Thank you ladies!! I haven't yet met the surgeons in our hospital. We get to meet them at our next class in September. I'm currently working the program. I have lost 20 of the 40 lbs. to have surgery done. I'm hoping to lose 50 lbs. before having surgery. But if I only hit the 40lbs. I will be fine with it.

I was looking for people who have had the BPD/DS done. On most websites I have seen it refered to just as DS surgery. We call it the BPD surgery in our hospital. I was wondering how your surgery had gone and what kind of experiences you have had. 

No one can change my mind on having this done. I am just looking forward. I just seeing what differences I could see on having on my own surgery. Yes everyone is different. But I was hoping to see if anyone experienced setbacks or how did things change for you. I'm reading a book right now that they gave us about Barbara Thompson's surgery. But she only had the RNY done. It doesn't seem to give any experience from the BPD/DS side of it. 

And I know the vitamins are essential in any of these surgeries. 

Thank for any information. 

The DS is the most effective surgery for getting the excess weight off, keeping it off, and resolving co-mobs, especially things like t2 diabetes and high cholesterol, hands down. It also avoids the risks of dumping syndrome or reactive hypoglycemia, and you can take NSAIDs, which you can't with RNY, but the supplements are absolutely not negotiable. To be sure things are really OK, you need to follow labs yourself, to make sure they all get drawn, and that levels are in check rather than waiting till something is so out of whack that it's flagged by the lab (that's usually the only time a doc will mention it). 

Oh, and you are ALWAYS going to find someone with horror stories about what ever surgery, and implore you not to get it. I was pretty healthy for such a fat person, but I knew that co-morbs catch up, and the obesity would have killed me far sooner than anything else. I'm over 8 years out from my DS, and at 51, am probably the healthiest I've ever been. 

You're soo close! You can do it!!

I posted on the main boards because I have a big mouth and I was super freakin excited- but I HIT MY MAIN GOAL!! I'm overwhelmed with happiness. I picked 175 as a goal that was unattainable. I've looked at charts saying that starting at 377 20% of patients would reach 188 pounds by 18 months out. I've looked at that thing probably 300 times. And I've beaten it pounds and time wise. It's amazing :)

Meanwhile my headaches decided to rear their ugly head - because I got off a med that was causing me dizziness. So I'm trying to work on getting those under control. So this week has been ****ty, blech.

But I'm resetting my goal to 150. No idea if I can lose more but I'd like a cushion for regain so I'm going to continue eating how I am now and working to lose to see if I can make that. I'm happy where I am now but I'm aware that regain will most likely happen so I want that cushion of at least 10 pounds, 25 pounds would be even better right?

HW: 377

LW: 176

TW: 175

Dream Goal: 150

Struggling!!! 

A whole year has gone by already and I have received more negative than positive from family and so called friends.  Now I am concerned and feel ashamed because I have not lost as much as I should have.  I did not even celebrate my first surgerversery (sp).  Just healing from two major surgeries at the same time (RNY & gallbladder) was enough but now I realize that the negative reactions sent me more into a depressive state.  My starting weight was over 500, maybe there is a willing buddy out there who has been successful with losing a massive amount of weight too. 

HI Sassy,

I'm not sure how to answer this.  I was 410 when I had my surgery over two years ago and I'm 371 now.  I had gastric sleeve and I still stress eat - my behaviors and patterns didn't change.  I never ate a large quantity of food all at one time, I was more of a secret binger so the sleeve didn't really work for me.

I still have to eat right and exercise like a madwoman for the scale to show any difference and now I have anemia, hypothyroid, hypertension and gastric reflux, some thanks to the surgery.

So would I do it again?  Not sure.  

Don't think of it as the thing that will save your life because although it's worked like that for a lot of people, for others it hasn't.  I think the expectations are set too high.

I think committing to changing your life is more important then cutting out parts of your body to prevent you from gaining weight.  I often think to myself that wiring my jaw shut would have been better than cutting out half my stomach.

Still struggling,

Jaide