Six years plus

Dec 29, 2010

It's been 6 years, 3 months since gastric bypass changed my life.  The rough summary of those years include losing 200 lbs, gaining back about 20% of that and now beginning to lose again.  I had double knee replacement surgery in August of this year and have been going through physical therapy to get up and going better from that. A pinched nerve in my back has been impending some of that recovery but all in all I am glad I had the knee surgery and of course very glad I had the gastric bypass. I would love to love another 60 lbs and keep it off. IF I could do that I would be extremely satisfied. Of course, there is always the hanging skin on my arms and around my belly and also on my thighs.  All of these would be good to get rid of and I do find it tightening some with the physical therapy I have been doing for the kene replacement and back strengthening. I can't help but think that the back problem may be related to the extra skin I carry around my middle, not sure and I haven't really asked any physicain about it.  Right now, though, I can walk better than I have been able to in years.

When I got the gastric bypass done and began losing weight, I was frustrated that my knee pain did not go away.  The gastric bypass can't fix things I probably stressed and frustrated by carrying so much weight for so many years. Now I know I need to get off the rest of the weight so that I can get around even better.

There is always something to work on!

Also I do want to say to all my post menopausal ladies, estrogen-testorene shots saved my marriage. For some reason which no doctor can explain to me, the gastric bypass threw me in to full blown menopause. Prior to that I had been flirting aorund the edges with menopause but I didn't have a period after the surgery.  Also my libido vanished. You would think the opposite would be true. I was losing weight like mad but the other part vanished.  It took me until about a year and half ago to discover a gynecologist who presecribed the magic tonic! the shot deliver the same kind of therapy I was getting in a compounded sublingual made at a local pharmacy.  the gyn finally prescribed the shots and I had immediate results. My husband is happy. I am happy. What more can I say.

I share this here to let you know that gastric bypass is great but sometimes you just have to keep going with the next thing.  What we have done to our bodies may take a lifetime to cure. 

Isn't it great to know that one day when this life is over those of us who believe in Christ Jesus will have a new heavenly body and we won't have to worry with all these aches and pains again. Praise Jesus!

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