skinnyandrich

That's really positive. I'm hoping my change if meds will do the trick. I'm happy to lose slowly just not this slowly!!

I know this thread is pretty old but I wondered how you were both doing. Has your weightloss kept coming off? I'm 6 weeks out from my sleeve after having my band removed 4 months earlier, my surgeon said the band had slipped and there was a massive amount if scarring that he wanted to heal for a while before doing the sleeve surgery. I had my band for about 6 years and had not lost any weight after the first 20kg. I was happy enough because it at least stopped me putting on any more weight. I started having chest pains and after all the tests to make sure it wasn't my heart my band surgeon thought the pain could be due to my band so he ordered a barium swallow. The barium swallow technician found something far more interesting that he said I needed to get checked immediately. I had nodules on my thyroid. i had told my gp that I felt there was something wrong with my thyroid but he pretty much told me it was in my head. Anyway in a whirlwind week I was diagnosed with cancer and was in hospital having a total thyroidectomy and six weeks later high dose radiation therapy. My life has not been the same since. Even with the sleeve I can't loose weight. I found a really great dr who found out that my body didn't convert the thyroxin into the t3 hormone which is the active thyroid hormone that our body's use for everyday functions. I've been on that for 8 months and its made no difference. I still have all the hypo symptoms. Today he has decided that from looking at my blood tests my body isn't absorbing the t3 med so now he is changing that and increasing my dose. He says I should notice a huge difference in about a week and a half. I'm hoping that now instead of losing about half a pound a week through sheer starvation that my body will start releasing some of these terrible fat cells it seems to love holding onto. I'd love to hear from anyone else who had had thyroid cancer and been able to feel good again AND be successful with losing weight with their sleeve. Cheers Tracie

I'm exactly the same as you Debrry, 14 days today and only 8.8# (I'm in kg so have to convert) and scared this isn't going to work for me. I've been up and down the same kilo over the past 4 days (1kg = 2.2 pounds). It's driving me nuts.

I was sleeved on 22nd Jan. Lost 8.8 in first week and half and nothing since. I have actually even put on and off 2# twice in the last week. I'm an ex bander and have had thyroid cancer so had my thyroid removed in the last 12 months. I'm so scared this isn't going to work and I'm going to be stuck like this forever.