KevinL

I will be two months post op on the 22nd of Dec, and i am noticing that i am going to have some (not much) flab down at my lower stomach area, sometimes it gets pinched when bending over, not real comfortable. I was wondering what kind of excercises would i need to do to try to get that extra to suck up, or is it not possible and i have to have surgery to take care of it? thanks for any input Kevin I am down 72lbs from 337

Is there such a thing as too much too fast? I Started my pre op diet on Oct 12, 2012, my begin wieght was 337, yesterday was my 4 week post op mark, and I wieghed myself this morning and I am down to 278, if i am not mistaken thats 59lbs. Granted I was down to 309 the day of the surgery on Oct 22, 2012. but altogether it seems like its a lot of lbs to loose in a short amount of time. I beleave I will slow down as soon as I can start to eat better, but as it is now I am not holding down much, I can do a protien shake, it takes about an hour to get down, I can eat some soft foods like yogurt and apple sauce but only about three very small bites at a time, then i am done for hours. I had my surgery done out of the US, for a couple reasons, first of all the bariatric surgen would not even talk to me because I take narcartics for pain, plus the local surgen wants 25K to 30K so I went out of the country (Mexico), The doctors and nurses were exeplery they were so nice and accomidating to our every need it seemed like, but the only problem is there is no follow up care which i would have thought that if you follow the diet like it says there should not be any problems, but to my surprise there are unforseen things that one just does not think about, like I think the doctor might have made my stomach pouch too small be cause it is really hard to keep anything down, but maybe this is the way its suppose to be, time will tell.

Thank You Tink, How are you doing? Praying for you kathy

hi, I am so sorry you are having this problem, a leak is a fear I have for my husband and I am sure I am not alone in that. what were the signs you noticed before you went to the Dr. How did they find it and what can they do ? It seems some Dr. are recluant - especially if like in my husbands case you did not have it done in the US. my husband kevin was sleeved 10/22/2012 I will keep you in my prayers and so I wish I knew more and were of some help.

yep , your not the only one, but with me I have always hated water unless it was a very hot day and the water was ice cold, any other time the water had to be mixed with anything that would flavor my wife always got on me be cause I could always drink my calories and probly is one of the reasons that i have had to had the sleeve now I am 4 weeks post op and am drinking watered down juice "grape" and orange" I tried to drink strawberry banana V8 fusion but that did not taste right to me and i could not keep it down. I don't do cyrstal light but i can do the wal mart generic brand of the stuff.