Still Attend Support Group Meetings as a Vet?

[swimbikerun 1,046]

Most groups run by surgeons' simply aren't on the wavelength that the online groups are. There are more options you can learn from others, more wide range of experiences that can keep you fresh with new people and up with farther out people. Hands down, once you are past the honeymoon year/year & a half, online is the way to go.

Most of the places don't want you telling newbies about regain, how hard it is after that time frame.

[CowgirlJane 14,260]

I went a few times...once preop and once post. Otherwise all online. I try to pay it forward here!

[swimbikerun 1,046]

Excellent!

The fact remains that I learn more online from all various surgeries, all various lifestyles, all different choices, thanks to people who don't stay within the confines of what the surgeon's office dictates. There seem to be many choices that work for lots of people. I can see up to a year but after that, we are only there for them to survey and make $$$ off of while they don't have the big ticket surgery to work on. Plus, they are only using us as lab rats for the ASMBS's databases.

Here you answer to no one and people can touch you and you be touched a lot more freely.

I went a few times...once preop and once post. Otherwise all online. I try to pay it forward here!