Rooben

Just agreed my date today - 10 April so only a couple of weeks to go and so I must start the preop diet in a couple of days. My surgeon has offered me sleeve or bypass. Hadn't really considered bypass before and don't know whether I should now. I do have a sweet tooth and can binge on sweet things. I don't know if the surgeon suggested it for that reason. I do know he favours the bypass, though has done many sleeves to and says it is my choice and that he won't make it for me. I so identify with the previous post listing the things I'm scared off and now I have to choose bypass or sleeve too. Aarrghh!

I've just seen something about no alcohol for 3 months after surgery. Is this true?

Thank you for the reassurance. More questions later, I expect.

I like to split my time between Brittany and England - May France, June England, July France, August England, September France, October back in England until May. I'm not sure whether I should wait for October for my op or go for June and hope for the best.

I'm thinking about getting the sleeve done at Princess Royal with Dr Sigurdsson. Has anyone had their surgery here?

My joints are increasingly painful, especially my knees. I don't sleep so well these days, I feel like my body is crushing itself and I prop up knees and elbows to stop too much rolling and squishing. Too much weight is stopping me from exercising even though I used to enjoy swimming and doing the cross trainer (well, I used to enjoy the way it made me feel afterwards at least). When I sit on a chair I am so embarrassed if it creaks and I worry that things will break. I don't have as much to lose as others on here (BMI 34) but things are getting worse and I worry that diabetes is just around the corner. Until a few weeks ago I had given up on myself and felt ashamed but now I have hope again because I've been learning about VSG. What are the right reasons for doing it? Am I doing it for the right reasons? - I want to feel better, fitter, stronger, more confident. I want to feel proud when I look in the mirror or at photographs, not ashamed and embarrassed and loathing myself.

I had a tummy tuck in 2008 and had lots of problems with adhesions and nerves trapped in them causing lots of nerve pain. For years I couldn't move around very much without severe pain. Gradually I tried various therapies and drugs and found one that masks the pain and I function reasonably normally now as long as I don't try to do too much. I cannot exercise, mainly because my abdominal problems have caused other problems and weakness - I have chronic lumbar back pain (caused by weak core muscles, caused by poor mobility). I am 54, 2 years into menopause and have steadily put on weight - firstly after my tummy tuck and even worse since starting my menopause. I think I want a gastric sleeve - a band seems to end up with complications too often. But no-one on any of these forums ever mentions adhesions. Some questions - I hope you all can help Don't they (adhesions) happen with VSG surgery? Will the adhesions I already have mean that I am not a candidate for surgery anyway? Will regret my surgery again? Any advice welcome. I am worried that I will just continue to get bigger and bigger, will get diabetes, have a heart attack and always be miserable and in pain. Will a VSG solve my problems - make me thinner, happier, healthier, fitter? (I had a breast lift a year before the tummy tuck and that was fine so surgery doesn't always go wrong for me)