JUST WANNA KNOW

i was the decision process for you beening that you are younger then most people having wls. me personally im 24 im 5 4 348lbs i feel like where im at having tried everything else i need to do something and wls is the answer i have sleep apnea and back pains as far as health conditions forturnately no hbp diabetes etc....... AND THEY DO RUN IN MY FAMILY BOTH!!!!!!!! so how was the decision process was it hard AND do you think there were any advantages to having wls at a younger age??????????????????? AND WOULD YOU DO IT ALL AGAIN

Hey! Well first off let me applaud you for taking time to really think into this....it is such a major decision...next, the fun stuff i guess. lol. I'm 22 5'8 and i started at 290 with a bmi of 43.  I would have headaches and backaches and was constantly tired and tried everything but nothing i kept up with.  My family (mom and dad both) have every co morbidity in the book, thankfull, i did not.  But that played such a major role in my decision.  I'm not gonna lie and say that the decision to have wls FOR ME was easy.  in fact it was really hard.  first i had to admit to myself that i couldnt do it alone and i needed help. that being said, i was upset with myself that i was 22 and let myself get so heavy.  I was also slightly ermbarassed that i needed weightloss surgery.  For me, this was definately the toughest part in my decision.  i knew my wonderful surgeon was going to do some unnatural thing to me that i would have for the rest of my life, and that is a really big thing someone our age have to deal with.  so yea it was stressful and the decision was long and hard, but i committed. i knew that without the surgery life would continue and i would get heavier and unhealthier. i looked at this as a second chance to get me back!! For everyone, the decision process is different. It a big decision that is personal and you can't and you shouldn't have the same exact experience as someone else...ya know? as for advantages, again going just for me, i'm almost 3 months out and down 68lbs.  I'm down a lil bit more then the older ladies i talk to at my support group who had the same surgery the same day.  I got my energy back a lil sooner then some of them, i know i feel better with 68lbs off and I also feel that i healed up quicker.  I feel that I'm passing through to different phases of food tolerance easier and a little bit quicker then some.  But that being said, everyone is different and will tolerate things quite differently.  and lastly. would i do this again? In a heartbeat. I can't tell you how grateful i am at having this opportunity to get myself back.  I feel like a happier person, like a "weight" has been lifted and i'm enjoying the ride.  its a feeling that i know other wls patients know well.  Everyday is exciting to me, i know it sounds corny but i find myself getting excited over the smallest of things, like my jeans getting a lil bigger or how i can fit my hand around my wrist...i know it sounds dumb, but it just little things that you couldnt do before that i'm starting to be able to do again and i'm only 3 months out, and i cant wait to see what else is in store!!! Sorry for this being so long. I hope it helped a bit.  Good luck with everything let me know how everything works out and hooray for being in Philly, I'm from South Jersey like 20 minutes from Philly. Gooooo Fightin' PhilS!! haha

^^^ ditto everything she said.  i have all these diseases and cancer in my family and wls was my way of trying to stop it all before it all started.  i had an aunt that was extreamly obese and she died over the summer with complications due to her weight, and if i didnt do something then i think i would have ended up like her in the end and thats something i think no one in my family wanted so, i did the lapband and i have lost almost 30lbs in about 2 1/2 months which is awesome and i feel great, and im 21 about 5'6 and being younger is great bc we can bounce back easier and quicker then alot of older people who are doing the same things as us. and i would completely do this again... maybe a little sooner.

So it is true, well more than likely anyway, that we youngin's lose the weight much faster than older people?

i think we tend to loose the weight faster bc like even though we are overweight we still can move better then some older people who might have arthritus nad other ailments, but it doenst mean we do... but bc we are younger we tend to recover faster and our skin bounces back faster.

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