Testimonials

Juan José

Gastric Sleeve

141 Kg

75.5 Kg

Name:

Juan José

Age:

40 years

Occupation:

Analyst Inform

Height:

1.75 cm

Previous weight:

141 Kg

Current weight:

75.5 Kg

Date of intervention:

01-10-2015

My name is Juan José and I had gastric tube surgery 10 months ago. Since then I’ve lost 65.5 kg.

I met the Clínica Obésitas team because a subway companion recommended it to me, since her daughter-in-law and her brother had undergone surgery in Clínica Obésitas, she had a bypass and her brother had a gastric tube. I decided to have surgery because I had been taking blood pressure pills for years, I had problems with my lungs, they put me on a chronic treatment of inhalers and pills because I had a lot of lung deficiency, they put me on a sleeping machine because I had nocturnal apneas, I got up early in the morning and my blood pressure was through the clouds and my heart rate was very high, I could barely do any exercise….

On an emotional level, I was ashamed of what I looked like and sometimes I refused to go out. At the job level, physical appearance is important when you go to clients and I felt terrible about myself. At lunchtime I was embarrassed to eat with people for everything I ate.

Before performing the operation, I made a multitude of diets which started well, but ended up recovering what I had lost and a little more, because in the end everything are interruptions in the same: holidays, Easter, weddings, etc.. and when I skipped and I had a hard time coming back again.

So I decided to put myself in the hands of Dr. Ferrer and his team mainly for health reasons, I was almost 40 years old and saw that at 50 I would have to be in a wheelchair and be a burden to my family if I kept up the pace. I finally made the decision because of the security and professionalism that Dr. Ferrer and his team transmitted to me, to see that they had everything protocoled, before carrying out any action they already told you everything that was going to happen and it really has.
Today I enjoy as much as before the meal, with the flavors and textures, but I have to be careful when I go out to eat because if you “picas” too much, it may be that you do not try either lunch or dinner as you are satiated. Once you get used to it, you ration what you eat to try it all, not to mention that you save a dough!
Now I’m not as uncomfortable as I used to be, the only thing that happens to me is that waiters always ask me if I haven’t liked the food because I always have a lot left over.
Psychologically, I feel very comfortable with my body, my appearance, the clothes I wear, it is a pleasure to be able to buy clothes in the store you want without problems and also, with the price of a few pants before now I buy 3.

And physically, I also feel very good, I go jogging, cycling, swimming, and so on. They have taken away all the treatments that I had of tension, of lungs, they have taken away the machine to me to sleep and I have gone from waking up with the pulsations to 100 to having them to 57.

I’m more than satisfied with the operation and how everything went. It has been one of the most important and good decisions of my life, I’m back to being a “normal” person.
Personally I recommend the operation for those people who are in the same situation as me, who are tired of making thousands of diets which are impossible to carry for time, one thing is to have to lose 5 – 10 kg but when you get to lose about 50 kg I consider that help is needed to meet the objective, and that help for me has been the Obesitas clinic.

In my case it has completely changed my life and my family’s, a new life in every sense. I never would have thought everything would go so well for me in such a short time.
An important consideration is that, as they told me in Obesitas, the whole diet and operation is one more step in this change, but it is necessary to perform exercises (the same may be walking every day), to strengthen it, find yourself better and take good habits in life helping and much to the process of loss. In this sense, I’ve done great.
Another important point is the support of the people around you. In my case I have been supported from the minute one and that has helped me to put much more desire in achieving the goal for which I want to thank my family and friends. Now, the “little problem” I have is that people don’t know me by the street jejejeje.