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Trust your saner self....the self that worked for months to make this surgery happen. The self who is kinda terrified today...is understandably under some stress:)

Thanks so much and you are my idol. I am starting at 380 lbs and you lost over 100. I hope I do was well as you!

Smores, were there any theories about what caused the leak? Were you a smoker? Did you take any maintenance pain meds? Did you have H. Pylori bacteria? Can you give us any other information about the cause?

Congrats to you!!! Hope things go quickly and without complication and you're back posting with us soon!!!

My advice to you and all patients, is to allows consult with the physician of your conditions pre or post surgery and do not use other patients experiences as everyone is different and you will will undergo many changes after surgery, as you are experiencing currently. The nausea and my stomach cramps were controlled with prescribed medications.

I love that - ‘practice self love’ I’m going to make it my new years resolution

Straight into the DS. I was 399lbs and my surgeon was like this would give me the best short and long-term results. And I will say it has.

One of the things my doctor said before the surgery was "I am operating on your stomach not your brain" The sleeve is a tool to help us eat less but after the first 6 months the auto pilot goes off and the brain takes over. That's when we work really hard to finding ways around the sleeve (grazing, sliders etc.) We have to face all our issues and that is more difficult for some than others. We want to be healthy and thin, that's why we have the surgery, but fighting our demons that got us to where we are is a major struggle that may never end. But hopefully we will win more often than we lose. I wish everyone strength and peace.

Newbie/lurker here. I've read many of the posts that you're referring to, and, if it makes you feel any better, feel just as incredulous. I'm still on the fence about having the surgery (I'm almost there - and sure that my upcoming trip to Tokyo, filled with stares at the fat American gajin huffing and puffing her way around the city, will push me off the fence entirely), but if/when I do go through with it, I can't imagine going back to the "I do what I want" eating habits that got me here in the first place. Please feel free to hand my @ss to me when I start complaining.