Heightened suicide risk after weight-loss surgery

And, whatever it is, it will help someone else.




Believe me, you're not alone.  There's stuff I am not posting that ha**** too close to home, mostly because, OF THIS.

Thank you Tonia, I appreciate your comments.  And, I am not going to come on here and tout my educational background, my college degrees.  However, I will say, as I did before, it's not about the information, it's about the delivery, and the lack of explanation. It's dangerous to just throw something out there like this and not discuss it.

"And, I am not going to come on here and tout my educational background, my college degrees."

Oh, please do... so far you seem to have advanced degrees in snarky-ness and arrogance. Your posts speak volumes about you in ways that I'm sure you didn't intend. For someone who knows all there is to know about mental health issues, you illustrate an amazing lack of insight into the world of the WLS post-op. I suggest you take a BIG step back and consider that you do NOT know it all. You are not even close.  : (

This, this is IRRESPONSIBLE?


My link > pointing to this >

Risk of Suicide after Long-term Follow-up from Bariatric Surgery


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Hilary A. Tindle MD, MPH^a, Bennet Omalu MD, MPH, MBA^b, Anita Courcoulas MD, MPH^a, Marsha Marcus PhD^a, Jennifer Hammers DO^c and Lewis H. Kuller MD, DrPH^a

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa

University of California, Davis

Office of Chief Medical Examiner, The City of Boston, Boston, MassNew York, New York

"...These data document a need to develop more comprehensive longer-term surveillance and follow-up methods in order to evaluate factors associated with postbariatric surgery suicide."

"However, I find it irresponsible to throw a newspaper article on here with a title such as that, and not explain your opinion or concerns about it, if you're going to be the one who posts it.  It's like it was just thrown out there to provoke."

It's clear the entire text of the article wth some proper bull****ting surrounding it should be reposted by any/all who may feel compelled to discuss the issue.

Here's the study -

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TDC-511HN25-8&_user=10&_coverDate=09%2F16%2F2010&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=b73c8eb0d4fda92f463b7cb498e2d74d&searchtype=a

 Pretty much everyone who isn't an active internet user goes into the surgery with rose coloured glasses. Boards like these are pretty much the only way you're going to find out the truth about what happens after WLS. Most real life friends (except me, I'm brutally honest to my friends about my experiences after surgery) won't give it to you straight because they want to see you skinny, regardless of the consequences. Also, anyone who is SELF PAY .. especially OOC (and aren't active forum users) are extremely optimistic and have these rose coloured glasses on. I speak from experience.

"But, it's not your job to scare the hell out of them with minute rareties of suicide, and RH, and seizures, and gosh knows what else."

The saddest part about this comment that strikes me the loudest are the people who experienced the "minute rarity" of ANY devastating life changing consequence of WLS would hardly consider it minute. Neither would their families, their children, or their friends. Like a dear friend of mine who ends up in the hospital several times a year because of crazy complications from her WLS three years ago. Maybe she's a freak of nature - but WHAT IF *I* had ended up like her? We just don't know what we're signing up for when we decide to have WLS. And I know one person with problems out of thousands without isn't a great number for comparison - but the fact that I could have ended up with her problems makes it a big deal in my book. Could you, as a pre-op, live a life completely altered because your body chose to revolt? Would you consider it an inconsequential statistic because it's only you compared to thousands? Because I know my friend would NEVER have anticipated everything she's gone through (and when you're a rare case, you always lose points for being the first one who created the curve.)

My point is - bad stuff happens sometimes and it's better to be prepared AND scared in my opinion. Suicide, bowel obstructions, twisted intestines, freak of nature complications that help get you a spot in the bariatric journal of medicine - this **** is scary business!! 

YES.

And for the ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY AND COUNTING with seizures not directly correlated to RNY surgery?

IT AIN'T MINUTE.

I need a ride to the store.

Wait.

RH is a "minute rarety"? 

Just wanting to clarify your position here.

RH is nearing the NUMBER ONE complicating issue of RNY gastric bypass.