I wish the one person I want to support me will . Its hard enough getting this mental part of this whole thing together .i just wish this person can understand what i have been through for the last 22 yrs of my life.

Hi 

I feel very blessed not to have any personal experience with this problem. Glad to hear your mother is now doing well.

There are lots more people on the VSG forum than here on the VBG forum. The sleeve=VSG. Older stomach stapling procedure=VBG.

Good luck as you investigate WLS options for yourself. I love my sleeve but have several friends who love their bypasses.

All the best, K

I'm a nurse from Poland. I'm suffering from the morbid obesity science I remember. In my country there is a difficulty to undergo the bariatric surgeries, it's still not popular and the people do not have a knowladge about it. I'm trying to write a master thesis about the quality of life after bariatric surgeries. The main aim of it is to make a surgeries more popular by showing how life saving it is. It in NOT for any marketing reaserch or anything like that. I'm studying nursery on Jagiellonian University, the resulsts will be analysed and used in a masters thesis, and hopefully If I will get enought of respondents I will publish the results for the use of medical stuff in Poland. My opinion is that the feedbeck from the patients is the most valiable sourse of how the procedures are recieved. I kindly request your help in conducting research aimed at improving the quality of life of people after bariatric surgery. The questionnaire is anonymous. The questionaire contains 39 questions it takes about 10-15 min. It is very important to answer all of them. Please help me to help other people who struggle with obesity.  http://moje-ankiety.pl/respond-49823.html  

My mother had the gastric bypass a few years ago. 1 year after losing quite a bit of weight, she started gaining it back. After seeing a nutrition specialist and endocrinologist, she was advised that she had to change her diet and was diagnosed with hyperinsulinemia. Please be advised that this is not a form of diabetes. If you find yourself gaining weight post surgery and are still making life changes (i.e. making different food changes both in size and type of food, and exercising) then you may want to speak with a specialist. I'm currently looking into either the sleeve or lap band as they are both a lower risk and I may have less loose skin with either of these methods. I've seen a roommate go through the lap band and my mother go through her bypass. I've learned 2 things from watching people post op: follow your diet, if you have lap band don't put off fillings, and if your body is changing in an unusual way, discuss this with your doctor or a specialist. Since my mother has changed her diet, she is about 20 lbs. away from her goal weight and is still losing weight. 

*please note that in a recent bariatric seminar, I asked if hyperinsulinism is common with any bariatric surgery. The surgeon advised me that this is very rare. I want to include this so I don't scare anyone- but I wanted to advise people that maybe it's not just their choices....maybe it's something that if they talk to their doctor about, that can be 1 more person who has success post op.   

Good luck to all men and women going for any bariatric surgery. Hopefully I have learned enough from seeing 2 people go through it that I will succeed as well! 

I had a revision from VBG to RNY with him on June 17th.  Loved the care and the DR's.  

 

Congratulations on your decision.