I'm 17,I had surgery a week ago,and I'm regretting it...

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Edited January 6, 2010 by Banded122809

[Mary Ash 16]

Hey I saw your post about getting the band about a week ago and regretting it. I'm pretty new, banded on Jan 5, and right after surgery for about a week I really did think a lot about it too. I wasn't sure if I regretted it or not but I kept thinking why did I do this to myself? Was it really necessary? etc.

Not sure what your regretting about but I know I kind of got past that. I had to do a six month program before surgery so I did have a lot of time to think about whether or not this was the right option for me. And when it all comes down to it I do believe this was right for me.

I'm sure it will be hard, a major lifestyle change at least, but this is something that I know I needed to do for various reasons and I'm sure you have plenty of your own reasons.

[Erin18 143]

i agree with m6c5a90, i regreted getting the band the first week out since i had severe nausea, a week later with new nausea medicine, i felt great, but the week after that on a friday, it came back for another 11 weeks. i feel ok and if i dont i drink Water cause it helps. but once youre a ways out, it will be better and you will be seeing results. if you dont think its right for, why'd you get it in the first place? to lose weight cause nothing was doing the job, right? thats why i got it, nothing seemed to work for me until i got this, if you take it back out, youre going to gain all your weight back plus possibly 70 more (what my surgeron said) i had a 6 month testing thing, plus 3 months of waiting for them to make sure i'll do good in surgery, waiting for my insurance to approve, and to get my surgery date, and 4 weeks and 4 days before my surgery date, i had plenty of time to back out, but i didn't because i really want to lose this weight, i really wanted it out for 4 months but i dont want to go through surgery again unless i have to, and well, now its a part of me, it doesnt bother me anymore, so i say, wait it out and just give it a chance to work and you will be happy you made this decission (: take care