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Surgeon Testimonial David Suh, M.D. My first impression of Dr. Suh was he was very serious and professional when it came to the surgery. He is very informational and cares about you as a patient. He wants to make sure all his patients take this seriously and wants them to understand what they are doing and make sure this is what they want. This is a reflection of his work and wants everyone to be a success. I appreciated his honest aproach toward the surgery. He doesn't beat around the bush, he tells you what the reality is about the surgery. And I liked that about him. I think his staff was awsome and that is just a reflection of how he does his practice. You will be walking out of his office with a new lease on life. He's well worth the wait, that is because the insurance took me forever to finally get the surgery. But it was good to know I was in good hands! Member Interests
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My Story I come from a family where food has many meanings. The dinner table was always the center of our home, whether it be for family, friends or business there was always a spread of food to go with any conversation. Coming from an italian background, my upbringing always made food the center of who we are. Always sunday dinners filled with homemade sauce that simmered all day, until it was spread over the SPAGHETTI. Dinner at 5 sharp. Never arrive late or you commited the ultimate sin! I was a very thin child actually the smallest and skinniest one out of two siblings. Then came junior high. And my weight started to shift, from skinny to plump. My mom got on this health kick and banned all the junk out of the house. Being used to the semi sweet cereals suddenly changed to grapenuts, multigrain, bran flakes and I hated those cereals. Mom meant well, but I hated the good stuff. I suddenly felt like I wasn't able to access anything appealing in my cupboards, my mom had a tight leash on what I ate and she meant well but I felt like junk food was a sin. I was eventually eating anything and everything not good for me. At Grandma's house I always had goodies, so that was always something to look forward too and grandma never cared how I looked she loved me just the way I was. My mom was always trying to make me eat healthy but I hated all the good things so I never ate at home. Of course I had to eat dinner at home but snacks were always at friends houses and I was always sneaking food at night. I was always trying to fabricate all the healthy food and make it into junk food so it would taste better. I was considered your typical junk food junkie! When I went to my friends I always pigged out and enjoyed getting stuffed cause I couldn't do it at home. From those days forward I always had a food issue. Sneaking around and tip toeing around food didn't help me but gave me a complex about it. I tried sports and cheerleading in high school and those worked for a short amount of time, it helped me get tone and thinner and keep me occupied and not focus on food but then after highschool my weight shot up when I was in college. I was very lonely. I compensated the food for my loneliness. I ate all the time to make myself feel better. It didn't help me, I got pregnant in college and got married, I had to drop out of college and focus on my daughter, marriage, and medical assisting school at nights. Stress from all those things threw me into a depression and low self esteem I was a young bride and mother at 18. Thats tough on any 18 year old. My marriage didn't work out and I got divorced. I have been a single mother since, for 7 years and my weight still continues to be an issue. I just can't seem to get a handle on it or figure out what works. Diet after diet, pill after pill, I've lost and gained, lost and gained again. Over and over the cycle continues. I continued to get bigger and bigger after every diet and now Im at the biggest I've ever been pushing 275, I've just had enough! I have sleep apnea, I've had it now for 6 years and that continues to get worse, high blood pressure, acid reflux disease, urinary incontinance, poor blood circulation, neck and back issues, joint pain, and the list continues to grow the more my weight continues to increase. Im sick of living like I'm dying. Im 28 and too young to feel this horrible. Im sick of lying in bed wondering where did my life go. I finally went to the doctor and asked her for a professional opinion on what else can I do to get the weight off? After we tried four other things prior to the visit, she suggested the gastric bypass. I never thought in my wildest imagination that gastric bypass would be an option. I was always trying to do it myself. She referred me for the classes for my insurance to cover the procedure. I started the classes and started to feel hope! I could actually put an end to this yo-yo struggle. Im grateful that God has offered me this tool to help me get to where I need to be and should be. I realize this is my tool to get me started on the right path, this came to me from God and Im going to run with it, with the strength he gives me I want to accomplish what I have been waiting for, LIFE, LONGEVITY, and HEALTH!! My only focus now is breaking the cycle and learning why I got here and how to not let it control my chances after the surgery to gain again. It has been a journey but one that has helped me shape who I am and who I will be later. I want to help others break the cycle so they can be healthy individuals inside, then what comes out will be beautiful.
