2 years status post open reversal of gastric bypass part 1

Sep 04, 2012

    Actually, my reversal was the day after labor day in 2010 which happened to be 9/7/2010. I'm starting this now and either will edit or do a part 2. 
     My reversal technically did what it was supposed to do. Save my life. The quality though and the scope of my life is still so small. I have severe chronic pain that's hard to control because I either malabsorb meds or have high tolerance to them. I still cannot work, raise my kids, drive.  I also have neurological and cognitive impairments that are irreversible.
     I've stopped debating on regret of having a gastric bypass. And I'm trying to slowly while I still have a lot of social media network contacts because of wls groups I used to belong to, not dwell on it so much, but it's difficult when I still throw up all the time, still have reactive hypoglycemia, and am more carb sensitive now, and never know  what will make me sick still, when I eat, more so post reversal then prior to. It's unnerving to say the least.
     I still am very supportive of my wls positive friends. That's their perogative. But I realize while the surgeons have changed their protocols drastically, newbies I'm meeting in the last 2 years, who didn't want to hear about my complications even though I had a technically perfect performed laproscopic rny 12-5-2001, that I still nearly died from it, who come back and say they do have some regret as they are getting sick.
       I realize you cannot prep enough because truthfully what will happen to you is unpredictable. You can be compliant from day 1 and die, and you can be the most non compliant patient on the planet and keep off your excess weight for 15 years if not the rest of a long life and never have a complication and be much better for having any of the weight loss surgeries, just like all of them can possibly kill you or compromise greatly your health worse then Obesity which I don't believe in itself is a disease. I've seen thousands of people's stories, I know hundreds of people who've had wls and are senior graduate post ops. Their mileage has varied greatly. 
         I'm grateful to Eric Klein and Obesity Help which I think is the most comprehensive site and resource, for weight loss surgery patients for allowing me to have this blog and keep it up. Peace

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