Regrets..??

Not me - it was my best option.  Below goal weight and zipping up and down the trails at Yosemite.  No regrets and no going back!!

NO REGRETS concerning the surgery...like many other have said...wish I would have done it sooner..then again I can go back 20 yrs ago & say I regret letting my eating get out of hand...all we can do now is start from TODAY  & go forward 

I was very ill for about 6 weeks.  During that time I will call it regret, but I'm not sure if it was really just wallowing in how I was feeling at the time.  I felt so bad I just wanted it to stop.  But it stopped and I don't regret a thing.  I would gladly suffer the 6 weeks of misery again in order to feel the fitness that I feel on a daily basis.  I am still working up to what I was before my illness, but I have been feeling strong and healthy, something I couldn't truthfully say for myself before surgery.  I was going down a path of ill health that would have eventually killed me young as it did my mom.  I was also VERY nervous about having the surgery.  Constantly questioning, what if something goes wrong, what if it doesn't work, what if I gain it back.  Here is what I know, in the past year I have gotten off all of my meds.  All of my numbers in my bloodwork are perfect.  I feel alive again!

I wish for compassion toward the people who end up with ongoing health complications or people who don't have enough inner-strength to make WLS work. I just lived through a major complication and still have no regret. Why? I had WLS to get out of super-super-morbid-obesity-hell and to ultimately succeed at resting in peace I will never enter that hell again.

Non, je ne regrette rien.

I don't have any regrets. I'm not gonna say oh I regret not having this years ago cuz honestly I wasn't ready for it years ago. Even when I started to do my research again at the start of my journey I was still firmly in lap band territory. I had this whole don't touch my stomach, what if I change my mind thing going on, but once I got past that all the other surgeries was open to me. The problem was figuring out what was best for me. Yeah a whole lot of people were satisfied with their choice but I still had to make mine, & it took a lot of soul searching & analyzing myself in addition to knowing the pros & cons of each surgery. I had to figure out what I was willing to live with, for life.

The only thing I regretted was not fully utilizing using all the tools in my toolbox. For example I definitely under utilized the therapy tool. The mental/head stuff can be overwhelming at times & I regret not finding a therapist that I liked & clicked with at the beginning of my journey, but even with that regret it's never too late to get mental help/support. So I'm thinking regrets can be remedied at some point.

Well its a rambling post, but I hope it helps. Good Luck in whatever you choose to do.

I had surgery 20 years ago...it was a combination surgery that is no longer done. I have real health issues now, that I did not have before, but the things I have experienced can all be addressed with OTC meds and supplements. i currently take no medications daily, and I am 20 years post op...I use Buffalo liver extract to keep my Iron levels up, and my calcium levels dropped and my teeth cracked to be un repairable.. so am in the process of getting a new set...The gastric by pass saved my health and enabled me to work and provide for my daughter. I have intestinal gas, and intolerances to certain foods, there are herbals that relieve this and probiotics help...some people may wish I had not had the surgery, but it is something I would do all over again because it gave me control over my whole life again... blood sugars no longer yo yo...routinely.. Hope this helps.

I regretted doing the Lap Band. I still regret it. Worst decision of my adult life. Ex husband included.

Having my sleeve and losing most my weight, becoming active, loving working with a trainer... playing on playground equipment with my kids.... NOTHING ABOUT THAT TO REGRET. What I will say is that I am one of those people who have had complication after complication... I have had months at a time of being seriously ill, on IV feeding, massive gut meds, months and months over the past 5 years in the hospital. I STILL would trade my life before wt loss surgery to the one I have now. My one regret... and I had no way of knowing it before surgery... is I would have chosen a RNY over a sleeve. I am one of those 1 % that never had reflux before who developed SEVERE reflux. I have really suffered with chronic esophagitis, gastritis and frequent aspiration pneumonias. I am having a revision to a RNY which my medical team had been begging me to do for 2 years and I was too darn stubborn before. I know it sounds crazy but I still(despite knowing how sick I can get when my GERD is really severe) am more grateful for my surgery than I can express. I am also looking forward to NOT having GERD next month. Good luck to you! Amy