Current weight – 318.2 — I’m down 47.8 pounds since surgery and 71 pounds since since highest weight. I’m still struggling with swallowing issues and I’ve seen an ENT and she said there isn’t an issue with my throat, then I saw a gastroenterologist and he has me scheduled for an endoscopy procedure in 17 …
8 weeks post op
Weight 334 – weight lost 32 pounds. I went to the ENT (Dr Phillips) and she ordered an extensive barium swallow test to determine the issue with food not going down. It turns out I have a hiatal hernia and acid reflux severely and lots of inflammation causing spasms that keep food from going down. …
Six Weeks Post Op
It has been six weeks since my VSG surgery at Pompeii Surgical and I have lost 33 pounds. I am happy with the results but I am still having problems with food getting stuck so I am seeing a doctor next week.
4 Weeks Post-Op
I can NOT believe I had my surgery a month ago today. I didn’t weigh in today but I weighed yesterday at my doctor’s office and she was so impressed at my thirty pound weight loss in a month! She looked at my wounds and said they looked good with no infection. I talked to …
3 1/2 weeks Post-Op
This morning I weighed in at 335.8 and have lost over 30 pounds since I left for Mexico and weighed 366 pounds. I’m still having difficulty with food getting stuck in my esophagus and hoping that will end soon. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JoWMoOpRFy0
Three Weeks Post-op
Hard to believe I had surgery three weeks ago today. This morning I weighed 337 and I have lost 29 pounds since I left for Mexico. HW 389, SW 366, CW 337. I am still having difficulties with food not going down all the way. It seems to get stuck in my esophagus any time …
Minor set-back…
Two weeks post-op, I was given the green light to have certain foods and pureed soups and vegetables. Several days ago, I had a scrambled egg that didn’t go down and seemed to get stuck in my throat for almost two days. Yesterday afternoon it happened again with soup with pureed broccoli in it. It …
The Scrambled Egg
On Tuesday, March 15, I had my first scrambled egg. Little did I know, the scrambled egg would last me a week. It got stuck in my throat and wouldn’t go down. After almost two days it finally went down. I hope this doesn’t happen again.
Two Week Post-Op
Today is the two-week mark since my surgery and I was able to eat a scrambled egg and some pureed potato soup. Both times, I felt so full and I just ate less than 1/4 cup of soup. It’s making it hard to get my water down. Good news is that I weighed in this …
One week post-op
Today, I went to my primary care doctor for a check up and I weighed 349.2. It is so nice to move the scale out of the 350+ section and down to the 300+ section! The doctor was pleased with my results but said sutures aren’t ready to come out yet. She wrote a prescription …