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Re: Specialists suggesting STOMACH STAPLING SURGERY???
From: Zowie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:54:54 -0500 (CDT)
At Tue, 8 Aug 2000, anonymous wrote:
Thanx to the anonymous professional who responded. I am thankful for
your reply, and am also saddened by your experiences. I am looking into
this further, and decided to try ONE more time with the GYN here (a
different doc this time) if I can't get another appt. with an actual
clinic specialist, or if I get the SAME B.S. as last time, I quit with
using them here and will wait until I move. Thanx for the
encouragement. Good luck to you. *hug*
>Hi Zowie!
>
>First of all, I am a medical professional. I hear and appreciate the
>fear that you are experiencing. If you are not ready to have this
>surgery - you should not do it. Plain and simple, you need to "be on
>board" 100% if you're going to have a major procedure like this.
>
>Secondly, I agree with the former military wife who suggested that even
>though you may have to pay out of pocket because military insurance is
>so restrictive (Iknow my brother is a vet and its his primary insurance)
>you should do whatever it takes to find an endocrine or reproductive
>endocrine specialist and see them for a consultation. Check out the
>http://www.pcosupport.org website for a list of healthcare providers in your
>state/city who you can go to. If none are listed, just post an email on
>that board and you'll get a ton of responses from ladies.
>
>Thirdly, I had a gastric stapling 16 years ago after I had gained over
>100# post going off the pill. Mine is a complicated story, but at that
>time pco were just considered a fertility problem not a METABOLIC
>problem that affects your long term health, LONG AFTER ISSUES OF BABIES
>ARE RESOLVED! I honestly CANNOT recommend this procedure to anyone -
>especially if you are insulin resistant/hyperinsulemic. After the
>surgery, I lost 80#s over the course of 8 or 9 months. I felt AWEFUL. I
>had no energy - and working full time was a b----! I lost more than half
>the volume of hair on my head - to this day that hasn't reversed. I
>couldn't tolerate any proteins - whenever I tried to eat any, I would
>throw up. I would have terrible stomach pains and just keep vomiting up
>the little food that was in my stomach and then continue vomiting thick,
>foamy, frothy, mucousy, secretions. Those episodes left me absolutely
>drained. I was left with a very thick, uneven scar on my abdomen. And
>the worst part was, the weight didn't stay off. I regained all of the
>weight between 4 - 8 years after the surgery.
>
>If you are insulin resistant and or hyperinsulemic, you need to eat a hi
>protein (lean protein)and lo carb diet (less than 40% of your diet) and
>given my experience, that wasn't possible with this surgery. Therefore,
>it only fed into the insulin resistance problem, because the only thing
>I could tolerate were refined carbohydrates.
>
>Slow down. Educate yourself on this disease. Get a specialist who
>treats this disease to see you, get appropriate testing done, and work
>with him using treatments you are comfortable with. Don't rush off into
>a major surgery which you're obviously (and rightly so) not comfortable
>with.
>
>Good luck.
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>>Thank you for any replies. --Zowie
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--Zowie :)
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