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05-10-2011, 01:10 PM
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| | Cub Reporter
Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Sunny Florida
Posts: 90
Weight Statistics May 20,2011 Start Date:
June 21,2011 Surgery Date:
5' 3"
Height:
288 lb Start Weight:
181 lb Current Weight:
140 lb Goal Weight:
107 lb Weight Loss:
41 lb Lb Left to Lose:
37.1527777778 % % Lost:
June 2012 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index51.0113378685 BMI Start:
32.0592088687 BMI Current:
24.7971781305 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Hi Guys,
My doc called and I had to go for a preop heart and lung clearance. Over the last few months my thyroid is acting nuts so I have been having heart. Palpatations. Went to heart doc yesterday,EKG was fine,doing a stress test Thursday. He didn't feel anything major was going on.
Now that I am getting closer to a date,I am thiinking this iss not a good idea.I know I have tried everything to lose the weight and this may be my only chance, but I am seriously considering backing out. My head says,hey if the docs say everything is good,then I need to go for it. I have imagined myself thinner an then now I am thinking, I can't do this. How am I going to make it through the liquid diet for two weeks? I thought I could do it as I thought of the end result as I want it bad, but why. Now when I am sooo close?
Has anybody else felt that way?
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05-10-2011, 02:31 PM
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Join Date: May 2008 Location: Just north of Iowa, not far from I-35. 2nd star on the right and straight on 'til morning!
Posts: 8,641
Weight Statistics December 13, 2007 (pre-op liquid diet started) Start Date:
December 27, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 9"
Height:
280 lb Start Weight:
172 lb Current Weight:
184 lb Goal Weight:
108 lb Weight Loss:
-12 lb Lb Left to Lose:
38.5714285714 % % Lost:
Originally - 12/08. Actually - 8/08. Goal Date:
Body Mass Index41.3442554085 BMI Start:
25.3971854652 BMI Current:
27.1690821256 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Only about 85% of us. Perfectly normal. What you are planing to do is about the most unnatural act you can commit. You're going to go in and have someone you've met twice cut your digestive system into little pieces and staple it all back together in a way that nature never intended, and to top that off, you'll have to spend the next 6-9 months relearning how to eat!! This isn't something you do on a whim!!
It's something you do as a last act of desperation, one final cry for help before you abandon yourself to a short, sick life of immobile obesity. Sure, there are risks associated with going through with it. What are the risks of doing nothing? Any doctors in your life playing fortune-teller recently with stories best told around a campfire on a dark night?
Only when you want to seize your life and health back worse than you've ever wanted anything in your life, only when you are sick and tired of being sick and tired, only when you've absorbed the last bit of shame and humiliation from the world over your physical condition, only then are you ready!! (Can I get me an "AMEN" on that??)
This is serious medicine, to be approached with concern. It is completely doable. Advances in medical technology even since I had mine are making WLS much safer than ever before.
The best way to fight fear is with knowledge. It's the unknown that's spinning your head around. Study it thoroughly. Make sure you are going in from a position of strength. There are thousands of people on this forum, and we've lost over 120 tons of fat through the methods we've chosen. (Put another way, that's the weight of roughly 5 dozen Ford F-150 pickup trucks!!)
Hang in there. It's hard. This is not the "easy way" some ignorant people may tell you. There's nothing easy about it (except following the rules will get easier the more you do it.)
You are going through a completely normal set of emotions right now. Hang in there!
CT
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05-10-2011, 02:56 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Mississippi
Posts: 5,198
Weight Statistics 3/18/2008 (dieted all my life) Start Date:
9/30/2008 Surgery Date:
5' 8"
Height:
292 lb Start Weight:
192 lb Current Weight:
189 lb Goal Weight:
100 lb Weight Loss:
3 lb Lb Left to Lose:
34.2465753425 % % Lost:
2 years Goal Date:
Body Mass Index44.3935986159 BMI Start:
29.1903114187 BMI Current:
28.7342128028 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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AMEN... He is so right listen to him he knows what he is talking about. You just have to decide if you want to change your life and be healthier and live longer of keep doing what you have done and be where you are now. This surgery saved my life and I thank God that i went through with it. Was I scared??? YES did I worry about the what ifs??? Yes.. Would I do it again ?? a big YES YES. Only you can make this decision. Good luck on what ever you chose. We are here for you.
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05-10-2011, 09:04 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Hartford County, Connecticut
Posts: 626
Weight Statistics Nov. 2, 2009 Start Date:
May 13, 2010 Surgery Date:
5' 6"
Height:
345 lb Start Weight:
157 lb Current Weight:
160 lb Goal Weight:
188 lb Weight Loss:
-3 lb Lb Left to Lose:
54.4927536232 % % Lost:
January 2012 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index55.6783746556 BMI Start:
25.3376951331 BMI Current:
25.8218549128 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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AMEN. Perfesser said it best. And I agree with Dixie too. This surgery was life changing and I don't regret it one bit. I too was scared, but once I realized I was more scared of what might happen if I did not do it , I calmed down. I put my trust in God, my surgeon, and his team and it worked for me. I read, understood, and agreed to follow the rules and it worked for me. But only you can make that decision for yourself. Good Luck
Nancy
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05-10-2011, 09:13 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Kentucky
Posts: 708
Weight Statistics September 2010 Start Date:
12/27/2010 Surgery Date:
5' 10"
Height:
264 lb Start Weight:
151 lb Current Weight:
160 lb Goal Weight:
113 lb Weight Loss:
-9 lb Lb Left to Lose:
42.803030303 % % Lost:
6/27/2012 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index37.8759183673 BMI Start:
21.663877551 BMI Current:
22.9551020408 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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AMEN!
