Still waiting to feel normal!

He gave me Lorazepam.   I was literally having a panic attack in his office!  Fun times!   I just want to feel happy and healthy.  I don't want to worry that I am starving my body.  I want to feel at peace with having this surgery and i don't right now.   From anyone who can relate, how long does it take?

Hi, I don't check in as often as I used to but your post spoke to me as I've been handling depression for years and am 18 months post-surgery (sleeve). Are you feeling any better?

It comes in stages.   I would say overall I do feel better, but I still have really bad days.  I am dealing with really bad heartburn and that has been a source of anxiety/frustration.  How are things for you at 18 months?

As far as the surgery goes, I'm doing really well, I've gotten used to how much I should eat (vs how much I CAN eat!) and have settled at my final weight. I've struggled with depression and anxiety (which seem to go hand in hand) for years and had been taking meds for many years before the surgery. I used to think that I should be able to "just get over it" without medicine but have come to see that they're a tool just like the surgery! If I had uncontrollable high blood pressure or diabetes or cholesterol, I'd take medicine then, so I try to look at it in the same light. Part of the problem is that there's no blood test to confirm a diagnosis of depression and it's hard to admit that we don't have control over it but I've made myself get over that way of thinking (for the most part). Life is too short to suffer needlessly, there's plenty of pain we can't avoid! Please accept help when you can and hang in there :-)

I can't speak to heartburn because I haven't had experience with that unless I eat too fast. In the first 6 months dark chicken meat used to bother me but that went away.

I just noticed that I seem to have 2 profiles, am not sure how that happened. Didn't mean to confuse and will try to get it straightened out - brscpa and math4fun is one and the same :-)