Okay. I haven't posted on here in awhile. Last time I posted I was dating a guy who was a meth addict and an alcoholic who changed my life for the worse Nov 2012. He and I have since broken up. We ended things in Feb 2013 because he got the bright idea to lie to all of us and tell us that he was going to be a father when really he was dating his boss's daughter and couldn't decide who he wanted. Well he decided he wanted her... I found out the other day that he was still using and is now on his way to prison again for 11 months for an escape charge...

 So anyway I am best friends with his "cousin" come to find out she's a girl he cheated on me with a week before Christmas. Anyway we became really close before I found out they slept together. She didn't know me then so I can't hold it against her. Well she is a meth addict as well. She's been on methamphetamine since 1998.

 I started doing meth with my ex back in Nov. I ended up stopping for awhile and did pretty good until I started hanging out with Tonya. Tonya opened up a whole new world for me. Instead of going through my ex to get the dope. I was going through Tonya and going directly to the dope cook to get dope. I was staying high for a few weeks until Tonya's phone messed up and I was forced to get sober. I stayed sober for 3 weeks until Tonya called and told me I could come see her. Well pretty much since a month ago today I have done nothing but get high. Tonya and I went to our dope cook's house about 2 weeks ago. I met a guy who was also a meth addict and my ex's friend. We were all hanging out. Tonya and the dope cook was in one room and me and Josh who is the same age as me where hanging out in the bathroom so he could shoot up...

I don't shoot up. I just smoke and snort the **** Well anyway Tonya and I left the house around 2am. We saw a cop so we cut off on a side road to turn on the gps and find the interstate. Well we got pulled over... They found 5 needles on Tonya and a baggie that had dope in it. Tonya ended up gettting arrested and they let me go because they didnt find anything in my car and Tonya kept saying I knew nothing about it.

  So today I am sober for the moment and trying to figure out if this surgery is something I want to go through with. My dad found out yesterday that I am still using and has pretty much disowned me. He wants nothing to do with me which makes me want to use more because I have no family. I am thinking about going to rehab and trying to get clean because the other day I realized I have been using on and off for 6 months. I don't really know how drug addiction and surgery works in fact I would assume that drug addiction and surgery DON'T work. I mean meth causes one not to eat to stay up for days and sometimes weeks at a time. With this surgery eating at certain times and getting your daily protein intake taking your vitamins etc is neccesary in order for this surgery to work. It also makes you dehydrated and I was reading that you should drink at least 70oz of water daily.

   I really would like to have this surgery  but I'm afraid that if I relapse or something that it will kill me because my body couldn't handle it

Sounds to me like you are doing a pretty good job of trying to kill yourself with out the help of any kind of surgery.You sound like a Drama Queen. Are you? Might want to check into getting to the bottom of why you have a need to be a Drama Queen. While I am sure many like to read post like yours, you know the old saying getting pleasure from others pain, I think it's best you find a rehab. center check in and check out of this life style for many a moon. If someday after you are more balanced your still want the DS it will be here or at least something in it's place.  For you now in your state of mind, you would allow the DS to kill you off. This is my opinion. This surgery deserves better than that. Go help that little girl needing to be loved because the DS does not do that. Good luck

This seems unnecessarily harsh.

Not at all. Go back and read the OP's posting history. Oh, wait, you can't---she's deleted her profile and made new ones a couple of times.

Essentially, she's very young, and dithered about having WLS. Everyone here gave her lots of good advice, sound facts, and loving support. Then she got scared of surgery because it might impact her lifestyle, and backed out. Then she dove head-first into the drug culture. She NEEDS harsh, because she needs to SAVE HER OWN LIFE.

She's an addict.  Lectures and harshness don't work, it just makes them contrary and more prone to use.  I'm not saying they should be treated with kid gloves, but matter-of-fact rationality goes a lot further than borderline name-calling.

Her bio indicates she's had a fairly rough life.  Likely she has emotional problems which need professional attention.  Calling her a drama queen won't help.

Actually, she had a pretty soft life until she graduated and moved out on her own---less than a year ago. But you can't see those posts, because she deleted her first profile.

I'm just looking at her current bio.  Could it be a lie?  Sure.  Regardless:  "I went to a behavioral facility for 8 months and went from 275 to about 216 which was awesome."

I used to work in a residential treatment facility.  It's really rough, trust me.

All of this doesn't change the fact that she's an addict, and won't listen if people are vitriolic.

My personal opinion is that you should never have this surgery. It requires a commitment to life long vitamin and mineral supplementing numerous time a day. It does not sound as if you would be capable of sustaining this for a lifetime.

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"Still trying to have the DS surgery... But drug addiction and surgery how does that work"

It does not work.  Period.

You have a much bigger issue at hand than weight.  I suggest you go to rehab... get your life together and repair you relationship with your family.   Your life is at stake.

I think your a smart girl, thats done some dumb things, and chosen the wrong people as freinds.  I say smart because, you came on here and vented before just running out and having surgery...SMART.  I dont think your a drama queen.  I think your sitting at home having a moment of clarity from not doing any meth, and your looking at your life, and your needs, and you needed someone to talk to about it.  The repercutions of not taking your vitamins and eating when your soposed to, plain and simple mean a certain death.  Dont let this adiction drag on for years.  Loose these, so called freinds FOREVER..  There not real freinds, they are drug buddies.  Huge difference.  Make your dad proud.  Go to rehab.  It might take him awhile to come around... he is hurt and pissed.  Thats ok........  He deserves to feel that way.  You continueing rehab will earn his respect.  When your strong enough and your mind is good and clean, and you have lost the drug buddies the surgery will be waiting for you.  Then your ready for a whold new adventure of getting high on life as your loosing the weight.  It will open up a whole new world for you.  A better world where you can have some self respect.  If you choose to get clean, one day you will look back at your posting, and realize how far you have come, since living a "Jerry Springer" life style.  And be glad that you decided to make a change...for the better....The future really does hold a better day for you, but YOU have to CHOOSE to move twords it......