Comments on: Latest Treatment For Obesity: Brain Surgery

By: Cachelot

Cachelot — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:44:27 +0000

I was the first person to have DBS for weight loss in the world. That was in June 2003. To date it has not been successful. I have not been able to sleep with the device on. When I turn it off to go to sleep, I get up and raid the fridge. There are plans to put me in hospital and turn it on 24/7. At some point I will sleep and hopefully my brain will get used to the frequency and I can leave it on 24/7. When the device is activated, it works very well indeed. If it proves successful, it is much better than bariatric surgery.

By: Addish

Addish — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:23:39 +0000

vesta- That’s way to much to lose weight, wth. It’s no less crazy then when women would take out ribs and wear corsets to make thier waists smaller.

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:04:55 +0000

Paging Dr. Frankenstein!

By: vesta44

vesta44 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:06:43 +0000

Addish, that’s what the altered part is. Remove the infectious agent, add a gene to turn on appetite control for weight loss. It’s supposed to automatically stop the weight loss when the “necessary” amount of weight has been lost (although the mice only lost 20% of their weight). If it doesn’t shut itself off, and too much weight is lost, then they have to alter another virus and inject it to shut off the first one. Yeah, that sounds perfectly reasonable to me…..NOT!
I’m sorry, but as fat as I am, even losing 20% of my weight still leaves me “morbidly walking-death-looking-for-a-place-to-happen obese”. I think I’ll just go ahead and stay OMGDEADLYFAT and healthy and happy, thank you very much.

By: Punchy

Punchy — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:22:20 +0000

She wants a thing to electrocute her brain when she’s crazy enough to want food? Good lord. Why not just smack yourself in the head with a hammer or something, F it. That will change your mind about having a snack too. What a sad, pathetic woman.

By: Addish

Addish — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:42:19 +0000

This whole thing is just creepy. And Vesta44 aren’t viruses spreadable? Or is that what the altered part is?

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:42:02 +0000

The parts that bother me are…

1. This woman is in her 60s. Her life hasn’t been shortened.

2. She doesn’t have teh diabeetus or any other health condition that doctors would try to “control” via weight loss.

3. She weighed over 400 pounds before her gastric bypass and now weighs about 250. For her, the GB worked…it just didn’t make her THIN ENOUGH.

Brain surgery for what amounts to an entirely cosmetic obsession? WTF?

Even a WLS advocate would say she doesn’t need this.

By: slythwolf

slythwolf — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:39:14 +0000

Shorter Carol Poe: “All the different ways I’ve stopped eating as much haven’t made me lose weight, so what I’m going to do is, I’m going to get surgery that’s supposed to stop me from eating as much.”

Bzuh?

By: Bree

Bree — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:48:31 +0000

“I’ve tried everything else. I’ve tried all the fad diets. I’ve tried liquid protein. I’ve tried Redux, Fen-Phen. I’ve had a stomach bypass. I’ve tried the Atkins diet. I’ve tried them all. And it’s not coming off.

If trying all that still didn’t get her any thinner, surely that is her body’s way of saying “Hey, I’m just not meant to be small!” I don’t think this radical procedure will be the miracle she’s looking for.

By: JupiterPluvius

JupiterPluvius — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:36:53 +0000

Is this woman actually a binge eater or uncontrolled eater? That seems a little unclear from the articles I’ve seen.

I mean, I can imagine someone wanting neurological treatment for binge or uncontrolled eating, and expecting that significant weight loss would follow. (Which it might. Or might not.)

But studies have amply demonstrated that the majority of defined-as-obese-by-BMI people’s eating styles are similar to the majority of people who are defined as “healthy” by their BMI.