Gastric Sleeve with a Low BMI - Nogales, Sonora

Hi my name is Deisy and I will be sharing my full journey through realself and possibly YouTube. I am 21 years old my height is 5'1" and I weight 168lbs. On July 8 I had my first consultation and was approved. I have already provided my doctor with the x-rays, endoscopy and blood work he requested . I will hopefully have my surgery by July 27 but I'm not too sure since everything will be decided on my next appointment. I have been looking for similar situations as mine and there aren't too many so I hope that my review will help others. So I have struggled with my weight since i was a child. I have always been obese! My highest weight was over 229lbs i stop weighting my self at that point so i know I definitely got a lot bigger. I managed to go down to 132lbs with clean eating and exercising. However, keeping the weight off was really hard and it still is! I would go to the gym and do cardio for two hours and eat around 1500 calories per day that's the only way I would either maintain my weight or manage to lose a few more pounds. It was hard living like that! Everytime I ate something "unhealthy" I would gain weight really fast. And it sucks seeing all your hard work thrown in the trash but I'm a human being and I would have cravings. Another reason I started gaining the weight back was because I stopped going to the gym. I enrolled in college and that turned my "new lifestyle" upside down. I would only go to the gym on Saturdays and Sundays if I have free time. I work and my classes would end really late by the time i got home I had to finish my class assignments so I was always tired. With all that on my shoulders I went up to 168lbs and i'm still gaining weight. I cant seem to maintain my weight without going to the gym so hopefully this surgery will help me control my eating habits before it gets out of control again. I definitely don't want to weight 229lbs ever again. Wish me luck on my new journey hopefully this surgery helps me get back on track!

After postponing my surgery many times I finally had my surgery on September 2nd 2016. I ended up getting my surgery in Nogales, Sonora with Dr. Juan Quintana. As I stated before I was going to get my surgery in Los Mochis, Sinaloa with Dr. Carlos Manuel Beltran Gastelum. The reason why I kept postponing my surgery was because since I was not going to get the surgery near my house I had to be sure with who I was going to stay. If I had the surgery in Los Mochis, Sinaloa that would be a 14 hour drive and my sister in law would be the one taking care of me however every date I chose that worked for me she wasn't available since her job requires her to travel so I started looking for other alternatives close to home Nogales, Sonora is only 3 hours away from home so I went on google and researched for doctors available in that area and Dr. Quintana was the doctor that i chosed to preform the surgery. I have to admit i was really nervous because I was basically on my own! I arrived to Nogales with my sister at 7:30 am and the staff had me ready for surgery at 8:00am I remember laying down in a bed with my arms spread out and I was knocked out. I woke up at about 10am and I was really cold. I was so cold that i was trembling and that trembling cause my stomach to ache. The nurse brought me two blankets and in a few minutes I felt much better and my stomach ache was gone. After settling in my bed i had an urge to vomit. So i did and I threw up some red liquid that looked like blood but the doctor claimed it wasn't blood. I felt so good after i threw-up. I still had no pain at all. It was time for my sister to leave so my sister made sure I was ok and left Nogales to go to work. I honestly thought that I was going to be in excruciating pain but i was so wrong. I rarely had any pain the nurses kept putting antibiotics, pain medication and medication for gases in my IV. Even though I had no pain I felt really uneasy. I felt really thirsty and I wasn't allowed to drink anything for the first 24 hours. The only pain that kept me up all night was my back pain. I had really bad back pain from laying down for many hours. That was the only pain i felt for the two days I was in the hospital. The next day I was walking and ready to leave I basically begged the doctor to discharge me already. Like I said the only pain I had was from laying down all day. At around 1 pm the doctor discharged me and left the drainage on me and by that time my sister was already at the hospital ready to pick me up. So we left and I did have some minor discomfort since it was a 3 hour ride to my house. So far I have had minor pain due to having gas pain. Everytime I eat my popcycle or chicken broth I get a lot of gas pain but it's nothing i cant manage. I could honestly say that this surgery has been easy breezy. I have An appointment on September 9th 2016 to get the drainage removed so I will have another update soon.

Hey guys like I mentioned on my first review I might start a youtube channel and I did. I started a youtube channel to share my experience. Here is the link to my channel https://youtu.be/W37mxP_Oevc. I will still be updating on here pretty soon I have a doctors appointment on Friday September 9. :)