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This is a great topic. I am someone who gastric bypass didn't help lose more than less than 40 pounds.
When I was in high school I weighed about 130. I thought I was "so fat" and I wore two bras to squish my ladylike breasts.
I'm much heavier now and I still feel the same way about my body so I know that it is entirely psychological for me. (probably body dysmorphic disorder.)
I follow the body positive movement on Facebook and I love all these smart and vivacious women. I have tried so hard to change my perception of heavy bodies as being unattractive. (Mostly my own.) I find this dichotomy so stressful on me. I want to hurrah for body acceptance but find myself still feeling the same societal burden on my fat self.
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My problems are not exactly the same as yours but you are experiencing some of the remorse I feel. I'm so sorry you're going through this. I just want to send you a ((hug)) through the puter and only hope that with time and treatment there will be some kind of happy medium for you! If not a complete healing of some sort.
I deal with a lot of chronic pain (back pain) and I can understand how it feels so unfair that we go through this and have to deal with so much pain and negative aftermath when we expected the best.
xxoo Jamie
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Please move my post if I am not in the right place.
I had gastric bypass in 8/2012. I fasted to a weight of 275 and in the next three months I dropped to 246.
I lost my health insurance at that time and couldn't go to the doc anymore. I never lost anymore after the 246. I stayed there until the weight started quickly come back on. I never felt like I had restriction and I ate like I didn't. I ate a lot of slider foods.
(My Father also died the same year and I was in another state isolated from my family. I should also tell you that I hurt my back in 2009 and I had trouble walking - one of the reasons I had the surgery)
There's so much to believe that there was something wrong with my surgery (I was hungry when I woke from surgery and ate the whole Clear liquids platter and I never felt much restriction at all.)
I feel so much shame about what I keep thinking as my failure to adhere to the "rules." On top of that I started having trouble with alcohol in 2013 and I am an alcoholic now, currently seeking treatment.
I don't like to regret things but I always think that I would have done better with the sleeve but if the problem is really psychological with me, it wouldn't have mattered.
Now I finally have insurance and I can seek an opinion on the surgery and meet with a dietician. I will not be pursuing a revision or other procedure unless I have at least a year of sobriety.
Thank you for reading.
My story… OPEN Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery (RNY) in 2002; Revision in 2016
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want to follow! I have suspicions about my stoma!