IDK? They look pretty happy to me?

Melly, I'm happy that you're happy with your sleeve. However, I'm not going to post here on OH any details about why I'm not happy with mine, mainly because I don't care to have another flood of abuse rained down on me. So I'll just sum it up by saying that my health has suffered more than benefited by my sleeve surgery, and my sleeve is a lot harder to live with than my band ever was.

Jean, I am sorry to hear that. I don't understand people that would bash your experience, either. I wish we could all just support one another. All WLS comes with risk, and challenges.....doesn't matter what we do to be compliant. We don't all have a fairytale experience.

 

To be honest, Melly, there is more to this story.  Sometimes people do indeed bring on their own problems and then slam the entire surgery type.  As we ALL know they operate on our stomachs and not our heads.

I think what gets sleeved people annoyed is the massive amount of misinformation posted.  Not the individual experiences, the misinformation.

When an 8 week post op newbie is eating the same quantity as a vet at goal they WILL have problems.  That goes for any surgery type.  Sometimes newbie sleevers do dump on sugar, it's usually short lived but it happens.  When one knows they are a dumper eating sugar daily probably isn't the answer.

You're so right, Melly. It makes me remember the many times my mom told me, "I never told you life would be easy!" Forty years ago I believed I could have the fairytale in spite of that. Now I've discovered that life is a mixed salad of good stuff and bad stuff.