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Daughter Wants Gastric Band Surgery !!
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my 20 yr old daughter wants a band in, she is at uni and cannot afford this so wants me to help her. since she has been young she has struggled with weight, she recently told me she is getting depressed over her weight, i know how she feels and i am thinking seriously about starting to save money for her to get this done. if she wasnt suffering depression then i would not have known but who wants their child to suffer ?
all her life she has tried to eat right , she is a vegetarian also but she eats loads of bread cheese and all wrong foods, also i think her weight is hereditary as he mum struggles with weight and so do i . me and her mum split when she was 7 years old.
i want to help her i hate to see her suffer.
all her life she has tried to eat right , she is a vegetarian also but she eats loads of bread cheese and all wrong foods, also i think her weight is hereditary as he mum struggles with weight and so do i . me and her mum split when she was 7 years old.
i want to help her i hate to see her suffer.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.All we can give is opinions and we'd really need to know her height and weight. For example being a size 16 may be depressing for a young person but it's hardly gastric band time. Has she tried diet and exercise? As stated a GP wouldn't think of this Op until all other avenues have been tried. 20 seems very young to have to face this last resort.
Student counselling is a very good idea as a starting point.
Student counselling is a very good idea as a starting point.
Instead of the real thing why not try the Paul McKenna hypnotic version book cd etc. It has good reviews from people who it has worked for
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People have died from such surgery. Major surgery isn't ever 100% safe. I think it should only ever be an act of desperation really. Not an option to avoid the hassle of watching what one eats. IMO she'd probably benefit more from counselling and such like to bolster her mental state so she isn't so stressed out from her problem.
Surgeons will do gastric surgery privately. Its only if you go through the NHS its the last resort. Sounds as if the girl is saving to go privately.I agree with sqad, get it done, it will save her years of yo yo dieting and perhaps stop her addiction with food. She should also have counselling to discuss her relationship with food.
She will have the rest of her life living a *very* restricted diet. Years of only being able to havve a few mouthfuls of food,a loss of the social aspects of enjoying a meal with family/friends.I really don't see how surgery will end her "food addiction". She needs to deal with food and the issues that cause her to eat too much/the wrong things.
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