Congrats on your success! You must be feeling wonderful! I'll be going to see Dr. Alvarez in one week...can't wait, but nervous, too.

I think you may have posted in the wrong surgery forum, though. This is for "VBG" not "VSG". I ended up here out of curiosity and saw your post!

Hi Helen,
I was self pay as well. From the first time I met with the dr to my surgery day was 3 weeks.
That was 8 1/2 months ago and -117lbs
Best of luck to you

Well…that’s probably not accurate. BF is not quite old enough to NEED a facelift. She got an EXTREME MAKEOVER!!!

 

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Tomorrow is my 7 months since my Jan 18th surgery date. I trusted that if his worked for others it would work for me too and it has!!  I was a size 24 and am now a 14 wearing L tops. Crossing my fingers that the next 5 months go as smoothly and I'll hit my goal of 140. Everywhere I go people are shocked by the difference but I'm averaging 2.5 loss a week so that' healthy. Will have to get B&A pics to post soon.

Hope you're all having a great day. To all the newbies out there, don't stop believing!

Good question, Evelyn...I too take Effexor XR,and I never thought of that. I'll check w/ my doc and post a reply when I find out!