Buyer's Remorse- My Horrible Road To "recovery" Post Sleevectomy

[UberBuffaloGal 20]

"I had a few issues 1 month post op and was in the hospital not able to eat for about 3 weeks. My docs took care of me and avoided reoperation.I would 100% do it again this surgery has changed my life. No more BP meds and I can sleep c-pap free' date='no achy feet,knees,back unless I really do something to cause it. I really empathize with the OP and anyone who has experienced severe complications like these. The fact remains that the risks while present are low and these folks represent that 1% . I wish nothing but the best for the OP and anyone else going through a horrific experience with the sleeve. The sleeve still saves more lives than it takes."

To everyone who has asked about my mom over the last year:

Unfortunately my mother passed away due to her complications from her weight loss surgery. She was confident and optimistic until the end thinking it was just another stupid thing she would have to live through. She was wrong, she died of malnutrition, pneumonia and other complications attributed to the surgery.

I almost deleted the email alert that someone had replied to her post but I'm glad I didn't I'm glad I came to this site and read her story again. It's funny that she set the account up and linked it to my email because she didn't have one at the time. I think it's kind of a blessing though to get a reminder like this about her.

To the person who wrote the previous reply- f*** you. I don't really care if you think the surgery helps more people than it hurts because I absolutely think you're wrong. Wait another 10 years and see the long term effects of this horrible procedure. These doctors are slicing you apart and telling you that you don't need a part of your body that God decided you did based on very few years of research.

I don't know what the answer is for any of you. Surgery, pills, diet, exercise, I don't know. I do know that if I could rewind the clock and had the sweet pleasure of being with my preciousmom again that week before her first surgery I'd say- please don't do this it will kill you.

Do what you want, all of you will anyway. But before you go through this please, please, please research it, watch the biggest loser and extreme weight loss and know that no matter what lies you are being told - there is another way.

on behalf of my mother- RIP Mommy, I love and miss you forever!!!!![/quote']

With all my heart I am so sorry for the loss of your mother. Also thank you for taking the time and pain to address this forum.

For those who consistently remind that it is only 1%, allow me to explain that 1% in a way that may make you think twice. I was a flight attendant for 15 years and my surgeon explained the 1% to me like this. "Every week there are 100 flights between LA and San Diego, if consistently every week one of those planes crashed, would you get on the flight?" Of course my initial instinctual response was "H*ll no." But like many of us I have a gun to my head called co-morbidities, so we have to think long and hard, pray, share with our families and do what is right for each one of us. I pray we all find peace in which ever decision we make.