Okay, guys. D minus 3 days and I'm starting to get nervous. Am I making the right choice, am I going to be able to do this, will I survive the surgery...any and every "what if" is haunting me right now. Any words of wisdom??

Just that we all went through the same thing! Don't worry too much, you will do great and will be so glad once its over!

Plenty of inspirational people on this site mate

I'm on Monday too and I'm starting to get super jittery. I'm trying to think of everything that needs to get done. Oh Boy!

You gotta walk through the door or you will never know what is on the other side. My surgeon gives all his patients a journal - a way to track food, weight loss, exercise, vitamins, etc. On the front it says," As I'm getting smaller, my world is getting bigger." I never really understood it until I lost about 50-60 pounds and could be more mobile and pain free. Now my world can't be big enough! I feel no limits - only by my own mind. I believe I could hike the Grand Canyon now, or ride in the 100 + mile El Tour de Tucson (bike), or hike the 830 mile Arizona Trail, or take flying lessons. Or kayak without swamping the boat, or get on and off the floor with my grandkids, or walk up hills without being winded, or ride my mule, or buy SMALL size tops and size 12 pants. It's an unbelievable world right now for me - a world I would never know without walking through that door, scared as I was (crying in preop, wondering if I should just get up and leave.) Surgery has been one of the best decisions I have ever made. It is a whole new life!!!!!! A life I never thought I would see again. Yes, there can be complications (I got a blood clot in my leg), and yes, recovery is a bear. But there is a whole new world waiting for you on the other side of that door.

Thank you so much AZ. You’re pretty awesome!

This takes, courage, for sure! There is always the thought, "I should just try it again on my own." My PCP brought me back to reality by telling me, "If you could have done it on your own, you would have by now." She was so right. The jitters are normal - after all it is major surgery that you are electing - not like an appendectomy that there is no decision to make. We understand.

Felt same way but after a lot of time reading through hundreds of posts ALL by diff people, the enormous consensus is the MAJORITY just wish they had done it sooner. That was rather affirming to me. I'm a week post-op and got really jittery 1 wk before...then a few days before. The night before I had actually was calm about this decision that has been a LONG time in coming.

Even in 'newly post op phase' where I don't have the large weight loss YET to additionally affirm what I've done..I still feel NO regrets about the surgery. I was not heading anywhere that was going to have a good outcome for me. With every 20..then 30..then 50 lbs I gained (I was not super-morbildy obese until my late 30's so it's only been a decade for me but man, what a toll those pounds took on my body! I can't imagine what my poor body would have done if I had carried the weight longer. Or...as someone said "tried yet again".

To me this surgery is not about another "trying"..it is more of the Yoda equivalent of "Just Do" or I guess as he said in the movie "Do. Or do not. There is no try." I think I got that quote right? lol

You got this, crashsmash12!!

These posts are so reassuring . I haven’t heard one person say that they regret doing it .Thanks to everyone who posted .

Everything is gonna be ok... I had the same feelings... what if.. this or that... Will my 2yr get to know me.. but let me tell you the choice that I made yesterday 8/2/19 will make sure I get to know my son till he gets married and gives me grandkids..
Do it it will be the best thing you can do for yourself and your family..