kakatlady612

Welcome aussieslady, we seem to be getting a lot of people from "down under" even have BiddyNZ from New Zealand. Tell us,more about yourself if you like. I am in Central Ohio about 14 miles from the Geographic Center. I plan a early-mid March at Mount Carmel in Columbus Ohio..I am a future RnY, widowed 5 1/2 years, my main support person my son who I call my Tomkitten, his real name is Bryan. I am 72 years old, yes a little old to compete in the Bariatric Rodeo. But I'm going to make sure I can be successful. Columbus is 50 miles hmm 80 km? from where i live. A cool rainy morning where I live, on the Olympics Russia is ahead 4 -0 over USA in ice hockey Not looking too good for my side. Wish they'd go to,freestyle ski, This isn't too much fun to watch. So where in Australia do you live? You're in your summer so it might be warm and sunny there. I think we have people from NSW, South Australia, and think someone from Brisbane a while back. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

It's called a stall, there are stories about that all over Bariatric Pal. Are you following your surgeon's advice on post surgery , getting in your fluids etc? Your body may be regrouping and realigning itself, trying to get all balanced. Remember your body was happy ---happy when you were heavier, it could bebop along,laying down additional fat cells. It may have even been singing "Blumpie Blumpier Blumpie." All the sudden your surgery has said "Halt--- we are now going to live off of and utilize the energy in her fat cells" Body is a little peeved over this term of affairs, says" I don't like this. Can't things be like before? "So it stalls out, but you're going to make it behave and suddenly you start losing again. The 3 week stall one is famous but it can happen other times , weight loss isn't always smooth but if you stay the course IT WILL HAPPEN. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

If they aren't healing right you would have reddened areas around them, have discharge coming from them, be raised up instead of flattening out, starting to gape open or threads coming out. If none of these you are probably okay. Remember you don't just have surface healing places, you're still healing down inside your body also. 97% sure you'll be Just fine if you give it time but check with your surgeon's office just to be safe. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Think of it as your body pausing to regroup and realign , then it will relax and the weight loss probably will resume. In the meantime you might have NSV like your clothes and shoes becoming looser. It will all balance out but it's hard to stay patient. Don't stress yourself out. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Glammaw, I am 72 and awaiting a RnY, let's show the youngins how it's done. We have wisdom. we have maturity and we're still cute. Silver Power Forever! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Nope watching it also, been watching Olympics all week. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Pays you an amount for having all necessary immunization and not missing any healthcare appointments. I think,its $60 for completing healthcare visits, I forgot the amount for the other. At any rate I don't have,it so I don't get it. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

One of the Medicaid (buckeye)health suppliers in Ohio Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Confession: I asked my friend T a year ago if she had cancer. Duh she had had weight loss surgery, I was dumb, her hair was thin and suddenly so was her body. I know if it had been cancer she would have beat it but,I'm happy for her and myself it was WLS. I'm glad T is still my friend after all this. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

I haven't had my surgery yet but compared to the stretch marks I have from carrying and birthing 3 9lb babies 5 more teensie tiny scars- nothing!! I have an 5 inch long abdominal scar from a gallbladder-appendix removal 30+ years ago, it healed to a fine line and these will too. If something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Go with the multiple incision your surgeon recommends. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Fool me once -shame on you. Fool me twice- shame on me. Ah Chicky i[emoji307] you and every one of your devious feathers. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Welcome Alice, I love your pen name, rose quartz is one of my favorite stones. I am at the opposite end of life, I am 72 so I'm kinda the Bariatric grandma. I'm in it to win it just like all the youngins. I for one think you're a smart young lady to be seeking surgery. Let me tell you how it feels to be obese most of your adult life. First people think you are lazy, if you' d get up and move that weight would just fall off! Either they regard you as invisible or they won't invite you to their home because you might break their furniture. One of my so-called loving family members told me this. They treat you like you're disgusting and stinky, I take as many,if not more, baths as the next person. They think you don't care about yourself because you let yourself get this way. Sound familiar? You start out strong but eventually your joints start failing, you wear your cartilage away until you are bone-on-bone and you start to have joints replaced, I have 2 knee replacements, they are nice to have but 85-90% as good as the original. And you get bone-a** weary of dragging your body around, you take to sitting down or lying down cause it hurts too much to move. You start hating your body because its failing you much as you wish it wouldn't. You feel like like life is hopeless and you may die this way. Then you hear of a surgery, yeah it might even change how your body's arranged, the more you study, the more you realize that might not be a bad thing. It is just a tool, but why not devote the energy you've spent just trying to live to this?? It's scary but finally you ask for help and you find it. Maybe when you went to the doctor before they were just insulting, Bariatric doctors aren't that way. If they were, they wouldn't be in the business very long. And as you get to know them and they get to know you a relationship is built. By the time your surgery comes you've learned to trust them. On surgery day you intrust your life to them, you go to sleep, wake up in the recovery room with nurses and techs caring for you. You realize you've made it this far and know you're on your way to a new chance at life and better health. And you commit yourself to using this tool and using it in the best way. As each success comes you are prouder and prouder of yourself in a way you never were before. And this is what I believe the journey will be like. Exciting isn't it? You can do it and i can too. Lets do it together for ourselves. Up for it? I know I am. Your new friend and surgery buddy ME. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

