So I have my consultation next month with my surgeon as well as my info session on WLS so I will be asking this question then as well.

I'm in a Gastric bypass surgery group on FB so I can get more insight on which surgery everyone is getting. most of them had mentioned they get the bypass instead of the sleeve because most people end up getting the sleeve revised into a bypass due to complications, weight gain and or severe heartburn. I was wondering how common it is to need a revision somewhere down the line and if I would be better off with the Bypass?

I love the zero sugar gatorades and diet snapple. I buy the snapple in the glass bottle because i'm fancy.

Thank you @thewombat, nice to meet ya

Hello all. My name is Jennifer. I'm 41 years young and divorced mom of 3 great sons. 4 years ago, I reached my highest weight around 240ish. I decidedly then, I'd buckle down and shed the weight. And I did! I lost 60lbs dieting, walking and riding my bike. I then went to get my tummy tuck, which I desperately needed, after 3 pregnancies my pouch was on point lol. So that happened. 3 days after surgery, my incision became necrotic and just ripped apart. After 6 months of wound care and 3 surgeries later, I was healed with a skin graft. It's left a gnarly scar about 7 inches by 4-5 inches right below where my belly button USED to reside. (I cried when I realized my belly button was gone) So I got thru that! But dealing with the emotions of my body being scarred/damaged caused me a lot of depression and guess what I did? Yep, gained most of my weight back. Didn't help that I had back surgery in June either. I'm up to 225-230 now. I'm so angry at myself and upset. The pressing issue, is that I've gained SO much weight now, my skin graft is stretched SUPER thin in that area. And though I still have no feeling in that area, I wake up sometimes and notice tiny rips or scabs in it. I decided I need to get this weight off as fast as I can, because believe me I don't want to deal with that wound care business again. So I visited the bariatric surgeon in June. I had the sleep study done and failed with flying colors, so now my cpap keeps me company at night. I have degenerative disc disease, sleep apnea, pcos, Arthritis, and other co-morbidities. My BMI is around 35. I've been cleared by the psychiatrist, the nutritionist, had my upper G.I. done, chest x-ray, a buttload of labwork and my EKG. I expect to get surgery date at my appt next month. Just thought I'd reach out and say hello. (I'm doing this on the DL, so haven't told many friends at all and no one at work. I plan to take vacation at surgery time.) so not many folks to talk to about it. Hope you're having a great day if you made it thru this lol

I drink a lot of flavored waters, like Bai, for example, because I get tired of drinking plain water all day (although I drink that, too). I also like the 5-calorie cranberry beverages that Ocean Spray (and a couple other companies) make - esp the cranberry-mango one.