tiggergramma

I hear you! I am telling only certain people that I absolutely trust not to judge me or say something stupid or hurtful. I have not had surgery yet, but I plan to handle questions with something along the lines of "Oh, I am trying something new that seems to be working well for me." and leave it at that.

Yep, I think they mainly want to make sure you aren't too delusional about what the band is going to do for you...and make sure you aren't an addict. I was pleasantly surprised at how simple it was.

To all of you who responded: Thanks for your various answers! My visit ended up consisting of a quite casual conversation with the Dr. We talked about my kids, his kid, the procedure, my fears of failing, and ended with him telling me that sometimes they will have the patient take a test, but he didn't feel that was necessary in my case as he was not picking up any psychoses from our discussion. LOL. My hubs had joked before I went in that they just wanted to make sure I was crazy enough to go through with it! I actually slept last night! Yay!

Thanks KC. I will post this evening or tomorrow and let you know how it went.

So, my name is Lori and I am getting things lined up to have surgery, hopefully this summer. I have my psych exam this Thursday and a seminar Saturday with a consult with Dr. Neal on the following Tuesday. At this point I am on an emotional roller coaster; excited one day, terrified the next. I've been reading here for the past 2 or 3 weeks, so I know this is pretty normal to go through, which keeps me from just eating myself to sleep... A friend who knows I am contemplating this has suggested trying Sensa before I make my decision. I have looked at the reviews and am not convinced it actually works, but I was wondering if any of you had tried it before you had surgery, and if you felt like it did any good? I really don't see myself using it in place of surgery, but if it works, I wonder if it would help in conjunction with surgery? So many questions. Wouldn't it be delightful if I could actually go to bed and wake up as thin as I sometimes imagine I am? Looking forward to hearing back from anyone. Lori

Thank you Cheri!

Thank you so much for this reply, that actually makes sense to me and gave me kind of an "aha!" moment. I think that, at this point, I am just wishing I were scheduled and that part of the commitment was taken care of, you know? Soon.

Thanks for the responses! TMF: Thanks for sharing your experience with Sensa. I really didn't "get" what that product was actually doing, so your description really helps. It sounds like it could be made for people like me, who have trouble stopping eating something that tastes really good, by making it not have that good taste. I see the danger though, of just moving on to something else instead. Ready: I hear you on "too good to be true" products! None of them have ever worked for me or anyone I know. Jean: Valid question. First, you would need to understand how much I cannot wrap my head around the idea that this surgery is actually going to work for me...I enjoy food and the concept of actually eating less and succeeding at this is just really hard for me to believe. I figured that if I need to still do something to fool my brain after surgery, Sensa may help. I had gone to the PubMed site to research it as well as some other sites and found what you did: No evidence that it works, but no implications in any safety issues. I doubt I will spend the money to try it, heaven knows I have wasted a lot of money over the years on a wide variety of things that have not helped. I'm sure I will go ahead with surgery, hopefully soon, and put all of this uncertainty behind me.