MandyKins and Cjackson82---Hi to both of you. Don't be nervous, you have a lot of new friends here on Bariatric Pal. Many like us are pre surgery, Many more are veterans and they act as mentors, sharing their wisdom with us. If you have firm dates you both have gone through pretestings, met with your surgeon's and may be about Ready to start a liquid prediet. Look how far you've come! Anesthesia has come a long way, back in the bad old days I had surgery with ether, nasty old stuff , it and chloroform, smelled bad, made you puke going in, puke waking up and gave you a nasty nasty Headache that seemed to last for days. These days it's like lying back, having a smooth relaxing sleep and don't feel bad waking up. They can give you a relaxing medicine before hand, some of us who have had surgeries call it the Don't give a s*** pill. I've heard in some places they put a powdered form under your tongue, some places they put it in your IV. The last time I went "under" was my EGD a couple months ago. I remember laying on my side, I greeted my gastroenterologist Dr Mujtaba, next thing I knew I was waking up in recovery. No headache, no sore throat even though I'd had a tube down there. This time was even better than the 1st one I had in June 2015. I've had 2 knee replacements, a thumb surgery and an broken upper arm repair all in this decade, and each one easier than the one before to wake up from. What does the surgery feel like? Well everybody feels a little different, the worse anybody has complained was it felt like they had been stabbed, one girl said she just felt bloated like she was ready to start her monthly but my good friend, Pammy, who I tend to believe, said it hurt worse the day her 5 year old head-butted her. In all probability wendykins had her gallbladder laprascopically, that is the way to go. Your surgeries shouldn't be any worse than that to get over. When I had my gallbladder out back in the bad old days 30+ years ago everything was open incisions. Had a 5-6 inch long abdominal incision to heal, wasn't all that much fun. I'll be honest, I haven't had my WL surgery done, I could be one or both of your surgery twins, my tentative date is early-mid March at Mount Carmel in Columbus Ohio. I'm 72, not one bit scared, I've done my studying up on the procedure, and honestly am more scared of not having the surgery than having it.I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. I am looking forward to using this tool to regain my health and insure a longer life. We are in it to win it, it will be a journey but with the help of my friends I'll succeed and so will you both. If you have any questions just ask, if I don't have the answer and having lived this long I usually do, one of the veterans will. Let's March forward in March together! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Might be the surgery, might be the blood thinners you were on, might be hormones released as your fat breaks down and is used for energy. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

13 degrees Celsius here, approx.54 degrees farenheit and rainy in Ohio,more like our April weather. I can't sleep so watching the Olympics instead of raiding the fridge. 3: 15 am. Don't need to eat out of boredom. Probably turn cold again on Saturday. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

I would think it would be stringey and choking, at least that's how it is for me and I haven't even had my surgery. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Is anyone using North Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, New York? I've heard they offer everything from lap band to DS and SIPS in their bariatric program. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

I hope when my day comes if I am uncomfortable to remember "I just got stabbed." Granted a scalpel instead of a butcher knife but it will still hurt. I tell everybody to,be brave and tough it out but let's see how it will be when it's ME. Your friend[emoji197] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

FYI folks I live pretty close to where White Castle was founded, Columbus Ohio. The first restaurants were white metal buildings with fake turrents on all 4 corners, the original store was at Dodridge and N High st.,was there for years and years but alas fell a victim of urban renewal and was razed a few years ago. Wendy's, another hamburger chain started a few miles away in Dublin Ohio. Oh folks I'm a fount of useless knowledge, aren't I? I told a friend recently " now that we have lived forever and know it all, it is our duty to educate the younger generations" now I'm looking for a suitable group to entertain, problem they don't accept it any better than I did at their age. Ah I'm not making any money at this prophecy business,think maybe I'll keep my,little mouth shut. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Fluffy Chix lives in North Houston,and is one of our superstars on Bariatric Pal. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Don't be in any rush to weigh, you might still have surgical water weight in there. Just keep getting your fluids in and walking for exercise. Maybe towards the end of the month weigh yourself. Too early in your journey to have the Coulda Woulda Shoulda's land, just keep on healing up. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Maybe too long in this Northern Hemisphere winter, I look forward to spring and exposing myself to some natural Vitamin D outdoors. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

But they may be having non scale victories, losing inches & exchanging fat for muscle, everybody has stalls and then start losing again without diet changes. It will all even out eventually. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Dr Pleatman-Michigan, Dr Borland-Louisiana, Blossom Bariatric -Nevada, Bariatrix Florida, I've heard of these. Ohio State University -near where i live -runs$10000 to 19000 lapband being the cheapest RnY the most expensive. And one of the posters said she paid $8999 somewhere in Florida. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Nope,i'm kinda part of her group here. She's scheduled February 20th for a RnY & she's been posting about her journey on the Out with the Old In with the New thread on Bariatric Pal. I'd be the first to tell you she can be a hoot but she also has all her basic facts straight, one of my favorite people. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app