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I still have to slow down.....I still look at food the same way from when I was overweight and have to catch myself to say Im not obese anymore and I can't eat that way anymore. Old habits die hard but I am so much more aware of what my body and stomach tells me than what it told me a year ago. I was 285lbs and now Im 145lbs, I went from size 24 to a size 8. I couldn't be more pleased with the results and the excess skin is just a reminder that I have come a long way and its a much better way of living now than what I was living before which was HELL. I can't complain.....I mean damn, I can fit into decent clothes now. A few extra rolls here and there won't kill me. I appreciate the opportunity thats been given and we only live once so why not enjoy life and be able to live it comfortably. So with that said, hope everyone has a great day and I'll try not to stay away too long. God Bless 
. I've lost 30lbs since surgery. I know that doesn't seem like alot but I lost 30lbs prior so Ive lost a total of 60lbs. Which isn't that bad when you add the two numbers together. The losing weight has been a bit slow. I lose about 5-8 lbs every two weeks. Im a little worried that its not doing its job but I would rather have it come off slow than too fast cause I don't want to much hanging skin. I guess if it was a problem Dr. Suh would of said something at my 1 1/2month visit right? 
Oh, I don't know but Im just glad its comming off. Its alot better than before I had surgery so I won't complain. I saw Dr. Suh on July 16th and when he told me I can eat anything and everything except, snacks, cakes, cookies, fried food, chips, popcorn and sugar I was extatic!
I wasn't eating those things anyway but now I can eat sandwiches, fruits, veggies, soft tacos, burritos, salads, etc. I was so happy! I was thanking Jesus cause it gets a bit rough when you are only on the soft food diet. The food doesn't taste as good as it used to. The string cheese, eggs, cottage cheese, and yogurt get a bit monotonous after a week of just eating that. I got very discouraged and tried to eat things I shouldn't have been eating yet
. I sometimes get depressed just watching other people enjoy their food, cause I can't anymore. Even though they say, oh you are going to eat slower and enjoy your food, you really don't cause after two-three bites your done and everyone else is still gettin down and you sit there and get nauseated watching them do it cause your too full and can't eat anymore. If I try something I shouldn't be eating like a chip or cheezits, boy do I pay, I get deathly ill
. I dry heave for about 5min until the stomach ache subsides. It sucks but in a way its good cause it keeps me on track 
. You just can't eat the things you used to. Although everyone is different I do know a few people that can eat whatever they want and let me tell you thank god I don't have that problem or else the surgery was a waste for me. Im glad I have huge reactions to the fat, sugar and fried stuff. I mean that is why I had the surgery in the first place, to get rid of those bad habits. But so far its going and every day is a new adventure for me. I will tell you, those clothes I couldn't fit into and now I can sure do make having the surgery well worth it
. I do apologize for my lack of promptness. But boy has this past month been crazy and it doesn't help that I don't have a pc at home to just jump on OH and post something
. Well to get started on June 1st which was a Friday, I had the surgery and let me tell you the surgery was a piece of cake 
. Then there is the gas or should I say oxygen they pump your stomach up with to see the inside, this was a mother! Naturally the doctor has to suture you back up and some of the oxygen gets stuck in there. The only way to get it out is to walk and get it moving out of your system and fart it out
. As gross as that is this is the reality of it. And its not that easy to get out, I mean this gas is stuck in there far deep within your body and its a mother to get it out. Its very painful and irritating when you are tired and sick and they want you to walk around. It hurt to walk
. Im not gonna lie I still have cravings and the soft diet get old and just disgusting to eat. You get tired of eggs, cheese, cottage cheese, pudding and jello. As wonderful as these foods are and as tasty as they were before surgery, you get sick 
. This is the nature of the beast. I have lost 15lbs so far and before surgery I lost 30lbs so a total of 45 so far. This will be a long process but a learning one as I go along. I have to remember it took me over ten years to put the weight on and its gonna take me a while to get it off and keep it off. I just have to keep focused and realize there is a payoff to this and thats being healthy forever. Well I will chat with you guys later. Talk to you soon.
