Obesity surgery

Hello all:

Look forward to seeing you here and there in the future…

Thanks,
Allison

Ok..gang..I hope this site helps all of you looking for Nioxin products. They
truly aren’t that hard to come by..but I keep seeing all these posts where
you’re not finding a hairdresser willing to order or havent seen them
there..well..here’s a website that will sell to you and( from what i can tell
without a lot of research )without a cosmetology liscense ( I have one..and
would NEVER refuse to order for any of my clients..if they do..find another
hairdresser! :0)) ~ Thanks Erin

To all of you having surgery this week..I will put you ALL in my prayers this
week. Sweet Dreams while under anthesia..and remind yourselves when you are in
pain..that this too shall pass..Look how many people we have to look up to
around here. They all sound like they are doing just great..and so will you!
hopeing to be in your shoes soon!! Erin

can anyone tell me how to get back to original group site..where there are
pictures etc..files, Its been so long i can’t remember..i only get group
email..lol..thanks Erin

Hi Everybody,

I have been a member of this group for a while but I have only posted
a couple times, although I love to read about everybody’s sucess
stories and How supportive everyone is. I am approved through my
insurance to have the surgery ( open RNY )I am just waiting for my
sleep test and then I can set a date. I feel very confident with my
Doc, but I would really like to know what the time spent right before
the surgery and immediately after is like? I am aware of the basics
like walking around after the surgery to prevent blood clots. I would
really like to know about if there are things I can to do before the
surgery to make it easier. If anybody has any info. I would greatly
appreciate it.

Sandra

I am in an interesting place. I have completed all my tests required for my
surgeon, and I assume in the process of getting insurance approval. I say
"assume" because all I get when I call the doctor’s office is a message
machine, and I don’t really know. I have not yet cut way back on carbs,
though I am supposed to have done that. I look back, and know that I have
left that way of life in pursuing this radical treatment to my inability to
keep weight off. I look forward, to the surgery and the post-surgery life,
and it is hard to imagine what it will be like, existing with a stomach the
size of a thumb. I am excited, scared, afraid of somehow failing, and also
feeling a kind of grief of leaving some of the basic things that I have
enjoyed (to my own destruction) in the area of food. So, I guess it is a
mixed bag of emotions, and by faith, I am proceeding forward, knowing that
my weight has given me bad back, sciatic pain in my legs, diabetes, sleep
apnea, social fears and issues, and has shortened my life. So, I am going
forward, but must admit there is part of me that wishes that the doctor’s
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Has anyone had a rny proxial revison to a rny distal due to weight
gain ?And if so who much more did they lose with the disatl vs the
proxial?Also did you reach goal once you had a distal.Michelle

Hello everyone. Yesturday was my consultation @ the Bariatric
Treatment Center in Longhorne, Pennsylvania and all went well. I am
more determend then ever to have my surgery done now. I am still
looking for anyone who is going through or has gone through this
procedure in any of the Bariatric Treatment Center’s through the US.
Please email me.

Thank You!!

Kristie

I am a pre-op looking for a support group in the Pittsburgh area.
Does anyone know of any?

I have an initial consultation with Dr. Colella in May. He is out of
Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA. Has anyone used him or
know of him?