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girly question... bad cramps? - Ladies, How do you handle horrible TOM symptoms postop?  For the past several monthsI have not been able to tolerate TOM without Ibuprofen, and I know I won't be able to take Ib...

8 weeks to go! - It seems like the only way that I can make this seem real is by counting down the time until I have the surgery.  Maybe it would seem more real if I had met my doctor, or his staff...

Travelling with a CPAP? - I am planning to call the office that did my sleep study a year ago and schedule a new study, just to make sure my CPap is 1) still necessary and 2) set for the correct pressure am...

Eight more weeks... and interesting notation about - Ugh!  If only these next 8 weeks would fly by lol...  I'm just so ready to get this done! Anyways, I was looking through my information from Dr Aceves again, and I saw that he l...

Blood Sugar: "False Lows"? - I have been working to get my blood sugar in check so that it will be (hopefully) where I need it to be for surgery.  My doctor even took me off of the metformin and put me on a ne...

Tradjenta? - Anyone familiar with this diabetes med?  I know it's very new... as in just on the market as of May 2011.  My dr sent samples of this home with my husband for me today.  Sh...

Huh... small world... - A friend of mine at work found out that I am getting a sleeve, and he asked me for details about where and when I was going (he was supposed to get his done last year, and he didn'...

discouraged... what if? - I royally screwed up my diet tonight.  I had other options, and I chose not to take them, and now I feel sick, and disgusted. I mean, I made it all of three days before messing ...

diabetes meds? - I posted the same basic question in the diabetes forum, but that one doesn't seem to be frequented as often as this one, so I wanted to see if anyone here had any experience with t...

restarting metformin... nausea help - So, I have not been the most compliant diabetic in the last several months.  Now that I am having a sleeve done in March, I am trying to lower my blood sugar as much as possible.  ...

OT: passports? - So, hubby and I will finally  be applying for our passports this weekend.  My surgery is the last week of March.  The State Dept website says that processing passports is curre...

Met my goals for today, and odd realization - I planned out my food for today in the health tracker last night, and I am proud to report that I stuck with it, calorie for calorie... except for one piece of cheese that I just h...

Any grad students? - I deliberately planned my surgery date around my school spring break and my work spring break.  Surgery will be during the school (university) spring break, and then I will have al...

Pre-surgery suggestions for high protein, low fat - I have my first night of class tomorrow night for my Masters' program at Jacksonville State University.  I'mm excited, and nervous! Anyways, because of this, my day is going to ...

Health Tracker- what an eye opener! - I decided to use the health tracker here on OH to log my food for today.  I think I'm going to love using that as a tool for my weight loss both before and after surgery. Today ...

Back from my PCP - My doctor is completely on board with my decision to be sleeved, and she didn't even raise a concern when I told her that I plan to go to Mexico for the procedure.  She did have lo...

can't help but giggle (off topic) - I get thrown off when I read posts on here where several letters of a word are replaced with stars.  Then I realized that those stars are there because the letters being taken out ...

Gonna try something starting tomorrow... - I know that each of us is supposed to follow our doctor's orders just before surgery as far as diet, but did you try to lose weight before your pre-op diet officially started? I...

What did your PCP think? - I'm assuming most people here told their PCP that they were geting WLS...  how does that conversation usually go?  I have an appointment with mine tomorrow, and she's probably ...

Two Months and Two Weeks Away! - I can't believe I'm saying this, but I can't wait to get my surgery over with, so I can move forward and see some serious results! I know that life after surgery won't be easy. ...

Gonna be a long two months... - At this point, my surgery is about ten weeks away. Tonight, I had a mini breakdown.  It involved the fact that my husband just discovered that his birth certificate is not where...

Poll: favorite proteins? - I am still 2 1/2 months out from surgery, but I am chomping at the bit to have something else to do to prepare, so I think I will start sampling protein powders and such to use pos...

Husband doesn't think I'm ready... long - When I first told my husband that I want to go to Mexico for my sleeve, he was 110% on board.  When I told him that I was about to buy our plane tickets to get down there for the s...

To those travelling abroad for surgery... family q - Anyone tell their family about their plans, only to be met with absolute resistance from the most surprising people?  I am doing this for me and only for me, although I'm sure ...

excited! - Deposit paid:  check Airline tickets:  check Pre-op diet instructions: check Post-op diet: check Appointment set with my PCP: check Basically, all I have left is to get my p...