Tomorrow I have an appointment with my OB/GYN I am going to ask her if I can be prescribed phentermine so I can get back some energy to get some of this weight off.
I am trying to think of a good way to approach it with her and make her see that it isn't solely for cosmetic reasons that I want to lose weight but for other reasons as well. I am having a lumbar fusion and disc replacement surgery in March and I am scared to death to go under that kind of anesthesia that will be used to do the surgery with all of this weight on me. I will be stuck in a chair for several weeks after this is done and don't want to allow myself to lose control and gain weight while healing. I am so nervous that complications are going to occur during surgery that could have been prevented had I not weighed as much as I do, I was going to postpone the surgery until I got the weight off but at this point my back is in such bad shape that it is getting worse as time goes on and the longer I keep letting it go the more problems that start to show up and so my neurosurgeon told me that at this point there is no more options.
I could really use some help as to how would be the best way to approach her. I have been her patient for several years and she did assist me with my second pregnancy so hopefully that will work for me. Thanks in advance I do appreciate any and all help.
