tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8397186280973403909.post6309857603937993876..comments2024-02-08T10:40:56.376-06:00Comments on Big Fat Delicious: WLS complications you don't normally hear aboutvesta44http://www.blogger.com/profile/15480692717585745934noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8397186280973403909.post-57594912502225615552008-10-12T18:33:00.000-05:002008-10-12T18:33:00.000-05:00I don't generally comment on posts like this becau...I don't generally comment on posts like this because words often feel cheap, but I had to say something here. My heart breaks for the letter writer. I hope she finds some peace in the world and that her struggle helps remind all of us to live our lives fully without letting fat get in the way.Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12647864659305394636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8397186280973403909.post-42637659367376935812008-10-12T13:18:00.000-05:002008-10-12T13:18:00.000-05:00dani alexis - I was diagnosed with arthritis when ...dani alexis - I was diagnosed with arthritis when I was 34, so yeah, arthritis is not fun. I've been dealing with it for 20 years, so it's not a result of my WLS, but the fibro and IBS are. Definitely not something I would wish on anyone.<BR/><BR/>maddie - I cried when I read this too. One of the reasons I asked if I could post this was so that people who are considering WLS can have another perspective on it, other than what the surgeons who push WLS will tell you. And I can almost guarantee that the costs of complications from WLS will far outweigh the supposed costs of staying fat. Because staying fat is not a guarantee that you will have heart failure, or diabetes, or any of the other diseases supposedly caused by being fat. If those diseases don't run in your family, a fat person has just as much chance of getting any of them as a thin person who doesn't have any genetic propensity for them. But that doesn't make money for the ones pushing diets and surgery. They still refuse to heed the maxim that "correlation is NOT causation". Which totally pisses me off.vesta44https://www.blogger.com/profile/15480692717585745934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8397186280973403909.post-484198244756390922008-10-12T10:56:00.000-05:002008-10-12T10:56:00.000-05:00Jesus H. Christ. I am in tears here. You know, I d...Jesus H. Christ. I am in tears here. <BR/><BR/>You know, I discovered recently that it's more than likely that I could get WLS on the NHS. I'm sufficiently fat that they'd consider that a worthwhile use of resources, even if the waiting list is long. And I won't lie, it tempted me. I'm working my way out of an eating disorder, and I still am not as accepting of myself as I need to be.<BR/><BR/>But reading things like this... There's no way. Sure, my feet hurt and we can blame my weight for that. And my back hurts, and we can blame my boobs for that. But I can stay out at night and do my pottery class. I can sit on the sofa all evening and knit. I'm not actually even slightly concerned that I'm going to end up in hospital this week. And I'm not worried that when I have a baby, I won't be able to participate in its life. How the fuck could the (possible, but not guaranteeable) relief of foot and back pain be worth that kind of lifestyle? How could it even be worth YOUR lifestyle, Vesta? As you say, you got off relatively lightly by comparison to cases like this - but I know people with IBS and fibromyalgia, and those things aren't light. They're only comparatively light because it could be so much worse. And how fat would a person have to be to have symptoms like this?<BR/><BR/>I need to bookmark this so I can reread it to remind myself why I'm not signing up for that crap, no matter how supposedly on death's door I am. I just don't see how being fat is SO BAD that it is better to live like that. <BR/><BR/>You have to wonder - in ten years time, what will the cost of obesity-related health conditions be compared with the cost of WLS-related conditions?maddiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17164094343714816169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8397186280973403909.post-53114173280680942642008-10-12T08:15:00.000-05:002008-10-12T08:15:00.000-05:00My own mother and I live under many of these same ...My own mother and I live under many of these same restrictions - not because of WLS, but because of fibromyalgia, migraines, and (in my case) arthritis (I'm 26). <BR/><BR/>My heart goes out to the letter-writer. It is not pleasant in the least and I'd never wish it on anybody.Dani Alexishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05320126446776981308noreply@blogger.com