almost 2 yr aniv. and lost a whopping 23 lbs
I wish you the best of luck. I would definitely talk to your surgeon. I hope that they can fix it if something was done wrong. What kind of surgery did you have?
Even if the surgery was done correctly, maybe your surgeon's team can figure out why you're not loosing weight. If they don't have a team, you should find a nutritionist who specializes in bariatric patients.
I also saw your other post on a different board. Don't let them get you down. Good luck.
Thank you all so much for your support. It was needed and it means alot to me. We all need to support to each other the best way we can with out judging or blaming anyone. I want to let everyone know surgens are not perfect either but when they have wronged someone they should be addressed accordingly and given the choice to correct it or pay the leagal consiquince of their errors in malpractice lawsuit. They should just like anyone in any profesional field take responisbility and ownership for thier actions. Sometime people in all fields get to big for thier britches and need a firm slap back to reality. If nothing else I want people to know surgens are not perfect any way shape or form and do make mistakes, not everyone is a sucess after this surgery and if your not you should review all the reasons why. I wi**** was as simple as me just over eating but its not. Everyone that had given me negative oppions I knew just didnt know any better. It would be a waist of energy to hold it against them. I know I'm not crazy and thats all that really matters anyway right. Once again I wish everyone who has had the surgery nothing but success, but those who dont or have issues dont be afraid to ? everything and everyone involved in this process before you start blaming yourself. It never hurts to look in the mirror for a self analisys once in a while, but if the answer is not there start looking for it. It is far to easy to just blame yourself which I find more likely for (normal)people to do when we shouldnt be. Thanks again to everyone for all the support and god bless I will update time and agian to let everyone know how I'm doing.
Patty I am not judging you, but why when they noticed you could drink the 10 ounces of barium that they did not tell the surgeon and he go back in and make your pouch smaller? I feel you have a case to bring against him and or make him for settlement redo the surgery at no cost. I would be furious if I only lost 25 lbs in 2 years and knew the dr was at fault. Do what you have to do to get this corrected and negative posts towards you are others way of dealing with their own problems they have with losing slow or non. I wish you much luck.
Thank you all so much for your support. It was needed and it means alot to me. We all need to support to each other the best way we can with out judging or blaming anyone. I want to let everyone know surgens are not perfect either but when they have wronged someone they should be addressed accordingly and given the choice to correct it or pay the leagal consiquince of their errors in malpractice lawsuit. They should just like anyone in any profesional field take responisbility and ownership for thier actions. Sometime people in all fields get to big for thier britches and need a firm slap back to reality. If nothing else I want people to know surgens are not perfect any way shape or form and do make mistakes, not everyone is a sucess after this surgery and if your not you should review all the reasons why. I wi**** was as simple as me just over eating but its not. Everyone that had given me negative oppions I knew just didnt know any better. It would be a waist of energy to hold it against them. I know I'm not crazy and thats all that really matters anyway right. Once again I wish everyone who has had the surgery nothing but success, but those who dont or have issues dont be afraid to ? everything and everyone involved in this process before you start blaming yourself. It never hurts to look in the mirror for a self analisys once in a while, but if the answer is not there start looking for it. It is far to easy to just blame yourself which I find more likely for (normal)people to do when we shouldnt be. Thanks again to everyone for all the support and god bless I will update time and agian to let everyone know how I'm doing.
How did your visit with your surgeon come out? I hope he was able to help you. Maybe you need some metabolic testing done before having another surgery.
The question that immediately came to my mind is why did you wait 2 years before addressing the problem? If I had not lost at 2 months I'd be in his office demanding that something be done.
Best of luck!
I normally don't post disclaimers before speaking my mind. But I realize that some people don't GET IT and automatically assume you are passing judgement if you don't post a disclaimer first. So, having said that, this post is not to be taking as judgemental or mean spirited. Instead see it as a means for others to learn what you have or have not done. It can also be seen as a means of looking at and evaluating oneself.
I'm curious as to what your roll in your WLS failure has been? I looked at your profile and there's really nothing there. I too am almost 2 years out (December 8th will be my second rebirth day) and have complained at times that I have not lost as much as I would have liked (I'm down 135lbs). But being 100% honest with oneself (in this case MYSELF), I know that I have NOT followed the rules 100% of the time.
I have NOT exercised from the beginning (at 410lbs fear was my friend). I have NOT followed the nutritional advice given to the letter. I DO NOT always stop eating when I get that full feeling (I still feel that being finished after one bite is ridiculous and am constantly waging an internal mental war regarding the concept. I'm working hard on that one).
In the beginning I KNOW I did everything (except the exercise thing) right. But in time, I did fall off in other areas further slowing my WL progression down. Even now, time is not my friend between working a full time job, being a full time student, helping run a family business (as a key player), not to mention the unnatural amount of time I spend commuting to my new job (started it 4.5 months ago), I don't have time to take care of me and find little time available to do so. I have made strives to turn my current situation of not having time around.
For instance, I joined the aerobics class at my job (runs twice a week after work) this means I don't get home in the evening until around 7pm -7:30pm (that's 2.5 -3.0 after I get off duty and the class is only an hour long......the rest of the time is my commute). I leave my house for work at 5am to be there at 6am (to try and get an hour of study in before I start work at 7am) or if I'm not going in early I leave my house at 5:50 to get to work at 7am. My commute home is longer than my commute to work. As you can imagine, I'm exhausted when I get home but still have company business to attend to and homework or studying to do (right now I'm on break since I just finished an overlap, it's my first break in two years but I'm still reading for a class next semester because I'm forced to take it over in the November semester). Two of my classes begin again on September 6 and the one class in November . That means I will have had a 3 week "vacation." The first "vacation" in several years.
My point is that I can't blame anyone for my NOT following the rules but myself. I OWN that. So, when I see posts like this I wonder if the person that is upset is (or has been) somehow off the beaten path (like I have been) and either doesn't realize it, or is not willing looking at those fingers that point back at them when they are pointing at another (in this case the surgeon). So I ask again, what is your roll?
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