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Medical Bracelet - I was reading an article about how people who have gotten RNY should wear a medical bracelet. I found a really great website that sells fashionable medical bracelets and necklaces...

Celebrate vitamins - Does anyone use the celebrate vitamins products. Any suggestions? also does anyone have ideas for serving size cups and other items they have used in this process? My family is as...

Bikram yoga - Anyone take bikram yoga here or hot yoga?   I work at a bikram yoga studio.  Was wondering how long after surgery you waited to start taking class again. I am pre-op surgery in ...

RANT! PRE - OP - Have you ever told someone about your surgery and immediately regretted it? I am really choosey about who i tell my surgery about. For example, I chose to tell this nice woman at...

Patient Advocate - This whole process has made me consider changing careers. Do the patient advocates just get these jobs randomly or is this something they went to school for? I know that my patient...

avatar - Im sure there is a page for this, how can i upload my avatar. im using small pictures and every time it says that the pic is too big? anyone know how to make it smaller?

Got my date - dec 22!! liquid diet dec 8-22! preop apt dec 17.   i hope all goes well! I will be in the hospital for xmas 

Submitted and puréed foods - yesterday my patient advocate submitted everything to get me a date for surgery. Here's to hoping for a date within a week.   also I went to a group session last night and they t...

Fear of January - Question.   November 13 is my last dr. visit for my supervised 90 day diet. The surgeon already has all of my clearances and things i had to do for insurance. so after the 13th t...

Soup ? Cereal? - maybe this is silly. I know u can't drink before or after meals for 30 minutes. Does this mean cereal and soup are out of my diet forever? Just cirious

I feel accomplished - yesterday I finished all of my appointments in terms of testing and psychologist, pulmonologist etc after 4 long months!  i have two appointments for my 90 day supervised diet tha...

Long Island medium - so I'm sitting here watching Long Island medium and there is a woman who had a son pass away after the bypass from sepsis. How common is this?   i have decided to get the bypass ...

Frustrated.. A little - I have been busy everyday for the last two months running around on my days off going to dietician and psychologist and surgeon visits.. Driving over an hour to get sleep study equ...

sleep study - I have cigna. they denied my doctors request for the sleep study at the hospital, but they approved the home study. They are telling me i have to pay 345 dollars for the home stud...

All for nothing??? - Hi there. so i have posted once before prior to me getting started on this journey. I just want to say that I am afraid.   My PCP referred me to a bariatric doctor a couple month...

New here and confused. - Hi All. This will be my first post as I am new to all of this and very confused. I do apologize if you have seen these type of messages 1000 times before and that I should be posti...