goodwine04
from my old profile deniece m.
Jan 09, 2010
BMI was 49.4 weight was 253.4 height is 5' .5"I'm interested in the WLS, but most of my diet attemps have been on my own, my gyn has diagnoised me with polycystic ovaries and said it will be hard for me to loss weight even if i starve myself, I think this is my only chance at having a normal life where I can walk up one flight of stair without my heart feeling like it's trying to escape from my chest, Ihave asthma which decreases my activity tolerance and I gain more weight. I don't have low self esteem about it or anything it is just I'm worried about my future health, I'm only 28, what will I weigh at 30, I was wearing 154 lbs. in 1992 and in 2002 I weigh 250 lbs. BMI 48.2(5.5 feet)
My initial consult is with Dr. Sabback Oct. 28th 2002, wish me good luck. :)
10/18/02
I called the surgeons office 10/17 to place my name on the list for any opening since I have finished my last class 10/16(I CAN NOW TRY FOR MY LPN LICENSE)and don't go back to school until the Spring semester( TO GET MY RN). I was supposed to have surgery(ovarian wedge resection) on 10/21/02, but I cancelled and I'm praying that I made the right decision but everything i read about the resection said it's a old procedure and it's no longer used. Most sites I've been on about PCOS has said weight loss is the best thing for PCOS, and the same Dr. performed my sisters resection and afterwards told her she had to loss weight to help with her symptoms. She eats like a bird now and her weights not going nowhere. I pray this is the answer for me !!!!!!!!!!!!!
OH YEAH I'VE BEEN ON A LOW CARBS DIET SINCE JULY NO POUNDS LOST BUT MY PERIODS BEEN ON 3 TIMES SINCE, BUT BEFORE THAT IT WAS ONLY ON 2 TIMES BY IT SELF SINCE 9/01 BUT THIS IS THE ONLY IMPROVEMENT I HAVE NOTICE.
10/23/02
I'm gonna try and remember to date all of my post because when i read someone post and try and figure out how much time has passed, since something occurred it' kind of frustrating i'm having trouble staying off the site. I'm kind of nervous that the surgeon(initial appt. 10/28/02 5 days) will not think i'm a good candidate for WLS or the insurance will not approve me. i have tried some diet meds in the past but not for long since the all give me heart palpitations at first i used to pass out when i had them but a nurse told me to stay calm and not to panic and it's has work almost every time since then but it is still scary. If insurance wants me to try meds again i don't know if i'll be able to do it i'm scared to take them. I have tried several kind but they all do the same thing just at varying degrees.
10/26/02
HI IT'S ME AGAIN
When I came home yesterday my babysitter told me a Dr. office called and was saying something about an appt. i had and would call back around 5 o'clock. Boy did my heart drop, so i check the caller i.d. and sure enough it was Dr. Sabback's office so i called them back and the nurse? asked if i could come in earlier that morning, what a relief. I am too anxious already to wait any longer. WHEWWW!!!!
10/28/02 09:05
WELL HERE GOES xxxxxx.
10/29/02
Well I've had my initial consult and it went great, BUT i think i'm gonna have a problem with my PCP which I went to today and got brushed off when I asked for a referral, the issue wasn't really addressed. She said next time, right!!!!!
I really fell this is my only chance to lose weight. I will not let her brush me off so loghtly the next time, this is my health that she is playing with.
11/07/02
Well I made the appt. specifically to discuss letter of medical necessity. Here are the results as posted for Q & A.
Please help, my PCP will not give me a letter of medical necessity, which should not surprise me because he is always talking about how much this test or procedure cost Medicaid. (Radiologist recommends another abdominal CT Scan because he saw a possible growth on my kidney and my PCP told me that the scan is expensive so he will just run a renal panel every now and then. I have had one renal panel since (4/02) then and he is not the one who ordered it.) He does not fell that I have exhausted my options. I can’t take appetite suppressants, I’ve tried exercise I’m on a low carb diet right now and haven’t lost a pound yet but I haven’t gain either. He also told me he knows it’s hard to loose weight with my PCOS but lets try a nutritionalist and some fat blocker, which cost around a $100.00 a month. Which I can’t afford, I am on Medicaid, DUH.
It’s not like I’m not trying to do something with my life I’m a student and I just finished the LPN level of a nursing program.
