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Nice one, thanks danelle. It's my birthday on the 22nd and I'm wishing the same for everyone

Hi all, it's now Tuesday morning adelaide time and I was sleeved yesterday arvo. All went well, thankfully they gave me a preop cocktail to calm my nerves. Some pain last night when the nurses took ages to bring more pain relief but all good now. No nausea so far. Jus saw the doc he said I had a lot of scarring from my previous lap band but he's taken as much of my stomach as he could. Now it's just rest, sip, rest, sip. So far it's been no where near as bad as I was expecting! Hope my fellow 20th may sleevers are doing well

Hun you don't look pathetic!! I saw it but I'm just not ready to share my fat pics until I've got a fabulous 'after' photo to put next to it... Hopefully in a few months

I'm being sleeved by dr France in adelaide, australia where are all of you guys?

Good luck all! I'm heading to the hospital in about 4 hours... And the nerves are really kicking in now! I hope the surgeons having a good day and got plenty of rest last night, he better not have been out having beers at the pub, i need steady hands Lol!!!

Good luck to you all for tomorrow, wishing you all a speedy recovery. Geez I'm so nervous, I can't sleep!!

Wow! You look amazing!!

It's gone fast hey, can't believe it's in less than a week! Lost 6.3 kilos (nearly 14 pounds) so far and my jeans fit so much better already! How are you all going?

Hi Robyn, I'm having mine on the 20th I know what you mean. We will be fine though! I feel like time goes so fast and I know the surgery will be a distant memory before I know it! Good luck to you

Hey, I don't know about the "doing it all at once" thing but I had been told that because I've had the band before I might not lose as much weight... But I've seen some really great results on here of people who revised from lap band. I'm just taking it with a grain of salt- I figure if I follow the rules why wouldn't I lose just as much? Best of luck to you :)I'm getting sleeved on the 20th, yay!

Good luck mate! I'm sure you'll do great

Enjoy it lovely ladies! I've been on the pre op diet for 3 weeks now, I've lost 3.5kgs, so I'm pretty happy with that, but man o man it's been hard at times. I've had a couple of meals in that time where I didn't follow it exact (a wedding and a lunch) but still picked a relatively healthy choice. 2 weeks to go!!!!! Yeah!! Yeah!!! Yeah!!!

I had a band for 7 and a half years... started having a lot of trouble with reflux and vomiting at about year 4 but put up with it because i was scared to have it taken out (i had lost nearly 40 kilos).... but then i started gaining weight anyway because it always had to be unfilled to try and settle the reflux. So last year i decided to revise to a sleeve. I had the band removed in November - lucky i did too because it had slipped and 'was a mess' (the words of my surgeon that removed it). Ive been waiting since then for my stomach to heal and will be sleeved in just over 2 weeks. Ive regained a lot of weight but let me tell you - having that band out was like a huge sigh of relief! My doc seems confident that the healing time will reduce the risks significantly, considering how mangled my stomach was, but maybe thats just his process - I see lots of people on here that do the revision in one step and have great recovery and results. Im scared still but excited at the same time. Best of luck

Wow. just wow.... congrats on your success! im getting sleeved in 2 weeks and am starting to get nervous, but geez youve just inspired me!!! thanks

Hi ladies I'm also booked for may 20th! I'm from adelaide, australia. I've already started a 5 week optifast pre-op diet and it sucks :/ The 20th may cannot come fast enough!! ))

just wanted to say good luck all.....im starting my pre-op diet tomorrow....all 5 weeks of it! ( I thought it was only going to be 2 weeks but my surgeon sprung that horrifying news on me a couple of days ago....so the last two days have been one big food funeral lol

wow! you look amazing! an inspiration

Thank you for sharing your story! it sucks you had to go through the surgery twice :/ but im so happy for you that you are now on track )

Good luck mate!! )) I'm sure it will all go great