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Old December 8th, 2003, 01:52 AM   #3 (permalink)
dark angel
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Fit, you should do what you need to do, just make sure that if you commit to it, make very sure you understand all the risks of the procedure, as well as the permanent issues you will have to live with afterwards. There are many good results, but when this procedure causes a complication or goes wrong, the results are permanent and awful.

Make sure the doctor is board certified. If he or she did not attend medical school in the USA, proceed with caution. Many times that means they couldn't get accepted here. ALso make sure whomever does the surgery isn't some dude trying to learn how to do the procedure. You'd be surprised how often surgeries are done by some guy who just got done dissecting a cat just a few weeks before, and is doing the procedure under the "supervision" of the attending doc.

Anyway, good luck either way, but make very sure you the right decision for yourself, its a permanent one.
(Started) 10/30/03..170lb
Week One 11/06/03...163
Week Two 11/13/03...160
Week Three11/20/03...157 1/2
Week Four 11/27/03...same
Week Five 12/4/03...154 1/2
Week Ten 1/5/04....153
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