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Paula08 · 07-11-2008, 09:46 PM

I am looking to get as much information from those who have gone through Gastric Bypass personally. What I am looking for is answers to the following question;

1. What would you have like to know before your surgery?

2. What is the most important thing you feel a person should know about GB?

3. Do you have any regrets?

Answer on or all. I will be great full for whatever I can learn.

mistymee · 07-11-2008, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Paula08

I am looking to get as much information from those who have gone through Gastric Bypass personally. What I am looking for is answers to the following question;

1. What would you have like to know before your surgery?

2. What is the most important thing you feel a person should know about GB?

3. Do you have any regrets?

Answer on or all. I will be great full for whatever I can learn.

This thread mind be worth reading..

The things people wish they had known beforehand

For me, there are NO regrets whatsoever.. best thing I ever did, and only wish I'd done it 10 years sooner.

Paula08 · 07-12-2008, 03:16 PM

Thanks Misty,
I have read that site already. It was filled with great information. I am glad to hear you have no regrets. I am sure that in Sept. i will also be pleased with my out come. Or may Oct since the first month seems a little challenging.

Thanks
Paula

mistymee · 07-12-2008, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Paula08

Thanks Misty,
I have read that site already. It was filled with great information. I am glad to hear you have no regrets. I am sure that in Sept. i will also be pleased with my out come. Or may Oct since the first month seems a little challenging.

Thanks
Paula

OH gosh, yes.. the first month is horrible (was for me, anyway..)

I spent a good part of it wondering what the F did I do to myself and how was I going to get myself out of this problem I'd created for myself.

That said, I didn't have this group for support until I was two months out, and so you have that benefit that I missed out on. I imagine I'd have felt way better about things those first two months if I had been able to talk to others this way.

Baja Big Dog · 07-12-2008, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Paula08

I am looking to get as much information from those who have gone through Gastric Bypass personally. What I am looking for is answers to the following question;

1. What would you have like to know before your surgery?
Nothing!, I had to go through Kaiser's

ptions" classes, 26 weeks, and there is not much you dont know before you decide weather or not to have the surgery, and we had at least two people that went through the classes, and at the end decided they wanted to wait to decide, which is there choice, as long as you maintain the 10% weight loss which is required within the 26 weeks.

2. What is the most important thing you feel a person should know about GB?

It is a LIFE LONG decision, you will never be the person you were before surgery (food related)

3. Do you have any regrets?

OH YES. The biggest regret was that I didn't do it 10 years ago!! I have no complications, except for some arthritis issues due to the loss of Motrin, but I went into the surgery with complete knowledge of this, in the hope the pain would subside with the loss of weight.

Answer on or all. I will be great full for whatever I can learn.

I am a huge advocate of education, like I said, I went through 26 weeks and at first I was dragging my feet, felt it was a ploy by the insurance company to discourage people from wanting the surgery, well after taking the classes, and I have mentioned it many times on this forum, I don't know how anyone could go through this surgery without the knowledge I got from the classes, it was immeasurable, and the class started with over thirty people in it and when the six months was over we were down to less than twenty people, one of which as I said decided she didn't want to change her lifestyle and held off on the surgery, (and she couldn't loose the 10% body weight!) she thought she would try to loose the weight on her own, (like the 10% she couldn't do in six months!!)

This forum can give you a wealth of knowledge, most of it you will never get from a book, it is from the first hand experiences of those of us that have done it.

Keep thinking of the questions, and address some of the long term one to the "old timers" here, and get the long term advice from them that have lived with it the longest, I am still a rookie...

katzz87 · 07-12-2008, 07:22 PM

1. What would you have like to know before your surgery? I was afraid that I wouldn't be "able to eat things"...I was afraid of dumping and having bowel issues (diarrhea)...but I haven't had any real diet issues and I CAN eat pretty much anything I want...but if I chose to make poor choices it'll affect my weight-loss.

2. What is the most important thing you feel a person should know about GB? That this is a total life style change post surgery and only YOU can decide if it's right for you. You need to realize that you HAVE to change the way (and what) you eat.

3. Do you have any regrets? Just that I wish I'd done it sooner. I felt that I had somehow "failed" as a human because I couldn't CONTROL my food intake and had to resort to "surgery" aka the easy way out. But that's the farthest from the truth..this surgery is work! But it allows you to do the work AND find successful weight loss.

cuppycup · 07-12-2008, 07:52 PM

1. What would you have like to know before your surgery?
I feel like I was well-informed. I thought it would be more painful than it was.

2. What is the most important thing you feel a person should know about GB?
This will not solve all of your problems, and may magnify some that were previously overshadowed by weight issues.

3. Do you have any regrets?
None. Easily the best decision of my life.

Paula08 · 07-12-2008, 11:09 PM

Thanks to all of you who have taken the time to give me advice. I completely appreciate it. I am ready for a life change because I want to be around to see grandchildren someday and if it means eating wisely and workout that is what it will be.
I am looking forward to having Gastric Bypass so that when I get the weight off it will stay off.
It is great to hear that almost everyone wishes they would have done this earlier.

I felt that way about my Lapband before it slipped. Now, I wished I had went with GB in the first place.

Hugs
Paula