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Three months out.....no regrets.

Three months out.....no regrets.

Three months out.....no regrets.

I guess you can rationalize your decision to be noncompliant anyway you want. Sleeve or no sleeve 64 oz of Fluid a day is recommended to keep you body healthy. It moisturizes your skin, helps your kidneys flush away waste, helps your GI system digest and excrete ( lessens your chance for constipation), helps keep your mucous membranes moist....on and on and on. Good luck.

I guess you can rationalize your decision to be noncompliant anyway you want. Sleeve or no sleeve 64 oz of Fluid a day is recommended to keep you body healthy. It moisturizes your skin, helps your kidneys flush away waste, helps your GI system digest and excrete ( lessens your chance for constipation), helps keep your mucous membranes moist....on and on and on. Good luck.

I guess you can rationalize your decision to be noncompliant anyway you want. Sleeve or no sleeve 64 oz of Fluid a day is recommended to keep you body healthy. It moisturizes your skin, helps your kidneys flush away waste, helps your GI system digest and excrete ( lessens your chance for constipation), helps keep your mucous membranes moist....on and on and on. Good luck.

As a preteen I was heavy and went on my first diet when I was 13. Stayed thin throughout high school...5'6 125#. Was 135# by the time I married and gained every year and have been struggling for over 20 years.

I don't think I would call it remorse. Twice I remember thinking...what did I do? That was when I was being wheeled into surgery and a few days post op. I was just scarred and hoping I didn't get any complications. I am almost six months out.....NO REGRETS. I love my sleeve....love how I feel and look!

The studies that I have read all discuss partial gastrectomies due to peptic ulcer disease. It was low on the risk factors after heredity and smoking and several more.

Don't take this the wrong way but sometimes a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
No one risk factor alone will cause cancer. Not even smoking. As someone with a lot more than a layman's grasp of how it works and I have to disagree with your interpretation of studies that deal mostly with either total gastrectomy or peptic ulcer surgery (both for alleviation of peptic ulcers - a very nasty condition to live with).
I looked at that case report someone mentioned above and I think it's pretty clear VSG did NOT cause his cancer to develop. Pancreatic cancer is very, very slow growing and hard to detect until it has advanced. It does not develop 3 months after a surgery, which was when he was diagnosed.
Don't sweat the remote possibilities. Think about how you are taking steps [including this surgery] to not succumb to more real threats - heart disease, diabetes, and the rest of the horrid obesity related diseases.

I agree I did find some info about that but I took the info to mean that the ulcers from H pylori increased this risk not the gastrectomy. Calming down now !

You know when I first read this that was my first thought. God knows the number of hairs on our head. I believe we came onto this earth with a predetermined date and we will leave with a predetermined date. I am a saved believing christian and I know that God already knew my walk on this earth including this surgery. So I will keep the faith and lose weight with a smile on my face.

You just scared the crap out of me! I have not been sleeved, I get the sleeve next Tues. I googled it and I did find a case study of one patient. He had the sleeve but also has his spleen removed and had cancer previously...Kidneys I think. He also has diabetes, hear attack, and lots of other issues. So I am assuming that his previous cancer and bad genes has more to do with that than sleeve. They did state there is not evidence that the sleeve increases the risk. I am not sure if this is what you read or not.

I agree. I don't take this lightly either BUT have you heard all if the ongoing side effects and risks from a lot of the medication we take. REALLY? We are/were killing ourselves daily by eating poorly and abusing this temple of our body. Be comfortable with your decision. The way I see it, I am a spiritual/religious person and when God is ready for me, he'll take me.

Here's my take on it - keeping in mind that I haven't researched it. Many gastrectomies in the past were due to gastric ulcers which were bleeding and difficult to treat. The reason many were so difficult to treat is that some ulcers are not just caused by increased stomach acid production, but due to a bacteria - H. pylori. H. pylori causes increased chance of pancreatic cancerj in and of itself. I am an oncology nurse and have had H. pylori myself in the past if you are wondering how I know this without research.
Just doing a gastrectomy is not going to get rid of h pylori. Seems like the 1980's or 1990's is when H pylori started being treated with antibiotics. So, depending on when people were treated with gastrectomy for ulcers, it may play a part in this statistic. So, it may not be that having a gastrectomy was the problem causing increased pancreatic cancer, but that the reason a gastrectomy was needed was the problem.
Just food for thought.

The studies that I have read all discuss partial gastrectomies due to peptic ulcer disease. It was low on the risk factors after heredity and smoking and several more.

Yes this must bother you. It's funny cause when people tell me how good I look I usually reply that I feel so much better.

I don't think I would call it remorse. Twice I remember thinking...what did I do? That was when I was being wheeled into surgery and a few days post op. I was just scarred and hoping I didn't get any complications. I am almost six months out.....NO REGRETS. I love my sleeve....love how I feel and look!

Yes this must bother you. It's funny cause when people tell me how good I look I usually reply that I feel so much better.

Yes this must bother you. It's funny cause when people tell me how good I look I usually reply that I feel so much better.

Yes this must bother you. It's funny cause when people tell me how good I look I usually reply that I feel so much better.

I am also a nurse. You would be having pain and changes in your blood work. You must try to drink and get in your fluids....it is very important!

I am also a nurse. You would be having pain and changes in your blood work. You must try to drink and get in your fluids....it is very important!

We are the ones that decided to go thru this...not him. We have to try NOT to judge other people in how or how much they eat. Just take your time....eat over at least twenty minutes , put your fork down between bites and enjoy the food....not the scenery. It is amazing that we used to eat that much too.

We are the ones that decided to go thru this...not him. We have to try NOT to judge other people in how or how much they eat. Just take your time....eat over at least twenty minutes , put your fork down between bites and enjoy the food....not the scenery. It is amazing that we used to eat that much too.