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I have horrible reflux I came home taking nexium everyday. Now almost a year later I'm down to a Prilosec every 3 days or so and a couple tums here and there. Sometimes if I drink water it helps or a trick that helps is I chew some gum and the chewing for some reason I don't know why calms it

Thank you so much !! I love talking about my surgery and how great it is!! I wish you the best if you ever have questions feel free to ask !! I am actually not the only "sleeved" member of my family my mother is also and has been doing great !

6 months after having my sleeve I had a bad gall bladder attack where I was unable to eat or drink for a few days. My surgeon who did my sleeve and my gall bladder said this is becoming common in sleeve patients. My gall bladder has been gone for 6 months and have zero issues except for some acid reflux but other than that everything is fine

I was sleeved almost a year ago trust be it will get better!! The first few weeks are bad I remember the gas pain And at one point thought I was having a heart attack!! Your body will get use to everything just give it some time and hang in there. Looking back to almost a year ago and it's like the pain was nothing still to this day I don't drink alot of fluids but I have zero problems and can even take big sips!! Just hang in there!!

I'm happy to see I'm not the only one who is thinking about this and is struggling with this. I'm going to be 25 and I'm happy with the way I look but I always keep thinking ugh if this skin only wasn't here. I will have to admit I did get very very lucky and the extra skin isn't terrible. Good luck with your decision and do what makes YOU happy

Yea it at sometimes hard but everyday I'm reminded of how great this has been for me and how I have got my life back but really I've gotten the life I've always wanted and always dreamed of having

i just read your post and i am almost 8 months after my surgery and i had the same feeling i felt i wasnt ready and wasnt sure i was making a good decision even up until the day of surgery i struggled with this. Even walking to my operating room with my parents i started to shake and cry and after it was done and i woke up in the surgery room screaming at my dr what did i do to myself what did i let you do this to me. Now looking back at it all it wasnt as bad as i had thought it was going to be. You have to keep remembering this is the best thing that you could do for yourself and i tell myself every day this was the best thing i have ever done for myself and if i had the chance to go back and re think my decision i would not change it, even with the pain i had and getting use to the way your body now works it was all worth it. Now being so far out i dont even remember what the pain was like, just remember its perfectly normal to be afraid but in the end it will be the best thing you have done !

Hey I am new to this site and figured I would give it a try. I am 24 years old and from New York. In March of 2011 I had decided I wanted to get the gastric sleeve done after trying to lose weight and struggling I had thought this was something I had to do with being only 23 years old and 285 pounds. At this time my mother had also chosen to have the sleeve done and we were going to do this together we had picked the same surgeon. I was going to have my surgery about a month before my mother so I would have time to recover to help her as she was going to help me. My surgery day was April 5th 2011 which was my mothers birthday and I picked it because my mother had told me the best gift I could ever give her was making myself healthy. The day of surgery I will admit I was so afraid this was the first time I had ever been to the hospital for something other then a little issue. I remember walking to the operating room and shaking and thinking I made a mistake then kissed my parents and went into the room where I was so afraid. My surgeon then came in and let me know I was doing the best thing for me and next thing I knew I woke up yelling what did I do why would I let them do this to me my surgeon then came over to me and told me I'm fine and see if I felt the same one year from now. I then came home 2 days later and I will admit was a struggle I had an issue with my sugars dropping and I mentally was still having an issue with what I did and how could I live on liquids, my parents were very supportive during this time where I would cry at times or lash out at them. Little by little I then came to realize this is what I needed and I was ok and I could do this. Little by little the pounds came off then I went to the gym and then the pounds came flying off and I was getting back to my normal life going out with my friends and enjoying myself. About 5 and a half months later the weight was really flying off me to not realize I was actually sick. I has gotten gall stones and almost 6 months to the day I found my surgeon and myself in the same situation. My next step in my journey came 7 months and 5 days after surgery I had reached the goal of losing 100 pounds this day was one of the happiest days I had ever had. I remember getting on the scale that day and seeing the number finally come up and starting to cry because I never thought this could happen. My sleeve is the best thing I had every done. I still have moments where I struggle but the struggle is mentally. I still wake up some says thinking I'm still the 285 pound girl I was or I look in the mirror and still think to myself when will I be skinny or I always pictured what my life would be and how it would change when I lost weight and I feel it's not what I imagined but still deep down I know I had done the best thing for myself which is giving myself a second chance of really enjoying my life. I realize my story is kind of long but actually writing this has helped me to feel better about some of the issues I still struggle with.

Thank you very much. My hospital has meetings for post op patients which I'm really looking forward to going to and this site is helping even though I have great support from all of my friends and family I feel that they can't not fully relate even though my mom is going on the same journey we've had different experiences from each other. I do get motivated to go to the gym but part of me knows some of its not positive motivation so I need to work on that

Thank you everyone for the support. Yea sometimes I feel great about my looks and other days I'm not the only positive thing is when I feel down it motivates me to go to the gym and work out the stress and clear my mind

Sadly I live in a part of New York that is very much based off of how you look what you wear let's just say its very much a place where your looks are everything. Being heavy most of my life I always would think to myself if I could just lose weight I'd be like all of the other girls I see or even better I would be like all of my friends I wouldn't be the "fat" friend any more or I wouldn't be the one never with a boy friend because I'd be so happy with myself id find someone. When the time came to losing the 100 pounds everything was still the same nothing changed I feel I still go out with all my friends and still at times feel like the "fat" friend

My gall bladder went fine and have had zero problems since. My moms went well also. Thanks