I had the Apollo Overstitch program in May of 2021. Almost immediately I felt FINE. Too fine in fact. I was on a liquid diet for three weeks so I did start dropping weight and with the program I received nutritional coaching. With the nutrition part I was dropping weight but honestly I felt no difference in my stomach. For months I told this to the surgeon as well as all the coaches. Finally after months and months of being told to try this or try that I kept loosing weight while still telling them I FELT NO DIFFERENCE. I had to explain that the surgery and the nutrition where part of the program but they were different parts. Finally in November I got them to listen to me and they went in with another endoscope and found that all the stitches were gone and they redid the procedure. This time I feel it. I feel my stomach smaller. I feel the liquid in it. My entire life I've never felt full and finally this time I notice the change. I lost about 30 lbs between May and Nov and after the revision I've already lost another 10 lbs. I had about three days of slowed down activity and then was fine.

It's there, between the Mini Gastric Bypass and Realize forums

No, but if you are eating fats they do have a tendency to slip through the body fast . A sign that you are malabsorbing fat is a light to bright yellow color and looseness of the stool .

If you're a recent post op it behooves you to change your food choices if this is the case - only DS ers have significant fat malabsorption a few years after surgery.

Making processed, fried fatty and "'slider " high calorie food choices is probably the biggest cause of frustrating regain . ((()))) hugs

I'm just over one year post op and just finding my way through maintenance..

I have no regrets. This surgery was the best decision I have ever made! The dietitian at your Centre could probably help you best with the vegan part!

After surgery I was fine - I had no pain. I was tired for a while after. I work a mentally and physically demanding job and I took 6 weeks off.. should have taken 7 or eased back into it.. but otherwise recovery was good. Learning to eat again was tough, but you figure it out quickly!

I had surgery at 55, and no regrets at all. I'd do it again in a heartbeat and only wish I'd had it done 10 or 20 years earlier. I lost out on so much of life weighing 300+ lbs!

I had my plastic surgeries at 57, 58, and 61 (lower body lift, arm & breast lift, and face lift respectively). So plastic surgery at 55 is not uncommon at all! A lot of us had it in our 50s - and even 60s.

hair loss is across the board - some lose a lot, some lose none at all. Most of us are somewhere in the middle. I didn't lose very much. I noticed it in my comb and brush, but just looking at it in the mirror - no. If I didn't even notice it while looking in the mirror, then no one else did, either. Besides, even if you lose a lot, it's very rare for it to fall out in chunks. It's more like "shedding". And it's temporary. Honestly, hair loss and loose skin seem to be among the biggest concerns of pre-ops and early post-ops. I had the same concerns. But I think most of us who are a ways out would say that in the grand scheme of things, they're really not worth worrying about. They're an annoyance, but totally worth it in exchange for losing all that weight and getting your health back. In retrospect, I shouldn't have wasted any brain cells over it. I'm so glad I had the surgery - one of the best decisions I've ever made.