WLS Confession time

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All this take about WLS I just can't keep quite any longer. Okay here it is I had open RNY almost four years ago. And I am still alive. I was giving two, yes count them two years to live. I was in a wheelchair diabetic out of control (and no I wasn't eating sugar or carbs) the medicine would make me sick and if I took shots I couldn't keep my job. I had diarrah so bad from the diabetic medicines I had to take them around work. I was taking 9 pills a day some of them three time a day. I couldn't walk from my house to my car without stopping and trying to catch my breath. My lungs were shutting down. My feet swelled so bad I couldn't wear shoes I started off with in the morning. My knees are shot and need both knees replaced from the over weight. The dr said you have to have this surgery if you want to live. Yes I tried all diets, diet pills legal and illegal still no weight would come off. I couldn't walk what was I to do. My family as far back as 1880's have been over weight.

I found the dr that I wanted to do the surgery I researched the surgery and the dr. There are a lot of new dr doing this surgery that have only assisted in maybe 25 of them. So choice well. I chose the dr not the surgery type. He only did one type of surgery so I took it, yes there were other dr doing the lap but they were also having leaks in patients. I read everything on the internet, joined groups. Yes I knew the risk but what kind of life did I have. I was ready to die anyway, so I took the risk did I have any trouble, no I didn't, was it worth it yes in a heart beat I would do it again, I now have a life without a wheelchair. Eight months after my surgery I got breast cancer and I could tell you if it had been a year before that would have been it for me but with 141 pounds gone I could fight it and I did. Yes WLS gave me my life back and yes it has taken life too. If you would look at the people most of them were like we with so many health issues anyway there were risk. Yes you do gain weight back the drs will tell you and all the information out there will too. This is not a cure it's not a quick fix, it is a life long way of life. No I can't eat sugar couldn't before either do I miss it no. No I can't eat fat either do I miss it no never ate if before bad gall bladder stopped that. Why don't I miss it because I am alive. Most will gain back 10% of what they lost. I know a lot in my group that hasn't gain one pound back after 5 years. Yes I put back on some weight but I now can walk to my car not wheelchair I can go to the grocery store hadn't been to the store in 5 years. Now only take 4 pills once a day. After I got breast cancer the weight loss just stopped. And yes I have put some weight back on but I am alive and can do things that I haven't done in years. And yes Carnie gained back some to it's called having a baby show me a million people who didn't gain more while they were pregnant. Is WLS for everyone NO, NO, NO it's not because it is a life long way of living. I have to give myself B-12 shots each month, but I'm alive to do it.

I haven't had a steak in 4 years just one of the things hard to eat some eat it with no trouble but do I want to be sick or eat steak well not sick wins out in my book. But I can eat a ground sirloin steak with no trouble. One steak will make 2 meals. Your tummy does get bigger on it's own with out over eating in about a year, so the ozs is only at first. I can eat half a sandwich at a time. Some can't eat bread at all. My daughter can't and she is two years out. We're of the same cloth as they say but were both different.

Okay I did it Steve already knows I told him that I didn't want to say anything, because of all the negative about wls but I am living proof it works.

Sharon LeVine Still down 120 pounds and alive after WLS.