Over 60 and having the sleeve

[ckunes 23]

I'm 65 and was sleeved in Oct. lost almost 60 lbs. had both knees replaced 17 months ago. I do Water aerobics too . I wish I could walk more of a distance. Maybe by summer when the weather warms up my knees won't be so stiff and achy!

[maggie914 20]

Any 60 or over that have fibromyalgia?

[ksj52 4]

I was sleeved in Oct and down almost 60 lbs. I'm 65 yrs old. Are you a Red Hatter? I belong to a group in the Attica/ Warsaw area. How are you doing?

I was in Red Hats for several years and enjoyed the heck out of it. However, almost everone in our group eventually went back to work until we finally closed our chapter. I an thinking about finding another local chapter. I seem to feel a little better each day and will go to the dietician this Thursday and should be starting whole foods. Keep up the good work!

[No Surrender 2]

Any 60 or over that have fibromyalgia?

Yes, me!!

I am tentatively scheduled for 21 March, and I am 67 years old (don't feel that old, though!)

[carstanger 346]

Your surgery will be here before you know it!

[scsleever 104]

Medicare would pay for the gastric bypass, but not the sleeve. My decision was to be self-pay.

I am 66 years old and had surgery on Feb.21st with Dr. Fernando Garcia in Tijuana, Mexico. My recovery has gone unbelievably well, and I feel great. Right now I'm only eating Protein Shakes and yogurt, but they are going down easily...as long as I take it slowly.

[No Surrender 2]

Your surgery will be here before you know it!

Thank you for the encouragement. It seems unbelievably long since i decided to do this, six months ago. I feel like my life has been on hold, just wating for the surgery to happen.

[No Surrender 2]

Medicare would pay for the gastric bypass, but not the sleeve. My decision was to be self-pay.

I am 66 years old and had surgery on Feb.21st with Dr. Fernando Garcia in Tijuana, Mexico. My recovery has gone unbelievably well, and I feel great. Right now I'm only eating Protein shakes and yogurt, but they are going down easily...as long as I take it slowly.

I am glad you are doing so very well. From your profile, I think you started off much the same as myself. I am 5 feet 4, 212 pounds, so BMI of 36. And I am 67 yrs old. I am happy to hear you are feeling GREAT! I like your attitude.

[ChrisJ 44]

Now that we have "come out of the closet", we over 60 year old sleevers, I see lots of success stories for our age group. I feel I am a success and hope we can all be a collective inspiration for others our age to live life to the fullest.

[carstanger 346]

I'm going to try and run a 5k in May with the nut and the post surgery group!!

Starting to exercise more, because I'm in a darn stall but got into a size 16 slacks. All my 1x and 2 x are going to be gone!!! Not going back!

[scsleever 104]

I'm going to try and run a 5k in May with the nut and the post surgery group!!

Starting to exercise more, because I'm in a darn stall but got into a size 16 slacks. All my 1x and 2 x are going to be gone!!! Not going back!

I can't imagine a Size 16 or training for a 5K...but I sure am looking forward to the possibility that they could both be in my future. Congratulations on all that you have achieved!

[Suzannesh 376]

Hi,

Are you lurking out there reading all these posting by everyone trying to absorb as much information as you can about weight loss surgery. I used to be one of you too. I knew I need and wanted to do something about being fat. I had struggled for 30 or more years trying all the kinds of diets there were—yep you too—I knew it. I had my greatest success with Weight Watchers, and to this day I feel for so many people it is the healthiest way to lose weight. I saw over the year too many people including some of the Weight Watchers group leaders gain the weight back—and me too.

I became interested more and more in Weight Loss Surgery the more I lurked around on these boards seeing what people had said. I even thought to myself are these people really real or is someone paying them to write all these stories about their success. I really was fortunate enough to have a very close friends who went to Mexicali, Mexico and had Dr. Aceves do her weight loss surgery. She was an RN and I worked with her, so I knew what integrity she had as a nurse and trusted her judgment.

