got to go home and relax in the comfort of my own home.

5000 MG or 5000 MCG? I have the biotin supliments but could only find them by 1000 mcg incrimints 1000 mcg= 1 mg. Assuming you ment 5000 mcg do you get any reaction from taking that much? When i take to 1000 mcg tablet i get really hot and get rashes all over my arms.