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This is so true! Thank you for sharing this. Bev

Well, to me, the object of any WLS is to be healthy. Are you healthy at 249? It's possible. From the way your posts reads, it sound like you are. It been said that if you lose a certain percentage of your excess weight, then that's enough. Unfortunately, I can't remember that percentage right now! *oops!* Anyway, I don't consider not being thin a weight loss failure. HOWEVER (well, you whould have known it was coming), my concern would be if not changing your eating, exercising, grazing habits would lead to weight gain a year or 2 from now. Also, if the lack of protein,etc. will call health problems since you have the malabsorption component. Anyhoo, those are my thoughts!

Hi Bill I'm so sorry for everything you have gone through! I know how terrible it is to lose your health. I'm only 6 months out of WLS but have had nothing but problems. First the surgeon parades around a few women at his meetings that are a size 3. They use deception making you think you will have a 20 year old body again! They are in it for the money! They told me I would go off blood pressure meds, My back would get better, OCD would get better, Asthma would get better etc.... Everything is worse. With the malabsorption of meds I dont get enough in so I cant breathe,walk, be pain free etc.... I spent months vomiting I have never been able to go the bathroom without laxatives. I have severe stomach pain. The surgeon says my Gallbladder is now bad. He wont take it out because I lost my Insurance. I'm so disabled now that I'm having to go on social security. I'm only 40 years old and my life is over! The surgeon took out everyone's Gallbladder but mine. I have stomach pain everyday. I have to take a lot of belladonna to stand it. I have lost everything except my house. I probably will lose that next. My blood pressure is higher now than before. Now I suffer severe depression! I don't remember having that before. I never have any energy,lost most my hair and feel like crap! I lost close to 70 pounds and thats it. My body looks worse now than before. I weigh 190 so I'm still very obese. I can relate to living for your dog. I have a Red Nose Pittbull named Sweetie. She is almost 7 years old and she is what keeps me going. If I died she would quit eating and die. My dog stays in bed with me most of the time. If I have to go out I take her for protection. I'm now afraid to go out alone. She is almost human! She knows when I'm having a real bad day! You are not alone in your misery. I'm really sorry you have had so many bad things happen to you. If you ever want to talk just e-mail me at [email protected] Ps. I'm blkcloud because of all the bad things that happen to me Sincerely Karen K.

My story starts here in November of 04. I had a RNY done in a small town in Alabama. I did my research and concluded that the surgeon I choose was one of the best in the state hell he even had it done himself and did his daughters. For the first 6 months or so I was a textbook success then I started having kidney stones. Very very painful. Well after 5 procedures three in which had to be hospitalized for. Then on Veterans Day 05 (11 November) I was down at the local Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) serving returning soldiers lunch. I went home to lie down a and take a nap. I started having stomach pains I didn't think too much of it at the time thought maybe I ate something I shouldn't have ate. After about 4 hours the pain was so bad that I couldn't bare it anymore my girlfriend at the time was a nursing instructor at a local university she informed me that something is defiantly wrong for me to be in that much pain. She came and took me to the hospital emergency room. After they ran test and had my pain somewhat under control. A surgeon came in and introduced himself and informed me that I had a intestinal blockage and that I had only hours to live if something wasn't done immediately, he also informed me that since the doctor that did my WLS was close by that I be moved to the hospital where he operates from since he was familiar with my insides. So I was transported by ambulance to the other hospital the surgeon met my ambulance and had his team ready to cut me. (Very pro active) So I had the intestinal surgery spent 4 days in the hospital on a liquid diet. I have had nothing but problems since then from defecating on myself to getting nauseated after I eat. In January 06, I stopped at the VFW and had a drink with some friends and went home to cook dinner I was in the kitchen and had a grandma seizure my first. When I woke up my face was all bloody and the paramedics were talking to me. I left Alabama and moved to Washington State so I could be close to family since I have so many health issues. If I die I don't want to die alone. On the drive from Alabama to Washington in a hotel room in Texas I had another grandma seizure I have no recollection of it. I didn't know what was going on it's like I woke up and my little brother was holding me. I have a little Yorkshire terrier that was crying (I'm sure he was scared) Now I get so depressed. I have even come close to committing suicide the only reason I'm still here is my little dog. What would happen to him? Like I said I did my homework and I'm a grown man and made a decision to have the surgery and I believe in the surgeon that done my surgery. If I would have known that I was going to have problems, I would have stayed fat. I have went to Gastric doctors and a neurologist, they can't find any answers. Everything on all of the test appears to be normal. I'm at the end of my rope and don't know where to go or who to turn to next and nobody will help me. I'm told to look in the phone book or look on the Internet to find a specialist.