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Lucky you, I had 3 months here. No no, it's not necessary, was jokingly answering OMI's question for the OP, LOL.

Thread from 5 years ago.. they're long gone.

Make sure to be on them to ensure your painkillers are given at regular intervals, and that the barium/leak tests are done adequately and timely. Get on your feet and walk as soon as you can, and push them when they get the thumbs up to test out a clear or full fluids diet to make sure you're set to go home.

Is that to me? If so, Calgary, Alberta. How long was your pre-op?

Have fun. Chances are you'll wake up after surgery and realize it wasn't so bad. Just make sure they run your painkillers through the IV at regular intervals.

Spoken like someone who clearly gets no attention from anyone. We were just posting in another thread, then you come here and make a post, doesn't take much searching to find where your prior posts are matey. Anyways, my last response to you, clearly you're desperate for attention, and humor is all but lost on you.

So is this a non scale victory?

As a fellow Californian I don't think I ever needed Vitamin D supplements until I moved to Canada. tbh I dunno, maybe talk to family doctor or psychiatrist... less weight means do more, get your butt outside! I notice you said in a prior post you're from EPA. While I'd never want to live there, you're also really close to stuff. Are you a concert person? You're really close to Shoreline Amp (and can check out my ex-employer Google while you're there in MV), tis the season for concerts! That's where I went to most of the Ozzfests I ever attended.

@Cass ElliotI just noticed you're in Canada.. did you have surgery here or in Mexico? And how long was your pre-op diet?

Some people are just hopeless.

Any progress updates? I know you're less than a month from surgery.. hows the pre-op diet?

After posts like this, below, I'd worry more about being able to talk to them first way before this step.

Ugh, me too. I just hate when I have my manperiod.

Take Howard Stern.. he's said he's small and it doesn't matter. For some women it really doesn't, especially if you have a great personality, or if you're rich, or if you get them off in a way that satisfies them.. whatever it may be. We all have characteristics we can't control that others can't tolerate, or don't want. Because everyone has their own preferences and there isn't anything wrong with that, so long as they're satisfied with the results. Worrying about things you can't control won't change those things, and whining about it won't make it any more appealing. No sense in changing what we can't control, so enjoy what you have, make the best of life.

First off, I'm not a chick.. so getting defensive and suggesting I have a vagina the size of the Lincoln Tunnel makes no sense. Secondly, I've no idea what I'm saying that triggers you, but I wish you luck with whatever problems caused it. I mean, it's more so one doesn't get to the point of sex and find themselves in a position where they're denied, wasting everyones time and likely adding to the psychological damage the guy has. I agree that one shouldn't announce it, but guys tend to be the ones that initialize things to getting to that point. So yeah, if a guy is trying to get things there, I think at some point if he's got a baby sized wiener he should man up and tell her, or at least bring the conversation to a subtle point where that is implied. Regarding women, that happens too, and women have warned me before, but not about being "loose", but some women have a deeper vaginal cavity. Some women are literally always wet, so when they get aroused they turn into a gushing hydrant and you find yourself slipping around everywhere decreasing (especially if you're cut) how enjoyable it is. There are plenty of things people are self conscious about, that's why they have a mouth.. for communication.

Here you go OP found the perfect image for you that best analogizes your post: (based on Super Mario World)

We like science do we? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior_fornix_erogenous_zone#Early_research How about the anterior fornix near the cervical wall? This is a highly erogenous zone too. Guys with small dicks can't make it there. More succinctly, since my first post was mostly ignored for whatever the post quoting me was trying to convey, it depends on the woman. Nonetheless, if a guy has such a small d**k he can't pleasure a woman, a woman can't expect to just live life without experiencing that. It makes perfect sense that she find a guy who she can enjoy sex with.

Liquid diet + meds.. personally I wasn't expecting solid crap. What made it worse for me is that because of the liquid codeine they wanted me having milk of magnesia which made me crap like every 2 hours and was like a fountain of liquid out my ass. Thank god I was soon contacted as a follow up from my case manager and told I don't need to take that stuff anymore. Even now on normal diet stage I drink like 2-3L of water a day, my stools are extremely soft. One thing that's interesting to me is I kinda wonder post-op if I might have acquired some type of lactose intolerance.

What was their specific reason for denial?

tfw you realize you suck at counting to 4 and can't go back and edit a post.

