MochaChino_Mommi
Hi Everyone,
Im a newbie to the OH family, let me give you a little history about me and my weight problems. I've had weight problems every since I was about 8 years old, I'm 36 years old now, so thats a mightyyyyyyyy long time, before that , I can remember being one of the skinniest children on the block. A lot of my of childhood friends had weight on them, so at that time I didnt want to be skinny, I wanted to be bigger, jut to fit in. I guess you have to be careful what you wish for, because by the time I was eight, I was a chubbster with a big round belly. The older I got, the bigger I got , even though, I was very active as a child, I took ballet, tap dance and even marched in the school marching band in elementary and junior high, but my eating habits kept me on the gaining side or at a plateau. When my teenage years arrived, I didnt come on my menstural cycle like my peers, maybe the bad eating habit contributed to the imbalance in my hormone. I came on for the first time, in the 8th grade, and didnt have a cycle again until after my 12 grade year. As a teenager I was happy about that because I didnt have to deal with it but as I got into early adulthood, I started to worry because I started noticing that the weight was piling on. I knew my eating habits weren't good, then my cycle was non existant most of the time and the water weight that suppose to be released during your monthly cycle would stay in my body and I would just bloat up and gain weight. i would try working out and changing my eating habits, however, I would never see any weightloss, I would be at a plateu. I went to the doctor , and was told not to worry about my cycle if i wasnt trying to have kids at the moment, i was in my twenties and didnt want kids at the times so the doctor told me not to worry, and said that we will just deal with it when you decide that you want kids, but most likely you woulnt be able to have any kid. A year later I was pregnant and it shocked the hell out of me, it took 3 doctors and a sonogram to convince me , that i was pregnant , I say this because going to various doctors all my life , they always ask " when was your last period" I tell them, and they say, "oh so you're pregnant" and I would always say no Im irregular. By the time I found out I was pregnant, and believed it, I was in the 3rd month. During my pregnancy, I lost 30lbs without even trying, when I delivered my baby girl, I was thinner and felt as if I steped into a new body. Instead of being around 220 before I got pregnant, I was now 185, my body started working perfectly, the cycle started coming every month, and then i started back to my bad eating habits, weight started to climb once again, and the period was missing again, before you know it, I was back at 220. Even though I was overweight, I was always told that I was healthy according to the doctors, but once I hit my 30's, my whole body chemistry started changing for the worst. I started feeling bad and my hair started shedding and not growing and I couldnt understand why. I went to my primary care doctor , and explained to him that i was feeling fatigue , dizziness and felt like i could just passout any day, and asked him if he could do some test to see whats wrong with me, he refused, and said that he had other patients to see, and that he just wanted to hear about one issue per visit. I explained to him that i waited weeks for an appointment, and an hour and a half in his waiting room , and that I feel that all the symptoms I'm having could be leading up to one or several big problems, and that i am literally seeing stars and feel like im going to pass out, he refused to listen. I was even having chest pains at the time, he didnt want to refer me to a cardiologist, I asked him to have my organs scanned and do blood work on me, he told me that he did that a year ago. We went on and on and got into a bad argument in front of the other patients because he basically rushed me out of the office and kept telling me that it was nothing wrong with me and i knew it was and he just didnt want to take the time to find out. The whole time I was in his office we argued and didnt get one issue resolved, that day i left the office in tears and vowed that i would never go back to that dr's office and I didnt. A couple of months later, I t found another primary care doctor who was more agressive with my situation, he sent for various blood test and sent me to other specialist like an endocrinologist who also performed various blood test and glucose test, and come to find out, my blood sugar levels were off the hook, and I was pre-diabetic, they also found out that I had PCOS and was insullin resistant,, which is the disorder that was causing my cycle to be absent all along, come to find out all these years my body was making too much insullin and my insullin receptors were no longer working, the insullin had no where to go in my body, which was causing the weight gain , and it was causing hormonal problems as well. This along with bad eating habits t were keeping me fat. This was a big discovery for me, now i finally know why I felt so bad and why I could never get the weight off. I just found out all of this less than a year ago. It's sad because a lot of people have it but if doctors dont know what to look for a patient is mis diagnosed or either they cant find it to diagnose it. There are a lot of overweight women who have PCOS and just dont know about it. Once the doctors found what was causing my problems, they put me on metformin, which is a drug used by diabetic, even though im not completely diabetic this drug helps my insullin level and keep me from developing diabeties, and also keeps me from gaining weight due to my insullin restistance problem. The medicine has help but it makes me sick and it makes me have bad bathroom episodes, which is not fun. I decided to have WLS more because of the health issue that were coming down the road for me. If I dont lost the weight I could be in big trouble as I get older , because my family has a strong history of diabeties, heart disease , highblood pressure, cancer etc, and I dont want to see any of that , but thats where I am heading If i dont change my eating habits and get the weight off.
I took forever to get approved for WLS but Im finally here, I had over tens years with various weightloss doctors, my efforts were a little successful but not successful enough. one time I lost 30 pounds and quickly gained it back. I Hopefully WLS will do it for me but I know it is up to me to make things work by changing my habits, so im going to need you all to pray for me because Im going to need every ounce of strength to get throught this battle, surgery is the easy part, the change in eating habits is the hard part because I love food. For a long time food has been my friend and has been there with me through ups and downs, hahahah,,, however I have to realize that the food I been chillin with is my enemy and I gotta make healthy choices if i want this all to work out.
