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Topic: RE: Reversing RNY?
No truthfully I'm not, last winter I was sleeping wearing a hat and gloves, I see that coming again this year. Waking up and trying to shower when you are shivering uncontrolably is hard. It obviously is me, and the karate school just proved it.
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Topic: RE: Reversing RNY?
Ha ha ha. You are so funny. You know you are loving it ... absolutely loving it! Perhaps I need to buy you a burgundy and gold sweatshirt for those cold karate nights. By the way, Dr. A removed Andy's gallbladder on Tuesday at St. Agnes. Andy said it was a piece of cake compared to RNY. He started having problems a few months ago and it was time to take it out. Let me know when you want me to send you that sweatshirt! Take care.
Topic: RE: ummc
Depends on your surgeon's schedule as to when you will get a surgery date. I was approved within one day of submission and on the surgery schedule in two weeks.
Topic: RE: Reversing RNY?
Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart
Tom:
I am sorry to hear about your struggles. I know I am cold all of the time. My DW laughs at me at the role reversal - pre-op I used to sleep in boxers and nothing else, kick off the covers and want the ceiling fan on in the dead of winter. Now I sleep in layers, whine in the summer when she wants the ceiling fan on, grab the sheets, the quilt and a second quilt in the winter and wear socks to bed every night.
It's painful at times - I agree. And I consider it a small price to pay for all of the positives I've experienced resulting from the surgery. No longer on diabetes medicines (thats getting rid of 4 shots a day and two huge pills and the worry of whether I'd have my kidneys functioning in retirment), and blood pressure meds. I can walk 3-4 miles a day without feeling like a decrepit old man. I care about how clothes look on me, rather than worrying about whether they so tight I shouldn't be wearing them. I had a summer full of experiences that had other wise been closed to me as a MO man.
My list goes on from there. I would make your own personal list and balance it against the horrid cold (and I know how horrid it is to feel cold - honestly I am not minimizing it.) Then you'll have the answer to your "is it worth it?" question.
Be well!
I am sorry to hear about your struggles. I know I am cold all of the time. My DW laughs at me at the role reversal - pre-op I used to sleep in boxers and nothing else, kick off the covers and want the ceiling fan on in the dead of winter. Now I sleep in layers, whine in the summer when she wants the ceiling fan on, grab the sheets, the quilt and a second quilt in the winter and wear socks to bed every night.
It's painful at times - I agree. And I consider it a small price to pay for all of the positives I've experienced resulting from the surgery. No longer on diabetes medicines (thats getting rid of 4 shots a day and two huge pills and the worry of whether I'd have my kidneys functioning in retirment), and blood pressure meds. I can walk 3-4 miles a day without feeling like a decrepit old man. I care about how clothes look on me, rather than worrying about whether they so tight I shouldn't be wearing them. I had a summer full of experiences that had other wise been closed to me as a MO man.
My list goes on from there. I would make your own personal list and balance it against the horrid cold (and I know how horrid it is to feel cold - honestly I am not minimizing it.) Then you'll have the answer to your "is it worth it?" question.
Be well!
Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart
Topic: RE: Reversing RNY?
Tom,
Please tell your doc you feel colder than you think you should be given the cir****tances and see if he thinks it prudent to order a thyroid test. We all have these surgeries and blame the surgery on stuff like this, but a friend of mine had VSG, had the same issues, and it turned out she'd developed hypothyroidism and medication is relieving her symptoms.
Good Luck.
Terri
Please tell your doc you feel colder than you think you should be given the cir****tances and see if he thinks it prudent to order a thyroid test. We all have these surgeries and blame the surgery on stuff like this, but a friend of mine had VSG, had the same issues, and it turned out she'd developed hypothyroidism and medication is relieving her symptoms.
Good Luck.
Terri
LBL/BL 12/11/09; BL Revision, Quad Bleph 07/16/10. Larry H. Lickstein, M.D., F.A.C.S.
It's not how fast you go, but that you're moving in the right direction!
Topic: RE: Support groups ???
Highest weight- 325 Day of surgery- 301 Post surgery -306 
UMMC has meetings at the Baltimore- Washington Medical Center
Highest weight- 325 Day of surgery- 301 Post surgery -306 Topic: RE: Support groups ???
Highest weight- 325 Day of surgery- 301 Post surgery -306
I live in Woodlawn , west Baltimore County but I went to one at Bayview last night ,awesome tottally loved will try to go meetings held twice a month there for now on.
Highest weight- 325 Day of surgery- 301 Post surgery -306 Topic: RE: Reversing RNY?
Tom, you best be kidding some what about this. I think being cold is the least I'll take on for not having all the other problems I had 100+ lbs ago! I keep my house between 71-73 and every now and then still need an extra cover. But, NEVER has the thought crossed my mind to have my RNY reversed because I am now too cold.
Topic: ummc
Highest weight- 325 Day of surgery- 301 Post surgery -306
Hi evryone,
i was submitted to insurance last Friday and approved on Tuesday,
How long aftre approval did you have to wait to be scheduled for pre-op testing and to get a surgery date?
Highest weight- 325 Day of surgery- 301 Post surgery -306 
Topic: RE: Reversing RNY?
my suggestion is to go see ur surgeon and discuss this with him. I do not know how hard it is to reverse or how it would affect you in ways that could be worse. so do some research on reversing it, see what other people's experience has been. also you might want to just eat more. ur probably just not eating enough. might need something to spawn ur appetite.
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