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Just means they should use imaging if they have to insert an NG tube, rather than shoving it down without looking, and hoping it ends in the stomach.

If he's that arrogant preop when he wants your cash, imagine how attentive he'll be postop once he has your money. Get a new surgeon.

Sounds terrifying, sorry you had to go through that. A few things: - midazolam does not have to be given slowly, it can and often is given as IV push - midazolam cannot make you paralyzed, as an adverse effect or any other way. The drug simply does not have that ability and doesn't work that way. I absolutely agree with Cindy that you were almost certainly given a NMBA like suxamethonium, vecuronium, rocuronium. These are meant to be given so you cannot move in surgery and to allow anesthesia to take over your breathing. They are meant to be given WITH a sedative like midazolam so that you do not have the "awake and paralyzed" experience like you did. The anesthesia staff screwed up and gave you the wrong drug. They probably already had their meds drawn up into syringes for the op and had mislabelled or just grabbed the wrong syringe.

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking. Perfection. If you can get to a seminar, great. If not, read the book and see a hypnotist for good measure. Quitting smoking is not physically hard. It's the brainwashing that is hard to eradicate. THE MOST important thing to realize is that smoking does NOTHING for you. It doesn't relieve stress when you're stressed, it doesn't calm you down, it doesn't give you any benefit whatsoever. Once you genuinely believe that, it is the most simple thing to never pick a cigarette up again.

I'm not sure why all the posts about "lightweights" being just as "deserving" of surgery. I clearly said that it wouldn't be right FOR ME, but that anyone it is right for, should go with it. Noone need justify their decision to anyone, let alone me. I work in healthcare and frequently see the results of operations gone wrong, so I would probably make a more conservative decision regarding surgery. I certainly wouldn't have surgery as a preventive measure... but again, that is just me.

Got to say, I don't know that I'd risk the surgery at a BMI of 32-33 unless I had serious comorbidities.. risk v reward. But each to their own. If it's right for you, and your doctor agrees, go for it.

I'm not worried about the surgery part, but I am wondering how I'm going to explain my miniscule eating habits to all the guys I work with! No more ordering lunch every day. Luckily I did tell them a while ago it was too expensive and I needed to bring my lunch in.

Hi everyone. I am 35yo, in Australia. I am getting my sleeve done on July 28th. I know you all know the story - heavy all my life, have lost a lot of weight a few times and been great, then regained. I am now starting to have things go wrong - reflux, depression, cholesterol creeping up, also found out in preop testing that I have insulin resistance. I have to take control of this for good. Plus, I honestly don't feel like I'm living. I'm single, and couldn't think of getting involved with anyone when I am so fat and feel so terrible. I hate going out with my friends because I look to terrible and my clothes don't fit. I feel I'm watching life, not living it. And I'm sick of food being the thing I plan my whole day around and think about all the time. I'm a very intelligent person, and in many areas of my life I am a high achiever... can't wait to do that with my weight and health as well.