Sorry to butt in Lady where have you been.Girl I had posted maybe 4 month ago about your whereabouts. Im glad your doing good. When I first started on this board I read one of your postings where this lady was giving grief and I thought "Thats wrong" but you sure kept it real. I am happy your back. God bless Rosie

Hi Maureen, Im sorry to hear about your situation. If you havent been to the post-op pregnancy board I would recommend it. There are a lot of wonderful ladies there, a lot very early post op pregnancies. I dont know how they expect you to not loose anymore weight, for crying out loud you just had your stomach shrunken!! I have been told that most obese mothers have a lot of reserve and the baby takes what it needs. I got preggo at 6 months post-op, I only gained a total of 7 pounds but after having him I was 20 pounds lighter than I wes pre-preggo...sadly my baby had a heart defect and passed away at 18 days old, NOT WLS RELATED!!, and I went through a bout of depression and have gained about 10 pounds back. There are a lot of days that I regret the surgery as well. I know it wasnt WLS related but it is hard to look past that sometimes, I had had 2 healthy babies prior....plus to see that damn scale go back up!! Its so frustrating. If you ever need anyone to talk to, email me. We are TTC now. Take Care and God Bless, Roxanne Wife to Kyle Momma to: Zackery 11/19/95 Nathan 12/12/01 Tristan 3/7/05-3/25/05 My forever in my heart!! TTC

I gotta give a shout out for the Band as well! But I must say, if the Band had not been available for whatever reason, and I decided to go through with WLS anyway, I would have chosen DS. Never RNY.

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/OSSG-gone_wrong/ Satiety is driven by the vagus nerve, however. What many pre-ops and too many post-ops don't understand is that full doesn't = stuffed, but merely "not hungry anymore". I suspect as time goes by, they'll find a pretty big regain rate with the VG unfortunately...since the smaller stomach will become more elastic and allow more volume (which we know happens with DS folks and it's their high level of malabsorption that allows them to keep that weight off because they can and do eat quite a bit more down the line). One of the reasons I chose the band was its direct interaction with the vagus nerve. I don't stop eating because I can't force another bite down, I stop eating because my hunger shuts off and I'm comfortably satisfied because the brain has gotten that physical signal (you know...the one they always told us about while telling us that meals had to be 20-30 min in length to give that nerve enough time to fire the signal). I too know my body well and had a diagnosed physical satiety disorder (vagus nerve not close enough to stomach to ever fire off that signal). I want that ghrelin to give me the other end of the equation...real hunger. So now my eating is driven like a normal person's: I eat when I'm physically hungry, and I stop eating when I'm not hungry anymore. But the group is a great wealth of information for both people exploring the idea of surgery and those post-op experiencing problems. Nancy 394/260/180

How strange that I never knew there was one and posted about this same thing on the Fla board and was told it was always there never hidden.