Any regrets???

**Carolyn Webb** · 05-13-2012 08:31 PM

Is there anyone on this thread that REGRETS having the GS? I am considering it but cannot find any negatives about it. What about it??? Anyone sorry they had it? I'm 63...5'4".....225....diabetic and have had 4 abdominal surgeries. (c-sections etc)

**TXUKgal** · 05-14-2012 02:06 AM

I'm just shy of 5 weeks out. I wouldn't say I've had regrets. I do feel like I sometimes mourn having a normal stomach. It's not all the time I feel like this and it mainly seems to come on if I'm watching a lot of TV and being bombarded with food commercials. I also miss being able to drink a full glass of water in just a few sips. That all said, I still am happy with my decision. It was the right one for me.

**brianamato** · 05-14-2012 07:33 AM

lol... you are right about the "drinking a full glass of water"... I am happy with the surgery so far.. I reall really want to crunch down on somehting.. other than that... im good

**BLACBroome2007** · 05-14-2012 06:45 PM

Absolutely not one regret. I was sleeved in September, 2011, and this is the single best thing I could have done for myself. I put myself back in control of my eating and weight, it made me quit smoking, it's made my marriage better (it wasn't bad before, but physically things were different), and it's made me a better mom to my kids. No, I do not have any regrets other than I wish I'd done it sooner.

The first day is really hard, the second and third are better. By day 4 you could barely tell I'd had surgery besides not being able to eat solid food. I did start having some acid reflux, but it is very well managed with Nexium, a small price to pay for such a life altering surgery.

My mother is 57 and she's 5'0", 160 lbs. and insulin dependant Type 2 diabetes....I've been begging her to get the same surgery. If for no other reason, do it for your diabetes...everything I've ever heard is that is almost certainly cures diabetes!!!

Best of luck to you, keep us updated as to what you decide to do!

**EricV** · 05-15-2012 03:57 PM

Not at all

**AmyLess** · 05-15-2012 04:40 PM

None. My high weight was 225, same height, a few years younger. Best thing I ever did for myself. It was my first surgery. My first stay in a hospital other than having kids. I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

**BLACBroome2007** · 05-15-2012 06:45 PM

Amyless, we have the same surgiversary!

**Teachmor** · 05-15-2012 08:24 PM

I have avoided answering any post on this subject so far because I know we are all different, it's still to soon for me to really know ( I'm 7 weeks out) and because I know that before I had this done my mind set was so determined that no matter what anyone said it wouldn't have changed my mind, so why would I think anyone else is any different. If you read my blogs you will see I have been having a hard time. My blood work came back Friday and I am malnuritied and very low potassium. I am constipated all the time and it's very painful. I'm taking about 10 pills a day which include vitamins, gull bladder protection, acid reflex, constipation, etc. I am now only losing about 1 1/2 pds. A week. So do I regret it, well a little maybe on somedays. I wish I could be normal like my siblings and friends and eat what I want in correct portions and not gain 100's of pounds. But that's not the body I have so this was my only option! Hopefully, I made the right decision and I will get the body and life that I want

**BLACBroome2007** · 05-15-2012 08:37 PM

Teachmor, what does your doctor say? What is your diet like? Do you take multivitamins?

You have lost about 40 lbs in 43 days...you're halfway to your goal weight.

I'm sorry you're having a difficult time with this...

**Carolyn Webb** · 05-15-2012 09:52 PM

Thanks to all of you for taking the time to answer my question. I really should have asked how compulsive or chronic eaters have done with the sleeve. I eat and don't exercise. I went on an all liquid diet and thought I would lose it mentally several times. My son was sleeved about 3 months ago and is BEGGING me to get it done. I'm scared about it.

**AmyLess** · 05-16-2012 12:01 AM

I think most of us have eating issues, or we wouldn't have needed to do this. I feel that I have worked through most of my issues with food, but I did it before being sleeved. I did the surgery to break through the 45lb wall I was always hitting and not getting past and hopefully keep it all off.

You will need to find something else to do. I just wish exercise was as compulsive as eating once was. I don't work out regularly, but I do stretch and find myself more able to do things.

**desertmom** · 05-16-2012 12:25 AM

Ok,let me be honest.I have been and still is in a way a compulsive chronic eater.It causes me to lose weight slower I think.Having said that I still dont go over 1000 cals per day.

It did take some realization that if I want to out eat the sleeve I can.Having little snacks all the time will teach me to have bigger little snacks in the future which will cause me to gain again.Emosional issues without eating is so much harder but I've had to learn to not stress so much and to ignore the little stuff that always caused me to eat.Big stuff....like moving countries soon,well se la vie,I still cannot choose to eat it away....I want to get thin.

Is this easy?Not on your life for me it isnt.Would I do it again?In a flash.See gaining weight when things in life happens doesnt change anything but make me feel worse about myself and life.Now,I can CHOOSE.I have to choose what I will do.

I dont always make the right choices but who does?

At 45,having lost and gained more that 100 pounds 9 times in my life,I finally have hope,for the first time,that this will work in the long term.

Good luck and you might very well become one of the people that can say...I forgot to eat today.

xxo