Do we really need all this drama?
Someone alerted me to this website some months ago before my lapband surgery to help me with questions, research, and to find a supportive group of people and I have to say I am very disappointed with the amount of drama I see on here everyday. Why do people insist on bad mouthing others, posting negative posts (and i dont mean your strictly informative experiences with the band), and starting "lapband wars". Sometimes this is as bad as facebook. I dont understand why everyone has to down eachother? Were all in this together. We were all overweight, we all had to resort to a WLS, and we're all going through similar struggles and experiences. We also all knew the risks so it shouldnt matter if the lapband or the sleeve is better because we all knew the risks involved and there ARE risks involved with all of them. People are entitled to make thier own chooses based on whats right for your body. What matters is most of us were suffering from a weight related illness and the surgery or wieght loss from the surgery is ultimately helping us eliminate that high bp or diabetes. Its worth the risk or we wouldnt have made the choice to have the surgery in the first place.
Look this post isnt to meant to "stir the $%*&". Its a reminder to love your neighbor like yourself especially now that were all in this and we are the only ones who understand eachother. My husband couldnt understand what its like to feel the craziness I did in my first week post op or understand why I'm worried whether or not I'm eating enough protein. I sometimes depend on the people in this forum to give me strength when I have none and to help me understand what I dont and I dont like the drama. Its extremely unnessesary....
P.S. If you dont have anything nice to say about this post or others DONT SAY ANYTHING AT ALL! Thanks
Second when you want to post something ask a question or be postive about something happening to you .. I encourage you to post... people will respond and it creats a great atmosphere on OH...
Good luck on your journey!
263.4/187/148(Start/current/Goal)
'once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right'
Don't delete your profile, seriously... there's a lot to be learned here. If I bother you, I'll understand if you block me, honest. But, truly, there's a lot to know about WLS... things you might not even have considered yet... and there's always at least one person who's gone through it and might be able to help.
I hope you'll reconsider.
Avoid kemmerling, Green Bay, WI
It is interesting, but I don't often see these same folks posting on the other boards; DS, Sleeve, etc or on the failed WLS forum.
Sort of makes it look like their intent is to bully, berate and intimidate rather than educate.
I just ignore them...their stats are outdated and most of what they post is OPINION.