Carole I am so sorry for not getting back to you sooner.. I wonder if you've had the surgery already?!
Here's the thing, my stats look great, but I haven't been doing too great recently. I have gained so much weight over the past couple of months.. I have been so stressed out and I went back to my old comfort/emotional eating habit, and guess what, I realized that I could stretch my stomach now so I did, and hence the weight gain! Of course this is something to expect with every WLS surgery because you actually have to work it for it to work for you, and I had close to 2 years to teach myself to release stress through other means and I didn't!!!
As far as the surgery is concerned, it is similar to the RNY because they actually do the restrictive part of it, but not the malabsorptive part (when they change your intestines). So you end up with shorter time in the operating room and less malnutrition, although it is still a challenge to maintain good nutrition and my hair did fall out, but recovered after my eating had improved (and I must admit I wasn't very good with protein intake). Even though they say you don't get it, I still had dumping but it wasn't too bad..
Honestly over all, I don't regret my choice of surgery, the only thing it lacks is the ability to retighten like the band, but then again, you'll have to work the surgery and you'll always have to find a way to keep loosing and keep the weight off, but honestly, the loosing part was way easier than this.
Good luck to you!! And I will try to check in more frequently, I can't believe it's more than a month since my last post! But I have been feeling so down lately
Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy
