MarinaGirl

I like plain water, coconut water, and iced herbal tea, especially rooibos red tea. I try to stay away from artificially sweetened beverages as they don't promote weight loss and research studies have shown people gain weight when they consume them over sugared drinks. They're also highly addictive. Google the Harvard Health Blog article titled, "Artificial sweeteners: sugar-free, but at what cost" for more info.

I had my surgery 2 days ago on April 10th. It went well and so far I haven't experienced any gas pain, nausea, vomiting, or migraines. What I wish I had done prior to arriving in Mexico was download tv shows and movies on my iPhone or laptop as the WiFi is slow in the hospital and Hulu & Netflix block their service outside the US.

I'm headed to Mexico in 2 days by myself for surgery. I'm used to traveling abroad, many times on my own, so I'm not worried about not having a friend or family member with me. In fact, I'm looking forward to some "me" time! I've also gotten sick before out of the country and was hospitalized once (with no loved ones with me) and I was so amazed at how kind and helpful doctors and nurses were to me - more so than I've experienced in the US.

I've only told one friend, that's it.

The long term complications I've read about after gastric bypass and/or sleeve gastrectomy are nerve issues, dental problems (resulting in root canals, implants, dentures), reactive hypoglycemia, strictures, fibromyalgia, ulcers, fainting spells, chronic anemia, osteoporosis, etc. I don't know if MGB has the same issues as these other weight loss surgeries as there's a lot less info available online. One thought is the perception of risk could be skewed if more people that have issues post their experiences than people that don't have these issues. So I could be getting scared about possible outcomes that are very low risk. It's a conundrum I need to work through.

April 10th with Dr Kelly. I must admit I'm getting cold feet about the surgery (not the surgeon who is amazing) after reading online about complications that may occur years later.