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04-02-2012, 01:59 PM
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| | Big Loser
Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Mississippi
Posts: 190
Weight Statistics April 9, 2012 Start Date:
May 8, 2012 Surgery Date:
5' 1"
Height:
301 lb Start Weight:
204 lb Current Weight:
165 lb Goal Weight:
97 lb Weight Loss:
39 lb Lb Left to Lose:
32.2259136213 % % Lost:
June 2013 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index56.8672399893 BMI Start:
38.5412523515 BMI Current:
31.1730717549 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodSleeve Gastrectomy
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I have been going back and forth about this, does anyone have any success stories with the gastric sleeve?
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04-02-2012, 02:00 PM
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| | Seasoned Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: just north of Boston
Posts: 3,365
Weight Statistics 1/31/2012 Surgery Date:
5' 10"
Height:
338 lb Start Weight:
208 lb Current Weight:
175 lb Goal Weight:
130 lb Weight Loss:
33 lb Lb Left to Lose:
38.4615384615 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index48.4926530612 BMI Start:
29.8416326531 BMI Current:
25.1071428571 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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I didn't choose the sleeve because I'd ready your more likely to experience reflux than you would be with the roux
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starting weight: 338.4 (day of first appt with surgeon)
pre-surgery surgeon appt weight: 315.6
surgery day weight: 300.0
1 week post op appt: 294.0
50 lbs gone: 2/22/12
75 lbs gone 4/29/12
<250 5/29/12
100 lbs gone 7/8/12
125 lbs gone 10/9/12
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04-02-2012, 02:26 PM
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| | Seasoned Veteran
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Just north of Iowa, not far from I-35. 2nd star on the right and straight on 'til morning!
Posts: 9,842
Weight Statistics December 13, 2007 (pre-op liquid diet started) Start Date:
December 27, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 9"
Height:
290 lb Start Weight:
182 lb Current Weight:
184 lb Goal Weight:
108 lb Weight Loss:
-2 lb Lb Left to Lose:
37.2413793103 % % Lost:
Originally - 12/08. Actually - 8/08. Goal Date:
Body Mass Index42.8208359588 BMI Start:
26.8737660155 BMI Current:
27.1690821256 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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You'll find that most of us had RNY, so we're a bit biased. Some members have had good results with the sleeve, but almost everyone who had RNY is glad they did and would choose it again. Me included.
You only get to choose one, so educate yourself and choose wisely. You'll find lots of places on the internet with horror stories about WLS. Try to track them to a source and they'll evaporate like a second-hand smoke ring. The folks who tell these stories never let facts (or the lack thereof) get in the way of a good scary tale!
Good luck!
CT
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04-02-2012, 03:41 PM
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| | Big Loser
Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Mississippi
Posts: 190
Weight Statistics April 9, 2012 Start Date:
May 8, 2012 Surgery Date:
5' 1"
Height:
301 lb Start Weight:
204 lb Current Weight:
165 lb Goal Weight:
97 lb Weight Loss:
39 lb Lb Left to Lose:
32.2259136213 % % Lost:
June 2013 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index56.8672399893 BMI Start:
38.5412523515 BMI Current:
31.1730717549 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodSleeve Gastrectomy
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I am excited and nervous all in one, i have read so many negative things about the dumping syndrome and the vitamin issues, that I was scared about the roux but I am looking at all the sucess stories on here and starting to feel a lot better about the process.
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04-02-2012, 04:52 PM
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| | Seasoned Veteran
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Just north of Iowa, not far from I-35. 2nd star on the right and straight on 'til morning!
Posts: 9,842
Weight Statistics December 13, 2007 (pre-op liquid diet started) Start Date:
December 27, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 9"
Height:
290 lb Start Weight:
182 lb Current Weight:
184 lb Goal Weight:
108 lb Weight Loss:
-2 lb Lb Left to Lose:
37.2413793103 % % Lost:
Originally - 12/08. Actually - 8/08. Goal Date:
Body Mass Index42.8208359588 BMI Start:
26.8737660155 BMI Current:
27.1690821256 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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No one here will ever tell you that this is the easy way to lose weight. Above a certain weight, there is no easy way anyway! There are rules that must be learned and incorporated into your habits so they become a part of you. If you follow the rules, it'll work.
Extreme weight loss involves nothing more or less than a radical transformation of your formerly dysfunctional relationship with food. If you are not willing or able to commit at least 100% to any method of losing weight, it won't work. That's especially true for us because of our surgical alteration. We can't go back! (As if we'd want to!!)
Dumping is part of the ride that not everyone gets to enjoy. It's not essential, but you may have it, so be prepared and you won't be disappointed. My wife dumps. I don't. We're both members of the Century Club. I have to be good because I have to be good. She has to be good because she'll get slapped down by her pouch if she isn't. You don't get to choose, you just have to live with what you're dealt.
Keep reading and learning! There's a lot here to calm your jitters.
CT
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Dare to live your dream!!
