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I am 1 wk postop. I live in Atlanta and my surgeon is world renowned. At 4 days, I went home. Was emergency re admitted on 5th with congestive heart failure, pneumonitis, & mult other issues. I think these problems are with my crazy body, not surgery itself. Now, I'm running a fever. I love seeing these awesome quick results! I'm wondering if some other people with other significant med problems have rebounded better than me. Tell me when the surg pain and back pain (for me), get better.

James Marusek, I have been reading your comments, since September, 2016. I copied your articles about surviving WLS. Thank you, they were very well done. I had the bypass RNY on Dec. 27, 2017. I have had no problems. I have not weighed, doctor asked us not till my appointment. My taste has changed. My body seems to be changing daily. Things are going so fast physically and emotionally, I can barely keep up. I struggle with lack of desire to eat and drink, it is gone, as you said it would. The struggle is on...I sip and keep a record, so I know what to work on. I just re-read your articles and caught your suggestion to spike my Decaf coffee with Protein. I think you used hot chocolate. Thank you again, for taking the time to write those articles. P's: I just made a batch of your chili, it is quite good.
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That would be 2016 surgery...
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I am on pre-op til 12/26. Bypass on the 27th...and clc9 we are super heroes
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I am so glad you shared your story with us. You inspired me. I so needed this!
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I am on pre-op til 12/26. Bypass on the 27th...and clc9 we are super heroes
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I am on pre-op til 12/26. Bypass on the 27th...and clc9 we are super heroes
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I am on my pre op diet. Bypass on the 27. There is definitely a battle of the will going on. So glad I only have 7 more days. I can do anything for 7 more days. Staying focused. Thanks brennafaith...I needed to see this.
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Hey, just got my date, December 27.
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Wow!
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Birdie bird, you sound great after having two surgeries. I pray you will continue to recover quickly.
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Congratulations, you look great. Praying for your continued healing.
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QueenBx, congratulations... As I read of each person moving to the loser bench, I become excited and nervous. My date is 12/27. Seems fairly distant but close...whew!!!
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I am so glad you shared your story with us. You inspired me. I so needed this!
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Redmaxx is correct, this is the only time I have ever wanted to be on the loser's bench...way to go LaLa Weez. Blessings to you in your new life!
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@@redheadjo
Your best chance of success is making good choices. 90% of having weight loss surgery is a head game, 10% the surgery. Especially after the honeymoon period.
I personally believe the longer you have to prepare yourself (like you are), the better chance you have of long term success.
I exercise very minimally at this point, I wish i could do more. For the first 9 months i exercised 1 hour 5 times per week. As I lost more weight, I began to have more issues with my spine. 9 months after bypass I had a 3 level cervical fusion and my hour a day cardio came to a screeching halt. That was my 6th back surgery since 2001. 5 months later i had my 7th.
And yes, I am still having alot of trouble with my mid back. I guess fusing your lumbar and neck ultimately causes trouble with your mid back which is now wearing and extraordinarily painful.
So, I have to control my weight with food and do what i can.
I had 9 months to prepare for post bypass life and I am thankful now, at the time i thought it sucked to have to wait that long. I believe that for me, that time allowed me to prepare and have a better chance.
I ended up losing all of my excess weight and I had to do the last with pretty much diet alone.
You should do well! Keep the right mind frame and know that it really is all about choices.

@@redheadjo, I know nothing about bypass surgery in all its forms. What I do know is that losing weight and maintaining are a matter of changing eating habits forever. Period. This doesn't mean that high-cal, high-carb and otherways "fattening" foods can never be eaten, but quantities and frequency are what is important. If your friend hasn't been regaining, she's not going overboard as a way of life.
Just as or even more important, none of the surgeries are magical. Surgery doesn't lose weight; it just lays there waiting for the person who wants to lose to make make proper choices and remain mindful. Surgery is an aid, not the answer. It is possible to regain despite surgery.

That's a very good question, MickeyKat, and I have two answers.
First is the easy one... replace it with knitting, crafting, talking to friends on the phone, exercise, reading, biking, gardening, and all those other things you can "DO" to keep your mind/fingers/body occupied.
The second one is harder. For me, I have always eaten as a soothing mechanism. To soothe sadness or frustration or anger or boredom. Basically, I'm soothing some feelings and making myself feel better (temporarily).
An important person in my life, who is a recovering addict told me that recovery is hard, because you have to learn to sit with your feelings and not numb them away, and that it's okay to have uncomfortable feelings and just HAVE them, and not try and make them go away.
So my 2nd answer to "what did I replace food with?" is that I am replacing it with learning how to live with uncomfortable feelings, learning how to just sit with discomfort and feel it and move through it and then out the other side. It's hard but I want to practice it as much as possible. I feel like if I don't, I will just end up back in my original spot 3-5 years out. And I don't want to do that.

I am so glad you shared your story with us. You inspired me. I so needed this!
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You go girl...as you take your place on the losers bench. Praying for your continued success.
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When I was preparing to have my sleeve surgery, I spent a lot of time on this forum. I found most of the people here to be very helpful. Even though there's every kind of personality here, we all have one thing in common: we wanted to lose weight and be healthier.
Approaching any surgery is scary. There are real risks, and real rewards when all goes well.
I have struggled with weight my whole life. Total sugar junkie. Used food to replace every unmet need I had, to repress every emotion for which I was unprepared to deal.
I gained and lost hundreds of pounds over the course of my life. Hundreds.
When my husband died eight years ago it broke me. I shattered, and it took me almost a decade to put myself back together. During that time, I lost everything: my beloved, my home, my income, even my sense of self. And I spent the next eight years eating to fill this giant empty void inside my being where someone who I thought of as the love of my life used to be.
I ballooned up bigger than I had ever been, surpassing my previous high weight and moving into the 320s.
I avoided social situations, and only left the house when necessary. I was afraid I would have to ask for a stronger chair when invited to sit down for dinner at somebody's home. I was afraid that I would need to sit down every 20 or 30 steps during a leisurely stroll through the mall with a friend. My body ached; sometimes the pain was so bad that I could scarcely move-even sitting still was painful.
Life had become extremely small.
Deciding to get the surgery was surprisingly easy, but getting through the approval process and going through with the surgery summoned up terror in me that had been there since my first surgery when I was three years old.
I thought it would be a miracle if I were able to get the surgery, simply because my trauma was so severe for so many years that it seemed like an impossible feat to put myself in the hands of medical professionals, who I have never trusted all my life.
With lots of support from my mother, my sister who had already had the surgery, and my therapist, I was able to get the sleeve.
And it changed my life!
I also decided that I was going to make up for lost time now that I was going to be able to physically get around again. I sold all my stuff, ditched my apartment, bought an RV and moved in! And it's wonderful! I could not have fit in here, nor could I do the things necessary when living in an RV, at my previous weight.
This surgery has allowed me an opportunity for a whole new lease on life. I am officially one year postop, and I am down about 130 pounds, with another 30 to go. It's amazing the difference a single year can make!
If you know that this is right for you, and the only thing giving you pause is fear that is not coming from your true intuition: there are many people on these forums who feel that this surgery has saved our lives.
I am one of those people. Here is a before and present a photo of me, in a year, this could be you!
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Bypass 12/27...so very anxious. I have prepared myself. Yet, still anxious.
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Dec 27th here . 4years sleeve post op revision to.bypass on the way !
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Amazing!
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What an inspiration...keep up the work!
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What an inspiration...keep up the work!
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