Post Weight Loss Surgery Failures. Is There Any Help At All ?

After years of fighting my weight,a 9yr.addiction to diet pills,never losing,I turned to a weight loss Dr. I lost some lbs.but not enough and the doctor would not believe that I was not eating. I have never had an eating problem!Don't laugh,the doctor's thought the same. I was told the only way I could ever lose weight was to have an intestinal bypass. So in 1974 I had the bypass surgery,3 months later and not much lbs.lost and in alot of pain I had to have more surgery.This time for adhesions and an obstruction of the bowel.Years later after extreme diarrhea, the only thing I lost was all of my essential nutrients!butI gained an inlarged liver. I was very sick! In 1978 I had the bypass corrected and because I haden't lost any weight the doctor suggested that I have a stomach stapping done to prevent gaining more weight. He also added that I would go ahead and lose the weight. NOT!!! After all that, here I sit, after years of fighting and fighting,and trying every thing from Medifast to the new diet pill wonder,Redux, that was the nail in the coffin.I took Redux for 4 months,and because I diden't like how I was feeling I stoped,and of course I never lost a pound! but I did gain!! and it was uncontrollable. I am or was a little person,being only 4ft.11in.tall and weighing 260lbs. I can no longer walk very well or far,I have to sit up to sleep, and I have so many health problems related to all the things I have tried and done.I never leave my home any more,and every day I wonder if this will be the day that I will die. From a 56 year old grandmother of 5 who would love to live!! Oh, and all the doctors I have had now say that I was meant to be FAT. Well tell that to my size 6 feet and my back that can no longer hardly carry me.PLEASE,PLEASE,HELP! Pam

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