another question LOL

[Guest guest]

Hi all my new friends,

In reading one of the digests today. Boy are you all prolific. Joy shared

what was wrong with her surgery and what they were going to do to revise

it.

I am a small eater most of the time so this interested me. My biggest

downfall is coke and I know I am going to have to deal with this. But I

have been very afraid that my metabolism is so slow that even with surgery

I won't lose weight. I am one of those who religiously followed Weight

Watchers and the first week most people my size lost 4-6 lbs. Then they

steadily lost 1-2 lbs a week.

I lost 1/2 lb and then maybe every four weeks or so I would lose another

pound. It was pretty discouraging. Now I even have medications to deal

with.

So if I feel this is a real issue my doctor and I can work on this before

hand? How would I approach it?

Also, if DS is not being done in my state, is there a website if the doctor

is interested to really learn more about that he could go to?

Thanks

i

Frances Geddes

[Guest guest]

i,

I don't think I could be much help to you cuz I am pre-op too and

have not even met with the surgeon yet, but you are describing me

also. I have many concerns about whether anything will really work

for me because I really am not a big eater and I have to diet just to

maintain and cut down to about 600 calories to see any kind of weight

loss and it is even slow at that little amount. I really don't know

why this is the way it is. When I was in high school, over thirty

years ago, the first diet I ever went on was more or less a

starvation diet. I had no breakfast and ate an orange for lunch and

a small piece of meat and salad for dinner. I did that for three

months and lost thirty pounds. The next real diet I went on was with

a so called diet doctor who gave me oh so many pills. I was young

and dumb and thought he knew what he was doing. I dont even know

what all I was taking but when I would leave his office I had several

different kinds of pills to take. He was eventually run out of town.

I think maybe I just messed my whole system up by doing that. I have

really not been able to lose weight since then, so I also have many

fears about this not working. But that is one reason that I want this

type of operation so badly. I know that I need the malabsobtion. I

think with the malabsobtion and small meals this almost has to work.

Maybe not as fast as some people, but it will work.

Sometimes, after learning about the DS, I wonder if maybe some of us

really do have an (I don't know how to word this right)

overproductive duodenal or something that needs this surgery to

correct it, just like some people that have overactive thyroid or

produce too much or not enough insulin. Every little thing that we

eat, or even as it seems, maybe we really do get fat just by smelling

food. Your gallbladder will sometimes dumb bile just by you smelling

food so why not the duodenal too. I have always felt that there has

to be something wrong with me. I have had so many of my friends in

my lifetime that have told me all they have to do is cut down, or

watch what they eat, or cut out soft drinks or bread and they lose

weight, but all of those things combined would never work for me.

Anyway, I think that when we meet with our surgeons, they will

discuss our dieting history with us and how hard it is for us to lose

weight and will hopefully decide to give us a shorter common

channel. This is what I am hoping anyway, cuz I only want to have to

do this once.

Well, now that I have let everyone know what a complete idiot I am, I

guess I'll go to bed.

Shirley

- In duodenalswitch@y..., " Geddes " <nasuca@w...> wrote:

> Hi all my new friends,

>

> In reading one of the digests today. Boy are you all prolific. Joy

shared

> what was wrong with her surgery and what they were going to do to

revise

> it.

>

> I am a small eater most of the time so this interested me. My

biggest

> downfall is coke and I know I am going to have to deal with this.

But I

> have been very afraid that my metabolism is so slow that even with

surgery

> I won't lose weight. I am one of those who religiously followed

Weight

> Watchers and the first week most people my size lost 4-6 lbs. Then

they

> steadily lost 1-2 lbs a week.

> I lost 1/2 lb and then maybe every four weeks or so I would lose

another

> pound. It was pretty discouraging. Now I even have medications to

deal

> with.

>

> So if I feel this is a real issue my doctor and I can work on this

before

> hand? How would I approach it?

>

> Also, if DS is not being done in my state, is there a website if

the doctor

> is interested to really learn more about that he could go to?

>

> Thanks

>

> i

>

> Frances Geddes