I have always been a little overweight.  In middle and high school, it really was "a little" then after I gave birth to my first son, it was a lot.  That began 15 years of really battling the bulge.  I went to my doctors, did lots of diets, and even experienced some success on WW- 75 pounds in 3 years.  Each diet had its success but each also ended the same way, with an immovable plateau.  I started to look into WLS in '04 but one complication after another ended that attempt.  I am forever thankful for the process because a lot happened in the midst of it.  I found out I had severe sleep apnea- 95 apneas/hr, diabetes, and Hashimoto's Disease, aka hypothyroidism.  In all those years of going to dr's, not one ran a TSH count on me.  My levels are still not great but a lot better than they were.  My health continued to deteriorate and quite honestly, I had stopped putting much effort at all into even maintaining my weight.  Then I went on disability... and would have medicare.  I began planning on starting this process again as soon as I was on medicare.  I was officially enrolled 2/1/09 and attended the seminar in March.

***UPDATE***

ii developed a fistula and because of it, food is going into my stomach again.  I am now on the road to surgery to correct that and redo the gastric bypass.

About Me
New Britain, CT
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48.9
BMI
Surgery
08/11/2014
Surgery Date
Jan 11, 2009
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