PS: I took my time and typed out all the things I have tried and he wouldn't even look at it. I also wrote him a letter telling him about my research on the subject of WLS. I'm so disapointed and depressed I fell like this is my last hope.
11/08/02
I feel some hope now, I was told I could use a letter from my GYN.11/09/02 appt. 11/12/02 will post results.
11/12/02
Well I JUST CAME BACK FROM MY UPPER GI, GALLBLADDER ULTRASOUND AND VARIOUS LABS. AFTER THAT I HAD AN APPT. WITH MY GYN!!!!!!!! I'M SO DEPRESSED, AND I'M A PERSON THAT LETS VERY LITTLE GET ME DOWN. WHY ARE ALL OF MY DOCTORS CORRUPTED, HE TOLD ME AFTER I HAVE A SURGERY THAT HE WANTS ME TO HAVE AND BY JANUARY HE WILL WRITE ME A LETTER OF MEDICAL NECESSITY, WELL GEUST WHAT I'M TOTALLY AGAINST THIS SURGERY BUT I WAS TOLD THAT I HAVE PUT IT OFF LONG ENOUGH, AND I NEED TO HAVE THIS OPERATION BEFORE I NEED A HYSTERECTOMY. I'VE READ UP ON THE OVARIAN WEDGE RESECTION AND FROM WHAT I READ IT IS NOT DONE ANYMORE FOR PCOS, ESPECIALLY NOT BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE IS TRIED. THERE IS A 30% CHANCE OF DEVELOPING ADHESIONS INSIDE YOUR OVARIES AND CAUSING INFERTILITY AND THAT'S THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE OPERATION! ALL I CAN THINK OF IS ASKING THE LORD WHERE SHOULD I GO FROM HERE?
11/14/02 sent in a before picture
11/15/02
Well I had a very busy day first i had a appt. with my new PCP and i told him i was pursuing the gatric bypass and ask for an appt with an endocrinologist for the PCOS. He did a complete physical with labs and all(last pcp i ask for a physical appt. and when i got there starved at 3:30 he didn't even do one he ask me what kind of problems i was having to want a physical.)
He said when the result come back from cardiac dr. and my lab results then we would discuss everything else on my next visit 12/02/02
Next I went to the pulmonary DR. that PFT was hard as HADES well everything was not 100% so he wants me to have a sleep study before i can get clearance from him. Next avaliable 01/05/02 I heard there is only one sleep lab that's local. Now I need to find another GYN. Well that's the day in the life of a WLS seeker :O)
11/18/02 well psych. eval completed cardiologist 11/19
11/20/02 cardiologist appt. was okay, I passed the SWEAT TEST OH EXCUSE ME STRESS TEST, and have clearance from the Cardiac Dr. only need clearance from pulmonary Dr. he said after the sleep study which the next avaliable appt was 1/05/03, will call today to ask to be called for next cancelation.
12/04/02
Well i guess the surgery is not for me at least not yet. But I have excepted it for now, I got a new PCP and he said he can't write me an letter of necessity because he doesn't know me. He did get me an appt. with an endocrinologist maybe he can help with my weight by treating the PCOS with any luck I'll get pregnant and lose some weight last time I lost around 65-70lbs. But here's the bomer my appt. isnt until 04/03. My sister is already getting the ball rolling and my cousin they already have physicians who will write them the letter. Well please keep me in your prayers.
01/07/03
Well I already had a appt. for a sleep study so I went ahead anyway. It was 1/5/03 and I was very restless can't see how people sleep with all the hook ups, I go for my reveiw of test results 1/20/03 with the pulmonalogist.
1/16/03
I have some great news I had an appt. 01/13/03 and the Dr. agreed to write me a letter of medical necessity but I didn't get my hopes up until I got the letter in my hand, Well guess what I got it I will go to Dr. Sabback's office tomorrow to turn it in to Jeann, then I'll have something else to stress about insurance approval. One step closer to my goal of a smaller HEALTHIER me. oh yeah my BP was 137/100 so that is something else for me to stress about.
01/20/03
I got the results from my sleep study I have mild sleep apnea. I had 27 episodes throughout the night with O2 stats of 94%. He saids that he recommends me getting the surgery before it gets worst. Jeanne at Dr. Sabback office said my insursnce packet should go out soon and I should know something in around 30 days.
