Hey everyone!
I'm Erin, i'm 29 and I live in South Jersey. I am just starting my journey in researching if the sleeve is right for me and i'm happy to have found this community. I have a lot of mixed feelings about looking into getting the sleeve, as i'm sure anyone would. For my age and height, I have an extremely high BMI (about 50) and overall I feel how big I am, I don't like how my clothes feel, how big I look in pictures and how my weight restricts me from doing things that I love (traveling, hiking, running, etc). However, aside from some aches and pains from being big, I don't have any immediate health problems that others have. My blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, and the entire rest of my blood tests came back perfect. Part of me still thinks I can lose weight on my own, and part of me thinks that if I was going to then I would have by now and that i'm just too much at risk for dropping dead with a BMI of 50.
One other thing. If anyone else has any experience with this I would SO appreciate some feedback. About a year and a half ago I had a pulmonary embolism from using the Nuvaring. I know that pulmonary embolisms are a big potential complication from surgery. Has anyone out there had the gastric sleeve that had a previous PE? If so, what steps did they take to make sure it didn't happen during surgery?
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