Yep, I had it done. When I was diagnosed bipolar, I thought, I’ll be damned if I put all my weight back on with these psych meds (I had had many years of battling weight...at one point I had lost over 120 pounds, and I always seemed to bounce around and could really only keep 75 pounds off. All of this pre surgery on my own with my doc telling me do low carb Paleo.

The Zyprexa eating scared me.

While I was still manic, I flew off to Mexico to have a gastric sleeve. I picked the best surgeon, very experienced, and cost double what others were charging. He was skilled too—he could. Th do revision surgery from lap band to gastric sleeve.

It was stupid, with little thought into the decision.

Anyway it didn’t work. I lost maybe 20 pounds and put it back on. But I also had already starved off a lot of weight over many years to the point that a fat free vegan diet was all that worked anymore, or fasting.

I later watched a YouTube video lecture by a surgeon. He said when a gastric surgery doesn’t work, it is often...(list of things...) medications for mood disorder was on the list.

Sigh.

So, if you do it, realize that if your meds make you want to eat, you might find a way to do that (eating small amounts all day because you are hungry)

That kind of thing is hard to overcome.

That said, I have the gastric sleeve, not the gastric bypass. My surgery wasn’t extreme. I can eat a small meal (frozen dinner size).

What I hate is I can’t eat and drink at the same time. You have to do one or the other, then wait.