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Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
Since this convo came up and I paid a visit with the Medical Director here at my hospital that runs our Weight Management Program. Here are some things that I didn't know:
Once you have had the surgery, here are some things to keep in mind:
1. Unrevocable, meaning you have it for like
2. You lose 39 oz of stomache
3. You can not drink carbonated beverages
4. You must exercise at LEAST 5 times a week (for at least 1 hour) to prevent huge skins folds.
5. You can only eat tiny amounts of food at one sitting, which is about the size of your fist.(No more getting your grub on @ the holidays...)
6. You lose a large section of your small intestine (you lost the part that absords the food, calories, nutrients, etc.)
7. Hair loss may result from this surgery 
8. The average person within a 4 month period will lose about
60-75 lbs.
9. You must follow a certain eating regime (not diet) FOR LIFE because if you do not, you will keep losing weight. For example, when you reach your goal weight, you must follow a certain eating regime in order to maintain that weight. If not, you will continue to lose weight (underweight).
The Medical Director also told me that any good program will consist of some type of long time counseling before and after the surgery. He said that any program that does not have this is one to watch out for.
1savvydive, I pray that your friend is ok. 
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I know of one person who had it, she was my mother's friend. She first started out with the gastric stomach staple, where they staple one third of your stomach, but the recovery is similar to that of the by-pass only they don't have to reconnect your intestines to anything they can stay where they are. However, it didn't work for this woman so she had the GB surgery, and it got to the point where she couldn't hold anything down not even water, and then started having complications from that surgery too. She eventually died in the hospital at the same time my mother had her Gastric Stomach Staple. I think personally her body just went into a shock for having so many surgeries so close together. Because at this time the procedure was about a few years old and still in the experimental stage. So both surgeries were EXTREMELY risky at that time. My mother said that she regrets ever doing it and would have NEVER done it had the internet been in existance during that time period. All you could do was take the doctors word to a certain degree because there was only so much literature on the subject. I think with the advancements in technology and what not it is easier to weigh the pro's and con's for yourself because you can read the successes and failures of the procedures.
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