Queen In Me

You look wonderful! I can't wait to get my sleeve so I can start looking like you!

Hey! I just order my vitamins from vitacost and it was 24.00 dollars for my biotin, vitiamin b12, d and d3, calcium citrate, and a multi vitamin. They are all liquid, chewable, gummy or lozengers. Your doctor may require something different, so I would take to them

Personally I feel the same way you do...I've told my "guyfriend", my sister, my dad and a few coworkers. I haven't told my mom yet and I'm debating on if I will. I just don't want to her the negativity, and I don't want to hear all the opinions. Overall, its your decision, people are going to think what they want to think rather you lost weight through exerise and changing eating habits, or sugery. Overall you have to be happy with you, no one else matters. Keep in mind, you can't take it back once you've told someone. So just think about the people who will positively support you and tell them.

I too have PCOS, and my doc says by losing 10% of your current weight will reduce some of the symptoms of PCOS. I haven't had surgery as of yet, but since i've started the process of getting to surgery i've lost 9+ pounds and after not having a period for 6 months, I was able to naturally have one. I'm hoping the sleeve will help reduce my symptoms and allow me to get pregnant, especially since i've already loss one ovary.

I will look into that because Chocolate is my favorite flavor...

I haven't been sleeve yet, but I want to get myself ready for surgery. I am in the process of purchasing some ready to go protein shakes. What taste good, what doesn't? What's your favorite brand and flavors? Has anyone tried Worldwide Sports Nutritions Ultra Pure Protein shake? Are they any good and what flavor do you like?

That's pretty much what I am doing right now, but thanks for the advice

I'll check that out

I was told that today that my packet will be sent to insurance by the end of the week...I really hope and pray that everything goes through...Good luck to everyone else who submitting there packets this week...

I feel your aggravation, I personally been done with my last dietary since 11/12 and I was expecting for my packet to be sent to insurance and it still hasn't been sent yet. The bariatric office is making me take a sleep study (this Thursday) and another session with the psychologist (tomorrow). I'm really hoping this is the last steps because i'm just ready to get this show on the road...I really hope everything goes smoothly through out the rest of your process...I know at the end it will be worth it.

My name is Jereatha (pronounced Ja Ray The) i'm 26 and I am from Columbus, OH (born and raised).I am the oldest of 6 siblings and I am single with no kids. I am the overachiever...I go to school, work, and everything in between. I love people and I love to have fun. In my free time, I love to shop and catch up on sleep (that's my favorite). I too like many other women on this site suffer from PCOS. I hope that this sugery will one day help me create my family on my own ( with out medicaiton and etc).

I can't wait to drop some of these pounds...so I can drop it like its hot and pick it back up...lol I try to do that now I'm just going to end up stopping, dropping and rolling...lol. I just wanted to be picked up, I don't want to have to pick up my stomach to move it out the way....lol

LOL I am sitting here crying from laughing so hard...I can relate...

I asked the scheduling nurse at Riverside if had surgeries available still for Decemeber and November they said they have a few, so I'm hoping to scheduled soon. I'm playing the waiting game now...

I'm in Ohio too...Columbus to be exact...I have my last dietary appointment tomorrow...I don't have a date yet...But i'm hoping for sometime next month

Wow...sugery is a surgery, is a sugery...they all have risks, the some high than others. Your friend's breast implants was for looks, to better her apperance. Her breast isn't God given, but man made, your potiental surgery is to improve your life, make you healthy, and change you for the better. Yes the surgery is man done, but nothing being put into your body, its being taken away. I would tell her like this, getting 80 percent of your stomach removed is like getting your boobs taken away, it will change your apperance. I wouldn't worry about her opinion, because overall your opinion is the only one that matters.

I don't plan on changing my mind about the surgery, because everything that I have read out weighs the possible negative. I'm looking at this surgery in the "big picture" theory. I'm doing this to better myself for the future. I have stopped and thought to myself..."this is extreme"...But I know the end results will be worth it...

So I just did my preliminary sleep study this weekend, and I started thinking today...I have one last dietary session and then my application can be submitted to the insurance. I'm super excited to be getting through this process so quick...but then it hit me...the feeling...I will be having surgery that's not required, and that its something I signed myself up for (my thought process..."OMG... what did I get myself into")...I am having a surgery to have more than half my stomach removed (I also found out that i'll be having my gaulbladder taken out too because of gaulbladder poylps) ... and all the sudden I got a nervous/scared type of feeling. My question is did any of you all go through this feeling prior to surgery? How was you able to get over that fear?