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My surgeon would not cut me until I lost 10 pounds. From 172 to 162. I think what he said to me was that excessive adipose tissue increases the likelihood of such things as accidentally cutting the nerves that control sexual function resulting in permanent impotence, which does happen in a very low percentage of cases. He said it's easier to do the surgery at a lower weight. At the time of my surgery he was considered the best colorectal surgeon in the USA, had done thousands of J Pouches and the very first K pouch surgery in the USA. So I listened and dropped the weight. 

Keep in mind I was probably only 10 pounds overweight to begin with, but he was known as a stickler and wouldn't surgery me until I lost the weight which wasn't easy to do taking 60 mg prednisone a day. But I did it.

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