Oh wow! I soooo regretted having this surgery on Day 3. I was heaving and dehydrated and if I'd had the energy to find the medical waste bucket they'd dumped the removed half of my stomach into, I'd have hauled it out, handed it to my surgeon and told her "Put it back."

Then I stopped puking.

Sounds like you've had phenomenal weight loss so far. You will feel better and better every day. I'm a little over 7 wks out and I still struggle several times daily with 'was this REALLY a good idea?' but then I get out of my chair twice as fast as I did before the surgery and tell myself, 'Yes, it was.'

Hang in there. You're recovering. It gets better.

Treat this as an amazing Grace given to you by God. Your relationship with food has been completely revealed. You now understand how you have used food a an emotional crutch to get thru your day. We all understand. obesity is 90% Why we eat not what we eat. I laughingly say now i never had time to be depressed when i was obese because i preloaded with fabulous, rich food every morning and thruout the day. i would be ridiculously upset if a meal was not any good and within 40 min of eating it anyway i would be looking for another meal to deliver the high. I broke up with food 2 yrs ago. I was literally eating myself to death and even though i was active, more 5K walks than i can count, 5 1/2 marathon walks. My perfect blood pressure went away, my blood sugar began to rise and i developed sleep apnea.. I began to work closely with my Priest on my gluttony problem. I began to be more accepting of the hardships of life as part of the greater matrix of Glory. Loved ones were going to die, people were gonna get cancer, lose jobs, go broke , etc. Facing Life with Fortitude and Temperance would reveal the opportunities for Grace. And at best i finally admitted to myself the food never gave me more than 5 min of enjoyment-thats why i always wanted one more treat. Now when death and destruction come in to my life, i grieve, i cry, i pray, i deal.....i do not eat to run away from the pain. i also avoid celebrating too much with food. You really will probably be able to eat everything again in 5 months......the question will be, will you choose you or will you choose food. We have free will, it will be your choice. Saying a prayer for you. St Maximillian Kolbe and Mary were and are great mentors in my food addiction process of recovery. i highly recommend them. God Bless

Post-surgery is a pretty emotional time. Not only did you just go through major surgery, but you also have to learn a whole new way of being and that can be scary and overwhelming. It's natural to have thoughts of "what did I just do?" because you are entering uncharted territory. The positive side of it is that you have a clean slate. It's a real gift to be able to start over and live this new normal. Once you are more adjusted, you start feeling better, and you start getting the hang of things, I am sure you will start to feel better!!

I regret mine. It's been over a year, and I have no restriction.

Have you had the sleeve tested? What does the surgeon say? This is horrifying to hear.

I had my surgery on June 18. For the first week afterwards I cried and was depressed, I was regretting the surgery. Now of course I have accepted the fact that it's done and over with and I will make sure that it was not all done for nothing. I am down 26lbs and am excited to continue the journey. I was just wondering if anyone else had regrets afterwards, is this normal?

You just described me, minus the crying. I was in a major funk. My hormones were all over the place though. I had MAJOR regrets for the first few days. I had my surgery on Tuesday June 24. I woke up on the Saturday after my surgery, and just decided "enough is enough"
I realized THIS is my new normal. There was nothing I could do to change it back, so I sucked it up, and decided to do what I needed to do. LOL

That Saturday was the first morning that I had slept well, and i'm sure that had a lot to do with my mood. LOL

I'm still kinda meh, but that's because i'm still on full fluids. I just want to put something in my mouth and chomp. LOL I'm sick to death of all my liquids.

Thursday I move on to the next stage which is purees for me.
So far i'm tolerating everything, so hopefully i'll be good moving on to the next phase.

I'd love scrambled eggs right now! That's the thing i'm craving most! LOL

Have you tried Gordon Ramseys method of scrambling eggs?- SSOOOO yummy!

No, I can't have scrambled eggs yet
I have to wait until 4 weeks according to my program. Boo!

ZERO regrets unless you count, "why didn't I do this sooner"!

ZERO regrets unless you count, "why didn't I do this sooner"!

^^^^^THIS!!!!

Hi Holly. My only regret was not having it sooner than age 55. What I remember feeling was overwhelmed at trying to keep all the information straight, get in the protein, how to keep track (I didn't know about this site at that point), how I could possibly get all the water in, etc. I cried a lot in frustration because I felt so overwhelmed, but I never regretted my decision. Even now, 3 years out and still working towards goal (I lose slow and stall often), I am so happy I did this. I never would be 160 pounds down and mobile again if I hadn't have had it done.

Pat

Hi there,

I had my surgery on 4/28 and my first full day home I struggled with "what have I done?" Not that I felt bad, just shocked that I had made such a radical move. I was back to normal by that night and haven't looked back since. I can tell you that as of today I'm 9 weeks out, I can eat anything and drink anything. Normal will return, I promise.:laugh:

No regrets, but the first 21 days are tough. I remember not feeling well, and being food obsessed. it gets better. My hormones were all over the place, my body was adjusting- and my brain was getting over having it's EAT NOW command ignored. It really will get better.

Experiencing lots of regret, I'm completely food obsessed and miss eating, I'm having a hard time swallowing liquids no matter how slow I sip it's causing me pain, surgery was 2 weeks ago and I'm just wishing I could go back in time Trying to reassure myself this was for my own good and things will get better

For the first few weeks I had a weird feeling because I had done something that couldn't be un-done. I knew in my head that I had made the right choice, and physically I had a very easy recovery but still there was a finality to knowing that 75% of my perfectly healthy stomach was rotting away in a Mexican bio-dump.

I've had them and I'm still having them. I was sleeved on May 19th. I'm down 30lbs and while it's fine--I have discovered the love affair I had with food. I felt like I had no friends and I didn't want to do anything because everything revolved around food--let's go for drinks--let's go to happy hour--birthday dinner parties and I just didn't want to go. Well I went to one and I was able to have a chicken wing..and 30 mins later I drank some water--and I didn't throw up--so I kept drinking water and spent more time talking than eating and had a grand time. lol I'm actually taking myself on a trip to Dallas tomorrow because I NEED TO GET AWAY..just me and the road for 3 1/2 hours so I can think and talk to myself. I've got a good weekend planned for myself because I think the regret of the surgery, etc is all in my mind and I've got to change my self talk. Why not start with a nice little trip away?! It will get better as my girlfriends who've been sleeved over a year have told me.

Now I'm sad cause nothing fits me and I just can't go out and buy a ton of clothing...but I will say.. I don't regret having a good night sleep without my cpap machine--or taking insulin every day. :-) And I'm almost 2 months out.

So sorry you experienced these difficulties. I have had a good first 3 weeks but am frustrated because I am not off insulin, which I had hoped would happen. I am also at a stall as to weight loss at 14 pounds. I know this happens but it's a little soon I think. Anyway, I know it will all work out in the end and I will get off the insulin and start losing weight again.

Hang in there - it is all for good. You will see.

That happened to me. I worked with my nut and here is what we discovered. The food I was eating was too salty, I was constipated, I wasn't weighing and measuring my food and I was way off on my calories. Since I had trouble getting food down my meals were turning into 2 hours of grazing - I had to finish my 3/4 cup of food in 30 min or put it away for the next meal. No grabbing bites between meals. I wasn't getting enough protein. Ever since then I have stuck to the 1 cup of 70% protein, 25%veg- no potato5% whole grain carb in a 30 min meal 3x a day with one snack and the scale moves down regularly every 8-10 days