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Well like some have said this surgery is not new, just new as a stand alone or weight loss surgery. My husbands grandmother had the surgery in 1960 at the age of 60! She had the surgery because she had stomach cancer. She was heavy when she died however because in those days they wanted you to eat to keep up your strength. So she opened a lunch counter where she served (and drank) goats milk milkshakes!! As for the surgery taking years off her life she died happy and pretty darn healthy at 93!

Almost 7 weeks out. Went out to lunch today and had about 1/5 of a salad and a small piece of bread. There is nothing my sleeve dosent like so far. So far! ;-(

I had an onQ when I broke my ankle in 3 places and had surgery, LOVED IT!!!!

Me too. Nothing but the glycerin swabs. If they haven't given you some ask for them.

My mom had a robotic hysterectomy and I talked to the surgeon about what made robotic better over laparoscopic (for that particular surgery. ) He said there is less trauma to the body and organs with robotic since the pivot point of the instruments are inside the body, and therefore can be manipulated to do more intricate moves. With lap the instruments are pretty much a straight piece and the dr has to use the weight of his body outside to move them so it's a much less precise way to do surgery, and can cause more trauma to the body. One of you surgical types on here chime in and let me know if this is true....

Your friends have memory problems if they can't remember ;p lol It feels like your c-section where they cut thru the muscle because that's what they did, cut thru the muscle and pulled your bouncing baby stomach out. For me it HURT for weeks! And then I carried groceries in from trader joes and I think I pulled the healing muscle. I couldn't even bend over!!! Stopped hurting about 4 weeks out, and while that scar is still nasty looking, it's flattening out. Baby sis says to lightly rub in a circular motion to try and break up the scar tissue/adhesions on my scars.

Have you already applied to the insurance company and been denied? Or are you just reading your policy?

I gained 4 lbs about week 4 it's taken me 2 1/2 weeks to get it back off and it's continuing to creep downward. Good luck and keep going.

Just looked at my own ticker and realised I've lost 20% of my excess weight in 7 weeks! WOW its amazing how perspective enters into all this....

April 29th down 19.4 since 3 days before surgery (7 weeks today). Sooo I'm a normal to slow loser.... About 2 1/2 or so pounds a week overall. Little frustrated, I keep doing the lose, gain, platau, gain, lose dance. Oh well I know it, its just driving me crazy.

I'm fine and not hungry until I start to eat, and then all bets are off. I don't know if I turn on my gastric juices or what.... Ahhh Always been this way to a certain extent, but it seems worse now. Help!

I keep saying my goal is 10 lbs less than my younger sister!! My goal was always 150 but then I started reading the 60-70% stats and decided I better lower it to have more motivation, so I dropped my goal to 135. Haven't asked my surgeon what her goal for me is.

Yah after gaining weight I was alway 110/70, always low back when I was a normal weight. It was low after surgery, why couldn't have been the blood sugar that was perfect after surgery.

How's your blood pressure. Mine after a hot bath a couple of weeks ago was like 76/45. Pcp said just be careful and try to take a cooler bath.

How's your blood pressure. Mine after a hot bath a couple of weeks ago was like 76/45. Pcp said just be careful and try to take a cooler bath.

Dennisons puried with some melted cheese and a half a teaspoon of sour cream is yumm!

I was told that if you could to have your doctor approve you as step one of a two step process. That way if a year or two down the road you decide you want the second step the first will not count against you if your insurance institutes a one surgery per lifetime restriction. Fwiw

Purée is taking scrambled eggs Soup chili whatever and pureeing it in the blender. Soft is scramble eggs etc not blended. My dr has a 3 3 3 plan. NOTHING by mouth until you pass leak test day 2 then 3 days clear liquids 3 weeks liquids 3 weeks soft The nut is totally different. I like the drs better.

Liquid lortab one week. Tried to cut it down in the hospital but the pain got away from me, it was bad!! As soon as my drain came out I was good!

I really think that depends on WHEN you had your surgery. I had mine almost 6 years ago and I did a ton of research, but right around that time people were just starting to lose their bands. It was also around that time that the new and improved band was released that would deal with all the problems people were starting to have.

Central Oregon lapband revision to sleeve April 29th. My surgeon was Nguthey Hughes in Redmond, I LOVE that woman!!!

Call lindstrom law offices, they were not as expensive as I thought they would be. They even advised me to do the peer to peer before hiring them. We did the peer to peer and was accepted so never had to hire them, but.....

If that's her only reason just measure it out. I have been eating guacamole, measuring out 2 tbl and tracking. To me you can overeat ANYTHING you put your mind to. ( makes me wonder if the NUT overeats this particular food).

Yep OUCH!!! I needed to cough sooo bad but it hurt!!! Surprised I didn't end up pneumonia

Sorry if I scared you didn't mean to! :-( but know someone who had a blood clot go to her lungs, so I possibly over reacted. That said if you start feeling worse go to the ER. Glad you called!