Officials Cite Obesity Surgery Complications

The Perfidious NY Times ^ | July 24, 2006 | ROBERT PEAR

[dasboot]

Oily discharge? Leaking gastric juices? YEESH!

[staytrue]

at 30,000 we could just hire a personal trainer and send them to a fat farm for a lot less.

[dasboot]

Oily discharge? Leaking gastric juices? YEESH!

These guys working out of their car trunks?

[Coleus]

i read that after 3 years one starts to gain weight. I know some people who have had the surgery and aren't that skinny.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal hernias, infections, pneumonia and respiratory failure! And those were on the good days!

[mysterio]

The best way to lose weight is to cut calories. I dropped 100 pounds on a low cal diet. But I wouldn't deny the effectiveness of bariatric surgery. I know two people who used that method, and both are much healthier and happier than before.

Getting to a normal weight changes your life. Whatever it takes to get there is worth it most of the time.

[Maven]

Having bariatric surgery is like cutting out 90% of your lungs to quit smoking.

The stomach and intestines aren't where the problems are.

Oh, and I say this as a fat chick who has lost more than 100 pounds without surgery.

Maven
Who still has quite a way to go, but will get there with the kishkes intact, thank you very much.

[mysterio]

i read that after 3 years one starts to gain weight.

For me, keeping it off has been the real struggle. But one year after the end of the diet, I am down another pound on average. I weigh myself every day, and I am often hungry, as the severe diet lowered my metabolism. But I would rather spend every day hungry than be even one pound overweight ever again. I wasn't heavy enough to qualify for bariatric surgery. I would have considered it if I were.

[daybreakcoming]

I knew a woman who did that also. She suffered through stuff I won't repeat here - lost 150# and was drop dead gorgeous. Saw her about six years later and it was like nothing had ever changed. She had put a hundred or so back on. Sad. Don't understand how that can happen.

[Dustbunny]

Two people I know had the surgery. One had it reversed and the other gained most of the weight back after 4 years.

[daybreakcoming]

I meant the woman had the surgery - not just a diet.

[ccmay]

I know two people who used that method, and both are much healthier and happier than before.

Have to concur, I've seen it basically save the life of someone I know. For the morbidly obese it is a life changing improvement. There's a risk of complications, but there's a hell of a lot more risk staying extremely fat for the rest of your life. Diabetics in particular can really improve their health this way.

-ccm

[bannie]

One of my sisters is a textbook case. She's remained beautifully thin for several years. I think, a lot of it depends upon who you have for a doctor. There's a wonderful doctor in Fresno.

[peggybac]

"Oh, and I say this as a fat chick who has lost more than 100 pounds without surgery."

Can you please tell me how you did this? Thanks.

[bannie]

Maven, I've lost thousands...over and over and over and over and over again!

;-)

(Congrats to you!!!!)

[mysterio]

Congrats. I did it that way, too, though I would certainly not discount surgery as an option. I have somewhat of an addictive personality which has made it that much harder to keep the weight off. But it can be done.

I find many of my friends who only have known me as a fat person have me of being anorexic. Do you get that kind of stuff from your family? As time goes by, the accusations have lessened, however.

[mysterio]

have me = have accused me

[neverdem]

i read that after 3 years one starts to gain weight. I know some people who have had the surgery and aren't that skinny.

I don't know who dropped the ball here, the gov't or the Terrorist Tip Sheet which usually does good health stories. There's no breakdown into the various surgical procedures and techniques. I found nothing at the gov't site.

[Maven]

Can you please tell me how you did this? Thanks.

Low carb.

Maven