I'm so sorry a lot of you have found to your cost any form of gastric surgery isn't the magic answer ~ because even today, people are under the impression it is the be all and end all and that suddenly everything will be perfect. ........ It won't, won't be answer for a lifetime. My sister had a total by~pass 10 years ago and she's been left with a ton of floppy loose skin but she can't afford the surgery to remove it. After that op she needed her "bingo wings", that's the upper arms on which the skin hangs down. She is not big anymore but quite a lot bigger than when she first had gastric surgery. She has to be on a constant diet as "pouch" the surgery left her with has stretched a lot, so now she can eat more BUT, she has terrible indigestion, heartburn, gagging, vomiting and dumping syndrome, nope, no magic answer is it? If I ever find the answer I'll let you know. I suffer all of the ED's, bulimia, anorexia, EDNOS and general starving. Wish I was "normal"
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