Deciding on Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Deciding to get the VSG was a bittersweet moment for me. I have had PCOS for 10 years and the thousands of dollars I have spent on supplements, diets, exercise equipment, gym memberships, and prescriptions could have easily paid for this surgery several times over. And yet, deciding to get the surgery somehow made me feel as though I had failed. I had read articles and stories about women who successfully put themselves into remission through diet and exercise alone and the fact that I had failed time and again made me feel like a failure.

The closest I ever got was through primal eating. I lost 30 lbs and was able to MAINTAIN my weight for 3 years. Not lose, not gain, just MAINTAIN. That was a success in of itself because it seemed if I wasn't losing, I was gaining.

So what was the tipping point?

I fell head over heels in love with my current partner. He and I were friends for years before we began dating but once the spark happened, it was like lightning in a bottle. And for the first time in my life, I found someone I wanted to have children with.

Too bad I was completely INFERTILE.

One of the many known side effects of PCOS is infertility or just general difficulty getting pregnant. This is due to several factors, the most important being a lack of ovulation. This is called annovulation -- lack of. In one year I only had two naturally occurring periods, which means ovulation isn't happening on a regular basis. I also hadn't used birth control regularly and had never become pregnant. So it was an added motivation to the long list of health-related reasons for wanting to lose weight and take control of my internal life.

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