I Need Help! New To This.

[Cookiemonster73 92]

Hi everyone,

My name is Maria I'm 39 yrs old... I have always struggled with my weight in the 5 years I've been watching what I eat exercising dieting doing everything I can do to bring down my weight... My current weight is 230 and I am 5'5 I suffer from high blood pressure and recently was diagnosed with diabetes.. On Monday I will attend my 1st orientation for WLS... recently I've been feeling tired and nauseous and very ill my pcp did some blood work in which she found my cortisol levels to be low...Question is will this affect me being approved for WLS? Plz help

[COnative 192]

Cortisol levels shouldn't have any baring on approval. And low levels, I thought, were way better than high. I thought if you had high levels of cortisol it is way harder to lose weight.Hmmmmmmm

[Cookiemonster73 92]

Thank for reply... In my case the low levels have caused weight gain.

[COnative 192]

Huh, never heard of that before. Thanks for your post. I learn something new every day on here :-)

[Cookiemonster73 92]

Thank for replying... In my case the low levels have caused weight gain.

[lessofmeismore 1,405]

I thought high levels caused weight gain. But I was thinking cortisol was a stress hormone? I must be thinking of something else because you would want a stress hormone to be low.

Good luck on your journey, I bet someone will know the answer and help you out

[Cookiemonster73 92]

Ok, so apparently my neurologist says the test is normal being that I had to take some meds post-op blood work..

[lessofmeismore 1,405]

Ah, good to hear