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Definitely. It is well worth the wait. I was hung up for nearly a year. It was both a blessing and a curse. The wait gave me time to consider everything and cope with the changes that were taking place.

A few days ago, my father's company's insurance changed. Upon looking through the files of what is covered and what isn't it turns out that weight loss surgery is covered. I'm a 20 year old college student and I'm grossly overweight. We've discussed the surgical option a few times, and it had never been an actual option, because it was so expensive. But now, it's an option. I've been doing nothing but researching the options for the past few days. I went to the seminar, and I think I'm going to do it, I scheduled my consultation with the surgeon , it's on Tuesday, I'm really excited. It's the first step on the road to my new life.

The waiting game is awful!

It was one of the first things I noticed when I woke up from surgery. I have had constant acid and heart burn for a few years, so when it was gone, I noticed. It's a great feeling.

I got stir crazy and needed out of the house.

Oh yes. I was used to consistant heartburn. When I woke up the first thing I noticed was that my esophagus wasnt on fire. Then I realized that I had been stabbed and rearranged and promptly demanded pain meds. Lol

I was able to drive about a week out. 24 hours after I last took narcotics

Welcome! I hope your surgery went well. For gas. Walk as much as possible. And I took chewable gas ex. It helped. Best of luck.

Instantly! I went in to surgery with heart burn and woke up with out it.

Congratulations! This surgery is by far the best decision I've ever made. I look back at this post, from almost a year ago, and I'm shocked to see how much my life has changed. Since this post, I've gotten out of a horrible relationship, became closer to my parents, Weeded out an enormous amount of toxic people from my life. Gone through thousands of hoops, gone back to school, and now it's 7 weeks, and four days since my surgery. I'm down 54 pounds, all of my GERD symptoms are gone, and I'm slowly gaining my life back. It's a long journey, but it's definitely worth it.

I had GERD issues also before surgery. Now, all my symptoms are gone! It's wonderful.

I have three quarters of a bottle left. I am just keeping it. Just in case.

My nut explain to me that our pouch is like a funnel. You put liquids in to it it goes right through allowing you to consume more. You put soft foods it goes through simi easily allowing yo to consume more than heavy food that just sits there for a bit before slowly draining out.

Congrats! You look great!

I'm 21, I had my surgery April 25th. Welcome

Tomorrow is another day. I hope your conference goes better. Oh, and you should get your sister to carry 100lbs excess weight and see how she feels. Lol.

My doc said that Tylenol was fine to take.

The only prescription I was given was for the pain medication. (liquid Hydrocodone) In the hospital they gave me several shots, one was a blood thinner for clots, and an antacid shot, and there were a couple more but my hospital stay is very foggy now.

Listen to your body, Take a minute between bites. AND Chew Chew Chew.

I take a dose of Milk of Mag about once a week to keep my BMs normal. After the first week I was so constipated it literally felt like I was being ripped open. I took the milk o mag and about an hour later it was all good.

I have the same feeling, I forget to eat most of the time, I've taken to setting timers every 4 hours, telling myself to nibble on something. I feel full ALL THE TIME! I don't have cravings anymore, so I forget. Last week I had realized that I hadn't eaten anything for almost 48 hours. And It was a little scary, I got dizzy and weak, and very very irritable. I didn't realize that it was from hunger. Set timers, and make yourself eat. We need the calories. Best of luck.

I've felt that way my entire life. Where I feel like I'm the biggest one in the room. I've adapted the mind set that it doesn't matter what these people think, It's only what I think about myself that matters. Hold your head high, and tell yourself that you are doing something about it. I shattered my kneecap when I was 15. It hurts every day. But I've taken to doing low impact exercising, swimming mostly, and It gets a little bit better once you get moving. Best of luck.

Experiment with temperatures. I can't drink anything unless is super, super, cold. If it's hot, warm or lukewarm, I can't do it. It makes me feel ugghgh. (yes, The only way I can describe the feeling is with ugh) With real foods I can tolerate more of a variety of temperatures, but I can't do leftovers. It's been a lot of trial and error with my foods, I've thrown up more in the past three-four weeks than I have in the past 10 years. It's not pleasant. I'm about 7 weeks out, and much better than I was the first couple weeks.