My health is getting worse. I have talked to my dr about my weight gain for years and all she says is diet and exercise and as I been seeing her i have crept on another 30 lbs I am fat as ever now and I have tried all diets and now my knees are in pain. She refuses to even entertain the idea of the Weight loss surgery. I am in portland oregon and on I am on the providence personal option. I need a new dr or something. Because I will be 300lbs before long and my dr. will still just say diet and exercise. Hell if it was that easy I'd been done already!! this has been going on three years! I HAVE CUT out all sugar; deep friend foods> she took a thyroid test and it was normal. My family has all been obese I am fight against all odds here and its been very depressing. any serious ideas ? Please don't beat your drum about diet and exercise and furits and veggies I heard it all and tried it all. How do I get to the steps to have the surgery? God bless you. I've been there & done that all my life in one form or another.
Obese parents & an obese brother. Obesity started "growing on me" at age 18 while pregnant with my 1st child. Now an aging 5 foot 2 inch tall baby boomer; I still am obese. I've been up to 289 before & as low as 164 & currently I'm stuck in the middle again.
I've tried most every diet & weight-loss trend from fasting in the 60's to the popcorn diet of the 70's, Weight Watches times 3, to having my teeth wired together by the dentist, & after some more dieting I had gastric surgery. In the early 80's I underwent gastric stapling; decreasing the size of your stomach pouch down to a 2 ounce capacity. It was a "new" dangerous major surgery done by a pair of "fly-by-night" surgeons. This proceedure was nearly unheard anywhere except some major urban areas. These docs took a rural area of Alabama by storm, did big numbers of surgeries with almost nil post-op care & were gone in 2 years.
After surgery you were supposed to be on clear liquids, a couple of weeks later creamy liquids, & at 6 weeks at baby food level. Only able to hold 1-2 ounces at a time; nutrition & hydration was minimal to poor. Hair loss came with weight loss, my dental health suffered over the next couple of years, and it took a little over 3 months to learn how to "out eat" the tiny pouch. At that point I was hungry all the time having lost from 254 to 217 pounds & oh so tired of the prescribed die and depression had set in.
Post-op the idea was that you'd learn not to over-eat since you'd throw-up each time you ate even a small amount over your stomach's capacity; but I never could throw-up. The food over-filled the stomach pouch & stretched it's capacity larger & larger until 2 surgical staples popped open making it even larger. The food I ate filled to gastric pouch & would pack up in my esophagus causing sub-sternal pain, nausea, & restless nights. By this time the doc had left the area & were not to be found & the E. R. one night tried to feed me massive amounts of meat tenderizer to help desolve the food remaining above the level of the stomach. Needless to say, that didn't work. The story goes on & on.
Surgery doesn't have to be as invasive today; there are "lap banding" proceedures done as a 1 day surgery. The surgeon (certifed & well experienced in this specialty area) will put a band around your stomach pouch creating a smaller capacity without big-time gastric surgery. This band will stay in place as long as need & can be adjusted larger as need be & can be totally removed if need be. Less expensive, very little time off work (many done on Friday am), & safer. There still remains gastric bypass; very invasive with much greater risk of morbidity or even death. Bariatric surgerons are a specialty of there own & high skilled. You undergo screening by several disiplines & get a lot of pre-op & post-op care. Safer yet risky, a life saver for many & for others not what you expected.
Research all your choices carefully. There are many bariatric websites with forums where want-to-be patients, pre-approved pre-op patients, & post-op new & long patients who can voice all feelings & outcomes whether they maybe good or bad for their particular situation. Also research sleep apnea to determine if you might be a candidate for a sleep study.
Mind-set to feel better, more active & be healthier has proved to be most beneficial for me to lose weight & keep that weight off. After having a stroke (recovering 90% from that), having total hip replacement (& now moving around much better): God has given me another chance to "do this right". Success will be up to me. Having loving supporters around you physically, by phone, or email will aid you much along the way. A small miracle in the form of a chubby North Carolina woman has helped change my mind-set, elevated my hope & changed my moods for the best. Her name is Marla Cilley, better known as "FLYLADY", & has a website flylady.net. She is a motivational speaker in a genuine form but even better yet a great author. She has 2 best-selling books out I highly reccomend. Most closely related to weight loss is her book called "BODY CLUTTER". If you read this from cover to cover & set your mind to absorb what is really being said...it should be a great help to you as it has been for me. I've gained much more insight into knowing why & how I went from average size to chubby to fat. All this newly gained insight is slowly changing my entire being & I've added a new hopefull outlook on life knowing I can lose at least a major part of my "BODY CLUTTER".
She has a second book out I really needed, not weight-loss oriented, called "SINK REFLECTIONS" you might browse thru at the library, borrow, or buy thru her website, Amazon or at the book store. Flylady has a partner in crime called Leanne Ely aka the "DINNER DIVA" (she co-authored Body Clutter). She's a nutritionist with tasty menus for any type of eating (diet) you like & know is best for the new you. The menus have a shopping list for the week, a pantry list of things to keep on hand, and daily menus. Leanne Ely has a websute savingdinner.com & one of her books is called Saving Dinner.
I hear your cries for help, I hear your anger & frustration, & I know how you feel. I know how people treat us fatties, I know how doctors, dieticians, exercise gurus, relatives, "friends", fellow workers, employers, airlines, etc etc treat you year-end & year-out. I know how it feels to be a failure in your own mind & often that of others. I know how it feels to be ignored to the point you nearly don't exist..... BUT TIMES ARE CHANGING HONEY & THE TIME IS NOW FOR YOU SWEETHEART.
GO GET 'EM! Ain't nuttin' honey that can stop you but you.
All my comments are honest & meant to be loving and helpful. Try this yahoo group it will give you the answers to your questions. WeightLossSurgeryFS-subscribe@... Report It
i had distal gastric bypass with duodenal switch i lost 175 pounds in a year i was 350 now 175 i am new again do it .i had to pay it was the cost of a new car i well drive my old one for now .it was 35000 .it well change your life for the better call Pacific lapriscopy in san fransico ca.good luck During surgery, a big part of your stomach is bypassed, making it harder for you to take in food in large quantities.
Basically, you can only eat much smaller portions.
Eating is a natural addiction and it is easy to tell somebody to diet, but very, very hard to do so. This surgery has helped and improved the life on millions.
Depends, what healthcare you have, they may pay for it.
Go, change Doctors, go to ten, if you have to. They are suppose to provide service for you. Good luck. |
