YOUR Weight Loss Surgery Experiences Will Improve, if Not Save, Lives
Bariatric Surgery Source has hundreds of free pages covering most angles of weight loss surgery and obesity.
"Despite our best efforts to create an all-encompassing guide, some extremely important information is missing..."
But despite our best efforts to create an all-encompassing guide, some extremely important information is missing…
YOUR ADVICE, THOUGHTS & EXPERIENCES
Whether you are just beginning to consider weight loss surgery or are well past the 10-year post-surgery mark, other patients need to know what you know.
At a minimum, your contribution will help others understand they are not alone in their thoughts.
At a maximum, your advice could save lives by helping others avoid pitfalls and make the right decisions.
And whether or not you include your name or a picture is up to you.
You can contribute in one of two ways:
- Document your full bariatric surgery journey on your own personal web page
- Document just a piece your journey (by choosing a category)
To document your full journey, click here. You can start by sharing details about yourself, your decision to have surgery and what stage you are at now. You can then come back to your personal page at any time to make additoinal posts.
To document a part of your journey by category, click one of the following, then choose the subcategory that best fits your experiences, thoughts or advice. The link (subcategory) you click will either take you directly to a custom form or to an “accordion” box that looks like this:
When you expand accordion boxes, the form for you to share your experiences will be located inside (there's not one here...we just wanted to show you an example of how the accordion boxes work).
Again, some of the subcategory links below will take you to an accordion box like this one. When you get there, just click the box to expand!
Now click the accordion box again (the blue box above) to collapse and choose the topic you want to write about!
Where you see the accordion box, simply click to expand it then complete and submit the custom form.
- Cause and effect of your obesity
- Your decision to have surgery (& why you chose your procedure)
- Cost, insurance and financing
- Your surgeon and clinic
- Recovery
- Diet
- Life after surgery
- Support groups (face-to-face or online)
- Book reviews
- Upload a video
Cause and Effect of Your Obesity
- Obesity virus: Been tested for the fat virus? Considering it? Tell us...
- Obesity discrimination: Create awareness by sharing your experiences.
Deciding That surgery is right for you
- Why bariatric surgery: Why did you decide to move forward with surgery?
- Which procedure: Which bariatric surgery procedures fit you best and why?
Cost, insurance and financing
- Insurance approval: How did you get bariatric surgery insurance approval?
- Insurance denial: Did insurance deny your surgery? Fight back by publishing your story and insurance appeal letter.
- Payment method: How did you (or will you) pay for what insurance doesn't cover?
- Taxes: What medical tax deductions did you claim?
- Travel to save: Did you receive/consider having surgery in Mexico or abroad? How much did it/would it have saved?
Your Weight Loss Surgeon and clinic
- Tell us about your surgeon (go to our Find a Bariatric Surgeon in My Area page, click on your country (and state), the scroll to the bottom of your country's/state's page)
- Travel for surgery: Did you receive/consider having bariatric surgery in Mexico or abroad?
Recovering from Surgery
- Complications/side effects: Did you experience (or are you concerned about) bariatric surgery complications or side effects?
- Diet: Tell us about your diet during recovery.
- Recovery: Your bariatric surgery recovery - what was it like?
Diet After Surgery
- During recovery: Your diet during recovery.
- Long-term: Share your bariatric diet and eating habits and advice.
- Helpful tools/journals: Your experience with food journals or other tools.
Life after surgery
- Complications/side effects: Did you experience (or are you concerned about) bariatric surgery complications or side effects?
- Diet: Diet after obesity surgery (will jump you back up this page to that section)
- Health improvement: How did YOUR health problems change after bariatric surgery?
- Helpful tools/journals: Your experience with food journals or other tools
- Relationships: How did your relationships change after surgery?
- Weight loss: How much weight have you lost?
- Weight regain: Tell us about weight gain you experienced after bariatric surgery.
Weight loss surgery support Groups
- Support Groups: Share your experiences with face-to-face or online weight loss surgery support groups (will jump you down the page to that section)
Book Reviews
Document your bariatric surgery progress...
...for other visitors AND for you!
Whether you include your name and/or pictures is completely up to you.
In addition to helping other visitors with your experiences, in the future it might be neat for you to have a place to come back and review your progress as the months and years pass.
Your updates could be as simple as posting a new comment every month to log your weight along with a tip or two you learned that month. Or they could be as detailed as you'd like.
For additional research, search for your topic of interest...
Also see...
References
- You!
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