Going Bald???? - Page 3 - ThinnerTimes

Celtic Toni · 11-06-2006, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Bella

Hi!

Great to hear you had a good experience! My understanding is that he is one of the best Obesity Surgerns in Belgium and Europeans tend to go to Belgium for any kind of surgery these days!

I'm looking forward to the procedure very, very much!! (Wish it were RIGHT NOW!)

The Dutch are just like the Belgium people - they are not into meds either - but certainly I will be screaming for pain meds if I need them!

I have booked a hotel nearby for 4 days afterwards as well.

Did they give you a list of foods for post op?
How many weeks did you have the liquid phase etc?
How fast did you drop weight the first couple of months?

Later!

He's good and he definitely tells you he's good, when I was there in July he had done in the region of 5900 - 6000 surgeries...I wonder what it'll be when you get there.

Are you mad...no meds...I thought it was going to be like home, we can be quite easy going anything for an easy life so I thought I'd be drugged up to my eyes, but I survived...ironically I got more meds the second night than the first...the nurses who were on that night liked me!!!

Theres a nutritionist who you meet on the consultation day and then she comes around to you after surgery, mine came as I was getting cleaned up the day after the surgery so I didn't really get any benefit of it. But I had a friend who'd gone through the same thing so I had her insight.

I didn't really have a liquid stage, I was on the drip from Thursday to Saturday, on the Saturday they gave me a bottle of water and a yoghurt, on Sunday I got toast for breakfast and then before I was discharged I was given a bowl of soup, pureed chicken, veg and potatoes and yoghurt.

In the first week after surgery I dropped 17lbs, but I was dehydrated, they were having a heat wave as I said before.

Since then I've dropped about 75lbs in about 3½ months or so. Its starting to slow down so I'll have to shake things up again and I reckon at least a pound was hair!!!!

AprilShowers · 11-06-2006, 02:30 PM

I also am loosing it by the hand fulls. I do not look forward to scrubbing my hair with shampoo because I am afraid of what will be in my hands!

I notice the top of my hair line even looking like its going back.. and soooo much thinner. I know it's a small price to pay for the weight loss, but it still sucks!

For those who had the hair loss and are over it.. how long did it take for it to stop and when it started to grow back?

Gladitsme · 11-06-2006, 02:49 PM

Hmm, well, let's see. I think mine stopped about 9 mo out. And i noticed baby hairs around the same time. I cut my hair a lot shorter then.

gearjmr711 · 11-06-2006, 04:14 PM

Oh geez, I have always had really thick hair and have let it grow long. My surgery is 11/8 and now I'm a little worried about the hair loss but thanks for the reassuring that it will come back. I guess I should look forward to the time that it won't take me forever to brush out my hair after the shower, LOL

Duckie · 11-07-2006, 05:48 AM

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Originally Posted by gearjmr711

Oh geez, I have always had really thick hair and have let it grow long. My surgery is 11/8 and now I'm a little worried about the hair loss but thanks for the reassuring that it will come back. I guess I should look forward to the time that it won't take me forever to brush out my hair after the shower, LOL

GOOD LUCK ON YOUR SURGERY TOMORROW! You are going to be a LOSER! YEAH!