Hi there & welcome to the WLS forum. Like the others say, you need to do as much research as possible so you fully understand what different types of surgery there are, and how they are used as a tool to help you lose weight. You also need to work out what type of 'eater' you are, because this will help you & your surgeon to decide what type of surgery would be best for you. Then you really need to make an effort to make your eating habits as healthy as possible, and improve your fitness to make you as healthy as you possibly can be for surgery...I'm not suggesting you start training for a marathon but try to increase physical activity as your health will allow between now & the surgery. As for being scared about dying during the op...most of us have felt like that, but you need to consider several things to help balance this out: if you don't have WLS then you will possibly die prematurely from obesity-related diseases anyway, and secondly, WLS is much more common now than it ever was. Many surgeons, their anaethetists and their teams have performed hundreds, if not thousands of these operations, so they are very experienced. Also, they do every available health check before surgery to make sure you will be as well looked after as you can be during surgery.
I keep questioning myself am I doing the right thing? I think this is probably normal as you don't go into such a life changing op without proper thought & investigation such as being here asking questions.