If you want to be healthy for life, do for life the things that get you healthy!! Living healthy takes work. Dying fat is easy!! "That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the nature of the task has changed, but that our capacity to do has increased." - HJ Grant
"Do, or do not. There is no try!" - Yoda
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04-02-2012, 05:15 PM
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| | Seasoned Veteran
Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: New England
Posts: 2,556
Weight Statistics 12/27/1994 Start Date:
12/27/1994 Surgery Date:
5' 8"
Height:
353 lb Start Weight:
190 lb Current Weight:
165 lb Goal Weight:
163 lb Weight Loss:
25 lb Lb Left to Lose:
46.1756373938 % % Lost:
12/31/12 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index53.6676038062 BMI Start:
28.8862456747 BMI Current:
25.0854238754 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodBiliopancreatic Diversion
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As CT said - not everyone gets dumping syndrome...I never did. And my bloodwork has always been fine. I do have an issue with osteopenia, but that's more because my surgery was a very long time ago, before the standards for taking an appropriate amount of calcium were set, as well as knowing HOW to take it. Now I'm taking it appropriately so I hope to be able to head it off for now...
The lesson is - if you do have RNY, you need to be religious about supplements. But that's not really an issue.
Do your research and you'll eventually figure out what's best for you...
Betsy
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04-02-2012, 06:23 PM
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| | Seasoned Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: just north of Boston
Posts: 3,365
Weight Statistics 1/31/2012 Surgery Date:
5' 10"
Height:
338 lb Start Weight:
208 lb Current Weight:
175 lb Goal Weight:
130 lb Weight Loss:
33 lb Lb Left to Lose:
38.4615384615 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index48.4926530612 BMI Start:
29.8416326531 BMI Current:
25.1071428571 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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I read 'WLS for dummies' it has info on all the different options... I think it helped me educate myself
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Created by MyFitnessPal.com - Free Weight Loss Tools
starting weight: 338.4 (day of first appt with surgeon)
pre-surgery surgeon appt weight: 315.6
surgery day weight: 300.0
1 week post op appt: 294.0
50 lbs gone: 2/22/12
75 lbs gone 4/29/12
<250 5/29/12
100 lbs gone 7/8/12
125 lbs gone 10/9/12
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04-02-2012, 07:36 PM
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| | WLS Mentor
Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Colorado
Posts: 1,231
Weight Statistics August 15th, 2011 Surgery Date:
5' 10"
Height:
278 lb Start Weight:
171 lb Current Weight:
165 lb Goal Weight:
107 lb Weight Loss:
6 lb Lb Left to Lose:
38.4892086331 % % Lost:
August 2012 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index39.8844897959 BMI Start:
24.5332653061 BMI Current:
23.6724489796 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodSleeve Gastrectomy
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 sleeve, sleeve!!
I had the sleeve and I've done just about as well as the others here in terms of weight loss....and really, ALL of us have done a great job- its work however you choose.
I made my choice because I wanted to avoid some of those symptoms you've mentioned....and the surgery itself is a bit less intensive. One thing to consider is that there isn't as much long term information with the sleeve in terms of results. Good luck with your decision!
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04-02-2012, 07:41 PM
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| | WLS Master Guru
Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: South Chesterfield, VA
Posts: 531
Weight Statistics 1/21/11 Start Date:
8/30/11 Surgery Date:
5' 4"
Height:
302 lb Start Weight:
202 lb Current Weight:
145 lb Goal Weight:
100 lb Weight Loss:
57 lb Lb Left to Lose:
33.1125827815 % % Lost:
When it happens! Goal Date:
Body Mass Index51.8325195312 BMI Start:
34.6694335938 BMI Current:
24.8864746094 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodSleeve Gastrectomy
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I had the sleeve!! It's really a matter of choice and something that should be discussed and decided with your surgeon. My surgeon and I chose the sleeve for me because I was already anemic and the RNY would exacerbate that. I also wanted the sleeve because I feared the whole idea of re-routing. I love having the sleeve and wouldn't change it for anything. My sleeve is working for me!! Good luck with your decision! 
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Start Weight: 302  Pre-Op Diet: 275 Surgery Weight: 268
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04-02-2012, 08:41 PM
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#10 (permalink)
| | Seasoned Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: S. Jersey
Posts: 3,831
Weight Statistics ?? Most recently Oct. 2010 Start Date:
January 31 2011 Surgery Date:
5' 9"
Height:
342 lb Start Weight:
186 lb Current Weight:
189 lb Goal Weight:
156 lb Weight Loss:
-3 lb Lb Left to Lose:
45.6140350877 % % Lost:
no pressure... 1 year? 1-2012 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index50.4990548204 BMI Start:
27.4643982357 BMI Current:
27.9073724008 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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I didn't know about the sleeve when I signed up for bypass; it was just evolving I guess. A few months later, people in support group were talking about it and I think at least half a dozen people have had it. My mom had bypass in the early 70s... due to her success I thought I would also find success. I have dumped once since I had surgery. Some do, some don't, some have more tolerances for foods, sugars, fats etc than others.. What have I missed since I had bypass? Hmmm.. I can't take Aleve anymore; it is an Nsaid... but I don't have lower back pain any more so I don't need it. A McDonald's hamburger can give me pretty bad gas.. oh yeah, I can make my own hamburger..and am quite happy with a grilled snack wrap at McDs.... I don't miss any foods at all... In fact, tomorrow I see my girlfriends for lunch. One is babysitting a grandchild so we are going to her house They are getting cheese steaks, but I have no desire for one, so I will make a half sandwich and take it with me. I will be perfectly content.. especially when I check the scale on Thursday a.m. Good luck with whatever decision you make.
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