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Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.
i have been overwheight since i got into high school i was verry active in middleschool with track softball and volleyball.. but in highschool i was bolleyed becuase of my wheight, i started to have problems with depression and everytime that i got deppressed i would eat.
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Be healthy and get off the CPAP machine.

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run on the treadmill

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get to 162 lbs

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David Coster
he is a verry nice doctor.. he awnsered all the questions that i had.. he had went over with what i need to do after the surgery when i go home. i would recomend anybody that was considering bariatric surgery to him.
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update and im falling apart
on November 9, 2012 8:20 pm

well i am down to 264 lbs. for a total of 100 pounds lost yay me.. now for the falling apart par... went to see the hand specialist today i have been having pains in my thumb for quite a while now... found out that i have joint laxity in my thumb.. baisicaly what that means is that i can do some funky stuff with my thumb that i am not suppost to be able to. so they gave me 2 options on how they can treat the pain. 1 is that they can do more cortisone shots in the joint and have me wear a brace constantly and the 2nd option is to do surgery and go in and do a graph of a tendon in my wrist and take it up to the joint and create a new joint with the tendon to help it.. well i took the 2nd option route.. i cant take the pain any more.. so lucky me this is going to be now a 3rd surgery this year yay.. oh well its got to be done.. well that is all

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update
on October 13, 2012 10:11 am
well it has been a while since that i have posted and update on here.. well not much has happened, except that at 3 months last month that i have started to some of my hair. talked to p.a and she suggested to take biotin pills to help with the hair loss. i havent noticed anything changing but the hair loss has slowed down some.. i am down to 282 lbs. i have lost 82 lbs so far, i went to try to give plasma the other day and they weighed me and they said i was at 277 but that was with shoes on so it might be less with out shoes on.. thats all.
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update
on August 23, 2012 1:49 pm
well i have lost a total of 57 pounds and we are thinking that i am down to 299 lbs. and i am losing alot of pounds that i had to go to salvation army and goodwill today to get some pairs of workout shorts for when i go exercising at the ymca.. i went from a 4xl down to 2xl.. they are a little snug but nothing too bad i still can get them up over my hips and hanging belly... it is 2 and 1/2 weeks in 2 days since i have had the surger back on 5/5/12.. i am verry pleased with myself.
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surgery tomorrow
on July 12, 2012 3:03 pm
tomorrow i am having my surgery to get my gall bladder out.. went to see the p.a (physician assistany) and she said if that its hurting me realy badly that i should get it out a.s.a.p they dont want an infection going.. but befor ei can have my gall bladder surgery i have to get a ultrasound done before to check to see if the gall stones have got down into my bile ducts that conects to the gall bladder.. if it seems that they have gond into the ducts i have to get transfered to DesMoines to have surgery there because grinell cant do the kind of surgery with the stones down in the bile ducts.. so i am hoping that they havent gotten into it.. i guess we will see what happens tomorrow.
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2 more weeks
on July 9, 2012 10:32 am
yay i have 2 more weeks until i can get my gall bladder.. i cant wait for it to get here.. i am ready to get it out.. man i hate taking renatal vitamins.. i just done like the burps after words its gross.. oh well i need to take them no matter what.. sorry this is short but there isnt much to write

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My Story

i have been over wheight for a while now since i think since high school.. i have been active all the way up to the,, in middle school i was active in sports basketball softball and track then it all went down hill from there after middleschool.. i started to gain wheight alot of it.. i some times get depressed and i tend to eat when depressed.. i am currently 363 lbs. and am hoping to get to 169 or lower i guess that is a good goal to start with, i am sure that it will change.. but i got my surgery date set for the 5th of June and David Coster of Surgical Associates of Grinnell is doing my surgery.. im having the gastric bypass.. well that is all that i can think of puting for this :)