Layma

I had coffee one month after my surgery. It was the one thing I couldn’t give up completely but I have noticed that whenever I travel to a country where coffee consumption is not as big of a thing as it is in the west, I lose 5-7 pounds. I don’t diet and eat anything and everything while I am on vacation (in moderation) but I still come back, having lost rather than gained and I give the credit to lack of caffeine in my diet. Also, for those of us who develop gallbladder after the surgery, caffeine and heartburn go hand in hand so...

People whose opinions are not asked for are more than welcome to kiss my tiny non existent tush. ALWAYS.

I had two scars on my face that were not as noticeable when I was bigger but are very present now. I didn’t get any surgery for skin removal after my weight loss but I am looking in to having these scars looked in to in near future.

I know that feeling! I had my gallbladder removed about two weeks ago and I asked the surgeon about when I could go back to the gym so many times that he just told me I would end up with a hernia if I went sooner than four weeks. I rested for one week, cleaned up the entire house on the second week and then I went to the gym. I did not do any abdominal exercises or weight lifting. I went on the elliptical and walked on the treadmill. Don’t push it and listen to your body. If you fall from the elliptical because you are not able to consume the calories and you just worked out or you are dehydrated, you are in trouble. If I were you, I would walk a lot. Or even if you do go to the gym, take it very very easy. I have four similar incisions from my gallbladder surgery as I had for the gastric sleeve and I did the same thing for when I had that surgery. No weight lifting what so ever unless you want to to prolong your healing process and be bed bound for even longer!

I didn’t have a period for over a year before my surgery. I had it two weeks after my surgery and I have not missed one ever since. At the age 30, for the first time I understand my cycle because in the past, it was too unpredictable. Now I have a 31 day cycle and it has not changed in the last year and a half.

It’s my first day back from my gallbladder surgery. I had my sleeve done in Mexico and gallbladder done in Canada. I found the gallbladder surgery to be ten times tougher than the sleeve. Given the choice, I would never combine the surgeries. I ended up paralyzed for two hours after my gallbladder surgery due to a reaction to anaesthesia even the overall pain is excruciating in comparison to the sleeve.

Scale. I weigh myself every day in the morning because I don’t want to be surprised. Also, if I gain three pounds, I need the motivation to get my ass to the gym and work hard.

dark blood is not fresh blood so at least you are not internally bleeding. That’s probably from when they were doing the surgery. As for throwing up, that is something everyone goes through after going through surgery that requires Anastasia..

You don’t have to get all your Protein from meats. There are lots of people who are vegetarians and they get these surgeries done. It just means you have to work harder to get your protein in other ways. I can’t stand meat alone. Make a curry or stew version and cut the meat in to the sauce in shreds. Add lots of vegetables and other stuff to your meal. The first six months after surgery I used to eat lean meat and I pretty much hated life by the end.

Prune juice followed by a cup or two of green tea is going to be your friend for the next couple of years if not months. With added proteins and not much of everything else, you are bound to be constipated. And I am sorry if this is too much information but going to the gym and on the elliptical might also help you get rid of that feeling.. it gets things moving..

5’2 with a bmi of 32. I paid for my surgery at Mexico so I didn’t have to worry about the financial part of it but I was terrified of being rejecting for not having a bmi higher enough. When I went there, I saw other women who were whole lot less bigger than I was and no one even mentioned my bmi. I was just warned a lot not to gain more than what I have mentioned on my charts prior to surgery. But yeah, as someone else mentioned it here, I did contemplate eating to gain if it meant I would get approved. And listen, no one understands how difficult losing weight is for you other than yourself. I lost 50 pounds and everyone else says I was not big enough to have gone for this surgery but I know how those 50 pounds affected my life and what losing them has done for me. No one else will ever understand that.

In the beginning I was worried about my arms and belly but then as time passed by, I stopped losing drastically and started exercising regularly. I am seeing a significant difference in those areas. I think you should give it time to snap back before you consider surgery.

I am almost two years away and I am still suffering from this due to issues with iron deficiency. The act that I have always had super straight and super thin hair has also not been very helpful.

Hello everyone.. I got my gastric sleeve surgery done in may of 2016. Best decision of my life, lost all the weight, yaay and all that. So about a couple of months after the surgery, I started experiencing pain that I later understood to be gallbladder related. I don’t go to the doctor often so I ignored the pain until recently when I had a couple of very bad episodes while I was at work. The typical pain under the left rib, sweating me throwing up at times with occasional bloating and all that. It got to the point where I didn’t know what was triggering it and I became pretty much scared of eating anything and everything. So last week I finally went to the doctor and told her everything. A couple of months ago I had gone to her for pain in my chest in the middle of the night with trouble of breathing.. she said everything was alright and gave me a look as if I was a hypochondriac of some sort. Anyways; last week I go to see her and explain the pain even though she is giving me the same look as the last visit, she sends me for blood work and an abdominal ultrasound which thank God, came back, suggesting I have not one or two but multiple gallbladder stones. Also, my liver enzymes are 10 times the regular level. She gives me a letter, telling me I should go to the er today or tomorrow to get the surgery done. Now I don’t know if she knows she fucked up when she dismissed me a couple of months ago when I was having chest pain or if the elevated enzymes level is really bad.. I can’t find anything on internet suggesting how bad 10 times high is.. as any regular person of my age (30), I have responsibilities and a job. I survived this pain for over two years, I am sure I can survive it a week or two until I make arrangements for time off from work and what not?? Has anyone been through this?? Any suggestions?? If I go to get the surgery done, how long before I can go back to work?? Help please!!

I flew in ye day before, stayed in hospital two days and back in the hotel one more day. I was on the first flight back home the next day. I was too tired and way too excited to start my new life. Besides, haven taken food out of the lifestyle at that point, there was my Much left to vacation about at that point.