[quote=Hawaiianese Girl;285221]
Why don't I see anybody else talking about this stuff? I WISH like hell someobdy would've told me about all the bad stuff that was going to happen to me after I got this surgery because I sure as hell would've thought about it longer. And what's up with losing 23 lbs and then gaining 3 or 4 lbs back? Is this what I have to look forward to? Suffering and going through all this b.s. to not lose weight, but to gain it back?
Sorry for the vent...but it's real.
SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME THAT I WILL FEEL NORMAL AGAIN!!!!
P.S. - God I'd kill for a Coke and some fried chicken right about now.[/QUOTE/]
We have posted tons about the hell weeks and months.....the posts are buried throughout this place....theres hundreds of thousands posts after 4.5 years we've been on here. You can use the search function......people have died from this surgery, people are extremely underweight, some do gain a lot back, several more have constant pain, others develop diabetes afterwards, more are lactose intolerant, a few needed a reversal...then there's strictures, dumping, hernias, severe mood swings, suicidal and homicidal tendencies, divorces, breakups, hair loss, loose skin, paying for plastics, the first year plainly sucks...even when you've read all about it.....it's your turn to experience it for yourself.
There's more and worse yet to come. And there's the best yet to come. All you can do take it day by day, there's no particular rhyme or reason to it, right or wrong way of doing it. You do what you know best, learn what you can (no matter how many times I dump, I still will eat my fudge covered ice cream), trial and error.....and it's part of life, even without having surgery. Surgery simply magnifies a lot of what you're going through. We can spend pages and pages explaining it all.....I wrote dozens of articles and read thousands of pages of information, and there's always more to learn.
I can say for me, no regrets, not one, even with the crap I went through (near death is a fun experience)....rather lived what I can and have done what I did than to have died of a heart attack or stroke at 30...there's so much life to experience....and pain and suffering is part of life, without it, you'd never appreciate what you actually have now.
When I was in South Africa, it was expressed how sad for Americans, to die from the disease of excess; obesity. Can you imagine, they who are suffering from having so little, actually have pity for us?
It is a matter of perception...and that's all you really have.
....but I will.
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