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Please... The calorie count is too low. But it is expected at this point. Up your Water intake and carry on... Your doing great...Try to aim for a lower carb count and a higher veggie and fruit intake. K Your body is in turmoil from the surgery. It will dictate to you what it wants at this point. You are in the honeymoon phase and will loss weight. Your geared for it... Do me a favor and don't weigh yourself every day. Just look at how your clothes are fitting you and the changes in your body for now...People get way to caught up in the numbers... Protein, water, veggies, fruit, carbs.....

When I was in the place you are now they actually showed me one...They are titanium and fairly small. I sure hope it works for you Ana. They tried so hard for me with them too. But alas that did not work for me either....You however have a great chance.. Then you will be on your way and you will appreciate what you have been through more because you have worked for it. And won't abuse it RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!

Everyone goes through what you are feeling right now...It is a good reminder for all of us to have a little fear of gaining it back. Means we will have to keep on our toes all the time. Following a few good changes like better quality food, high Protein and complex carbs, fruit and veggies...lots of Water and exercise. You will start to feel like you have the world in your hands... Your going do great because you are already afraid..A healthy fear is good! It protects you!!!!

Never saw this post....I was sleeve on November the 6th 2012 as well. I am so glad to see that others did well that day and all was better and better along the way....Maybe it was my day for everything to go to h*ll. I don't know... Nice thing is I am still alive..Getting better and glad I did this in spite of everything that did and is still going bad because of complications...... Hope there is a pile of successful WLS patients for this day in history

I don't believe the doctor has given up on you. There has to be a reason why he has not contacted you yet. Maybe he feels that it will close on its own as well. KEEP the tube in...It is for your protection so that fluids don't escape. Then you would get another abscess and make matters worse. Ana...Hun you really need to calm down and when they do contact you. DO what they tell you okay. Keep calling Ana, as you are your only advocate in this. The 7th of April is not that far away. They might want to give your sleeve a rest.....Always try to look at things in a positive way and don't sabotage the Doctors plans for you.....

Okay with all that you said here hun. did they put the stent back in like they said they were going to. Or do they think your sleeve needs a rest. Because if they think that...the answer is no it does not! I need more details about what they did after they removed the stent

Maybe just maybe you will be one that makes a difference in this uniformed area. Who knows how many people you are going to help...Good for you for saving yourself and going to be able to educate those who do not keep up with medical journals in their own professions.... No one knows it all and if you are responsible for lives..You should have a really good idea of what you may or may not be dealing with. Peoples lives are depending on it....

I'm looking for quality friends.... You seem very nice! Thank you!

A woman I knew for so many years. I was friends with her and at the time of my surgery she was on the same floor and had some procedure done. I was a prisoner in my bed as most of you know as I could not walk. Her friends and family visited her in the hospital and for several days. They came in and out of the area I was in. Not one of her family member came to see me or even peeked their heads in to say how are you or nothing. Later when I was home under nurses care, they pulled into my driveway and her husband went to the garage where my husband was working on a hobby of his and told him that he never knew I was at the hospital and that I had been so sick... My husband thanked him for coming but knew that he was lying right to his face. They knew I was there because another friend of mine kept him and his family in the loop about me being so ill. He was shocked when he saw me before this in the hospital. I had to see plastics. He worked in that area. He looked at me but did not know it was me until my hubby stood behind my wheel chair and he literally gasped. ( I think then it really dawned on him that I had almost died ) The next week is when they came to our driveway and this wife was there because she wanted to take a peek at me and see for herself if it was all true. I did not go outside as I still could not manage the steps. The reason I am recounting this story is because I saw her at the hospital last Friday and she and I were not 5 feet away from each other. I smiled at her because I am that kind of person. It is natural for me to just do that. She gave me the once over and furrowed her brows. i know she must have been in pain. But she could have smiled. As we walked past each other our shoulders were less then a foot apart and she just kept right on going. Years ago she depended on me to take her diabetic mother back and forth to the hospital. Once her mother even had a heart attack in the back seat of my car. Other things I was there for her too...but things changed with everyone I know once I had a nervous break down and went into a deep depression. Everyone stopped see me or talking to me... I believe that she did not have a clue who I was. As I walked past her I smiled to myself and you know why? Because I don't care anymore about any of my former friends. It is a new beginning for me and since I don't look anything like the former me I don't have to fake it and be all nice and friendly when I know they don't give a Damn... I am growing up folks. I am going forward and am realizing that not only have I changed on the outside but the changes on the inside are happening as well.... Just thought I would share!

