I am so disappointed. I had my follow up pysch eval today and the psychiatrist thought that I should get my surgery deferred for about 6 months to a year so that I can get some counseling. Is he crazy? He stated that I express an overall low level of life satisfaction. Damn right I do, I am big as hell, I have health problems and I hate the way I look and feel. Is that low enough for you? He also stated that I need to work on my personality because I need to be more assertive, and I have areas in my life that I am not happy with HEALTH, SELF ESTEEM, GOALS, MONEY and LOVE. Hell I think that i am part of the norm and not the exception. Hell I am fat so I have low self esteem, health wise, I am not happy with my diabetes, high blood pressure, PCOS, and high cholesterol. my goals, yea I would have thought I would have finished my college degree by now, but I haven't, I have a few more classes to go, Money, IF you are not bringing in a 6 figure income, then most people are not happy with where they are with their financial situation. Love, I am married and I love my husband but do we have the best relationship right now, we are going through a rough patch, so right now, I am not happy with my husband, but I married him and promised to love throught the good and the bad. Now to give him credit, I feel like I can use someone to talk to and seeing a therapist would probably benefit me to have someone to talk to that is objective, hell every body should have someone to talk to whether it be a friend, therapist or what ever, But to say that I need to defer my surgery because I am not happy wow.... So to all of you guys that had the surgery, where you happy with your life? Did the surgery enhance your self esteem, relationships, health, more opportunity to get promotions because you are more confidant and smaller.

He said I was welcome to get a second opinion and I have my report and I will do just that. I was upset and crying but I will get a second opinion. I just don't think he was correct in his assessment...............So now does anyone live in the Charlotte NC area and now of a therapist I can go to for my pysch eval.

Thanks for letting me vent.

I was prescribed anti-coagulant injections for a month post op plus I wore flight socks for 2 weeks post op. Anti-coagulants are really expensive in Mex so you may want to try and get those from your PCP. I was fine flying 10 hours shortly post op from Vegas to LAX then back to London (and San Diego to Vegas a few days before that).

You'd have to discuss all this with your surgeon however.

I was almost exactly plane seat size at the time of my op so I can't really advise on that I'm afraid.

It's admirable you're looking for psyche help - I haven't noticed much of that on here. Maybe someone else can chime in with some advice on that. Maybe there's a different forum out there better suited to this.

One book that was recommended by bariatric surgeon Dr Watkins is "Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever" by Dr Roger Gould. I've not read it just yet although I have purchased it. It gets good reviews on Amazon.

HTH

How can we go to mexico? Id have to buy 2 seats on the airplane. Id have to buy 2 seats back, too. Id probably end up throwing a blood clot because of not walking enuf. Plus, is ther a place on the forum to find out how other early sexually abused sleevers do with any type of wls?

I just had my psych evaluation with Jeff Lorence in Charlotte last week. He was great! I hope you get this straightened out.