Anyone gotten gastric sleeve surgery?

Congratulations on the correct use of the word "lose" and not the usual social media choice of "loose."

If you can lose the weigh before, you can continue to lose the weight instead of getting the surgery.

Like my 600 lb life, these people have to lose sometimes 100 pounds in one month to get the surgery. If they did that for just three or four more months, they could be at their goal. You can't eat anything with lap band anyway.

My brother had it. It saved his life. He has kept the weight off.

The lap band, the gastric sleeve, and gastric bypass are three different things.

Do it OP, just research your surgeon and make sure he/she is a good one. Don't go to Mexico.

Everyone I know who has gotten it has gained it all back within 5 years, Not worth butchering your insides. Put in the work and lose it with diet changes and exercise. In the end, it’s a math exercise. Burn more calories than you consume.

No, but I know a woman who had it last November. She's a shadow of her former self and still has about 20 pounds to loose. She fills up very easily and can no longer eat spicy food. She doesn't care, she'd rather be not fat . She has some excess skin, could use a chin area and neck lift. Knowing her she'll probably have skin tightening surgery when she's done losing.

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Any doctor who expects you to lose 100lbs in a month is a quack.

I had it done in 2013 and I lost over 100 lbs and have kept it off. It's been the best thing that ever happened to me. I don't have high blood pressure anymore and it's a tool that has taught me how to do portion control. I've met a lot of other people who have had it and some have gained the weight back and some haven't. It's just a tool, not a magical solution. You have to work out and learn how to eat healthy.

OP it will be hard work and deprivation even after the surgery. Can you just get a trainer and nutritionist and stick to a program? Don't have surgery unless your life is in danger.

Don’t do it!! If you are an addict like me. You will. Regret it.

How can you gain it back if your stomach is the size of a banana? Wouldn't you vomit if you overate?

I'm in the process of having my lap band removed. I've had it roughly 13 years and have lost over 120lbs.

When I went to the surgeon the other week he was astounded and said most people don't lose that much with just a band and keep it off.

Why are you getting it removed, r13? Do you have to get them removed after a certain time?

Lifestyle change and the times I vomit there has been some blood in it.

I just want it out now.

Please try lifestyle changes first: more actively and better eating choices. If they don't work than gastric sleeve surgery is an option but remember if you have it you can't go eating what ever you want and you do need to be more active. Even with surgery you will need to adopt a more healthy lifestyle otherwise you will be back to where you started from. in a year or two.

You need to see a therapist about why you overeat in the first place, try meditating every morning as well.

Just don’t eat until you’re not fat anymore.

Just eat less.

Portion control is everything.

R11 yes, you can only eat small portions or else it will just come back up. Friend of mine can’t have a drink with his meal (even water) because it’s too much volume at once.

All the fraus I know are getting it done, and they're not even super obese. They're dipping into their superannuation to pay for it. One woman I'm close to claims it's the best thing she's ever done, yet she looks gaunt and is nowhere near as happy or vibrant as she used to be. She also has to go vomit every time we go for dinner, and soils her pants on occasion. I'm fat, chipping away at it slowly. At first I was jealous of everyone, but I'm happy and my undies are clean.

This thread seems like a lot of people are conflating the lap band, the gastric bypass, and the gastric sleeve together.

This isn't about anything but the gastric sleeve. If you're posting about other surgeries that's fine but please be clear on which surgery the person or you got, at least.

There is a BIG difference between the surgeries and how drastic they are afterwards as well as the side effects (the purging mentioned above sounds more like a gastric bypass than the sleeve).

Gastric sleeve is the procedure of the minute for the fraus in my circle R22

R23 it's the safest procedure of the others mentioned, with the best results so far. There's a reason it's the procedure of the minute.

I had the bypass over ten years ago, and have now just about hit the 100-lb loss mark. (I had the misfortune of being able to eat just about anything after the surgery, though in initially smaller amounts--though I still can only eat about half as much as I did before the surgery.) A colleague had the sleeve a few years ago--she has lost a considerable amount of weight and kept it off. I don't think many doctors are doing the lap band anymore. I think the surgery really did save my life (or to put it less dramatically, improved my health and gave me the chance at more years than I would otherwise have had). Most of my diabetic symptoms are gone, and I have felt more able to exercise regularly. It does take work after the surgery and is generally, in my opinion, quite worth it. The people who tell you just to eat less or to exercise more probably don't know what they are talking about--most of us have tried that and, for whatever complex, individual set of reasons, have not been able to succeed without the assistance of surgery. I would say go for it.

I've seen several patients who had undergone weight loss procedures, but were not compliant with recommended dietary changes. They developed vitamin B12 (nutritional deficiency) optic neuropathy and became blind. Skinny, but blind.

My brother had the bypass done. Lost a lot of weight quickly. Also found himself waking up on the floor many times, having fainted because his blood pressure bottomed out.

BTW, those who say “burn more calories than you take in” don’t understand that the body slows down the calorie burn rate. The more weight you lose, the more slowly it comes off; this is a protective measure, because the body thinks it’s being starved. Rev up your workout all you want, but the body readjusts the burn rate downward again. Drop your calorie count again, and your body drops the burn rate again.

I know this firsthand. On my last diet, I was doing two hours of workout daily. I was down to 900 calories. And I merely maintained my weight loss. I hadn’t reached my goal, but was maintaining.

And I was hungry alot. When it comes down to hunger vs diet, hunger wins out every time.

R27 I know exactly what you mean. I lost a lot on a Keto diet and couldn't eat as much as a normal human or anywhere close to it without gaining weight immediately. The metabolism didn't fix itself, my body didn't adjust. The surgery is what helps with that.

Try eating pussy

Thanks, r15.

That's rather scary.

You guys can't just throw in anecdotes without explaining the reasons things occurred.

R21 I can understand why your friend would vomit (eating more than the sleeve holds) but why would your friend soil herself on occasion? I thought that was a side effect of gastric bypass surgery. Your intestines are not touched in the sleeve surgery.

R26 Why on Earth would people go blind from this surgery? I would think any correlation between the surgery & blindness would cause a full stop to the surgery being performed.

I think R31 that my friend hasn't modified her diet and still eats the same processed and rich foods as before her surgery. So if we go out and she orders her usual cream based pasta it seems to go through her really quickly. Another time was when we were on holiday and she had a vanilla milkshake. Maybe it's got nothing to do with surgery, could be some kind of lactose intolerance, but she didn't have that before. She has said that the worst side effect she suffered initially was hair loss.

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