While no doubt women love a guy who is good with the tongue, psychologically and physiologically being able to give a woman pleasure from sticking it in her is just as meaningful as well. Especially of big/thick women, if a guy has such a small d**k that he can't even make it inside or make it enjoyable for a female to stimulate her inside her vagina, well, nothing the poor guy can do. I would hope there's some type of surgery or something available for these guys. Nonetheless, I can understand if that's not something a woman can't deal with. We all have our standards and I don't think that one is unreasonable.

Thank you. It was early last year when I was diagnosed with this. I was starting to pick up a lot of symptoms due to obesity and multiple comorbidities. My blood pressure was at peak in 2016 175/115, heart rate was 100-110, liver function tests were in the red and indicating severe inflammation and irritation. hba1c indicated newly diagnosed and quickly progressing diabetes (peak 7.9). A few notable side effects that should worry anyone.. - Severe edema on the legs. I'd push into the middle of my legs with my thumb and it would leave a pit indentation that would last like a full minute and the skin would return to normal. This is one indication of progressing liver dysfunction, along with other things. - Darkening of skin pigmentation (acanthosis nigricans) on my neck and armpits with a velvety texture (to the touch) as a result of extremely quickly progressing diabetes and insulin in the blood (plus insulin resistance). - Extreme accumulation of fat deposits in abdominal region resulting in distention (this is far more common with males -- females tend to distribute it around other areas, but they can accumulate it the same way as men generally indicating far worsening condition) -- my stomach was 61 inches at peak last year, pant sizes were too small at 50+ - Sleep apnea. This one's pretty obvious. On the sleep study I had roughly 55 apneas per hour, normal people have 5 or less. While I started to understand these conditions, I noticed I wasn't losing weight enough. It wasn't until my extensive pre-op diet that i learned anything significant. Normally I notice people in our WM program get 2-4 week pre-op diets like people here. Because of my weight, abdominal distention, and because I'm a male and male adipose tissue tends to be a lot more solid than females, they gave me a 3 month pre-op diet. I was given Glucerna as my pre-op diet drink that went from Feb 1st to April 20th. I tried for the first week to tolerate the stuff, changing flavors, adding cinnamon, trying to dilute the taste by having broth with drinks of it. None of it worked, I couldn't have more than 2 a day. My RD (dietitian) demanded 6 a day. I told her a few days into it that I had trouble consuming these, I was regurgitating them because the taste was so terrible and no attempts to mask the taste worked for me. She freaked out to holy hell. I saw her a few days later at my surgery prep class, she was teaching it along side a bariatric RN. I told her in person that she cannot freak out like that, and if she does, I will just lie to her.. that it isn't conducive to our relationship for her to go nuts. She apologized and it seemed she understood. Fast forward a week after that, she does a follow up call, I'm still having troubles getting up to 6 Glucerna a day, but because I'm suspicious of her now I say I'm up to 4 out of 6. She freaks out again, but this time she threatens to talk to my surgeon and halt my surgery. She wants to do a follow-up call with a new case manager the following week.. I make sure to lie to this person, and to the RD when she follows up a few weeks later. But not even a week after that last convo where she threatened my surgery I immediately started researching on these forums as well as other bariatric programs what pre-op diets they use, and why. They all pretty much turn out to be a modified keto diet, so I start this a few weeks into February and continue it all the way to surgery day, losing nearly 80 pounds from the pre-op alone. In the meantime, only a month into the pre-op and a lot has drastically changed with my body. My March 1st bloodwork shows for the first time in over a year perfectly normal liver function. My hepatologist smiles for the first time ever in an appointment, she sees those results, does a Fibroscan, which reveals at least 50% improvement in my liver stiffness (stiffness is associated with advancing liver disease, normal livers are soft), sees I've lost tons of weight already, and is thrilled with my progress. Likewise, my blood workups from early March (I have a revolving 3 month diagnostic/panel) show significantly improving blood sugar (hba1c) from 7.9 to 6.3 to 5.7 (right at the stage between diabetes and pre-diabetes, except I'm taking Metformin and Forxiga at the time). Repeated fasting glucose shows perfectly normal levels at 4.4-4.6 but because of the hba1c (which is a 3 month average given the period your red blood cells carry around the sugar) being 5.7 they elect to keep me on both them. Before surgery all my medications were as follows: - 1000mg metformin (fast acting) 2 times a day (2 tablets, each one 500mg, they're huge), for diabetes - 10mg Forxiga, fast acting, also for diabetes - 10mg hydrochlorathiazide (HCTZ), first-line treatment for blood pressure, is a water pill - 75mg metoprolol 2 times a day (beta blocker, reduces HR and blood pressure) - Prevacid and generic lansoprazole, 30mg once per day, although I preferred it every other day or every third day, PPI for reducing stomach acid - Cipralex/Escitalopram, latter being the generic and Cipralex being brand name, treatment of extreme night time anxiety caused by sleep apnea ... Post-surgery the changes to my medications were: - 1000mg metformin (fast acting) 2 times a day (2 tablets, each one 500mg, they're huge), for diabetes - 10mg Forxiga, fast acting, also for diabetes (off this completely) - 10mg hydrochlorathiazide (HCTZ), first-line treatment for blood pressure, is a water pill (off this completely) - 75mg metoprolol 2 times a day (beta blocker, reduces HR and blood pressure) - Prevacid and generic lansoprazole, 30mg once per day, although I preferred it every other day or every third day, PPI for reducing stomach acid Prescribed Pantoloc (pantoprazole) 40mg for 6 months due to surgery and prior EGD/barium pre-op showing moderate reflux - Cipralex/Escitalopram, latter being the generic and Cipralex being brand name, treatment of extreme night time anxiety caused by sleep apnea Down to 4 medications as of April 20th. Regarding the symptoms: - Edema in my legs have completely disappeared. I used to not be able to see my ankles either before pre-op, now they're back to their normal bony self, and my legs are clearly defined now by my muscles again. Pushing a thumb into my leg reveals no pits. - The darkening pigmentation on armpits and neck have receded significantly and are almost completely gone, nobody but me notices them anymore. - Sleep apnea has significantly improved. This leads to promise in terms of getting off Cipralex, but the doctors asked me if I wanted off it and I said not until my apnea is 100% gone. - My first visit to a doctor post-op last week and without hydro had a RHR (resting heart rate) of 50-60, and a normal pulse of 77 (from 100-110), blood pressure was 103/81, which is an enormous improvement. I have a blood workup (ie blood sugar/liver panel) in a little over a week from now, and I think that might decide if I stay on Metformin or if I'm off it (I expect another great improvement).. likewise with metoprolol, but because my weight is still high as of today (back and forth between 265 and 266, about 100 pounds down from my weight early this year), and second number of blood pressure still being moderately high, I might still be on it for a while, will likely be off it by the end of the year. I kind of thought against this but here is a picture of my liver on surgery day (April 20th) following my pre-op diet that I already showed another member in PM when I was discharged: The white spots I want to follow up with my hepatologist on to see if thats fatty (very good news if so, means liver is very much on its way to being completely healed) or fibrosis (not terrible but would mean I've still got improvement just not as much/fast). Nonetheless all the nurses and my surgeon on surgery day who saw my liver mentioned the livers form looks great, the color is nearly normal. What matters to me now is what my hepatologist thinks. I'll prob make an appt with her tomorrow to see her sometime shortly after my blood workup.

