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After a sleeve, twelve years ago, and now this

Started 18 April 2026 · 15 replies · 90 hearts · read 1.5k times

EphraimBrooklyn, NY · 18 April 2026
3 months ago

A question rather than an update: After a sleeve, twelve years ago, and now this

Before anyone says it: yes, I have an appointment booked. I would still like to hear from people who have had this.

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

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ÖzlemIzmir, TR
#1

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

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BrackenHexham, UK
#2

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#3

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

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GethinMerthyr Tydfil, UK
#4

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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BramberSteyning, UK
#5

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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PosyChichester, UK
#6

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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AleksLjubljana, SI
#7

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

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NoraDublin, IE
#8

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

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BettinaGraz, AT
#9

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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BibiRabat, MA
#10

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

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BryherIsles of Scilly, UK
#11

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

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EphraimBrooklyn, NY
#12

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

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ÖzlemIzmir, TR
#13

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#14

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

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NyalaAddis Ababa, ET
#15

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

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