So glad!

Hi, I've been reading the main message board and just found this one. I'm a Christian and am pursuing WLS. I keep going through the "should I, shouldn't I?...thing. I am praying about it and don't have any concrete yes or no answers. I'm moving ahead and am happy to have found you! I do have one question. I never see any "regrets" on the message board. Do people *****gret their surgery post somewhere else? Does no one regret it? All I see are people who are happy with the surgery - even if they've had complications. Of course I love that this is the case but... I wonder. Shannon

Shanoon, I am one that is nearly two years out. The first year, I felt great and would do it again in a heartbeat. I guess with the weight coming off and being able to do so many things I couldn't do before. It was awesome. This second year, I have had many problems related to wls. Nothing really major (I think) but enough that I have been sick nearly every day this year. I was at the doctor one day this week and a pre-op asked me, if i had the surgery. I told her yes and how much weight I had lost. She asked me if I would do it again. I said, honestly, today I just don't know. probably not but ask me tomorrow when I am feeling better and I'll tell you yes, in a New York minute. We all have up and down days. I am struggling with losing too much, ulcers, past gallbladder problems, severe constant pain in my left side that they don't know yet where it is coming from. I dropped to 109lbs two weeks ago but am back up to 112 on my scales and 116 on my docs scales. I just feel like it has been one thing after another for me. But I know that once I get straigtened up (and my little doc is trying to take care of me), I will be on cloud nine again.

Hi, Thanks for the reply. Every one I read gives me something new to think about. I am having second, third and fourth thoughts about the surgery -the odds of having everything come out right sounds a little like russian roulette (sp?) to me. I just don't want to have extreme medical problems the rest of my life. I'm going to keep thinking and praying about it (and reading about it of course). Thanks for your response! Shannon

Shannon, I've been having the record long Aunt Flo visit stemming from surgery and the weight loss. Here is the irony in all this...my estrogen is too low. WHAA?! That's cool for me because it used to be too high due to the fat. Bleeding, real hassle and pain but I still would do it again. My system is getting the kinks out and getting healthy.