How many two sleeve couples are out there?
My hubby Shrinking Nerd and I are both sleeved. My doctor say he has a few '"two sleeve" husband and wife patients. Just wondering how many other couples there are who are both sleeved.
FYI, my surgeon say they tend to be more successful because of mutual support and similar eating programs. If there are a number of us, maybe we can create an OH group. diane
great. my hubby and i were separated by two years (his choice) but i think a separation of a month or so would be good. so one is recovered enough to take care of the other. in our case we had to travel 300 miles to the hospital so one of had to be in good shape. fortunatly recovery is pretty quick. go for it. diane
My wife was just sleeved in December. So far so good.
HW 420 SW 369 Pre-Op -51 lbs; M1-19;M2-15;M3-14;M4 -14;M5-13; M6- 14;M7-14;M8-10;M9-11;M10-11;M11-9;M12-7;M13-7;M14-5; M15-7; M16-8. M17-3. M18-6; M19-5. Goal of 200 (220 Lost) Reached Month 15. Goal of 180 (240 lost) reached at 18 months 10 days on 4/.20/13. 57% body weight lost@180. Now on maintenance. Low weight 169.
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I think it's a great idea to have a group specific to WLS families, but maybe not just specific to VSG.
Just off the top of my head I've seem Husband and wives, partners, brother sister, sister sister, parents...... and within those have a mixture of surgery types.
frisco
SW 338lbs. GW 175lbs. Goal in 11 months. CW 148lbs. WL 190lbs.
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My husband and I are on this journey together - he was sleeved 4 weeks after me! It's fun doing this together - we keep each other accountable & have fun with new healthy recipes & trying new veggies.
It's amazing to have our health back - best decision we ever made. The only irritating thing that I have to watch is not comparing my weight loss to his - I'm down 72 lbs - he's at 125 lbs so far!! And he just now started exercising!
Good luck to you both!!
My husband and I had our sleeves 5 weeks apart from each other. I don't think either of us could have been as successful as we are if only one of us had done it.
Between the two of us, we've lost nearly 300 pounds in a little more than 6 months. :D
VSG by Nick Nicholson in 2013. Revised to DS 2/23/2023 by Chad Carlton.