Did You Have Worsening Depression / Anxiety After Surgery??

Clearly you have no idea how clinical depression affects people or why. It is not the same as situational depression caused by one's cir****tance.

Stop being an ass.

wow

Your response is "wow" ? Like the posters comments were wrong? Maybe you should take a step back and consider their comments. The OP asked how RNY affected people with DIAGNOSED DEPRESSION/ANXIETY. You respond how you would be depressed if you had one surgery but failed to get to goal (I note that OP never said she didn't get to goal. There's no mention in the post regarding why she is revising.) You then basically berate her for choosing a lap band (which at the time of her original surgery was still being performed quite often), rather than the surgery that has caused you so much success (and might I add that you may want to wait until you're fully out of your honeymoon period and maintaining for a period of years before you declare yourself a "never gonna go back" success. Ask any vet, maintenance gets harder the farther out from surgery you go.)

Back to the topic at hand. When OP tries to correct you and state that she's seeking input from other RNY patients who also have clinical depression, you again focus on the fact that you'd be depressed if you went 10 years without "meeting my hopeful results." and you tell OP to "get professional help!" If you would READ before posting you will see that you are making assumptions that completely lack foundation. Nowhere in any of OPs posts does it say she didn't lose weight. Maybe she has unrelenting GERD, maybe after 10 years of successful loss, her band slipped and it now needs to come out. Yet you immediately jump to her failure. Moreover, anyone can assume she has professional help in dealing with her clinical depression. What she wants is opinions from others who have walked her walk and can talk her talk, i.e., RNYers with DIAGNOSED depression/anxiety that is controlled by medication. Maybe her psychiatrist hasn't had RNY and, therefore, cannot speak to her concerns about how the post surgery hormone dump affects depression/anxiety and how it FEELS to manage such conditions after RNY.

Yet, when people call you on it, you can't admit that you were wrong in your assumptions, harsh in your judgment or insensitive with your remarks, and you express your displeasure with "wow."

All I can say is wow.

You. Are. Awesome.

I love you.

I love you too, Stacy!

Dear NOT-BFF (jsasquith):

Please read StacyRG and Donna L.'s post again. It's important. Digest that and marinate on it a little. I won't reiterate that here. I actually had TWO lap-bands place because back then there was a lot of success, my BMI wasn't high enough for bypass or sleeve and I was SELF-PAY. I wanted to hear from REAL people who have gone through bypass to get a better understanding of what I might expect.

By the way, this is me at goal...6 years ago before I lost Band #2. Your argument is invalid.

Sorry you lost your NOT BFF! LOL.....

I know you were trying to joke around, so I get why you might be surprised at the reactions of folks.

Those of us with diagnosed depression struggle with an illness that can potentially kill us, though. It's pretty serious. We are not depressed because of a second weight loss procedure - we are depressed because we struggle with mental illness.

Sadly, mental illness could give a crap about being excited. There are people who are millionaires that have achieved world-firsts who are depressed.

It is a very serious disorder, though, and it kills, or seriously disables, millions of us a year. Please don't trivialize it.