About Me!

~*~ Welcome to my weight loss/pcos blog~*~

I am writing this Blog for me, and my supporters who like to know whats going on..and how they can help or support me!

I will be going threw a major changing life surgery January 29Th 2010. I am getting RNY Gastric Bypass Surgery. Dr James M.Swain is my surgeon and i will be at St.Marys in Rochester..

Lets start.............

My Name is Teresa and I'm 24 years old. I'm happily Married to my husband of 5 years.. We got married June 19th,2004. It was a beautiful wedding!! We went to Duluth for a week for our Honeymoon. It was amazing and so relaxing... After we got married we wanted to start a family...we tried for 4 years and nothing..besides big fat negatives..it was so sad! I knew it was going to be hard because i had "pcos"...I was diagnosed with PCOS also know as Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in the 7th grade... Pcos sucks...and it sucks when you go threw high school and people make fun of you...only if they new truly what you were going threw...
Well Pcos makes you gain weight..and boy is that true...didn't gain it anywhere else besides my belly. My legs, arms, or face never got to big..but you could tell all my weight was in my stomach. So it all begins.................
Leo and I wanted to get pregnant more then anything, our friends, and family members everyone was pregnant... and we wanted to be so bad...
We went to our doctor and talked with her so she decided to put me on Metformin it helps woman who have pcos and are trying to loose weigh..it is also a diabetic medication.. well i was on metformin for well over a year..and it did NOTHING for me... So back to square 1...agian...
We went to a fertility specialist at Olmsted in Rochester. They did a million blood test, and ultrasounds and everything came out great nothing wrong.. besides i don't ovulate..big problem when your trying to get pregnant.. no period no ovulation no pregnancy... So She told me to exercise get some weight off and stay on metformin... so i did that...got a few lbs off nothing to major.. still no period, still no ovulation.. i think i went threw a million ovulation sticks... ALL NEGATIVE........all i wanted to do was CRY, CRY, CRY............well i didn't give up... So back to omc They put me on a pill to give me my period "prometrium" So ya...got my period...yippie, however still no ovulation... 3 months of that...and no ovulation..at this time i was afraid nothing was going to work.. i was about to just give up... my thoughts were "i'm never going to be a mom" "I'm broken" I'm not a good wife because i can't make him a dad" Well back to omc.........ya........Now They put me on prometrium, and Clomid, and Metformin.. I read and heard so much good news about pcos women getting pregnant on there 1st or 2nd try of Clomid..so i was praying, and hoping, and praying.......... So Month one........Nothing...a period but No Ovulation........Month 2...Nothing...Month 3......Nothing...So i was clueless...where do we go from there? Well My OBGYN...had a ton more test ran, and then sent me over to Mayo...Oh Great i was thinking more doctors, more bad news, more testing..ugh............was not looking forward to it..However.. I did end up with an amazing Fertility Doctor who was all about me and my hopes and dreams... But my dreams were crushed the day she told me there was nothing else they could do since i don't ovulate... she said.. Your best bet for you would be Weight Loss Surgery... i was like......aww Hell No.. that's not for me.. i don't want to do that, I'm a 100% against it.. Well being so stubborn i didn't want to hear anymore of that..but she did want me to go talk to a weight loss Surgeon.. so i did.........and after talking to him.. my mind changed.....i was only about 50% against it.... So i need more convincing.. so i did research, talked to an OBGYN who specialises in Weight Loss Surgery Pregnancy's..and he was amazing.. i think after talking to him.. i was down to only like 10% of no surgery............. But was ready and willing to go for it..learn more..and make this big step in my life...
I went to Weight Loss Surgery Information Class, with my Mom and Mother-In-Law
That was the day my life changed forever, i new i wanted it.. i new i wanted to be healthy and happy!
The next day i called and made and apt to talk to a surgeon..and we started from there...
I had Many appts, Appts to meet with therapist a, a doctor, Surgeon, Also i had to join a 12 week weight loss program class... I can tell you was not Happy about joining the 12 week weight loss program, i truely thought it was going to be stupid and a wast of my drive from home to roch and it was a wast of gas... Well...it wasn't...it was one of the best things i did!! I have made so many friends and got so much information and had such an amazing teacher. In the 12 weeks i took that class i lost 15lbs..yeppers 15lbs on my own...Yippie!!
After my class was over, i had to meet with the surgeon for one last time before we gave the insurance company my information.. that appointment went GREAT......They gave my insurance company all my paper work and i received a approval letter in 1 1/2 weeks.. that was the best day ever.......... 4 days later the Mayo Clinic nurse called and we set up my surgery date.. January 29th is my surgery date.. I'm ready
I'm ready to be healthy, happy, and feel great about myself....

so with all that said.. i will be writing on this blog... and keeping everyone up to date..on my countdown to surgery.. my surgery itself..and life after surgery..........

Thank you for all your love and support!