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<blockquote data-quote="seppuku" data-source="post: 256471" data-attributes="member: 2030"><p>Good luck! You're doing better than i am - i saw my (future) surgeon for the first time yesterday. I had seen the triage service in March who said i had to try and lose 9kg before my appointment with him, as my bmi was above the limit for surgery. Well i failed, but i did shift 6kg so thought he might give me a surgery date in maybe 4 to 6 weeks by which time i'd have lost the other 3kg. Nope, he wants my bmi at 35 or below, meaning i'll need to lose nearly 15kg more to get my op. I know i'm far from being lean, but i'm not exactly covered in blubber and i carry a fair amount of muscle on my frame. Body composition seems to be unimportant though, and i've gotta shift that weight in the next couple of months or he said he'll have to discharge me ( maybe if i get both arms amputated i'll make the weight in time...).</p><p>Interestingly though, the surgeon wants me to consider letting him do the operation by robot! He's a member of a team pioneering robotic surgery for hip replacement here in B'ham (UK). I need to read up on it first though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seppuku, post: 256471, member: 2030"] Good luck! You're doing better than i am - i saw my (future) surgeon for the first time yesterday. I had seen the triage service in March who said i had to try and lose 9kg before my appointment with him, as my bmi was above the limit for surgery. Well i failed, but i did shift 6kg so thought he might give me a surgery date in maybe 4 to 6 weeks by which time i'd have lost the other 3kg. Nope, he wants my bmi at 35 or below, meaning i'll need to lose nearly 15kg more to get my op. I know i'm far from being lean, but i'm not exactly covered in blubber and i carry a fair amount of muscle on my frame. Body composition seems to be unimportant though, and i've gotta shift that weight in the next couple of months or he said he'll have to discharge me ( maybe if i get both arms amputated i'll make the weight in time...). Interestingly though, the surgeon wants me to consider letting him do the operation by robot! He's a member of a team pioneering robotic surgery for hip replacement here in B'ham (UK). I need to read up on it first though. [/QUOTE]
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