MAYRA'S STORY:
"I MADE THE BEST DECISION TO TREAT MY OBESITY"
A lot of people like Mayra have suffered of problems related to obesity. At the age of 15 her weight was 140 kgs., but thanks to the advice of a friend that went through the process of a vertical sleeve gastrectomy that saved his life, his esteem and health.
“I remember it all started in my adolescence when I was 15 years old, a difficult age in which several changes are lived and it is full of dreams and illusions, but something was happening to me, I was gaining weight, I was not suffering any physical problem that could have been affecting me as the thyroid, fatty liver or another diseases related to obesity, the problem I had if we can refer to it like that, was an exaggerated fascination for food, I think that was the main factor, the pleasant sensation of eating. I started by having lots of limitations, I couldn’t get clothes of my size, it was not easy to find it in local stores because it won’t fit me and I didn’t like it, most of my clothes I ended up buying them at United States".
The tiredness when walking, knee and articulations pain, I felt agitated almost for everything, high pressured, etcetera. These are just a few symptoms that I suffered for being fat. I tried to lose weight with an endless list of diets, there was a time in which I lost like 20 kilograms, I suffered a lot to get that and as incredible as it may seem, all y effort was not enough, because I immediately gained weight a few days after I left my diet; my life was like that for ten years.
I know about a lot of people with obesity that suffers discrimination of others, schoolmates or from a partner at work, I think that is too cruel, people do not realize what overweight people lives every day.
In my case, I feel glad I had a good experience in this aspect, I never felt a bad joke or comment, I was accepted by my family and friends the way I was, when I was studying middle school or high school, I always had friends with the ones I went out, I played, I made jokes or enjoyed with people my age, etcetera. I never felt they felt sorry for me, I always felt a nice friendship; even at work, my partners were always respectful, actually it was at work where a partner shared his case with me, he had a similar surgery too and I felt motivated while observing his progress, he was losing weight with amazing results, but the most important thing, without malaises, that is what I liked the most.
It was such an amazing testimony that I went with the Doctor he recommended me, Dr. Daniel Campos Torres. Since the very first day I made an appointment with him, I felt that warmth and confident support from him and his staff, because at his office I received all the information about the different procedures that are implemented according to the case and obesity level, they practiced some studies to me, they weighted me, they evaluated me and I must say that with fear but with lots of illusion, I went through a vertical sleeve gastrectomy, during two days after the surgery that I was at the hospital, everything was really difficult for me, I asked myself whether I made a good or bad decision, I was not able to eat anything, not even drinking water and being used to a big ingestion of food for a long time and suddenly you are not able to eat anymore, it was traumatizing, days after that I could only drink liquids, weeks later I started with mush and little by little normal food came out.
Thanks to the support of my family, I started to understand that your life will change drastically, in appearance, food ingestion even emotionally. Now, after two years of the surgery, I feel happy, I can buy the clothes I like, the color I like and I’m faster, I can easily walk and won’t feel agitated while exercising; honestly, my life has changed. Imagine, I started with 140 kilograms and now I’m 73 kilograms.
Mayra Araceli Macillas | Gastric Sleeve