Response to Hernia Hysteria

[Guest guest]

As a person who is considering this surgery and had also talked to

and spent time with this woman at Obesity support groups, I have been

terribly nervous about now going forward with my decision to have it.

But as I learned who this woman was, I began to realize that this

simply had more to do with her current weight, pregnancy, and her

comorbities moreso than her having the surgery. DO NOT panic for

every little pain you get. This is going to turn into a circus of

women complaining of abdominal pain. You should be aware of your body

and the after effects of surgery, but not peranoid. When I met her,

she weighed 515, at about 6 months out. It is obviously MORE likley

for this type of tragedy to occur in someone who is that big to begin

with. I know, in my state (MA) this is the first of its kind, and

compared to the other few I have heard, all have weighed atleast 400

plus. And of the ones I heard 4 in all two were men. So this type of

complication has a multitude of " could be " causes.