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Post surgery problems - I'm heading to the specialist next week to try to figure out why I have been having chronic and severe diarrhea... not my idea of a good time, but nor has the diarrhea been. After ...

Thanksgiving - It was just two years ago that I was able to eat a few spoons of mashed potatoes and was SO grateful for them... Now, I had a real Thanksgiving dinner, stopped when I was full a...

I was recognised! - This may sound silly, but due to other health concerns I have not been out and about in my community in the last two years since my surgery. I am having a panic attack after just n...

Foreshadowing my future - Haven't written lately due to technical issues (arg!) but I'm back after a "semi faulty" gallbladder attack. Not gone, just forgotten (till it is ready to quit working altogethe...

Thank you! It sure has been a battle, and continues to be but one...

Good fats/Dry Skin??? - Since my WLS doctor's office won't get back to me, I am tossing the question out to you all. Just had my labs run and everything was fine, but I have had this "rash" tiny little...

Being accountable... weight regain - I know I need to exercise, but can't seem to get going. To make things worse, I've regained weight, almost 20 lbs. I still feel good and clothes are still fitting which I think ...

Manic frustrated - After surgery my Bipolar II changed and my moods began swinging up rather than down. All my life I've been used to handle down, but now the ups are really getting to me... they ...

One year - Well, it's been a full year and after all the fuss with the strictures, hoping that is done now, I am feeling better. I am now broke after paying off all the doctor's bills (and th...

Stricture or not to stricture, that is my question - I've had two endoscopys in August one that found the stricture, then they had to sedate me more to balloon it a week later. I'm have trouble and pain with swallowing and food not g...

Better... - I guess with this there are bad days and good days. I've managed to get a few good days in and it's like reaching air after being held underwater. I did have a stricture and was di...

I am the 1% - I am not the one who is grateful for WLS or wishing I had done it years ago... I am smaller... no long plus sized but I feel like crap... I had to undergo another endoscopy where t...

Stricture drama - Have been having terrible pains lately and after seeing the doctor we thought it might be an ulcer, but it's a stricture and during the GI they couldn't give me enough pain medicat...

Ut oh, ulcer... - I met my new doctor yesterday at a three month check up. Been having troubles with gas and vomiting and nausea but don't think I expressed myself well enough. He said we'd watch an...

OT: How do you have fun? I need suggestions. - Seems like a silly question, but my therapist has helped me to understand that I have spent so much time and energy on my WLS and keeping up with supplements and following the rule...

Slutty clothes! - I waited all winter for this point... I am not at my goal weight, in fact, due to the addition of birth control pills I am eating like a maniac (will be stopping them soon) but it ...

So sick, no idea why - I am currently unable to eat anything without wanting to throw it right back up. I took some antinausea medication so I could eat something, I can now get my warm cup of muscle mil...

Sleep! (or lack of it) - Before surgery I could literally sleep a day away. Granted, most of it was due to a depressive episode, but it was possible and did happen. With everything else going on, I thought...

Getting enough protein versus balanced eating - At six months out, I know I should be getting 60-90 (leaning toward the 90) grams of protein in per day. However, recently I've begun to try to eat with some more variety in my die...

Wow- I had no idea! - Obviously, I know I've lots weight. I had smaller clothes and feel different... even began jogging in with my walks. It wasn't until I saw my before and "now" pictures side by side...

Are you bipolar??? If so, how are you since surger - Well, I am and am worried, so I really would like to hear from anyone who has been here. I had my RNY in October 2011 and as of late, been much more on the manic side of things. I ...