Wow, How excited I am to find this site!
My name is Tammara. I am mother of four beautiful children ages six , five , two and an angel baby that was still born a few month ago(very much missed). I work for the NYSDOH.
I have struggled my whole life with my weight. I can't remember a time where I wasn't labeled as the " fat chick with a pretty face" . My highest weight was 409 pounds. I am one of those people who does yo-yo diets. Always up and down. I am currently down to 266 pounds. But it doesn't make me happy to even think that seeing in 2003 I was down to 214 pounds, then back up to 280 and then back down to 238 then back up to 270. It's like a non stop up and down.
And much like a smoker when they quit smoking then the health problems come. In Feb of this year I was told I had diabetes. It was like my whole world came crashing down. In 1993 my great grandmother died from the effect of diabetes and you think knowing this I would get my large flat behind in the fast track and do something about it. ... nope. I have a man who loves me to death. Would walk from here to the moon for me if I asked. So I didn't care.
I ended up being placed on gluecophage. Ugh this stuff is horrible. The endo I ended up seeing put me on 1000 mg TWICE day. The highest dosage you can take. The side effects were horrible. I spend most of my day in the bathroom. So I stopped taking it. Then I notice my hair was falling out, legs swelling, periods not coming ,my skin being horrid and worst of all gained 16 pounds in ONE WEEK. Somehow my primary care physician didn't feel this was a problem..... (yeah I got rid of him ). I was told it was all in my head. I went back to the endo who did a massive amount of blood work and sent me for a three hour sugar test. I also notice leakage from my nipples.
After all the blood work comes back he tells me, my testosterone level was twice of what it should be. And this meant ? He asked if I was menstruating I told him yes, he put me back on the gluecophage and a 1200 cal diet and sent me on my marry way. As I'm leaving (crying no less) I'm thinking testosterone level twice of what it should be what the heck does this mean.
Being the person I am I let it go. Like I do many other things and put it off. I then joined the biggest loser at work and notice the first two weeks I gained weight. This was four weeks ago. I decided to get off my butt and do something about it. I found a new doc (a female). She explained that there gluecophoge will actually help me lose weight but I should be on a smaller dose. So she sends me for blood work gives me a lower dose.
So I then go to get my blood work done and 24 hours worth of peeing in a jug (joy). Not 48 hours later my Dr calls me and asks me to come in as soon as possible. I go to the Dr's thinking nothing really of it. She sits me down and tells me I have something called Cushing disease and something called jappie motto. (spelling maybe off). I'm sitting there dumb founded, like it took four years and one time seeing this Dr for someone to find this out. Every level of every test she did was completely off.
So, we've looked into some med's and not just that but we have decided that I am going to have the lap banding done. If we can get some weight off my levels may go back to normal.
And I know some of you who have busted their behind offs may think I'm taking the easy way out . I've already gotten some of this from some people at work. I'm really not. If I could lose it on my own I would. I have. And honestly I'm scared to death.
My first consultation is on Nov 5th and I'm not sure how I feel about it being so soon. But until then I am on a low cal diet because I still need to lose 10% of my weight before it's done. And apart of me is hoping if maybe just maybe I could lose more than that then I wouldn't need to have it done.
My significant other is having a really hard time with this. He thinks that if I lose the weight I'm going to leave him. Which would never happen. He's stuck with me through fat, thin, depressed, hating myself , the yo-yo diets and the awful mood swings that come with some diet pills that I've taken.
Really I'm just here to share my story and listen to yours.
. The wonderful thing about the new Dr is, they actually wrote down a bunch of sites and books I could read about Hashi and cushings. I'm ready to just kick this all in the butt and taking care of. 