I told my 5 year old daughter (5 and a half more precisely) that I was getting my stomach cut out because daddy's too fat caused by eating too much sugary garbage food and drinking too many sodas. She's been tracking the wounds on my abdominal region as well since surgery (I prefer walking around the house shirtless unless we have company), and I've answered all questions she has as best I can. There's a couple factors for this.. 1) I'm shamelessly direct with people, 2) I think it's counterproductive to removing the stigma by being secretive and/or shameful about it, 3) I don't beat around the bush when it comes to informing my daughter -- I want all my children to know everything, and 3) She needs to understand the consequences of decisions, and not make the dumb mistakes daddy did. So rather than just keep her away from sugary junk (not entirely, just very limited) with no explanation, which is more likely to lead to a rebellious attitude about it, it's simply more in line with my personality and what I think raising a child smartly should be like. Because of the lifestyle changes I've made with great results, my wife has begun changing things too (after months of me nagging her about soda and wanting her to reduce her carb intake dramatically) and my daughter is engaged in understanding why we do the things we do. It's entirely possible she talks to people at school and student care (i.e. after-school care) about it, but most of them already know my circumstances anyways, and I really don't care what others think, or what they approve or disapprove of. If they have an issue with the choices I make they can confront me, otherwise, couldn't give a toss what others think.

Attention grab: success.

Step 1) get surgery Step 2) best of luck!