Fixing to Be 57 and Just Want to Be Able to Chase the Grandkids. - San Antonio, TX

Well I am not really sure how to start this but I will give it my best shot. I am 56 and I am a little over 6'2" tall and I weigh 330 lbs. I tried diets for years and seemed like it would work for a bit then gain it all back. Finally decided t take the step and get the surgery. Little nervous but this site has helped a bunch already. A couple of my friends have had the surgery and they have fantastic results. I would just like to be able to chase the grandkids a little and possibly even my wife, and maybe just win the race one time. So this is my start, I have had my first 2 Dr. visits and have started getting all my stuff together so it seems like it is going to be pretty easy for the office staff to get the paperwork through to the insurance. When the date gets closer I will post that on here. That's when I am afraid I may start getting cold feet.

I made my third Dr. visit. It went pretty good. Seems like I have to make 6 visits before they can send it to the insurance for approval. I feel pretty good about it and so did the NP. I completed my psych evaluation, EKG, chest x-rays and lab work. Got the approval from my cardiologist so now I just have to make my next 3 visits and I should be good. They said the were looking at a date around the end of May or beginning of June. When they did the endoscopy, he said I had a couple of holes in the esophagus he would repair during the sleeve surgery. The up part is my weight was 325.5 so I had lost a couple.

I made my 5th supervised visit Tuesday and they said everything looked really good. I was down to 313 so I was losing weight, I asked if it was too much and they told me no everything was based off my initial visit and weigh ins. I sure hope so. Even if not I am still big. I don't know if I ever put this down or not about some of the other conditions I had with this weight but a lot of mine are the same as the ones I have read on here with others. The high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes and problems with my back and knees. While I have noticed my sugars are dropping to some really low numbers with what I have been eating I wondered if this is normal and when and if the wieghtloss group will take me off the diabetes meds or not. I wanted to update my news and with my surgery hopefully coming soon update some before pictures, just haven't had the courage to do that yet.