Hey everyone! I'm Sierra. I'm fifteen years old and a sophomore in high school. I know there is a lot of controversey over teenagers doing weight loss surgeries but, hear me out?
I am not completely oblivious to the struggles all people go through when they have a weight loss surgery. I have witnessed my mom have the gastric bypass surgery a few years ago. that made me aware about these types of surgeries and it showed me that, it was definitely not an easy thing to go through. my mom was 400 pounds, before the surgery, now, shes 234 pounds. and that's after she had a baby. i am very proud of my mom and all she has accomplished in her journey to get where she is today.
two years ago, i was really looking into these weight loss surgeries, three to be exact.
gastric bypass, gastric lap band and the gastric sleeve.
i had come to the conclusion that, i think the gastric bypass is a bit extreme and i don't really want it.
you have to be at least eighteen years old to have the lap band done and who wants to feel that thing inside of you.
then i realized that since the gastric sleeve surgery was so new at the time, the doctors and professors were unaware of the death rate.. that scared me enough to the point where, i completely backed down, from all of them.
but, here i am two years after the fact..
i have a ton of medical problems, some include; diabetes, bladder issues, fatty liver disease, PCOS (polycestic ovarian syndrom), depression, high cholesterol and high triglycerides. and a bunch more. i've had these medical problems for quite some time, but they have never been this out of control..
i take at least 14 pills a day to try to control these problems.. but it seems as if they're not working like they should..
my pedetrician asked me this very question the other day, "have we ever thought about gastric weight loss surgeries?"
"i feel like, we should look into them again, since you have diseases that won't allow you to lose weight as hard as you try, maybe we can try to get rid of them altogether by having a weight loss surgery" she said.
I'm not going to lie, i got pretty exciting, here i am, not only getting rid of my diagnosises, i'm also not going to be that, 198 pound 15 year old girl, nobody wants to hang out with. (:
so, as of right now, i have an appointment with healthy weight and nutrition at childrens hospital in columbus on july 23rd.
i'm excited, but i would like some advice from people who have actually had this gastric sleeve surgery before, message me on here or feel free to comment below.
Thanks!
-Sierra.
