Mydoghasfleas
New Member
I think Yvessa is right. From what you initially posted, have you really thought this through rather than thought about it?
Surgery is not a quick fix. There is some mortality risk involved. It's anything up to six weeks before your body completely overcomes the post operative effects. I finished up going back in to hospital for seven days only a day after coming out - which was partly me not taking the consultant's advice to stay in an extra night, partly a bleed into the abdominal wall and partly poor recovery from the anaesthesia. But I do not have one single regret.
What really concerns me is that you are considering this by reference to cost, not to whether or not a procedure, whichever one, is appropriate, the surgeon's track record or the statistically most likely outcome.
If I had decided on price, I might have had the procedure in Eastern Europe or India. As a result, I might have found myself taking a turn for the worse, as I did, but on a flight back to the UK.
The surgery is life changing. Please think about it properly, consult your GP, undertake thorough research, then think about it some more.
One final thought, you ask if you will be able to eat normally again. To achieve the BMI I had seemed like normal eating; it was not, I gained weight by eating more than I needed, we do it for whatever reason, it's there or it's emotional or any number of other reasons. Fundamentally the human body has not adapted to changed circumstances, there is an abundance of food available to most of us, much of the time full of easily absorbed calories. But our bodies are still those of hunter gatherers and tell us to keep eating because we do not know when the next meal is coming; it was normal then but it's not now.
Surgery is not a quick fix. There is some mortality risk involved. It's anything up to six weeks before your body completely overcomes the post operative effects. I finished up going back in to hospital for seven days only a day after coming out - which was partly me not taking the consultant's advice to stay in an extra night, partly a bleed into the abdominal wall and partly poor recovery from the anaesthesia. But I do not have one single regret.
What really concerns me is that you are considering this by reference to cost, not to whether or not a procedure, whichever one, is appropriate, the surgeon's track record or the statistically most likely outcome.
If I had decided on price, I might have had the procedure in Eastern Europe or India. As a result, I might have found myself taking a turn for the worse, as I did, but on a flight back to the UK.
The surgery is life changing. Please think about it properly, consult your GP, undertake thorough research, then think about it some more.
One final thought, you ask if you will be able to eat normally again. To achieve the BMI I had seemed like normal eating; it was not, I gained weight by eating more than I needed, we do it for whatever reason, it's there or it's emotional or any number of other reasons. Fundamentally the human body has not adapted to changed circumstances, there is an abundance of food available to most of us, much of the time full of easily absorbed calories. But our bodies are still those of hunter gatherers and tell us to keep eating because we do not know when the next meal is coming; it was normal then but it's not now.
