Welcome! The best advice I can give you is to do your research. Since you've come here it sounds like you already have a good start on that! I know exactly what you mean about feeling 40 when you're young. I'm 27 (on Sunday anyway) but I feel like an old woman. Pain all the time, dose after dose of tylenol, always tired, etc etc you know how it is. I am having the surgery next Thursday and have done lots of research. It's best to know exactly what you're getting in to than to be suprised later on when it's too late to back out! I'm ready to be the pretty thin girl too, I've been fat all my life and it's time for a change! It's better to handle our situations now when we are young than wasting our lives and looking back with regret. I wish you luck!

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