The best advice that I could give you at this point is to think very long and hard before you have this surgery. It is life changing and will effect you everyday. I sincerely wish I would have worked a little harder on natural means of weight loss before deciding on this procedure. There are lots of side effects that I just couldn't comprehend before having surgery (but I sure do now) . I wish you the very best of luck and hopefully if you decide to have the surgery, you will be like so many others and love it - but do know there are many people who wish they never had it done think, think, think long and hard - it is a tremendous decision.