My Weightloss Journey through Roux en Y Gastric Bypass (RNY) : Kidney Stone update

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Kidney Stone update

Well, here is it May 18th and I am still having issues with those blasted kidney stones. It has put a bit of a damper on me being able to exercise and do things as they begin acting up so easily. I finally get to see the Urologist this coming Friday, May 23rd and I hoping it will not be too much longer after that I am to return to have something more done about it.

This past week has been one where I have had to use my pain medicine and the bladder medicine as well as taking antibiotics to prevent bladder or kidney infection.

As for my weight, I have hit a stand still and I stuck at 158-163 pounds, It just goes up and down. I know what I need to get it moving again and that is exercise, but not feeling very well has prevented me from doing what I need to do, not only in exercising for weight loss, but also just getting things done around the house. I can feel it within my body that I am not as healthy as I was before I had the gastric bypass surgery. I am hoping after the Kidney stone issue is taken care of that I will begin to feel normal like I did before the surgery.

Lately I have been questioning if I made the right decision, yes, I am thinner, yes, my blood sugar is in control and I am not longer diabetic since it is in remission, but I wonder, did I extend my life or shorten it with constant other health problems. I guess only time will tell.

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My Story

Growing up I was always thin and never had to worry about weight issues. I was lucky and thankful. My mother had always had weight issues. I recall being teased in school about having a fat mom. Back in the 1970's it was rare for people to be obese.

Kid's would yell out to me that I was going to be a whale just like my mom when I grew up. It wasn't really nice of them, but they didn't understand. I watched my mother suffer in silence and do the roller coaster with her weight from one diet to another. My mother developed diabetes in her late 30's and her weight loss efforts were all unsuccessful. She is still overweight today.

For me, I was quite the opposite. I had taken after my father at least for most of my life. I was never larger than a size 7, I had five children and was thin again in weeks. I was the woman other women hated. Ironic as it sounds, I was teased in childhood I would be fat when I grew up, and then I was despised by other women because I wasn't fat after I had children.

Then at age 42 I became pregnant with my sixth child. My pregnancy was great without complications other than I had developed gestational diabetes. I weighed 193lbs just prior to delivery and after a c-section I was down to 170 lbs. I didn't have too much to lose to get back down to size.

That is when the weigh gain began. I was tired all the time. I had no energy. I just kept gaining weight. Within a year of my daughters birth I now weighed my per-delivery weight.

What was going on? Not one doctor thought to check that my gestational diabetes had developed in type 2 diabetes after delivery.

I did the norm, I tried all the diets, not one worked. Then my doctor upon my request tested my sugar and was shocked to see it was 362, and confirmed what I was thinking all along. I was now diabetic and could not lose the weight and I was still gaining.

I started Metformin, but still no weight loss even after 9 months of taking it.

Since, it is too difficult to get any type of weight loss surgery in the United States, I have taken control of my life and I am going with the surgery in Mexico.

I have decided to use Roux en Y Gastric Bypass Surgery. This surgery also known as RNY has a 95% chance that I will no longer have diabetes and the weight loss is the bonus to me.

Pounds to Lose.

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Kidney Stone update

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