I chose balloon over gastric band

I chose balloon over gastric band

My story is already known to your staff, I am triggered by the questions they usually ask me people in my social circle, but I also saw positive comments on your site about the result of my body. I would like to explain why I chose the gastric balloon method instead of the gastric band incision. It is well known that cutting the stomach is the most drastic method that a person can choose to lose weight, I had thought of it as the first option, because of my genetic background, most people in my family circle have the same problem with obesity and started having my first problems at a young age with my sister.


The fact that we were overweight more than our peers did not make us aware of the fact that we ate healthily, despite the efforts of our parents who spent a lot of money but also their time to inject us with healthy eating, our disobedience and history family members have fared worse, let's highlight this problem. In the years when girls too they wanted to look physically beautiful overweight started to really annoy us, not to talk about the problems we had with high cholesterol and the inability to walk fast or doing physical activity normally, the appearance was what bothered us the most. My sister and I don't we had a lot of difference, she was older but also much braver than me. In a certain period we chose to try to eat healthy and we succeeded, I managed to lose a few kilos but I was still far away, my sister almost nothing compared to the weight we had. After having read a lot on the internet, but after seeing all the many complications of having an allo bandage stomach, he decided to do it. Our family was against it. I was still scared and currently I couldn't emotionally and financially support two surgeries at the same time and so did my sister was the first to take this step, among other things she was older than me.

The first days after the operation are too much to tell you that they were really terrible, stomach ache, inability to eat, constant vomiting but all these sensations are doubled in the person who experienced them, not to mention the countless visits we went on afterwards to the hospital, as well as the costs of the operation which were almost unsustainable for ours family. After a few months the sister began to feel better and had no initial pain but more helpless than ever, in the first few weeks he had significant weight loss, not yet sufficient with respect to being overweight and the method he had chosen. He complained of feeling constantly tired, and dizzy, this did not stop her from eating because she felt more strong, the kilos that they were not losing with this thing worried her the most.After some tests the sister proved that she had already entered into severe anemia due to the incision of the stomach or in medical language megaloblastic anemia and the cells in the area where it was practiced the incision were very important for the production of blood cells. This forced him to receive continuous treatment and today after 2 years he continues to receive treatment hoping that there is no need transfusions.

I was very happy not to have practiced this intervention and I would never have solved it and recommended seeing and experiencing up close all the difficulties it brought to ours family but especially to my sister, I had read about the gastric balloon method offered in your clinic and referring to you that on average you could lose 20-30 kilograms and it was not a real operation, with incisions, anesthesia, bleeding I decided to exercise, it was also expensive less. After doing the tests and everything was fine, I did the procedure which was very quick and I was skeptical if something that ends in the blink of an eye would give me the effect I wanted? In the first few days I felt nausea and not very strong stomach pain (after seeing my sister seemed insignificant) I consumed almost only liquid food in the following weeks and I have I started to realize that even when I consumed other things I couldn't finish all the food, or better than I was used to. In the first month I managed to lose 12 kilograms, in the second 7 kilograms and now in the fifth month I am minus 25 kilograms, they are not left in my wardrobe clothes from the past, I feel much better physically, health but also spiritually.

My goal has almost been achieved in these months, I have to lose 5 kilograms that to this point they seem very easy to me and then I have to remove the balloon that helped me so much increase my self-confidence in these months. I am very happy to have chosen this path and not to cut or shrink the stomach, I would not recommend these drastic methods to anyone that at no time do they give you a guarantee that you will lose all the extra kilos and even risk the life. I would like this story to be read by all the people who are hesitant about the method they want to choose, for it to be read by all those who have made positive comments on my photo, May it be read by all those who are thinking about shrinking or cutting their stomach and rethink it, but I would rather read it from all the people who still don't know what a gastric balloon is and what wonderful effect it has had on my life!