Surgery didn't work

Sorry, but I just don't believe a doctor would say surgery failed after two weeks - especially without doing some tests. The OP is NOW saying doctor said IT MAY HAVE failed. I think OP is disappointed -- her (IMHO) unrealistic expectations have not been met. Maybe OP could post her food journal??

I've heard of the loss of sensation at first with some. Don't take it as a free-for-all.  In another week or so, you may feel completely different.  Follow your plan, and keep the correct portions.  If you overeat now, you could stretch your stoma and you WILL be screwed, for there is no going back with that.

How odd.  Sorry for your troubles.  Sometimes things like this don't work out and we just need to throw in the towel.  We can always join pro- obesity/dis-ease  groups which uplift and have more admiration the more we weigh.  Like best to be super morbidly obese than just obese.

Seriously tho, chill out and give yourself a chance.  I would follow post-op directions as originally planned.  Don't progress to solids if that was not the deal.  Clear your mind "as a man thinketh so he is" (well something like that).  Switch your words up.  Believe and act like this surgery is the bomb and it will be.  Believe you will lose ALL your excess weight then just DO it.

 

Hang in there!

 

Much peace and love,

Layla

I also thought my first WLS failed.  After all, I regained 100 lbs.  It couldn't of been my fault because WLS was supposed to fix whatever problems I had that made me obese.

It had nothing to do with the garbage I was eating around the clock.  Because WLS allows us to eat whatever we want and still lose weight.  Just like always, the connection between what I ate and what I weighed escaped me.  I thought they were two different issues.  I thought everyone ate like I did and I was the unlucky sap who gained all the weight and other lucky people could eat all that and stay thin.

I had a lot to learn.

I finally figured it out when I stopped eating the crap and lost weight that the surgery worked fine, it was operator error, not surgical error.

But I didn't stick to eating right and continued to regain my weight until I was almost back where I started.

I didn't consider a revision because by then I realized I was the problem and all the surgeries in the world wouldn't help if I didn't get a handle on my eating.  I actually saw my surgeon about having a reversal because I had all the negatives from WLS and not a single benefit.

When I was told I couldn't be reversed but I could be revised to address the side effects I did a lot of soul searching and decided to go about it differently this time.

I decided not to test my surgery like I did from the beginning with the first one.  I remember being that person who tried to eat as much as I could to see if I had restriction (I had some but by continually overeating I managed to pretty much end up able to eat as much as I did pre-op).

This time I decided to listen to people who had success with their surgery and doing what they did.  And son of a ***** the damn surgery worked!  Who'd of thunk? 

Good for you! Love to hear that you can always go back and work the tool. There is always hope.

You are so real! Thank you for sharing!!!!

Holy crap, this thread just won't stop. This is from the dictionary:

ma·lar·key

 also ma·lar·ky  (mə-lär′kē)

n. Slang : Exaggerated or foolish talk, usually intended to deceive  

Grim, you crack me up! You are my favorite poster on this site.

If you are THIS disappointed and panicking about failure at only two freaking weeks out, you have a really, REALLY long journey ahead of you.  Find a counselor because you are going to need help with delusions of failure and self-doubt and dealing with a surgeon who is -- IF you recorded his comments correctly here (which I am not so sure of) -- who is clueless about how thsi process works.

I would LOVE for you to ask him to provide information on a SINGLE person for whom surgery failed to provide ANY weight loss.

Physically impossible!

Lora