I'm in the middle of a deep clean and organizing...sure could use you to help me with that!!

Way to go Recycled....You may have given him a much longer life...Must feel good!!!!!

That's your head hunger kicking in...if you were to keep on eating you would get sick..See it for what it is and kick it to the curb! Good for you, you are starting to read your body!!!

Don't be too kind you'll make me cry!

Thanks Rev's, your always a doll!

I had a car accident 3 years ago. It took 6 very strong people to carry me on a board to the ambulance. I managed to turn and see only 2 carrying another accident victim to the ambulance...horrified I started right then to ball like a baby. i was already set to have surgery but had wished I did not have to wait 4 years for it... I also fainted once because I blew out a rib and the ambulance was told they needed extra help as the woman was over 300 lbs. That went over every radio in the city... A few weeks later I stumbled and my husband said If you fall I will have to call an ambulance to pick you up because I can't. He was not mean it mean or anything... It was just fact.... All the way up to my surgery I was abused like most of you were. Now after all of this....I have decided I will not tolerate it if I see it hear it or learn about these ignorant comments.....I will react..I will take no prisoners! Thank you for your story...I have tears running down my face........

Saint John N.B Canada...Really needs help....I am open to anything I can do to bring this about! @@Alex Brecher

Sorry....did not read enough about you....So glad you did not do any of that with a fresh surgery...Dang girl...Talk about hurt... We all have times before , during and after we have surgery to learn what is our triggers that make us want to eat.....You just found one of yours...Maybe keep a Protein bar in your car. Or some nuts that you enjoy....

I am trying to figure out how you got all that in your sleeve/bypass or band? don't see which one you have had....

I have been prescribed Vagifem 10 any trouble for any of you with this product.. ​So far my pain has lessened some......

Get up run as fast as you can and catch up to that wagon. Jump and and continue your journey. Get back to basics and call it a day.....You can do this and stay away from drive throughs...That food is just nasty!

Give her some time. Everyone handles grief and loss differently..Take what she said with a whole cup of salt and go on. She will be there after. She is worried she will lose you too. Don't take what she says personally at a time of great grief to her. She probably has no idea how it came out...Pain can do that to you... A year from now if she says it. I suggest guns a blazing....For now she needs support too.... Do what you need to do for you and the welfare of your family. It is your choice to be healthy and happy and there for your children. Not hers!

Try spending 5 months in the hospital due to complications with the sleeve. Leak, septic, 14 surgeries, coma, feeding tube for almost 5 months. Having a Trachea, temperature. Learn to walk again, talk again, write again, eat again, category 5 bed sore. Lost all my hair...I could go on and on.....A total of 87 lbs. went off during that stay. The rest was me working the program. And now I am into exercise...All a slow and painful process to get where I am and to continue... But I am alive and the world is my oyster and I do not regret one thing that happened to me because I am really alive and finally living after so long in chronic pain...Plus I had a dedicated team that worked with me and still do.....

If your post menopausal you are likely to have some form of this happen to you as well.... Hate the get older game..Just not fair..Kids gone, more time with hubby and then bang....It isn't working properly and you can't go crazy......dang it anyway!

Yes my sister mentioned this product to me.. I will give it a try. Hope it comes in an extra large tube...lol

No I did not but I did not know that I was post menopausal either. Apparently it happens to every woman at this stage. I would think by now they would have a better collusion. But the surgeon told me the risks of cancer this way is very, very, small. My sister is sure she got breast cancer from this treatment only she used the cream. I can already feel a difference when the pill is inserted...Not as painful!