Thanks.

 hey girl my call is 4088881853. Accbrown hd talked about hosting something at her hotel? ot sure ts still on. know Jeani and Waffle got rooms too.I  have to head home fr  bit so the hubby isant all crabby.

I am sure I will try to make it in san jose on wensday soon ....
My op is Monday In SSF. I live and work in Fremont!!
jack

I had a RNY on February 2005 and lost a lot of weight.  I went from 320 to 146 lbs.  I had problems with my RNY since scar tissue developed causing a partial obstruction.  I had to go the hospital approximately a couple of years ago and had to have a scope.  Since then I gained like 50 pounds back, not too happy about but, look a lot healthier since I am now able to eat more.  Needless to say, I put myself back on a diet, yep a DIET to lose some of the extra weight I gained.   It is much easier to go on diet with the bypass since I cannot still eat as much as I used to.

Lessons learned is that this is not a magic cure, you need to work at being on a diet FOR LIFE.  There are no free rides.  The surgery helps but, if you make the mistakes that I made, you will gain all of the weight back, albeit slowly, but all of it back and some.  I am kind of sorry I went to the hospital and had the scope done but, I was getting too underweigh, now I am trying hard not to let the weight gain get out of hand.

Additionally, I became quite depressed over issues regarding two of my kids who are special needs.  The doctor gave me anti-depressants.  Those are not good, they make you eat and gain weight.  I stopped taking them and the weight gain stopped.  I do have chronic kidney disease which was a result of being overweight in the past and suffering from hypertension.  So, after spending a few years without taking meds, I am taking two for my kidney condition.  The nephrologist gave me an anti-hypertensive and something to lower cholesterol althoug I have no cholesterol.

All I want to say is that don't think that the surgery is going to take care of your weight, you need to take of i****ch what you eat and follow through with the program.  I can say that I have done a few things that I should not do such as drinking diet soda and regular soda on occassion, chew gum, stopped taking my protein and vitamins, got tired of them.  Now, I have to start all over so I can get back to a weight that I could live with not too fat and not too thin.  When I was thin, I was happy but, I was really thin to the point that people were worrying about me.  I looked sick.

Just keep things in mind.  I don't need a revision, there is not such a thing, you just need to follow through with the commitment that you made to yourself when you had the surgery.

Dr. Rabkin from SF has SoCal meetings in Anaheim and Ventura. My wife and I go to the Ventura meeting from the Valley. Mostly DS with some VSG and the occasional RNY or oldtimer BPD person showing up. Fairly small and intimate meetings compared to their main SF one.