Testimonys


Testimony of Marie-Claude L., 39 years old :

I started has to take weight as of the 6 years age when my mother resumed her work which it had stopped during nearly 7 years. This catch of weight, undoubtedly due A an evil being, was accentuated with the passing of years in spite of the modes at the house, in family, the stays in private clinic for obese children, the visits in a psychologist and to crown the whole of the catastrophic studies and 2 suicide attempts by drugs.

After many gropings, it was diagnosed a serious nervous breakdown. It is at this time that I intended to speak - and in good of Doctor David. That immediately went very well with him. I made a psychoanalysis which lasted 12 years.

6 years ago, I intended to speak about the gastric ring. I thought that that could relate to me and to especially to be appropriate me. I consulted first once Doctor Tahrat who explained me well of what that consisted. 6 months later it operated me and posed a gastric ring. I weighed 130 kilos before the gastric ring, I lost 60 kilos since. The account is quickly made: I weigh 70 kilos !

I am persuaded that many obese people are very badly in their skin. It would be damage not to benefit from this operation which must be accepted but especially desired. Doctor Tahrat has just operated me and I am very happy, very satisfied, but also very proud of me, of my obviously chaotic course, but I found my joy in life.
My silhouette will be, I am sure, increasingly beautiful. I must much with these two specialists Doctor David and Doctor Tahrat.

Now, I feel sufficiently strong to take to me in hand, and I am persuaded to have met the good people at the good time, and which they knew to find the fine words.

Thank you.


Testimony of C.M :

I arrived at the gastric ring after a sown course of successive failures.

Dice the 4 years age, my weight was higher than the standard. By looking at my health record, I realized that at the 5 years age, my weight was 36 kg for 1m05. With the 12 years age, I weighed 85 kg for 1m58. My parents and my sister also were obese. One had all very food bad habits: “the worship of food”.

To the 40 years age, my father falls sick: angina pectoris, HTA. My mother puts all to us with the mode…

- First mode : at the 14 years age with the method W… W ..... That consists in eating by measuring the caloric intake of each food. It is a very good method, but very constraining. It enabled me to lose a score of kilos in one school year. At the end of the summer holidays, I had taken again 10 kilos and the following year 15.

- A 17 years : I arrive at 90 kg With the assistance of a dietetician, I reperds 15 kilos in a few months. A dietetician guides you, advises you but you are quite alone vis-a-vis girlfriends who nibble all the day without taking one gram. It is at this time that the expression “oh, go, for once, it is not serious” started to irritate me.

- A 19 years, I weigh approximately 95 kg. This time, it is the reducing treatment. I obtain good results: -7 kg in 3 weeks in spite of some small disadvantages: to drink water hot with odor of egg rotted, massages made by superb guy (humiliating when one is large and that one is 19 years old), the painful water jets which leave the blue ones and the environment carried out by the 55 years and more. SUPER THE CURE!!!!!! That nevertheless gave me courage, I continued to lose while returning up to 25 kg which I of course took again in hardly 2 years.

It is at this time that truths troubles started. At 21 years, I have up to 21/11 of tension.

A 24 years, I arrive at the 95 kilos. New work. New motivation This time I decide “to only lose”. I eat balanced, I banished sugar, greases. I lose 30 kilos in 1 year. Then I fall pregnant, my father dies at the 54 years age of a pulmonary embolism, my mother falls seriously sick (the intestines) and I take 35 kilos in 7 months… of pregnancy. The consequences are serious: gravidic toxaemia, pre eclampsia. My tension is to 22/11 when my son prematurely born by Caesarean.

At 30 years I crossed the bar of 100 kg but always for 1m58. I am desperate and even resigned but I am conscious that that cannot last any more. I then do not have any more the same motivation but at 20 years. It is not any more “me also, I want to be most beautiful to go to dance”. Sudden separation with my spouse, the death of my father, the disease of my mother due to obesity and especially the anguish which my son could have shame of me… all these events make me react. I want right being like everyone, not to be subjected more permanently in comparison and the judgements with the others. When one is large, one is ugly, soft, without will and often animal. It is what people think, it well is smelled when they look at you.

I had intended to speak about the gastric ring, but I did not think of entering the criteria. The surgical side frightened me.

I get information, then I make my decision quickly. Finally the hope of a new life thanks to the ring. I measure the risks related to the installation of ring and the risks related to obesity and I do not hesitate any more.

The preparation starts with an appointment with a endocrinologist, then go with a psychiatrist (his agreement was important for me), blood test, fibroscopy (not very pleasant but painless) and finally intervention.

I was hospitalized the day before intervention by Doctor Tahrat. I was impatient to finish some. With the alarm clock, not of violent pain, not of nausea, nor of vomiting. The following day, the first radio operator control, no problem. I was a little distressed with the idea to swallow my first meal (liquid). 2 days later, I returned at home more decided than ever.
I paid great attention to eat slowly at the beginning, to take many soups, vegetable mashed potaties and white meats mixed to avoid returning. I was accustomed to feel food “to slip” through the ring. At the end of one month, I start to take confidence, I test the small pieces and I stop mixed. My food is varied to avoid the deficiencies and tiredness. All occurs well. I lose weight. I vomits not. Confidence settles more and more. I realized that it was enough to chew much to be able to eat any food. But the fact of eating takes time. In one evening “pizza pie” with friends, instead of taking a whole pizza pie like front, I eat a share of it. I do not feel not frustrated since I take part.
Thus I lost 30 kg in 1 month, then my weight has been stabilized for 2 years. I eat almost all that I ate front. I did not think of being able to live with if few food ingurgities. I never have feeling of hunger, nor of frustration since I could eat of all (of course in small quantities).

