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Thanks everyone!! I'm learning so much and so interested in all of your stories.

Well here we go..my surgery is in 2 Weeks and for some reason I am terrified!!! I had the band and wasn't scared at all...but this is freaking me out. I know deep inside this is what I really need and what I have to do.. but those consent forms really scared me. Waaa....please can Someone give me a peptalk?

and by the way another pet peeve of mine is Victoria Secret... they never had my bra size.. or panty size.. so someday I wanna go in there and say, show me everything you got!! Lol!!!

yes that's what I'm so excited to do is finally going into a regular store and finding cute clothes to wear. I don't ever want to have to go into lane Bryant again!!! :-)

So, her show was really fun and she looks terrific!!! She had her surgery in April and has lost EIGHTY lbs!! !!

That's awesome!!!!:-)

She's going to be at the canyon club in Agoura (so. Calif) tomorrow night. I'm really getting excited to see her show. I'm a big fan too. :-)

I have tickets to see her stand up show on Sunday night!! I wonder if she will talk about getting sleeved.

Because I know that my surgery is coming up. it's like I'm eating stuff that I know I shouldn't eat post op. Like a starving person on death row. Is this normal to be so gluttonous before my upcoming surgery?

Good luck!! Hope you sail right through:-)

Oct 16 here too :-)

Wow!! Congrats Earwood!!! That's great!!

Lol!!! Yeah!!!:-)

thank you thank you thank you I just know I can do it!!! you guys are all so wonderful!!

Thank you so much!! The naysayers happen to be my boss and Co worker...so I have to be around them on a daily basis. but you're so right I think this will give me the opportunity to try harder and show them what I can do!!!

Hi everyone. my name is Alene I had a gastric ban put in 5 years ago. I lost 40 pounds and in the process was throwing up every week and got a horrible case of gastric reflex. I went to my surgeon and said,” take the thing out of me” and he said what you need is the gastric sleeve. I'm willing to try it and I'm doing my research but I'm really getting shy about having another procedure done in case it doesn't work. I guess I'm just really scared.

I'm so concerned that if I failed with the band...wouldn't I fail with the sleeve also?

thanks everyone I really appreciate your words of encouragement. I have spent 5 years of literally wondering if after every meal I was going to throw up. and it seems a rediculous that the healthier the food was,the more it would stick and then I would be miserable. for example scrambled eggs were a nightmare sometimes could eat them sometimes I couldn't but it was a good source of protein. I am so ready for the sleeve I maybe my appointment with the psychologist and then I have to see a nutritionist 1 time and then hopefully my insurance will cover it.

good luck with your surgery and I hope everything is great with you. can't wait to find out what you think about the difference between band and the sleeve.

Oh thank you so much for your reply, I feel a lot better just knowing that there's a place like this where I can talk to people. My surgeon is planning on taking out my band and then giving me the sleeve. also my surgeon has told me that about 70 percent of his patients are changing from the band to the sleeve with better success rate.