Recently I decided not to tell anyone other than my family about getting the sleeve because I got tired of people telling me that's the easy way out and how many complications come with that surgery. HELP!!! I'm having second thoughts about the surgery for these reasons even though at the beginning I felt like it was a dream come true. I'm really scared because of complications and all these negative thoughts. Can anyone help me on this???

I appreciate everyone's responses as much as the original poster! I am hitting a wall over the hair loss thing. It's making me reconsider because I already have such thin hair! Reading all of these positive things gives me more confidence.

I had a horrible dream last night, I dreamt that I had globs of hair falling out in my hand on my left side. Went to the hairdresser and some lady told me that someone in my other half of my family was going to die. WTH? I have never heard that before. Has anyone else?

Recently I decided not to tell anyone other than my family about getting the sleeve because I got tired of people telling me that's the easy way out and how many complications come with that surgery. HELP!!! I'm having second thoughts about the surgery for these reasons even though at the beginning I felt like it was a dream come true. I'm really scared because of complications and all these negative thoughts. Can anyone help me on this???

I didn't tell anyone except for the people who would be directly, you know, impacted; my husband and mother and one friend, but I didn't tell anybody else because I didn't want to have that conversation about complications, that it's an easy way out you know your whole life can change...I understood those things..you know I don't think anybody wanted to have a conversation about all of the complications with obesity which are far greater. So it really just wasn't a conversation i wanted to have everyday. Now that I've had the surgery obviously I can't get away with saying I had a bad case of dysentery but I think that, you know, I don't have to have that conversation and I can just discuss why and maybe encourage other people to lose weight. The people in my life are eating healthier now because of what I've gone through.