Are there any surgeons in NE that do ds since Dr. Sudan is leaving?
As everyone else has said, Dr. Anthone only does the procedure open. I had my surgery on October 3rd (edited to correct the date of my surgery) and I was considered a light weight, I had 100 pounds to loose. To date, I have lost 77% of my excess weight and I feel AWESOME. I am on "track" to loose all of my excess (80 pounds at 1 year would be my target and I have until October 3rd to reach that goal).
The six month physician supervised diet is an insurance requirement, to my knowledge Dr. Anthone does not require this, but most insurance companies do.
We have had an incredible summer and I was very sad when my kids went back to school yesterday, I still had more things I would have liked to do before school started.
My DS has been truely life altering. I will admit though, the first two months were HELL. I was very nauseated and then had an infection. I went back to work at 4 weeks and in hindsight should have taken the full 6 off, but it was ok after a few weeks. After the 2 month mark, everything just kind of came together.....the nausea went away, my energy level came back, the infection cleared up (with antibiotics), and eating was possilble again.
Dr. Anthone does give everyone a feeding tube, and let me tell you that was my best friend. That feeding tube saved me from the ER, I have always been one with a sensitive stomach and I was not able to eat or drink after surgery, so I used my tube religiously.
I was trying to answer the questions you put in this post, if you have any other questions I can answer please let me know. And you are always welcome to come on over to the DS board and hang out there, there is a wealth of information to be had over there. Good luck with your journey. I can honestly say I LOVE my DS.
Michelle
The six month physician supervised diet is an insurance requirement, to my knowledge Dr. Anthone does not require this, but most insurance companies do.
We have had an incredible summer and I was very sad when my kids went back to school yesterday, I still had more things I would have liked to do before school started.
My DS has been truely life altering. I will admit though, the first two months were HELL. I was very nauseated and then had an infection. I went back to work at 4 weeks and in hindsight should have taken the full 6 off, but it was ok after a few weeks. After the 2 month mark, everything just kind of came together.....the nausea went away, my energy level came back, the infection cleared up (with antibiotics), and eating was possilble again.
Dr. Anthone does give everyone a feeding tube, and let me tell you that was my best friend. That feeding tube saved me from the ER, I have always been one with a sensitive stomach and I was not able to eat or drink after surgery, so I used my tube religiously.
I was trying to answer the questions you put in this post, if you have any other questions I can answer please let me know. And you are always welcome to come on over to the DS board and hang out there, there is a wealth of information to be had over there. Good luck with your journey. I can honestly say I LOVE my DS.
Michelle
Michelle
Highest 242/Surgery 235/Goal 150/Lowest 158/Current 184 (Started working off regain and heading to goal 02/02/12.)
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