Over 50? Please share your experience
I was 65 when i had it am now 67 and feel great always have since surgery. go read my profile if you like. it was a piece of cake for me. My surgeon does a lot of over 65 year old and says they are some of his best and easiest patients. I was a lightweight but i have lost 115 pounds and wearing size 8/10s now feel wonderful.
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GOD BLESS YOU TODAY
JAN COOK
Hi, Michele, and welcome to the OFF board. We are the best board on OH. So full of fun, love, caring and understanding people. We listen to each other, judge no one, laugh and cry together. There is always someone who has been where we are at.
I had my open RNY on 10/8/07 and was 53 years old. I have lost 85.2 pounds and love my new life. I was a type 2 diabetic, taking at first oral meds and 4 shots a day. I was then put on a pump and the same oral meds. I am now diet and excersize controled. I haven't taken any meds for the diabetes since a week before surgery. I also have cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure. I am still on the meds for the heart thing but not the CHF. I am doing much better with the cardiomyopathy and my ejection fraction number which they go by for that is at a normal number. I have a very bad back but that is doing a lot better also. I have a digenerative disc disease, arthritis, sciatica and 2 herniated discs. I am not in as much pain as before. I use to have to use a cart at the store and now I go in and walk all over, a lot of times just going for the excersize. I intentionally get one thing and then go to the other side of the store to get something else. I keep doing that and walk the store a gazillion times. I am so glad that I can do it.
Surgery went well. I was home and cleaning my house a couple of days from getting home. I have so much more energy than I have had in years. I still think about the changes and the ones yet to come and thank God for pointing me in this direction.
Please feel free to read my profile. I ramble on and on there. Oh shoot! I ramble on and on no matter where I am, that is just me.
It's not what you gather, but what you scatter
that tells what kind of life you have lived.
Let's see .... how do I sum this up...
Had Lap RNY 3 years ago this coming June... "changed my life" pretty much says it all 
I spent a day and a half in the hospital, had no problems or complications at all, and was back to work in 4 weeks, and divorced and moved out and into my own house in 7 weeks... and moved myself... well, me and a U Haul ...
It's worked out well! ... you go to sleep, and wake up and start your new life .... high blood pressure went away, and I went from taking several pills a day for all kinds of afflictions to only taking several Viagra and Cialis a day
.... I buy it by the 55 gallon drum to save a couple of bucks 
I spent a day and a half in the hospital, had no problems or complications at all, and was back to work in 4 weeks, and divorced and moved out and into my own house in 7 weeks... and moved myself... well, me and a U Haul ...
It's worked out well! ... you go to sleep, and wake up and start your new life .... high blood pressure went away, and I went from taking several pills a day for all kinds of afflictions to only taking several Viagra and Cialis a day
.... I buy it by the 55 gallon drum to save a couple of bucks 
Marc,
You are nuts. . .. 
My Mantra is that I do not determine my success by the number hanging in my closet, nor will I let the scale determine that success either. . . It is through trial and error I will continue to grow and succeed. . . Laureen
"Success is a journey, not a destination." Ben Sweetland
Welcome Michele,
Incredible, fascinating, hard work, rewarding, frightening, but wonderful.
My surgery was 18 months ago at age 59. I woke up from surgery thinking he didn't do anything. Within an hour of returning to my room I was up and walking the halls.
Two days after returning home I began to run a low grade fever and was readmitted to the hospital for about 10 days. Except for a fever of 103 degrees, I felt good. I had an infected blood clot in the abdomen.
I have only dumped once because I ate a cookie. I stick to the plan outlined by my dietician and do quite well. Learning the new eating/drinking/chewing/exercise habits was plain hard work. Eventually I figured it out with few troubles.
I have had two surgeries for hernias, external and internal. Last week the surgeon found another one. These are not necessarily from WLS. I have had several abdominal surgeries in the past which may have caused the weakness.
My starting weight was 320 pounds, current 116 pounds and holding. Yes, I am happy about that.
If possible, go to support meetings and ask billions of questions. The people here will answer your questions too.
Annette
Annette 
Hello Michele... and welcome to the OFF. I am 59 yrs. old and I had the Lap RNY 15 months. It was the best thing I could have done for myself. I had high blood pressure, arthritis in my knees, GERD, sleep apnea and when I went to talk to my PCP she lowered the boom on me and told my I was a diabetic. So at 260lbs. (a lightweight) I decided to have the surgery. It was a one-night stay in the hospital, and I went back to work after 2 weeks. I no longer have high blood pressure,
GERD, or sleep apnea. I will always have the arthritis because the damage has already been done, but I can walk up and down the steps without any difficulty ride a bike and jog a little bit. Who could ask for anything more. It's been a sensational and wonderful journey since then...there have been some struggles but I wouldn't take nothing for my journey.
Hi Michelle-I am 51 1/2 and just had my lap rny on 04/18/08. I stayed in the hospital 2 nights and came home ready to rock and roll. I started at 288 and I have lost 32 pounds since starting the preop diet. I am already feeling much better. I still have some fatigue, but I can bend over and tie my shoes! Only had one night of wondering what the heck did I do to myself( that was the second night in the hospital). I would do it again, oh, yea. I am just starting to learn how to feed myself with this new pouch. My dietician will guide me.
Best of luck on your decision!
One Day at a Time
Jill
Highest 288/Consult 282/Preop 275/current 150/goal ?????
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