How Much Has WLS helped w Joint and Back Pain

wanted for you all to have a word from someone that is almost 4 years out. I had surgery when i was 65 now almost 70 still have the arthritis pain but am able to use naproxin Sodium with pepcid...have had two knee replacements done since weight loss surgery. I have lost 115 pounds and am more active than people in their 40s....I work in my flowers about 4 to 6 hours a day when im not working as a nurse. I went back to work since i got to feeling so much better.  someone said something about pain in their upper back when they were losing ....i had horrible pains under my shoulder blades when my body was adjusting to the new center of gravity but is so much better now , i concentrated on exercises to get my posture better. we all walk so much different now than we do after losing weight.
just some info from an old woman 

  surgery and some western pharmacotherapy play a role in  arthritis ,but it is not the most effective ,some of my friends has  been tryed  other treatments for arthritis ,such as acupuncture and Tuina .I recommend you to try it .

I have had 5 knee surgeries pre-op including a partial knee replacement due to a connective tissue disorder and my knee pain is much better than it was preop.  I miss my celebrex, but I can honestly say that my arthritis pain has decreased quite a bit.  I still have pain but it is much more tolerable than it was.  My ortho told me that for every pound I lost it took 4 lbs of pressure off my hips and knees.  This was the biggest part of my decision for the weight loss...worse case scenario..there is a lot less of me for my hubby to help up on the bad days.

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In April 2007, I weighed 367 lbs and I'm 5'1" tall. I had a 70" waist and could barely stand up long enough to go from bed to toilet. Bed to car. Car to office. Ask me to stand for more than 1 minute and I was in excruciating pain in my lower back and both knees.

September 2007 I had gastric bypass (RNY) at 333 lbs. I lost down to 198 lbs but have re-gained to 221 lbs (3 years out).

However, I easily stand for hours talking with folks. I'm a Girl Scout leader (and cookie mom) who does a lot of 2 hour cookie booths. I'm a Boy Scout leader who goes on campouts and hikes, though I still hike slower than the boys, I get there.

I have osteoarthritis in both knees and will eventually have to get them replaced, but it's not as urgent now as it was 5 years ago. However, 5 years ago they wouldn't even consider me a candidate because I weighed so much. I still can't kneel easily, nor squat, but I can sit on the floor and then get up from the floor. I just tend to keep my legs extended rather than bent.

With my hernia repair in April 2008 and panniculectomy which removed 8.6 lbs of skin off my belly, my back pain pretty much disappeared because I no longer had all that excess skin pulling on the abdominal region causing my back to be out of alignment.

I was doing water exercise. I walked back and forth in 4' deep water for 20 to 30 minutes every morning. That's all I did and it really made a difference in how my body felt and I lost weight while doing that.

Good luck!

Did you have to give documentation to your insurance company that the excess skin was causing your back pain? And if so, how did you get that documentation? I really think a lot of my back pain is due to that, but I don't know how to prove it.

I did not have to prove it. I had a canteloupe sized hernia in my upper abdomen and I asked the surgeon if he thought we might be able to get insurance to approve removal of the pannus at the same time since it was hanging down about 1/3 of the way down my thighs. I had 10 years of documented skin problems under that area, so it came off as medical necessity and insurance approved it immediately with no appeal necessary.

I'd talk with the surgeon who would be doing the surgery to see what his/her opinion is with regard to the medical necessity of removing the extra skin. If you have documented skin problems that can also help. Mine was part of the hernia repair surgery where the weight of the skin would have just pulled on the sutures internally and undone the work.

Good luck.