02/03/2003
i know this is probably normal but I'm so paronoid about getting insurance approval, I feel like my whole world is depending on this surgery. to live or not to live OHH! SO DRAMATIC! 02/12/03 still waiting
03/11/03
Still waiting starting to get anxious, almost 2 months.
03/21/02
I AM APPROVED, AND HOME ALONE, COULDN'T GET IN TOUCH WITH MY FIANCE, SISTER OR MOTHER!!!!! BUT STILL HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY ;>)
04/25/03
Surgery went well, i came home after 4 days havent took any pain meds yet. surgery date weight 253.4 todays weight is 224 so I lost almost 30lbs since 04/02/03.
05/17/03
Sorry all I have been without internet assess, so I havrn't updated in a while. I'm am now weighing in at 205.5, I don't see much of a difference but my clothes fit awful. But I'm not buying any new clothes now, I started wearing a belt something I've never did before. Well I will update my profile more often.
08/05/03
Hello everyone, everything has been going great I'm officially down to 193 lbs. and I can't beleive it when I look in the mirror I don't see it, but all my clothes fit awful. ( not that i'm complaining, I love it.)
09/18/03
Hi everyone how is it going. I'm doing great down to 183lbs that's 70 lbs in a little over 5 months, I'm estatic.
10/14/03
176.5# that's 77# lost
12/11/03 I am now weighing in at 167.5(86lbs.)it seems to me that my weight is slowing down but i guess 9 lbs in 2 months is not bad. My original goal was 158 at 18 months out, but I thought it was an unreasonable goal before surgery, now I have changed my goal to 150 lbs.
12/31/03 I now wear a size loose 14 probably a size 12 if I try, I very proud of my weight loss 163(-90.5lbs) now, it's just I don't see it when I look in the mirror and sometimes when I go to put on my clothes I wonder what I'm doing with this little behind clothes and then they fit. Have a Happy New Year and may there be many new losers added to our list.
01/13/04 I have lost 2 more lbs. 161 lbs I usually lose weight once a month so I'll probobly lose a couple of more lbs. this week. it's slowing down but I happy about that i want to lose 11 more lbs depends on how it looks on me. I'm pretty small everywhere except my hips, behind and thighs(waist 32inches and hips 42 inches). My breast are almost gone I was always very flashy in the breast area with push up bras and low cut shirt well I can't do that no more. Everybody say I look good and I need to stop losing now but they have been saying that every since I got to 200lbs. so go figure. one of my friends mother who I haven't seen in a while saw me and did a full inspection and said that seen my face hasn't sunk in with my weight lost she don't have nothing to say except I look good. Which is good from her because she is too outspoken. I about to send in an after photo it was taken in the begining of November I was weighing around 176lbs.
05/04/04
I'M PREGNANT, i can't believe it, we are so happy. I did not think it would happen so easily. My cycle is irregular so I don't keep up with the dates of my period because when I did i was buying so many pregnancy test. We could not tell by the ultrasound but I could see the sac, they think i'm around six weeks. Praise to the lord, life is great.
09/03/04
I'm around 25 weeks now and weigh 164.5 lbs, a .5lbs gain. not much but i had really bad morning sickness and lost down to 151, i gained the 13 lbs back plus .5lbs, the baby size is around what it should be, they think it's a girl. she is so active and always kicking up a storm. I'm loving it but can't wait until this is over. I want my body back.
12/26/04
Well it has been a while, I am the proud parent of a little girl. She was 6lbs 11oz and she is simply precious and percocious. She was born 12/21/04 at 2:58 pm by c-section, was husband was present and nervous as hell and had a permenant grin on his face. I'm still a little sore from surgery and my back aches a little from spinal anesthesia, but it was well worth it, well next time it won't be so long before I update until later.
07/16/05
I'm weighing in at 169.5 now, when i got pregnant I was 164lb but lost to 151 from morning sickness. I though I looked to small my neck was to skinny, but i want these 5 lbs gone. I need to get back on track and walk but my life seem so hectic with work and another child, and I don't like to let my kids go any place unless i have no choice. My baby is almost 7 months and 19lbs am trying to help her now by introducing foods at the right stage with no additives my family think I'm paronoid and criticise my decisions so I afraid to let most of them watch her for a hour or so to exercise. i did good for about 2 weeks by taking her with me, but lost interest quick. Well here's to giving it the old college try.
