05-27-2020

Happily remarried since 2010. Weight gain has occured, but still less thN before surgery. I'm now at 200.

I'm disappointed that I stopped using my tool, but i have spent the last 8 years driving a semi truck across the country.

It's not easy to maintain my weight and eat and exercise when your behind the wheel 11 - 14 hours a day.

Starting a new business on July 22 for urology testing for DOT. Once I'm off the truck, i should be able to knock off the excess weight that has crept up on me.

You need to see a doctor even if you have to make payments. This is almost certainly low blood sugar. It could be diabetes. Get it checked out.

Sound as your sugar went low.

Last year in about October I started having light-headedness where it felt like the blood rushs down my system like when you ride a rollar coster ride.  At first it was very seldom, but is happening more frequently.  Was wondering if any other long term post-ops are having this same issue?  My surgery date was April 2002 if that'll help on calculations.  I lost down to 150 and I remain there still to date.  I go up and down a couple of pounds but overall I stay in the 148 - 150 lbs range.  If I drink orange juice it seems to help, in most cases.  I'm starting to get concerned over this since it's happening more often of late.

If you have any suggestions - other than seeing my doctor - let me know.  I'm in Tulsa, OK now and my surgeon is in Nashville, TN and I only go that way 1 or 2 times per year.  I have contacted him and they suggested me finding a local doctor, however they all want to charge me as a new patient and I currently don't have insurance.

Thanks.
Linda

I have been so fortunate 6 yrs post op to have kept off all the weight lost. Up until a few months ago, I could still only eat maybe 1/2 sandwich or maybe 1/2 of a small plate of food and still felt the fullness in the pouch and everything was fine. Nothing had changed, didn't get sick, nothing out of the ordinary happened healthwise. Then one day a couple of months ago when I went to go eat a meal, I suddenly became aware that I had just eaten a whole sandwich with NO feeling of fullness in the pouch and it's been like that ever since. I can eat a whole plate of food and I purposely stop myself or I can eat, eat, and eat more. I am at a loss as to WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED??? The restriction of the pouch has been what has kept my weight maintained all these years. Have any long-term post-ops ever had this same situation happen? I have already gained 10 pounds. Help! Diana