gastric bypass

Nerves have come crashing down today! Hi all, I had the OGD check today at Sunderland Hospital. All went well. I am now on the 6months or less list for the Gastric Bypass due to previous health problems if there is too much internal scars they said the will perform the gastric sleeve. I...

Hi there wasn't sure where to post this as I'm very new to this forum. Anyway just wanted to know if anyone else is (or has had) the same experience as me? I had a gastric bypass on the 30th of May 2012, at st Richards hospital in Chichester and since then it been great, had absolutely no...

Hi Everyone, So happy to have found this forum. Everyone looks really happy in the photos and I have read posts that seem so positive!... I plan to come here often if you all will have me :) ... Well it has been 11 days since my gastric bypass surgery, I am still in pain and have swelling...

Hi guys,got weighed earlier this afternoon. This month i lost 8lbs... I was chuffed until my nurse told me i should have lost more.:confused:(last month i lost 20lbs)

Hello!! I would like to start by saying well done everyone for your weightloss.im impressed. Bassically i've been running after my GP for weightloss surgery since 2005 with no success.then was referred to metabolic clinc last november.Dr told me gastric bypass was best option for me.had blood...

Hi Just had a consultation with Dr El-Hasani at Princess Royal Hospital and have been put forward for a bypass. He said the next stage is to go to an information forum but I don't have a date as yet. I was just wondering if anyone has been through this surgery at the PR Hospital with Dr...

Hi everyone, i am going through the process to have the gastric bypass, i talked with my GP and other professionals and carried out lots of research and have been fine with all aspects, i have just been for my 2nd appointment, the one where you see the nurse/dietician/phsycologist and they start...

Hi All. I am new to this site- just found it by chance...I am signed up to Whittington Hosp. and hoping to have Gastric Bypass. I had most of the tests by now and seeing the consultant again in August- for the verdict, I suppose. What can I say, I have been struggling with weight all my...

Hi There, I'm 29 years old and currently weighing in at approximately 22 stone. After an eighteen month struggle with doctors and dieticians I've finally found out today that my funding has been approved and I've joined a twenty week waiting list to have a gastric bypass by Mr Khan at Walsall...

Hi guys, I am visiting my GP today to ask if I can be referred for Gastric Bypass surgery. I live in Swansea, which has be named the WORST postcode in the UK for funding for weight loss surgery. In 2006/2007 there were 130 requests for funding all of which satisfied the NICE guidelines and...