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Uh, no.
Consult: 235 lbs
My and doc's preop diet: 216 -19 lbs
M1 postop 205 -30
M2 193 -42
M3 184 -51
M4 174 -61
M5 167 -68
M6 162 -73
M7 156 -79
M8 151 -84
M9 148 -87
M10 146 -89
M11 144 -91
M12 143 -92
M13 142 -93
M14 140 -95
M15 139 -96
M16 137 -98
M17 135 -100
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I guess I did think the question was a little silly. But I'm not as modest as you are.
Perhaps this information will be more useful to you:
Most VSG surgeries involve 4-5 incisions located from your bra line to down around your belly button and about 6 inches to the right of your belly button (and maybe even a little lower). These incisions (most of them small) are used to insert surgical instruments and irrigation tubes that are needed inside your body during the surgery. One of the incisions is the one through which the surgical team inserts "surgical gas" (carbon dioxide that blows up the torso and gives the surgeons more room to work around in when they're performing abdominal laparascopic procedures.) The biggest incision is the one through which the stomach is pulled out of the body.
Prior to surgery, after you've been sedated, the surgical team swabs your torso with antiseptic solution to make sure no germs are left on your body anywhere near those incisions. Prior to my own surgery I had to take a shower the night before and a shower the morning of surgery using an antiseptic solution all over my body. Again, this is all to prevent post-surgical infections.
So no, they don't want you wearing clothes during surgery.
Consult: 235 lbs
My and doc's preop diet: 216 -19 lbs
M1 postop 205 -30
M2 193 -42
M3 184 -51
M4 174 -61
M5 167 -68
M6 162 -73
M7 156 -79
M8 151 -84
M9 148 -87
M10 146 -89
M11 144 -91
M12 143 -92
M13 142 -93
M14 140 -95
M15 139 -96
M16 137 -98
M17 135 -100
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Naked as a jaybird under a very fashionable gown!! Once they hook up the IV and get you a little cocktail to calm the nerves you won't care if you are naked and if anything like my surgery I was knocked out about 5 seconds after they took me off the gurney and put me on the operating table. Next thing I remember is waking up and never even knew I had a catheter or breathing tube. Maybe I was lucky.
Note: Try to have your surgery as early as possible in the morning so you don't have to think about it much. I was lucky there too, I was at the hospital at 5am and in my room recovering by 11am. Surgery itself was under an hour.
Different surgeons, different styles. I was supposed to get a "single incision" surgery (in the belly button) and finally I got two extra incision right under the bra line (so total 3 incisions). I had no catheter, my surgery was really quick, 30 mns.
I was required to be in an hospital gown, with nothing but my special compression socks on. When I arrived in the OR they plugged the electrical boots that prevented blood clot.
No jewerly and no nail polish before surgery either.
HW : 150 kgs
09/02/2014 : 142 /1st apt
01/20/2016 : 134 /surgery
01/30/2016 : 130 /1st post-op
02/27/2016 : 126 /2nd
04/23/2016 : 118 /3rd
07/16/2016 : 109 / 4th
10/01/2016 : 103 /5th
01/21/2017 : 98 /1 year post-op
February 2017 : 100 lbs lost
07/22/2017 : 96
10/21/2017 : 93
12/22/2017 : 91
01/02/2018 : 96!! regain (medication)
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