I got my date and am abt to start pre op. Anxious as f$@!

How exciting!!

I feel the same. Started my pre-op diet today.

The biggest decision of my life..I'm scared shitless

What are you afraid of?

Laparoscopic surgeries are relatively easy. There's nothing to be afraid of.

Pre-op scared: I won't be able to stay focused enough to stick with the pre-op diet. And/or I will be so crabby no one will be able to be around me.

Post -Op: Personally, I'm afraid it won't work. Nothing will change and I will have put my body through this alteration and nothing. Or worse I will feel horrible after and I don't mean in recovery but like forever.

That being said, I realize there is an element of the unknown. I accept that and understand that's where most of my fear comes from. I am working on issues in my life that will help me as I move through this transisiton to a healthier life emotionally and physically.

Thoughts become things.

If you think something won't work, it won't.

If you want this bad enough, and I think you do, then you do all you can to make sure you will succeed.

Sure, we all have/had some doubt, but don't let that over power the willingness and confidence that you will need from this day forward.

Thoughts become things.

If you think something won't work, it won't.

If you want this bad enough, and I think you do, then you do all you can to make sure you will succeed.

Sure, we all have/had some doubt, but don't let that over power the willingness and confidence that you will need from this day forward.

AMEN! I sometimes feel like the oddball on this forum. I went into this with no qualms whatsoever. I had done my research. I followed my doctor's instructions to the letter and I was ready. Some small butterflies in my tummy day of surgery, but mostly just calmness. I had a smooth, easy surgery and no post-op pain to speak of.

Me too BLERD. Surgery doesn't scare me, best sleep ever!

I'd do it again tomorrow if I had to.

Edited February 12, 201511 yr by Dolores33778

This is going to change everything. This is the most important decision I have had to make. I am choosing to LIVE FOR ME. I spent so many years people pleasing, I'm going to make ME happy.

I have so much anxiety yesterday I did the blood work and foot to complete the pre anesthesia! Wtf? I gotta relax.