Thanks, Mishelle! I am very proud of myself for quitting smoking - a very difficult thing to do and at a time in my life where I am in foreclosure after owning my home for 17 years.

Thanks again and I have gotten mixed info from my Doc. At least my surgeon. He says things like I will feel fine after 3 days after having an open RNY! He also said I could go swimming after 3 weeks, and after I did my own research - this would be very risky especially for a diabetic! The risk of infection would be terrible. So - I can't say he has his head on right - but he has a rep of being the best surgeon and very low post-surgical fatalities or injuries.

Hope you are well!

thanks for all the feed back. i am going to try to have my pump on ... since from what  i hear its only a 45min procedure for the band and a total of 4-5 hrs in the hospital i think it shouldn't be a problem. When i had my two children i had to be taken off my pump because the docs i had were nut jobs. I have called the endo again and she said that she will try to get me an apt with her before i have the surgery on the 16Th

WTG on the quit smoking part. That's why folks sometimes see weight gain when they quit. Go from a "blackend" stressed digestive system then when the smoking stop, things "pink" up and start working better.

In time when the sugars have stabolized at a better range, and the healing - then the pain will or should improve.  Just used to have some folks complain about weight gain when tehir sugars get better, well because they aren't ******g away their calories when spilling sugars all the time when running higher bgs.

Hope you got good info from Dr.

My error.  I have no idea why I posted VSG.  Brain fog I guess.  LOL  I meant the RNY as this is what I most likley will have as soon as a date is set.   I wish you all the best and pray your neuopathy will lessen quite a bit after surgery.  I was talking with an RN in another country over the week-end and she claims she has seen neuopathy dramatically improve in time with weight loss surgery and the remiss of diabetes.  I hope she is right!  The WLSurgeon does not know. )-: if it will.  I can dream, can't I?  God Bless Us and heal!

These misinterpretation & assumptions are what I've been attempting to avoid but apparently unavoidable. Basing that we are on a forum to which was designed to be supportive of one another lets get on with that matter of business.