SuperJenn529

This probably seems childish and weird to some people, but I am extremely afraid of catheters. I am in the process of exploring surgery options and talking to my doctor and I am hoping to get a sleeve. I was reading about recovery, etc on a website and it came up that they will administer a catheter for surgery... I am not at all nervous about having 80% of my stomach removed and dealing with the recovery, but the idea of getting a catheter makes me want to cancel the entire thing... When I was in labor with my daughter, I was panicking on the way to the hospital because I knew they were going to cath me. Not even worried about the fact that I was about to push a child out of my lady parts or have a needle shoved in my back... worrying about the catheter. Luckily when I got there they told me they'd do it after I got my epidural so I wouldn't feel it (Thank God!). Do you think my doctor would do the catheter after they put me to sleep for the surgery?

It makes me feel reassured that I can probably just discuss my fears with the doctor and possibly avoid it all together, if not having it done when I'm out. When I had my c-section, I ran a fever a few different times the weeks following and they constantly thought it was a UTI and they were CONSTANTLY trying to cath me to get a "clean" urine sample to test. I refused every time, but they were really pushy about it.

I've been researching surgery for a few months and I just finally told my husband I was interested and set up an appointment for a seminar. I had a long talk with my husband and we were discussing how he thought our marriage might change. My husband is 150 lbs and doesn't have issues with food. He also has a pretty crappy diet filled with pop, pizza, and fast food, even though I cook frequently. One of the things he brought up was the fact that when I was not getting pregnant and I was around 280 lbs, I went on Atkins and lost 50 pounds. My weight loss slowed and right when I was getting ready to restart from phase one, I found out that I was pregnant. I was so sick during my pregnancy that my healthy eating habits could not be kept up. My husband uses my past "failed" diets as a reference, and he thinks that I would go have surgery and not stick to it as I have with previous diet plans. (Doing Atkins to get pregnant was the only time I've ever lost more than 20 lbs.) He basically wonders if I should waste my time and money doing the surgery when 1. I've done it myself without surgery and 2. I apparently have issues staying on a diet. It's difficult when people don't really understand where you're coming from. Luckily, my husband is supportive of whatever decision I make.

I always feel like that show makes me want to diet lol I really enjoy watching it. I really like seeing people succeed, but it is definitely a reality check because a lot of them use excuses to keep eating too much or they have issues with the spouse due to the surgery

Good luck!

When I had mine taken out after my c section that part wasn't so bad... I'm just pretty nervous about the putting it in part