I wasn’t sure this was what I wanted to do yet. So after watching her drop the pounds and become more healthy each day, I started asking her a million different questions. She was great and pointed me in the right direction of making me do some research and see what I came up with and what kind of Weight Loss Surgery did I want for myself? I must have spent 6 months reading everything I could find about weight loss surgery. I knew that I wanted to have the sleeve surgery and I knew without a doubt that Dr. Aceves in Mexicali was the ONLY doctor that I was willing to put my trust in. I also called and talked to the people who worked for him and asked them all kinds of questions. I bet they started referring to me as the “Queen of Questions.” Not really they really are happy to answer all your questions this is a life changing event that you are about to do.

I talked with my husband about doing this, and he was so very supportive. He answer to me was “I know you well enough to know that you have done all kinds of reading and research.” He said if this is want you want go for it.

Not everyone was supportive of this and I know it was because they really had NO idea of what kind of surgery I wanted to have. I was also 63 when I made this choice.

What I want to say for you “newbies, or those lurking out there with just the thought of having weight loss surgery.” It is OK to do just want you are doing. But, don’t wait forever to do something about it. Every day that you live your life unhealthy, fat, uncomfortable in your own body, is a day that you are giving away. STOP giving any more days of your life away. It is time to take control of your life instead of food controlling you. Take back your power, be the person that I know you can become. I know that if you are a “self pay person” that is a lot of money to pay to have surgery. It will be the best money that you could ever spend. You are adding years back on your life. You will spend less on food, health care, medications and so many other things. If at 63 I could do this, I know that you can do this too and be very successful.

I am very prejudice about Dr. Aveves. He is the best there is when it comes to this kind of surgery, and don’t you want the best you can have when it comes to your health and the rest of your life? I know I sure did. I went alone, I wasn’t scared to go to Mexicali, you are picked up at the airport in San Diego and driven by a very nice man in a van along with a lot of others who are about to change their lives just like you are going to do. They take excellent care of you in hospital with everything that you would ever need.

I am here to answer any questions that you may have about having this surgery and Dr. Aceves and his team of talented staff. The care you receive it top rated and better than anything you will ever have in the USA. If you are waiting for your insurance to pay for it, they drag it out for 2 years or more and so many of them then tell you NO.

So don’t give away another day of your life. Do something for the first time in your life and that is put yourself first!

It has been 4 1/2 years ago and I am now 67 and have kept off the 105 pounds. I will say that I exercise 7 days a week, and I walk between 3 and 4 miles. I have walked now for 185 days in a row, and NEVER missed a day. It has become a GOOD habit, and I love walking!

Hugs,

[Kaj 88]

Well, my "patient advocate" has received my 3 month Dr. supervised documentation, my lab-work showing I'm a non-smoker and not now nor have I ever been treated for drug or alcohol abuse. She says she will submit to my insurance in mid-May. I'm feeling pretty good about the choice to do this, but am apprehensive about the recovery period - I will have a limited amount of PTO and am worried I won't be able to heal enough to go back to work by the time I need to; I'm also worried I'll keep being a slug - right now, I come home and flop until time to go to bed. I should get on my treadmill, but after all day climbing stairs delivering groceries, doing home visits, etc, my knee hurts like hell and the last thing I wanna do is climb on the treadmill and aggravate it more. I am just really NOT a huge fan of exercise. I keep wondering if that will change with weight loss. I think I am more worried about failing after the surgery than I am about the surgery itself.

Anyway - just checking in with everyone, I love seeing all the success and even reading about the difficulties and seeing them eventually be addressed and overcome. Keep doing what y'all do. You each are an inspiration to me.

[carstanger 346]

I was sleeved in Muskegon Mi by Dr. Gluck! His staff and he are amazing and really care!! Had great care at the hospital in their bariatric wing. Don't have to go to Mexico to have great care but of course that is a choice. I was self pay, too!

[Wrinkle 37]

I'm scheduled for MONDAY! I'm 61. I appreciate this thread and reading about your great results. I was a "Lurker" for 6 months and realized I was just getting older-so I quit "lurking" and decided to get this done.