I don't tell anyone about my sleeve outside of a very few individuals. I told two of my best friends, my mother, and a co-worker who also had a sleeve. I decided to tell the latter after he told me...

Keeping kosher is important to me, and I know it is to many others. I am not sure how many other sleevers percentage-wise are either Jews or Moslems (or others who observe similar laws to Kashrut),...

I was taking Celebrate Sublingual B-12 (cherry flavored), but now that I know it's not Kosher, I'm looking for an alternative sublingual, since that's apparently what we sleevers need.

So I've had literally zero problems with stomach pains or the like with my sleeve, and I am almost a year out now. However, the first Saturday in November, I ate the same as I usually eat, and yet...

I was going to say "pics or it didn't happen", but then I realized this might be a bit inappropriate.

Instead I will say: Congratulations on keeping your assets and losing your... no, I won't say...

I lose more slowly than most on the Sleeve, so I feel your pain, but still I've managed to lose a lot more than 26 lbs. I think I lost about half that much on the pre-op diet alone. I can sense...

My favorite protein bars by far are Quest bars. They have loads of great flavors, but the three I love the most are Cookies and Cream (the best one IMO), Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, and Peanut...

Sunkiss, if I were having issues after my Gastric Sleeve and it became apparent that nothing was working, I would DEFINITELY consider getting the malabsorptive portion of Duodenal Switch. (In fact,...

I know it's an old thread, but I wanted to answer to some of the questions after my research on this a few months ago. Duodenal Switch definitely does involve a stomach restrictive portion. DS is...

Honestly, in my experience so far, some weight gain can actually be part of a stall. I was in a recent stall that baffled me... lasted almost three weeks. I had gained five pounds during it. Then...

I do have sleep apnea, and the treatment for it that I started taking seven years ago REALLY changed my life for the better. However, I do have a situation that was similar to yours for something...

When I started my journey for this surgery, it started when I went to the hospital for what I thought was walking pneumonia. It turned out to be asperation pneumonitis. This was essentially the...

I know how you feel. Frankly I've only told one member of my family -- my mother. She's the only other one in my immediate family who had a weight problem and could understand. There is so much...

Isn't that crazy? It's just another side effect of having these types of processes be governed by algorithmic bureaucracy instead of human intuition.

My recovery has been pretty fantastic except for one really bad episode. In the second week I chose to eat pasta while out to see a play with someone, which caused me incredible pain and to lose my...

Thanks for the positive vibes. I still have a lot of weight to lose (127 lbs.), but I'm excited and encouraged that I've lost almost 50 lbs. already without really trying at all. I am hoping if I...

Hello there guys and gals. I'm a newly sleeved guy from Houston, Texas. I'm a software engineer by trade. I've been up and down in weight since I was 18 years old. I was always successful in...