Ryzmom2101
My name is Martha. I've been overweight since I was 11. I love food. Really love food. Especially cake. And once I start it's hard to stop. Sound familiar? I'm addicted to food. I was born with no thyroid and have always blamed my very slow metabolism but I think that's just one of my excuses. It does make it harder but I can lose if I try. And I've tried. Jenny Craig, Weight watchers, Phen-phen, herbalife, they all worked at first. Then I'd gain it all back, and then some.
I never thought I'd be on this road to weight loss surgery. I've seen other people have the RNY and some of them have developed hypoglycemia and I've seen people gain the weight back. I thought I could do it the "natural way". HA! NOT! Then I heard about the vsg. And found the WLS community on youtube and they inspired me, a ton!
In Sept. 2010 I asked my doctor about the lap band. She sent me to an informational class and they told me about the sleeve. But they also said that my life would change and I'd have to give up corn and rice, 2 of my food staples. I thought, NO way, I'm not doing that. Then I thought about how I want to be here for my son, I don't want to die of a heart attack or get so big that I get stuck in my house. So, I sucked it up and called the doctor and asked what it would take to get the surgery. She sent me to the South San Francisco Kaiser where they have a bariatric department.
In the meantime, I've lost about 20 lbs. The surgeon wanted me to get uner 230 and I managed to get there pretty quick as I wasn't far from it. By the time I went to orientation, I was down to 237. So I only had to lose 7 and I did by walking and following the pre-op diet.
In April, I started getting a pretty bad abdominal pain, every month and it was getting worse. I started taking zoomba and had to stop because of pain. So I went to the OB/GYN and we found an avarian cyst that was large and needed to be removed. On May 3rd, I had surgery to remove it. It turned out to be a low potential malignancy tumor and I came out of a 9 hour surgery with a full hysterectomy. Mind you, I just turned 40 in Feb. so I'm kinda young for that. But it's life and I can't do anything about it now. I'd rather have had that happen than have them return and have ovarian or uterine cancer.
On June 30, I went to see the bariatric surgeon and he rescheduled my surgery for Aug. 17th. I had to stop taking the estrogen I had just started before my sleeve surgery. So now it's 3 weeks away and I'm nervous but excited, too. 