To remain stable today, I pay attention so that I eat, I make sport (swimming, bicycle, walk). I grant myself small delicacies regularly, but the passage of food on the ring recalls me with the order. I completely banished chips, the viennoiseries, the pork-butchery and alcohol, without I missing that.

Today, I apprehend the day when I will have to withdraw the ring, because it is for me a parapet. The fact of feeling each food passed when I do not chew them enough reassures me, that did not often sometimes happen to me to vomit, but when that arrives, that me recadre. It a help complementary on the diet, like a patch for the smokers. I live very well with my ring and I consider even a second pregnancy with the ring to avoid an excessive resumption of weight and problems of tension. I make radios of control regularly. The follow-up is very important.

I hope to be able to keep it still 2 years. I think that my new food practices will remain after the ring.


Testimony of Veronique J. :

I am a 40 year old woman, I deliver my secrecies, my anguishes, my analysis and my experiment of the by-pass to you.

I had a problem of obesity since childhood with a mom in overweight and an also obese father. I carried out several modes, having even accomplished a stay in a specialized center.

In 1990, 24 years old, one operated me left kidney. I lost 30 kilos before this intervention, weight which I took again 3 months later. I continued to live with my roundnesses and my morbid obesity. I weighed 115 kilos. I lived my obesity well at this time there, finding me pretty.

With the years, obesity degraded my organization and my psychism, seeing my own mother with a déclanchant diabetes of other preoccupations with a health (cardiac, respiratory…). I had evil to breathe while walking and I made apnea of the sleep. I am a person who likes to eat, to receive, the restaurants, user-friendliness.

S uivant the councils of friends, parents, anxious to see the risks becoming increasingly important with the age, the catch arrives in 2000. I then decide to deal with me, to take to me does not charge, I am 34 years old. I look at several emissions on the methods suggested to the obese people.

I decide to meet Doctor TAHRAT for an intervention of gastroplastie (ring). On December 7, 2000, the ring is posed and the intervention is successful. The surgeon reassures me and I learn how to feed me in small quantity, I am obliged of good mastiquer. I lose 47 kilos in 18 months, my weight being of 134 kilos before the intervention. With this loss of weight, I live again, for me it is a rebirth. I smell myself better in my skin and I do not suffer any more of the glance from the others.

I keep the ring 4 years and arrives at the weight of 93 kilos. In July 2004, one discovers me a problem with thyroid gland. August 2004, I am not able any more to feed me (disordered state of thyroid and the ring not doing good housework). Doctor TAHRAT decides to withdraw the ring and thyroid gland operates me. At the wire of times, I broadened, I do not manage any more to walk, I blow myself, I do not accept myself any more. I renew then contact with Doctor TAHRAT to ask him to make me a by-pass. It explains me the intervention, why this one is heavy and involving risks.

My decision is made, I carry out the intervention in November 2005. All occurs well, Doctor TAHRAT is content with his work, me too. At the end of the third day, I start to eat bubbles, perforate, yoghourts and coffees with milk with melba toasts. The hospitalization lasts 8 to 10 days. At the exit, the surgeon advises me to eat normally and especially good mastiquer.

As of my return to the house, I must eat normally. It is a new food training and a work on myself for the quantities. I seek the good quantity not not to take a food too much at the same time (if not I vomits). I am obliged to take the time of good mastiquer with installations, to let food pass. It is necessary to also drink often in the day in small quantity. I lie to help food to pass in the intestine.

I eat of all, I do not deprive myself more. I eat several times in the course of the day, every approximately two hours. I have vitamins to take every morning. I had evil to eat with the others because they eat quickly and in the conversation around a meal I was going too quickly to follow them. They are moments difficult to manage.

I lose weight, that fact 14 month and I am to -60 kilos, that is to say half of the starting weight. I live again, I smell myself well in my skin, I organized myself to feed several times in the course of the day. I made a blood assessment because there are risks of deficiency, it is good.

I will never thank enough the Doctor TAHRAT bus thanks to him I live again, I am light, I do not have more badly with the legs, I recovered the totality of oxygen in my lungs, I do not make more apnea. The only thing which disturbs it to me is my skin which falls, following the loss of weight but I envisage to make a repairing surgery. I leave myself a little rest period because the loss of weight tires. It is necessary to let its body rest and recover.

One day standard :
7 AM o'clock : a coffee with milk with 1 sugar ½, bread with the chocolate or buttered bread
9'30 AM o'clock: an orange juice, an intense tablet of Supradyne, a fruit
12 AM o'clock : 2 spoons of vegetables, half of a steak
2 PM o'clock : serves (fruit, yoghourt or pastry making)
4 PM o'clock : a drink and a yoghourt or a fruit
6 PM o'clock : a fruit or a drink
8 PM o'clock : soup and yoghourt
10 PM o'clock : a fruit