My doctor has my attention now

[missdiane]

 The good news is that my GP doesn’t think my blood pressure is too horrible even though it can stand to improve quite a bit. However she’s concerned with the fact that my back is keeping me from exercising and that I’m in a bad cycle because if I exercise it currently hurts my back but I need to improve my back with exercise.

Also, my weight has stagnated and I even put back on a couple of the pounds that I lost when adjusting to the new medicine and kept me from being hungry. She’s always been easy-going when it comes to how to take care of my medical issues. But she got my attention today for sure because she suggested something she never suggested before and even warned me in advance not to be mad at her.

Gastric bypass surgery. 😳😳
  
The thought of having major surgery like that scares the crap out of me. But if she’s that concerned, I have to do something now

Comments

[threecee]

I second Spike; think this over carefully.

I reverted to my librarian days and found a couple websites that might be helpful places to start researching this:

American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery https://asmbs.org/patients/bariatric-surgery-procedures

Mayo Clinic https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/weight-loss/in-depth/gastric-bypass-surgery/art-20046318

Bariatric Surgery Source (This is a commercial site, but looks like the basic info is sound and they compare different options in some detail.) https://www.bariatric-surgery-source.com/bariatric-surgery-for-beginners.html

A list of articles from Medline Plus (My favorite medical source) https://vsearch.nlm.nih.gov/vivisimo/cgi-bin/query-meta?v%3Aproject=medlineplus&v%3Asources=medlineplus-bundle&query=gastric+bypass+surgery

And finally, a video of the surgery http://nlm.bcst.md/videos/laparoscopic-gastric-bypass-surgery?view=displayPageNLM

The video may be a bit much, but I watched a hip replacement video before my hip surgery and it helped me feel more in control.

[missdiane]

I looked over a lot of these (except th video since it’s a bit too real and I also have seen pretty much every ep of My 600 Pound Life) and it makes me want to do this even less.

That and although I have high blood pressure and mobility issues, there are many items that may disqualify me. Right now I’m about 10 pounds away from the 35 BMI cutoff, I have had kidney stones, have anxiety and panic disorder and technically I’ve never formally participated in any medically monitored diet