Weighing (no pun intended) My Options

[bellacatgirl 4]

Hi all,

I'm considering having a gastric bypass. I currently have the band but it has done nothing for me and Slimband has been the worst to deal with.

I'm currently on the Bariatic Registry List in Ontario and have my first consultation in June.

I'm just looking for some advice from those who have been through it.

It really scares me because I've heard the nightmares of people dying.

The recovery I can deal with. I've had 4 surgeries with Slimband re: complications.

I want to hear from everyone, the good, bad and ugly.

I'm also worried about the access skin after weight loss.

[Baconville 578]

Hi all,

I'm considering having a gastric bypass. I currently have the band but it has done nothing for me and Slimband has been the worst to deal with.

I'm currently on the Bariatic Registry List in Ontario and have my first consultation in June.

I'm just looking for some advice from those who have been through it.

It really scares me because I've heard the nightmares of people dying.

The recovery I can deal with. I've had 4 surgeries with Slimband re: complications.

I want to hear from everyone, the good, bad and ugly.

I'm also worried about the access skin after weight loss.

I can't give advice on going from a band to RNY, but I can tell you about RNY. I had mine on 6/25/2013. I had a laproscopic procedure. I had what I would term a very easy recovery. I was back to work in three weeks, and could have gone back sooner. I was only in the hospital overnight. It has been hugely successful for me. At my first consultation I weighed 331 pounds, I am only 5'2". I currently weigh 151 pounds, and am still losing weight. To get here I follow my eating plan very closely and I exercise every day, some days twice in a day. It is NOT EASY. But the work has been so worth it! I have my life back!

Regarding excess skin, I am struggling with that. My arms are especially bad. I do not know what, if anything I will do in the future. For now I am concentrating on how great I feel, the energy I have and how I no longer have knee pain or back pain. That alone is worth the skin issue!