Long term effects if RNY

[happy days]

I really fail to see how having a bypass can make you any worse off in old age. With the extra multi vits etc we take we are getting exactly the same as everyone else. As for it not been around for long, does it really matter medical science progresses every year. We can use other people's organs to keep us alive and that's far more complicated process than a bypass. My son had a heart transplant 6 years ago at the age of 7 and now we can both share and make the most of our second chance we have been given.

 

[Fuffs]

It makes some people worse off, but not the majority. Thats all. Just hope I am one of the maority who sails through

 

[MJLDPS]

I dont believe I am saying I don't want my bypass. I understand all the reasons for it.

But I also have spoken to a woman who is 2 years post op and spent a lot of last year in hospital and has had every complication known to man. I have two kids and cannot afford to be in hospital all the time. So that is why it crosses my mind to ask myself if as I am -no blood pressure problems, no cholesterol, no diabetes, just someone who has tried for years to lose weight and ended up at a near crippling size- I may end up less of a mom to my kids than I am now.

I want my bypass loads. Many of you have followed my journey. But, I think it is natural to wonder about both sides of the coin.

I just pray that I am one of the people whom it goes smoothly for. I hope I get slim and my son no longer gets bullied about me, I hope I get fit and healthy, I hope I live and long and happy life. I know that without the bypass there is very little chance I would ever be slim and healthy.

So I simply need to work on some of the little fears I have and think positively that this will add to our quality of life, not take it away

Very well put, thankyou.

 

[penelope1008]

I certainly don't underestimate the emotional roller coaster all you pre-oppers are going through we all have had that to & so yes many of us are now post-op & have had a smooth ride others not so smooth. I am grateful that I have been lucky so far & hope I continue to be so, as I do for everyone about to have or waiting to have their surgeries.
It's the best thing I've done for me since my hysterectomy 8 years ago. I hope now to live to a ripe old age as I do for everyone else on here.

 

[Fuffs]

I certainly don't underestimate the emotional roller coaster all you pre-oppers are going through we all have had that to & so yes many of us are now post-op & have had a smooth ride others not so smooth. I am grateful that I have been lucky so far & hope I continue to be so, as I do for everyone about to have or waiting to have their surgeries.
It's the best thing I've done for me since my hysterectomy 8 years ago. I hope now to live to a ripe old age as I do for everyone else on here.

Thank you Its really nice that it has changed your life in the ways you hoped it would

 

[Mrs Quiggle]

I think when you look at it, from a surgeons point of view, it's a fairly simple op and just a case of re-routing everything. Apart from those very few, who have complications, as long as we follow the rules, eat a protein rich, all round healthy diet and take our supplements as instructed keeping our annual appointments to take in updates on info then there isn't really any reason why we shouldn't all live to a ripe old age. Having had a heart attack at the age of 44 last year, I'm not sure I would be seeing any of my grandchildren growing up in the future without the op. (Not that I want any yet since the kids are only 12 and 13 lol)

Love Kate x

 

[MJLDPS]

Having had a heart attack at the age of 44 last year, I'm not sure I would be seeing any of my grandchildren growing up in the future without the op. (Not that I want any yet since the kids are only 12 and 13 lol)

Love Kate x

Kate, was it weight related, i ask because i had some heart trouble, and had to have surgery, the docs say it was not weight related, but you can't help but wonder, i'm 'cured' now.

 

[lotsabeefy]

My worry was more my kids. Scared I am just telling myself I can't lose the weight alone and getting ill because of the bypass.

I am not sure its logical. But it has crossed my mind. I want to love as long as I can for my boys. I hope the bypass helps that (and not hinders lol)

My Kids have never been happier they are proud to be seen with me without fear of taunting by their peers xxx

 

[penelope1008]

Fuffs my sons are 15, 18 & 21 & whilst they never said anything I am sure they got teased about me especially as I am a teaching assistant in their school. Only once on the run up to my surgery did one of them ever get into trouble for fighting back. At the time I was being investigated for a kidney tumour which was in fact benign but a friend joked about my size & wouldn't be quiet when asked so my son hit him which resulted in an exclusion ( but a shorter one than he may have had because if the stress of worrying about me on that one occasion only.)
Since my op his friends and peers have all done double takes when first seeing me & saying Wow or thought I was a new member of staff in front of him or to him which while embarrassing for him no where near as much as the big mum he had.
So for us all it has been well worth it. Even my husband did a double take when he looked up to see me walking across a cafe towards him recently as he didn't recognise me at first. Which I found quite funny.

 

[Fuffs]

Fuffs my sons are 15, 18 & 21 & whilst they never said anything I am sure they got teased about me especially as I am a teaching assistant in their school. Only once on the run up to my surgery did one of them ever get into trouble for fighting back. At the time I was being investigated for a kidney tumour which was in fact benign but a friend joked about my size & wouldn't be quiet when asked so my son hit him which resulted in an exclusion ( but a shorter one than he may have had because if the stress of worrying about me on that one occasion only.)
Since my op his friends and peers have all done double takes when first seeing me & saying Wow or thought I was a new member of staff in front of him or to him which while embarrassing for him no where near as much as the big mum he had.
So for us all it has been well worth it. Even my husband did a double take when he looked up to see me walking across a cafe towards him recently as he didn't recognise me at first. Which I found quite funny.

Thank you Penelope That gave me a big smile

Thanks lotsabeefy I hope in the short and long term, it will be the se for me

 

[Raynebubble]

I was just wondering if there had been any research concerning the future years for bypass patients, what happens when your in your 70s , or you become ill later in life, just wondering, what a bloody worry wort I am!!!

Hi i was told recently that the procedure has been done for over 20 years more in America than here, and a lot of patients are in later years ie in there 50's and 60's and are a live and well.
I think for some of us the surgery has gven us extra years.... i know myself being only 5.1 and having a BMI of 63 that was ver dangerous...so i think the positives of having surgery out weight the negatives xx