Joni Lynn

Hello everyone, I'm on the road to getting my rny. I'm looking at end of December. seeking out anyone who may have had surgery by dr. Clark at JBER Alaska. I would love to hear your expierence with him and your surgery experience as well. Thank you.

@@elpasovet I just noticed it was you jess

My surgery is February 19th. Anyone around that day? I'm getting nervous and am looking for someone to bond with over this.

I'm already following you @@RNYDawn I'm trapped Skinny Girl

@@RNYDawn are you on instagram?

surgery scheduled for Feb 19 in Anchorage. by dr clark at JBER

what a beautiful bride

you look amazing

mine is the 19th I would love to be surgery buddies

So I had my labs ,chest xray, and ekg. My doctor called and said my b12 was normal but he wanted it higher for surgery, he said my folic acid was on the lower end of normal, so he wanted me to up that. He then said my vitamin D was really low. Which is very normal for Alaskans. He wants me to get 5,000to 6,000 mg per day. So I am on a pill that is 50,000mg once a week. Last he said I have hypothyroidism. That I needed to get a plan of action with my regular doctor. He dais I will lose weight with surgery, but with out help the surgery over time would be a failure. This explains so much. In the past several months I have migraines like crazy, I'm tired, and gaining weight like crazy. Anyone else find out they had hypothyroidism after your labs? My doctor isn't in the office right now, so another doc wants to do nothing now, redraw labs on the 5th of october. Then start meds if the labs are the same. My life took a huge turn yesterday. It's great to finally have answers, but it's so new and sucky.

What makes our worse is its all army docs. I have no choice.

Thank you so much. Keep up the great work.

I recently downloaded this app, as another resource for me to gain information, on the steps I'm about to take for the rest of my life. I am a happily married, mother of four and a cancer survivor. Right there are reasons enough to celebrate. After I had a life-saving surgery I gained over 100 pounds the first year following my surgery. As I was gaining the weight so rapidly it didn't really bother me. I have always been a little larger than most girls. And while it is not something that I celebrated being overweight, I have a husband who loves me genuinely the way I am and my children are so pure of heart and had never said a word about it. I have always worked very hard at trying to lose weight and my motivation has always been there for a while. but would die out.. I have tried many pills, shakes, diets, exercise routines and have shelled out a lot of money just like I am sure most of you have too. This past year it has been harder and harder for me to lose weight and I was just putting out way more money than I was making in order to figure out a way to make this happen. A few things this past year happened to me that really was a wake up call first off being told that I am pre-diabetic and if I didn't do something about it now would affect my future, I had a major surgery on my right ankle after falling in a hole. That ankle often gives out on me and I ended up falling down a flight of stairs several months later, resulting in breaking my other ankle. With this I ended up gaining more weight. And now both ankles have problems and doing cardio is a lot tougher for me I now have to seek out ways to do cardio that do not involve excess strain on my ankles. I have slowly watched my self esteem fall, I have slowly watched my pants no longer fitting in a size 16 but moving up to an 18/20. The weight is now coming on so fast it hurts me physically. I can feel my skin stretching. I notice I get winded easily walking, going upstairs, playing with my children. I have experienced a lot more headaches. I have to take a hormone pill every day because I have had a full hysterectomy. The lack of proper hormones in my system has made my metabolism plummet. My moods are incredibly all over the place. Now that I notice my weight a lot more I have developed social anxiety. Locally where I live a bunch of women here targeted me and made fun of me on social media.. That was my breaking point, when I realized how overweight I really was. I tried really hard not to let those girls get to me because who are they anyway? What do they matter? But let's be honest what they did hurt a lot. So I have found myself staying inside a lot more, dreading going up flights of stairs. Improperly eating. I am NOT an emotional eater, I normally feed my emotions with shopping. But I noticed that since I am too embarrassed to leave my home that I have been eating a little more than normal. Which as we all know puts on weight. And that is really the first time I have admitted that out loud. This last year on several occasions my children have drawn family pictures and have made me round instead of a stick figure. I started talking to my family doctor about what they could do to help me with weight loss. And it wasn't so much that I was seeking out surgery at the time. But to see a nutritionist and get this under control. I even had a breast reduction in order to help me with cardio better. Nothing was working. I genuinely want to live to see my grandchildren and I do not want to get diabetes, and I really would love to cherish and appreciate the skin I am in.. I want to be active, I really want to love myself again.. I have done many of the things required for weight loss surgery and have a few left that need to be done and I am looking at surgery in the next couple of months. I'm doing a lot of research and trying to understand 100% what I'm about to get myself into. The good the bad the very ugly. I have been very blessed that I have a friend I have been able to physically see in person her journey this past year who had the rny. Recently someone brought to my attention about experience that is going on with my surgeon, and it really freaked me out. Fortunately for me, my surgeon is pretty awesome and I was able to call and talk to him over the phone. My surgeon is an hour plane flight away and I will have to go there to have my surgery. So I was pretty worried about him being so far away. Hopefully being far away from him and a military spouse will not hinder my recovery. I look forward to this adventure good or bad I have a really pretty dress size 8 that is my personal goal. I can't wait until this time next year to hopefully show it all to you with me in it. -Joni

Sadly I am going alone

They don't have a surgeon here who does the rny. Sleeve only.

Anyone know of anyone who has had surgery by dr clark at jber?

How is your weight loss going?

In in fairbanks, having surgery in Anchorage, would love a supportive group to meet with.

I'm in fairbanks, having surgery in Anchorage

I am so thrilled to hear this journey in your life is starting. I can't wait to hear about it.