I had my surgery 10 months ago and have lost 39 pounds. I was 279 when I had the surgery amd am 239 now. I take @28 pills a day and several of them cause weight gain. So, I am not typical.
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I had my surgery 10 months ago and have lost 39 pounds. I was 279 when I had the surgery amd am 239 now. I take @28 pills a day and several of them cause weight gain. So, I am not typical.
I would take 60 pounds in 5 months. I have only lost 40 pounds in 10 months-but I have always been the exception rather than the norm. You are doing great! Don't get discouraged.
I don't know about you pain tolerance, but I had morphine for about 4 hours after surgery and nothing after that. There was discomfort, but not what I would consider pain. I was given liquid pain...
Hang in there. I had the sleeve knowing I might not lose anything at all. My eventual goal was to lose 120 pounds. Since I had the sleeve in April, I have lost 40 pounds. That is a drop in the...
Temporal Mandibular joint--The joint just below your ear. It becomes irritated and you feel like you have a severe toothache in all the teeth on that side of your mouth. I hope you never get it.
Be grateful for what you have lost. I also had my sleeve 8 months ago. I started at 279 and I am just now at 239 and that is only because I have TMJ for the last 2 weeks and have not been eating. ...
Some people lose hair, some don't. When you lose weight quickly your skin sags. With the sleeve most people lose weight more slowing so if you exercise and you are you enough, you can work on the...
I think most everyone has the left side pain for 3-4 weeks. That is the incision where they pull the leftover stomach out. Mine was so bad that after a few weeks I was going to go to emergency to...
I hate to be a spoil sport, but some people do not do that well with the sleeve. I had my sleeve April 12. I weighed 279 pounds. Today Is November 25 and I weigh 244 pounds. I am happy about...
My problem isn't meat, it's chicken. I ate chicken every day for probably 20 years and now I can hardly gag it down. I've tried in in every form possible. Every once in a while I will get a...
I drink about a gallon of ice tea every day. I have done this for years and have not had any problems before or after the sleeve (last April). My doctors have no problem with it.
I have stage 5 kidney disease and I take 29 pills a day. I had my surgery on a Tuesday and when I went home on Friday I took 2 Tylenol capsules with no problem. Within a week I was taking about 15...
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I used to only use Sweet n Low, but about a year ago my regular doctor suggested I to switch to Truvia. I did and it took about a week to get use to the different taste (not bad just different)...
I was sleeved in April and have lost a total of 45 pounds. That would be great if I started at 200, but I started at 290. I haven't lost anything since September 22. Still going into this I wasn't...
I didn't have a problem with my LDLs after surgery, but a couple of years ago I started a medicine for my kidney condition and my LDLs went off the chart and only went back down when I stopped taking...
All the time!
I had my sleeve done in April. I was 64 and I have stage 5 kidney disease. I've had no problems. I'm sure you will be fine also.
For the last forty years, I have weighed myself once a day (except on vacations) when I get up. I record that weight on a calendar and forget about it until the next day. Your weight is your...
I was told I could drive as soon as I stopped taking the pain medication. Since I never took any pain medication (except 2 Tylenol) , I started driving the day after I came home.
No, my GFR was 9 when I had the surgery and it continues to be 8 or 9. Seven and one half years ago I was diagnosed with stage 5 kidney disease and told I would be on dialysis in @ 3 months. I...
I had my sleeve on April 12. I also have stage 5 kidney disease and need to take 29 pills a day. I started taking whole pills after I got home from the hospital. I spaced them out and only took a...
You sound like me. I had my surgery April 12 and lost 14 pounds the first 2 weeks then nothing. I will literally go a month without losing anything and then lose 2-4 pounds in a few days. It has...
You've lost 18 pounds in 2 weeks, I've lost 35 pounds in 6 months. You are doing great-stop worrying!
I also have kidney disease (Stage 5) with a GFR of 8 when I had my sleeve done in April. I had no problems with the surgery or after. I know kidney diseases differ from one person to another, but...
I had my surgery April 12 and have lost 35 pounds. At one point I was told to eat 1000 calories a day and promptly gained 4 pounds that took me 2 months to lose. I was then told to stay@ 700...