sarahsingler
I didn't have any weight issues till I was twenty-one. I look back at pictures and can't believe how discontent I was at an ideal weight for my height (135lbs.), but somehow at twenty (and younger) you hear your weight # as bad! It never occured to me that friends and complete strangers LIE about what they weigh...110lbs. was always the number I heard, and I just believed that I was the HEAVY girl! I went on birth-control at twenty-three six months before my wedding and I immediately gained twenty pounds, and a full blown case of acne. In going back to the doctor and after several tests I got the news that I would probably NEVER have kids (I chose to ignore this tid-bit of info, because, quite frankly...my God is big), due to a condition called Poly-Cystic Ovarian Syndrome(PCOS) also known as Stein-Leventhal. I didn't really pack on any significant weight till after my wedding (and yes, I did lose the 20lbs. before my wedding in order to get into the wedding dress I had already purchased, with the help of a very zealous mother and a food depriving diet...I thought I was going to die!) After my wedding, almost six months to the day, my folks drove down to visit me...my parents barely recognized me. I weighed 275lbs. I continued to gain till I tipped the scales at 295lbs. This was when my husband (I can't believe this was never an issue for him!) were trying to get pregnant. The wonderful people at Wood County Women's Care (Marcia Amstutz, you're an angel!) sent me to talk to Dr. Charles Glueck, I was immediately put on a Metformin regimine and two weeks later got pregnant (I also lost close to 75 lbs. during my 1st pregnancy) With each year and pregnancy my weight would fluxcuate, I was a pretty consistant 249 on Glucophage/Metformin. It wasn't till my current doc, Ronica Nuehoff told me about her successful bariatric surgery with the excellent Dr. Brian Lane and all the fine people at the Wood County Clinics for Weight Loss Surgery that all the pieces came together. November 6, 2007 was my surgery date where I received a Laproscopic Roux-En-Y procedure.