I was having some second thoughts and then we discovered diabetes....that was the "here's your sign" for me.
I feel so much better. If you had asked me during those first 4 wks I wouldn't have been so positive. My recovery was a tad rough, but here I am, over 4 months out and feeling so much better....not just from the procedure, but overall.
You have to make the decision for yourself, but I can tell you that if you're worried about your heart now, think of what it has to do to work to pump the blood around. Our fat has a lot of blood flow. Our joints have to support the extra weight. Our liver has been subjected to fat growth and has to work hard to filter our blood. The health problems are not going to get any better.
I wish you well on your journey.
This is an awesome group. It's OK to have these thoughts. We'll be here to put things into perspective.
Best of luck!
Mel
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05-10-2011, 11:44 PM
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Ahhh....you sound so normal 
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05-12-2011, 02:07 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Sunny Florida
Posts: 90
Weight Statistics May 20,2011 Start Date:
June 21,2011 Surgery Date:
5' 3"
Height:
288 lb Start Weight:
181 lb Current Weight:
140 lb Goal Weight:
107 lb Weight Loss:
41 lb Lb Left to Lose:
37.1527777778 % % Lost:
June 2012 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index51.0113378685 BMI Start:
32.0592088687 BMI Current:
24.7971781305 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Ok, thank you so much for the replies. I think the old me that doesn't like change and the unknown is freaking out. I passed the lung test yesterday and doing the stress test today.
I need this to get back my life and I know it. Just hate the unknown and with all these added problems it has just scared me off.
I had my sign when I went to chilis and dreaded sitting cause it was on wooden chairs and was thinking God, please tell me what to do. Out of nowhere a friend of mine that I had lost touch with,shows up and hugs me. We went out later that week and she told me she had done it and she knew this is what I needed. Is that not a message coming from nowhere?
After the recent scares with my heart, I am thinking maybe I got the message wrong,but you all bring up excellent points. Maybe it was another message to do this so I do get healthier. My hubby is supporting whatever I choose but I know he would like his skinny wife back not because of the weight issue,but because I was happier and healthier. Just so freaked,I can't stop going back and forth.
Thanks for the advice,it is all appreciated and I plan to bug you more often!
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05-12-2011, 08:07 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Northern California
Posts: 155
Weight Statistics 9/23/10 Start Date:
10/07/10 Surgery Date:
5' 4"
Height:
239 lb Start Weight:
124 lb Current Weight:
128 lb Goal Weight:
115 lb Weight Loss:
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48.1171548117 % % Lost:
10/07/11 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index41.0197753906 BMI Start:
21.2822265625 BMI Current:
21.96875 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Normal? Absolutely! I think it is almost "not normal" to not second guess this major decision! It is life changing decision! But wanted you to know that I also had some issue immediately pre-op with MAJOR heart palpitations. All turned out benign. Cardiologist felt that it was stress related to the my concern of the surgery. Palpitation hung on for a while post op but knowing that all was "cleared" as benign helped me not stress as much on them and for the most part they have all be disappeared.
Thinking of you!
Cyndie
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05-12-2011, 08:26 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Sunny Florida
Posts: 90
Weight Statistics May 20,2011 Start Date:
June 21,2011 Surgery Date:
5' 3"
Height:
288 lb Start Weight:
181 lb Current Weight:
140 lb Goal Weight:
107 lb Weight Loss:
41 lb Lb Left to Lose:
37.1527777778 % % Lost:
June 2012 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index51.0113378685 BMI Start:
32.0592088687 BMI Current:
24.7971781305 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Thanks Cyndie,
I think that is the "heart "of the matter. I have been having palpatations and today I did the stress test and passe. My heart rate was 178,but they said that was fine???? The doc looked at everything and said it looked great. I asked about the pulse rate and she said oh, as soon as surgery is done, that will go down. Then another assistant came in and we started talking and she said do you know they do this with you upside down? That confused me. I have not spoken with the surgeon yet other than meeting him at two meetings and that was not discussed. What is she talking about?
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05-12-2011, 08:27 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Sunny Florida
Posts: 90
Weight Statistics May 20,2011 Start Date:
June 21,2011 Surgery Date:
5' 3"
Height:
288 lb Start Weight:
181 lb Current Weight:
140 lb Goal Weight:
107 lb Weight Loss:
41 lb Lb Left to Lose:
37.1527777778 % % Lost:
June 2012 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index51.0113378685 BMI Start:
32.0592088687 BMI Current:
24.7971781305 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Thanks Cyndie,
I think that is the "heart "of the matter. I have been having palpatations and today I did the stress test and passe. My heart rate was 178,but they said that was fine???? The doc looked at everything and said it looked great. I asked about the pulse rate and she said oh, as soon as surgery is done, that will go down. Then another assistant came in and we started talking and she said do you know they do this with you upside down? That confused me. I have not spoken with the surgeon yet other than meeting him at two meetings and that was not discussed. What is she talking about?
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