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Well, i guess everyone has a story, mine is this. I had a mini gastric bypass better known as mgb after i did a lot of research and decided this was the best and safest for me. Even though this operation has been performed for well over twenty years, in the bariatric world it is still considered "experimental", but my insurance wasnt going to cover much so this was ok with me. I live in Las Vegas and I had to travel to Florida to get my operation but everyone there was very accommodating.  5-10-2012 was my operation date and everything went smooth. I did not feel as good as most people after my surgery so i couldnt go home the next day. Later my Dr. gave me a cocktail of several medicines and it made me feel much better but i was exhausted so i stayed another night and was then sent back to our hotel to start my weight loss journey. The first few weeks were hard, i still didnt feel real well and coming home to Las Vegas was hell, and then returning to work was terrible also...i would suggest to anyone to take as long off as you can afford...i took off three weeks and that was not long enough for me personally, i still had no energy and it is hard adjusting to your new life. I dont know if it is a blessing or a curse but i am not lactose intolerant and some are after the surgery , and i have few eating problems...i can not eat very much sugar or grease and that is the same with most people that have my surgery. As of yet, i have lost 195 lbs and i started off at 354...unless i get sick or have skin removed I am probably close to the end of my weight loss journey. I stopped at 184 and had a lower body lift and the Dr removed 9 lbs of skin and i felt like crap for a month so i lost 17 lbs total from surgery and then i got very sick after wards and lost a few more. There are risks with every weight loss surgery and i am someone that is having problems....very unusual problems...I started getting very nauseated just before thanksgiving 2014 and ended up in hospital for a week. Because of weight loss surgery  no one knew what to do with me. I have a blockage in my Gallbladder duct. The Drs. cant even agree on what the blockage is. Because we have our stomach separated into two parts this is a serious problem because the Drs would normally do an endoscopy and fix the blockage but because of our operation, the blockage is only accessible threw our old stomach not the one we now use. This requires Drs to open you up with a five inch scar and no one wants to do that. We have located one Dr. in Nevada that can operate on me and he might go threw my liver to access my duct or he will put a port into the side of my abdomen into my old stomach and let a GI Dr. then fix the blockage. I said remove the darn duct and the drs said you can not live with out the duct...it is a tunnel for many things other than bile but when the bile tries to go through and the duct is restricted ...well the bile backs up through the liver and it is not supposed to do that and that will cause secondary cerousis in a couple years if left untreated. this is all very dangerous and the likelihood of gastric bypass people having this is like one in 100,000...and i have to be this lucky, lucky girl. Well all the Drs. have talked and my gastric Dr has told me that if all else fails he can reverse the gastric bypass but my Dr. here feels confident that he can fix this problem.
     So the good bad and ugly....the bad is my medical problem and little sugar and grease sensitivity,  the ugly is all the loose skin and ridiculous amounts of bad gas....really smelly bad gas, and the mental fight that you have to go through on a daily basis because no matter how skinny you are We are all still fat asses in our heads!!!!!!! This battle was hard won in the beginning of my journey...with a lot of tears and more recently I dont have to fight the battle as hard or as often...but obesity is a sneaky enemy and constantly changes itself to get back into my life with out me knowing. For example...i love sugar...we all do to some point...before surgery i loved ice cream...oh boy did i love ice cream ...well now i can only have a small bowl of ice cream unless i want to get sick so my enemy started trying to figure out how to get sugar in me without me getting sick..so now i love chewy candy...for some reason it breaks down slower and i dont get sick easily ...i have never been a candy eater in my life!!!!!! but the enemy is sneaky and you have to pay attention to these attacks if you are to keep off the weight. I promise you this, if you do not take a hard honest look at yourself and your destructive ways in the first two years after surgery, you will start to gain the weight....this is not a free ride by any means!!!! Now i get to talk about the good...and there is so much good. I was a prisoner in my body...couldn't do so much...couldn't even get out of bed by myself or crawl on floor with grand kids...i couldn't even hardly find cloths my size anymore...4x or 32. Well now i give my grand kids a run for their money! I am a size 4...that is right a size 4...i was shooting for a size 10..hahahaha yea baby....i don't need help getting up or out of bed, my blood pressure is great , I had had several operations because of obesity, one was my lower back, i was in constant pain  and now it is so much better it is ridiculous!!!! I work out 3-4 times a week for 3 hrs each time because i don't ever, ever, ever want to be fat again and i know if i never stop moving and exercising that i am greatly reducing my chances of rebound weight.....Do i eat perfect all the time...i wish...i still fight a good fight with sugar on a daily basis  but i am alive to tell my story and that is only because of weight loss surgery because I know i was dying sooner rather than later if i stayed fat!!! Even with my medical problems i would do it all over again...Any surgery has risks! And weight loss surgery definitely has a lot of risks but i would do it all over again! Good luck on your journey ...it is a wild and beautiful ride!