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No regrets best 1200 dollars ever spread ... Insurance paid the rest Sent from my iPhone 5 using VST

No cramps I did have regular coffee though Sent from my iPhone 5 using VST

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I respectfully have to disagree science have proven it years of studies and data went into it for them to reach this conclusion.the surgery takes part of the stomach out that produces chemical that send hunger signals to brain.Obviously eod its simple calories in vs calories burned equation but a lot more goes into it. If it was that easy no one would be going thru the surgery there r greater factors here than just simple will power.You remind me of my arrogant cousins who r super skinny eat all day do no work out but always had something to say to me even though I used to eat much less than them they had faster metabolism and genetics played big hand in it.I went thru every diet possible , hypnotism even went to 2 month weight loss yoga retreat ate only boiled food but gained all the weight back because I am human and it takes more than will power to continue eating boiled food or no carbs for the rest of my life when my brain is telling me I'm starving my body is doing the same it's a constant struggle . Surgery does more than just limiting our food intake . It's change our taste . Our brain is not getting hunger signal all the time hell I stopped taking insulin and BP meds only after 9 days. Btw I might be wrong along with 100 of other people on this form . My humble request is why don't you enlighten with your facts. I am sure these researchers and most of us patients don't know any better and by the way of it you sound like an expert . It will be very kind of you to post your research here and show us the way. Sent from my iPhone 5 using VST

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Guys being obese is a disease its a constant struggle my insurance paid 100 % for the surgery cause they know its a proven tool I think its more of a perception of people to think that we can lose weight on our own I wish it was that simple. I used to cry when I was a kid my cousins who r super skinny used to eat so much and I used to be chubby while eating much less and much healthier food. So this disease is as serious as heart disease after only 9 days of surgery my doctor told me to immediately stop using insulin, high BP medicine and metmorphine First time in 6 years I don't have to inject in my stomach anymore twice a day to me it's the best thing any obese person can do. Sent from my iPhone 5 using VST

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Just went to my doctor 9 days post OP he told me to stop taking insulin , metaprol , metformin wow guys best decision of my life ..... Sent from my iPhone 5 using VST

Thankyou even my sleep apnea is much better doctor wants me to go for sleep study after 60 days to see if I need CPAP machine my back pain is completely gone ......I feel so good...doctor told me to only take cholesterol medicine. Sent from my iPhone 5 using VST

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You are 100% right it's scientifically proven ....please click on the link incase any one have any doubts For years, studies of obesity have found that soon after fat people lost weight, their metabolism slowed and they experienced hormonal changes that increased their appetites. Scientists hypothesized that these biological changes could explain why most obese dieters quickly gained back much of what they had so painfully lost. But now a group of Australian researchers have taken those investigations a step further to see if the changes persist over a longer time frame. They recruited healthy people who were either overweight or obese and put them on a highly restricted diet that led them to lose at least 10 percent of their body weight. They then kept them on a diet to maintain that weight loss. A year later, the researchers found that the participants’ metabolism and hormone levels had not returned to the levels before the study started. The study, being published Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine, is small and far from perfect, but confirms their convictions about why it is so hard to lose weight and keep it off, say obesity researchers who were not involved the study. They cautioned that the study had only 50 subjects, and 16 of them quit or did not lose the required 10 percent of body weight. And while the hormones studied have a logical connection with weight gain, the researchers did not show that the hormones were causing the subjects to gain back their weight. Nonetheless, said Dr. Rudolph Leibel, an obesity researcher at Columbia, while it is no surprise that hormone levels changed shortly after the participants lost weight, “what is impressive is that these changes don’t go away.” Dr. Stephen Bloom, an obesity researcher at Hammersmith Hospital in London, said the study needed to be repeated under more rigorous conditions, but added, “It is showing something I believe in deeply — it is very hard to lose weight.” And the reason, he said, is that “your hormones work against you.” In the study, Joseph Proietto and his colleagues at the University of Melbourne recruited people who weighed an average of 209 pounds. At the start of the study, his team measured the participants’ hormone levels and assessed their hunger and appetites after they ate a boiled egg, toast, margarine, orange juice and crackers for Breakfast. The dieters then spent 10 weeks on a very low calorie regimen of 500 to 550 calories a day intended to makes them lose 10 percent of their body weight. In fact, their weight loss averaged 14 percent, or 29 pounds. As expected, their hormone levels changed in a way that increased their appetites, and indeed they were hungrier than when they started the study. They were then given diets intended to maintain their weight loss. A year after the subjects had lost the weight, the researchers repeated their measurements. The subjects were gaining the weight back despite the maintenance diet — on average, gaining back half of what they had lost — and the hormone levels offered a possible explanation. One hormone, leptin, which tells the brain how much body fat is present, fell by two-thirds immediately after the subjects lost weight. When leptin falls, appetite increases and metabolism slows. A year after the weight loss diet, leptin levels were still one-third lower than they were at the start of the study, and leptin levels increased as subjects regained their weight. Other hormones that stimulate hunger, in particular ghrelin, whose levels increased, and peptide YY, whose levels decreased, were also changed a year later in a way that made the subjects’ appetites stronger than at the start of the study. The results show, once again, Dr. Leibel said, that losing weight “is not a neutral event,” and that it is no accident that more than 90 percent of people who lose a lot of weight gain it back. “You are putting your body into a circumstance it will resist,” he said. “You are, in a sense, more metabolically normal when you are at a higher body weight.” A solution might be to restore hormones to normal levels by giving drugs after dieters lose weight. But it is also possible, said Dr. Jules Hirsch of Rockefeller University, that researchers just do not know enough about obesity to prescribe solutions. One thing is clear, he said: “A vast effort to persuade the public to change its habits just hasn’t prevented or cured obesity.” “We need more knowledge,” Dr. Hirsch said. “Condemning the public for their uncontrollable hedonism and the food industry for its inequities just doesn’t seem to be turning the tide.” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/health/biological-changes-thwart-weight-loss-efforts-study-finds.html?_r=1& Sent from my iPhone 5 using VST

I am 10 days post op and really backed up can i have milk of magnesia ???? Sent from my iPhone 5 using VST

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I have Aetna and I was fully apporoved Sent from my iPhone 5 using VST

And that's fine with me I have my doubts regarding the motive of this person also this person never logged in and commented after posting they only have 1 post. It bothered me what this person wrote at the end of the post basically telling people not to go thru it. All the surgeries have risks and its our job to look and study about all pros and cons.Unfortunately I don't agree that if you are scared the surgery is not for you everyone is different . But this surgery is for everyone who is tired of yo yo dieting , tired of being diabetic , high BP , sleep apnea , back pains this surgery is a life saver and a life changer......you might be one of the people like me who is strong minded and doesn't get influenced easily but then there are people who just need a little push who know the risks but are scared then they read a story and in the end the person is telling them don't get that surgery well a few people might not have 6 months to live they finally made their mind but now are having doubts again because of this post .... It doesn't mean people shouldn't post their exp but to me the sole purpose of the post is to scare people Sent from my iPhone 5 using VST