New profile for old member.

Jun 30, 2013

 This is a new profile but I am not a new member. I've been a member of OH since 2005. My original profile was too personally identifiable and now 8 years later, I'm finally able to have surgery. I have been reading the forums for years but never participated so none of  you "know" me. I never had insurance that would cover the surgery until recent years so I've created a less personally identifiable profile and want to start documenting my progress and experience. . I've watched the site change a great deal over the years and I look forward to the "help" I will need as I make my way through this. I've waited so long for this. I had my first consult with a doctor to pursue WLS in 2004, I can't believe it's finally happening! And it's covered! What a blessing.

 

I'm a mom, a wife, a diabetic, on my way to a better life.  I'm sure my story isn't too different than most of you. I am a diabetic with severe insulin resistance. I take a potent, concentrated insulin in an insulin pump and have had high blood pressure in the past. I had my last weight loss seminar in Dec 2012, started my medically supervised weight loss program in Jan which finished in June. After an EKG, Chest X-Ray, Upper GI, Primary care clearance, Cardiology & Cardiology Specialist Clearance after a Stress-Echo, Psychological evaluation and testing, I was approved by my insurance company in 7 days and am scheduled for surgery next week!

 

My 6 month medically supervised weight loss program with the NUT from my surgeons office wasn't going great in the first few months. In May, I read a book called Wheat Belly and my family and I decided to give up wheat, gluten, grains, soy, and sugar. I lost 35 lbs in 12 weeks and was taken off of not one, but two blood pressure medications and greatly reduced the amount of insulin I was taking. What a great boost I needed for the last two months of my program to get approved and I believe life without the wheat will set me up for success with surgery and life afterward.

I hope that surgery will allow me to discontinue insulin for good, which is the goal along with the weight loss. This has been a long time coming, I am so very excited. Scared, but excited! I can't imagine what it will feel like to actually not be hungry, I am looking soooo forward to that!

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08/21/2013
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