Need help for daughter
My daughter is 32 and has just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and also has endodemtriosis, and Polysystic fibroid syndrome, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and is ADHD she stand 5 feet 8 inches tall and weights aprox 350. She is having trouble grasping the importance of keeping her sugar levels undercontrol. Her weight has fluctuated for many years and she is an emotional eater.
I am not sure how to help her. She lives 2 hours away from me and is hard headed.
I suggested on my last visit that she check into doing wls and she said she wants to have children and if she has wls she would not be able to. According to her she has been told that once she has a baby two of her co morbidies will be cured.
Her polysystic fibroid syndrome and endodemetriosis.
I am just worried about her health ( in all aspects) and would appreciate any advice that any one can share.
I have given her this website to come to but don't know if she has visited.
Lori
I am not sure how to help her. She lives 2 hours away from me and is hard headed.
I suggested on my last visit that she check into doing wls and she said she wants to have children and if she has wls she would not be able to. According to her she has been told that once she has a baby two of her co morbidies will be cured.
Her polysystic fibroid syndrome and endodemetriosis.
I am just worried about her health ( in all aspects) and would appreciate any advice that any one can share.
I have given her this website to come to but don't know if she has visited.
Lori
Lori:
Wow, she sounds like me. However, here is the punchline. I was reading an article one day about PCOS (because I was never diagnosed), took the article to my OB/GYN and was told, yes you probably do have it. Started getting treatment for it, ran into some complications where I had to have a DNC (or D&C) and found CANCER. So, at 33 years old I was having a hysterectomy. I know I am fortunate to have found "my own" cancer, but I still hurt to this day for not having children. If I had only found WLS prior to this occurring, maybe things would have been different. I didn't know that CANCER was a risk of obesity. I too, also had diabetes. At first I was given a little blue pill to take everyday. No big deal. Then one became 2 and 2 became a injection and one injection turned into . . . well you get my drift. Pre-surgery at age 43, i was at 5 injections per day. I felt bad all the time. I wanted to sleep or even better, die. My legs and feet had neuropothy and hurt tremendously. So, what might not be a bid deal at this point, unfortunately will only get worse. Please share this with her as I am only giving her this information in an effort to try to prevent this from becoming her. Lots of love. I'm hard-headed too, or strong willed and independant, as I see it.
Wow, she sounds like me. However, here is the punchline. I was reading an article one day about PCOS (because I was never diagnosed), took the article to my OB/GYN and was told, yes you probably do have it. Started getting treatment for it, ran into some complications where I had to have a DNC (or D&C) and found CANCER. So, at 33 years old I was having a hysterectomy. I know I am fortunate to have found "my own" cancer, but I still hurt to this day for not having children. If I had only found WLS prior to this occurring, maybe things would have been different. I didn't know that CANCER was a risk of obesity. I too, also had diabetes. At first I was given a little blue pill to take everyday. No big deal. Then one became 2 and 2 became a injection and one injection turned into . . . well you get my drift. Pre-surgery at age 43, i was at 5 injections per day. I felt bad all the time. I wanted to sleep or even better, die. My legs and feet had neuropothy and hurt tremendously. So, what might not be a bid deal at this point, unfortunately will only get worse. Please share this with her as I am only giving her this information in an effort to try to prevent this from becoming her. Lots of love. I'm hard-headed too, or strong willed and independant, as I see it.
Lisa Z.
When we believe, all things are possible!
Thank you so much for sharing your experiences.
I will share this with her and hope that it may make some sense to her. I didn't know that cancer was a risk of obesity until I started doing research for my own wls. There is a very high rate of cancer on both sides of my family ( maternal and faternal) my grandfather, father and all of his syblings all died of various types of cancer. and my grandmother had breast cancer.
So hopefully sharing your story will help her.
hugs and giggles from baltimore
lori
Ps
I see we share the same surgeon. Dr Kligman
I will share this with her and hope that it may make some sense to her. I didn't know that cancer was a risk of obesity until I started doing research for my own wls. There is a very high rate of cancer on both sides of my family ( maternal and faternal) my grandfather, father and all of his syblings all died of various types of cancer. and my grandmother had breast cancer.
So hopefully sharing your story will help her.
hugs and giggles from baltimore
lori
Ps
I see we share the same surgeon. Dr Kligman
I was 23 when diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. I was young and thought I knew better than anyone else.
You can tell her this: if she does not loose weight her diabetes will get worse, if it gets worse it will be harder for her to get pregnant, if it gets worse and gets pregnant it can become very dangerous for her and the baby while pregnant, she can have kidney failure while pregnant. This scenario is only for pregnancy.
If diabetes is not treated she can suffer from heart failure. Women that are diabetic suffer from silent heart attack they dont even know that they are having one. If diabetis is not properlly maintained she can have a heart attack have stents put in every 3 months and not be able to have children because no doctor will touch her. And if that was not enought her arteries can start getting smaller making it harder to get stents put in. God forbid that were to happen because then she would have a bypass.
This is my story. I am 35 years old. First heart attack was at 34. I just felt some pain in arm as if I was lifting weights. I was lucky enough to have one child. I almost went into kidney failure while pregnant. Years later when I met the love of my life and I wanted to have children with him. I am not allowed. Later I started having problems with my heart. I have 3 stents, if my arteries get smaller I will have a bypass. I am racing with time that I can get my VSG done before I have some other heart issue. Right now all is good. Doctors wont even talk to me about WLS in the US because of my heart.
I hope that when you tell your daughter this it will get her thinking about her health habits. I wish I would have listend to my doctors and parents but they were not my age and therefore assumed they knew nothing.
You can tell her this: if she does not loose weight her diabetes will get worse, if it gets worse it will be harder for her to get pregnant, if it gets worse and gets pregnant it can become very dangerous for her and the baby while pregnant, she can have kidney failure while pregnant. This scenario is only for pregnancy.
If diabetes is not treated she can suffer from heart failure. Women that are diabetic suffer from silent heart attack they dont even know that they are having one. If diabetis is not properlly maintained she can have a heart attack have stents put in every 3 months and not be able to have children because no doctor will touch her. And if that was not enought her arteries can start getting smaller making it harder to get stents put in. God forbid that were to happen because then she would have a bypass.
This is my story. I am 35 years old. First heart attack was at 34. I just felt some pain in arm as if I was lifting weights. I was lucky enough to have one child. I almost went into kidney failure while pregnant. Years later when I met the love of my life and I wanted to have children with him. I am not allowed. Later I started having problems with my heart. I have 3 stents, if my arteries get smaller I will have a bypass. I am racing with time that I can get my VSG done before I have some other heart issue. Right now all is good. Doctors wont even talk to me about WLS in the US because of my heart.
I hope that when you tell your daughter this it will get her thinking about her health habits. I wish I would have listend to my doctors and parents but they were not my age and therefore assumed they knew nothing.
Hi,
I found this site diabetes-research.net that deals with diabetes. Their intensive diabetes research helps individual to know more about diabetes and shows some tips/ways on how to prevent and minimize the effects of diabetes and most of all they provide diabetes menu plans to help manage diabetes for those who suffer the illness.
Hope that helps in some way.
I found this site diabetes-research.net that deals with diabetes. Their intensive diabetes research helps individual to know more about diabetes and shows some tips/ways on how to prevent and minimize the effects of diabetes and most of all they provide diabetes menu plans to help manage diabetes for those who suffer the illness.
Hope that helps in some way.
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