My reason for having wls

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Joanne, your post to the Graduate list really was meaningful to me.

You had said:

> I am having a panniculectomy for a few MEDICAL

> reasons. Even though I have lost 120 lbs, my back

> pain is worse than before.

I have been trying to stay focused on *why* I had the surgery. I didn't

have a lot of co-morbidities YET - and that is the operative word. YET. I

knew they were coming, like a freight train. But my back pain has gotten

much worse since losing 110 pounds (and I'm still more than 100 pounds over

my ideal weight). Everyone said it would get better - everyone. Well, it

hasn't. And now I can't take any pain medicine unless I eat a very dense

meal - and even then sometimes I vomit for more than an hour and have

unbelievable gas pain that nothing helps.

I have been very withdrawn, and fighting to keep taking my vitamins, doing

the protein, etc, because I've gotten back to the " what's the use "

mentality. I have been doing everything " right " - and still I have been on

a plateau since last November with at least another 75 pounds to lose. I

don't graze. I am much " stricter " than most other people - and still I

haven't been able to lose any more.

And now I'm back to being in incredible pain, and can't take any pain

medicine.

So my biggest hope is that my husband will find a job (soon!) with insurance

benefits, and I can get my now cantalope sized hernia repaired and the panni

taken off. And that *then* my back will feel better.

I could use some encouragement, I guess. And as much as I am sorry anyone

else is having back pain - it is good to know that I am not alone in having

this happen.

dee