Hello my friends,
I hope this finds everyone well happy and behaving themselves. I have been working for a hospital for the last three years but no longer work in baratrics.This is my choice I could have worked with a couple of doctors but I have had so many issues with gastric bypass I can not in good conscience recommend it. Lapband maybe IF you have reasonable expectations and have had mental counseling and dietary counseling. I don't mean a couple of visits to satisfy a insurance company but continued counseling for as long as necessary if it is life that is ok too.
This surgery gastric bypass and this is strictly my opinion should be for patient super morbidly obese like over 500 pounds and is necessary to save them. I say this because of the vitamins and mineral deficiency's , my iron even though I was taking vitamins daily got to 9. I was short of breath and it came on slowly. God I believe intervened for me. I was exposed to some fumes by accident at my job and was put in the hospital. I am thinking it is asthma and it was but when my blood was drawn I was told I need at the least iron infusion or BONE MARROW! needless to say it got my attention when they said bone marrow. I took IV infusions for 4 weeks it saved my life. Unfortunately my sister in law that had gastric bypass because she saw me looking and feeling great at the time found out she was also bottomed out in her iron uptake and iron because I told her to go get it checked because she was having the shortness of breath and the exhaustion. She when and got the results and was scheduled to have the infusions the next week and died that night from a heart attack. This weights very hard on my heart. Even though the decision was hers and she had made the decision to do the surgery before we met I feel like maybe I was the deciding factor. Had I known what I know now maybe I could have educated her more and avoided the fate she succumbed too the low iron and other issues.
Had I not gotten the iron infusions I know without a doubt I would be gone as well. While as a Christian I know for me that is not a bad thing to be with God at that time I was not saved.
What I want to do with my blog is to help people make it through now that we have had the surgery and if someone is considering the surgery I will tell you the good, the bad and the ugly. I am not profiting from my words, I don't work for anything to do with baratric surgery and I don't sell ANYTHING. So If I can be a shoulder or help lift you up wonderful. I am a 19 years gastric bypass survivor and I have had all the highs and lows. I had a revision of my surgery in 2005 and I almost died. Had a leak that was not discovered for almost three days, thus I have severe adhesion's I had some cut away a couple of years ago but I have pain daily from nerve damage from the gastric tube put in my ribcage to relieve the pressure of the stomach pouch after the leak so my pouch is attached to my ribcage grown to it with scar tissue and every breath is painful so I wear a pain patch, that has been a God sent.
I truly believe bypass is a life saver for the super obese but for less a hundred and fifty pound over weight a Lapband is the only thing I will ever recommend.  As I said this is my OPINIONS my experience. For the first 14 or 15 years I had no major issues except hypoglycemia that was misdiagnosed as panic attacks what a joke.

So if you want to join forces to help each other if you want the truth about my experiences ask if you want a person that knows where you are coming from I am here.

Weight loss surgery should be started between the ears not the ribs.

God Bless I look forward to hearing from my group members and see how you are. I am on Nutrasystem had gained 30 pounds and had to get it back off, going from a job where I walked alot to one sitting on my rear all day whew not good for the waistline although I love my job and what I do and where I work. I feel like it is the best hospital in the Houston area!