Patient Stories

Help others evaluate weight loss surgery as an option for treating their morbid obesity -- tell us your story! Learn how to send us your story.

When making a decision about weight loss surgery, the personal experiences of other patients are sometimes just as important as scientific publications.

These patients have shared their experience and personal success stories with us:

Tim Armstrong

For my 25th wedding anniversary, I flew my wife and son across the country to spend three weeks in Northern California. We were in the redwood forests, looking at all these great big old trees, and I had to sit down and rest every 200 feet because I hurt so much. It drove me to get my act together: I thought, I’m 46 years old, and I was kidding myself, thinking someday I would lose all this weight.

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Sharon Sides

I got tired of watching my family enjoy life. I felt like I was 80 years old. I felt like everybody else was enjoying my children, everybody else was enjoying the company of my husband -- except me. And I hated it. I wanted to live again, and I knew I couldn’t continue to live in this body. So I had to make a choice.

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Shakira Williams

Many of my relatives are comfortable with being overweight and at my heaviest I was 280, but I still felt attractive and I dressed well. My doctor told me that just because I looked a certain way didn’t mean I was healthy. She really pushed and pushed. She said, “There’s no point in being cute and dead.”

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