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It has been a bit over a month since I lost my beloved wife. She had been diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma Cancer just 19 months before, and after receiving a bone marrow transplant, she passed away. We spent the last two and a half months of her life at West Virginia University Hospital cancer center. My wife, Tammy Porter, had been my partner for 34 years. Now at 54 years old, I feel that my life has come to an end, and I am merely going through the motions. Each day is a struggle, and I cannot shake the feeling that I stopped living when she passed away. However, the thought of our two wonderful children and one amazing granddaughter keeps me moving forward.
We also lost our son a few years ago to heart disease. Christopher, our son, passed away peacefully, and my wife carried that pain with her until the day she went to heaven. What makes it even worse is that three weeks before my wife passed away, we received a phone call that her Dad passed away unexpectedly. The doctors also told us that my wife Tammy could not attend the funeral due to receiving a bone marrow transplant and that she would have to stay in quarantine for the next 50 days. That killed my wife more than anything; she was stuck in the hospital and could not be there with her dad. I genuinely think she grieved herself to death over losing her dad, and they were so close.
If only I could spend more time with my beloved wife or at least, have the chance to update her on my daily life. I find myself alone in our living room day after day, yearning for some sort of signal from Tammy that she's watching over me and doing well in the afterlife. Her remains are situated on a table beside my desk, a spot I glance at countless times throughout the day, and each time I do, I can't help but cry. I speak to her daily, recounting the events of the day with our children and anything else that comes to mind. I know Tammy is gazing down at me from heaven, proud of the father I've become and how I've taken care of our kids. Our granddaughter Sophie is growing up so quickly and is such a bright young lady. Tammy would be over the moon and bursting with pride. Sophie was Tammy's world, and while she would spoil her endlessly, she would also defend her, even when she was in the wrong.
My beloved daughter Ashley is truly one of a kind. She shared an unbreakable bond with her mother and even bears a striking resemblance to her. Sometimes, it feels almost surreal to catch a glimpse of Ashley walking down the hallway as if my wife is still with us. I can sense the depth of pain that my daughter is experiencing, and it breaks my heart. Ashley spends most of her time in her bedroom, grieving in her own way. I'm not entirely certain if she's hesitant to reveal her true emotions in front of me or if she's trying to protect my feelings. Grief is a complex and delicate process, and it can be challenging to help someone navigate it when the loss is so personal. I do everything in my power to provide support and comfort for Ashley, no matter how small it may seem. Despite being a grown woman of 29, she will always be my little girl, and I cherish her more than anything in this world.
I engage in this routine on a daily basis, as it is the one activity that brings me joy and anticipation. While I cherish my children deeply, being a single parent presents its challenges. Without my late wife, I am only able to provide half of what I believe is necessary for my children's upbringing. Tammy was a remarkable mother and spouse, and her passing at the young age of 50 was a devastating loss. However, she always had faith that she would one day be reunited with God and our loved ones, and I take comfort in that. Coping with life without her has been increasingly difficult with each passing day, and I often find myself struggling. Some of my friends suggested that the pain would ease with time, but unfortunately, this has not been the case. Many have stopped reaching out or visiting, and some days are worse than others.
Unfortunately, my wife and I never had the opportunity to purchase new wedding rings. If we had, I would have never taken mine off. It bothers me when people refer to me as a widower. I prefer to be called a husband. Even though my wife is no longer with us, she will always be my wife. I am committed to her and will be until my final breath. I have no interest in finding another girlfriend. It's been over three decades, and my feelings for my beloved Tammy remain as strong as the day we first met. I only want her by my side. I can still vividly recall her stunning sandy blonde hair, piercing blue eyes, lovely face, and those lips - I long for all the kisses she ever gave me. I can't forget the way her bright blue eyes would light up and the grin that would spread across her face when I returned home.
Despite experiencing severe pain, Tammy never failed to put on a smile for everyone. I often wish that I could join her and be by her side once again. Perhaps when our children are grown, I will be able to reunite with her in the afterlife. With God's blood and trust in me, I am confident that the Lord will grant us an eternal existence free from pain, cancer, and any other worries.
Thanks for reading this. I just wanted to say it out loud.
Bobby Porter

I’m nearing 7mpo & eating around 700 calories a day. I’m barely losing now. My weight loss has mostly stagnated over the past 2 months… which sucks because I’m still about 24lbs from my goal (135). I’m trying not to get too discouraged, I’m down over 100lbs since surgery… but got it’s so disheartening.
Am I eating too many calories?

Sooo I just asked the questions about fertility and WLS assuming that there was NO way meds would be approved as I don’t have diabetes (my doc said to not even hope they’d approve it but just put the prescription in to try) But now that I’ve found this group and seen all about WLS and what it can do, I’m stuck decision wise.
More info: Me: 23F, 5’11”, stuck at 305 lb for 1.5+ yrs even with diet and exercise. Not even pre-diabetic anymore (was in 2021), got all my numbers down with mild diet changes. Want to have kids within 3-5 yrs. I am tall so 180lb would be a healthy goal weight for me. Husband is completely supportive of me doing either thing, his last girlfriend actually had WLS while they were together so he knows all about the recovery.
Injection: approved for Zepbound which is the weight loss version of Mounjaro. Problem being, there’s a general shortage and the pharmacy my doc sent to does not have it. I guess I’ll call around in the morning and see how hard it’s going to be to get it filled. I live in Texas if anyone has specific experience with this here.
WLS: would do the gastric sleeve, not the belt or bypass.
Halp. 😫

I posted a few months ago when I hit 199, and this week I got down to 185, which is officially 50 lbs down!
Here's my previous post: https://www.reddit.com/loseit/s/W631DVrH52
I'm mostly still doing the same things - eating around 1400-1600 calories, focusing on protein. Some days I eat a bit more carbs because I am running a lot now! I can now run for over a half hour without walking breaks. I also still do intervals on most runs.
In January I joined a gym, and have been doing strength training 3x a week as well.
I emptied out my closet and got rid of over half my clothes. I've had to buy new running / gym clothes, and a pair of jeans and a few nice shirts. My husband is constantly telling me how great I look, and is always supportive and encouraging when I want to go to the gym or go run. The other day I had a really bad run and just felt super slow and tired, and he still congratulated me for going anyway.
I can keep up with my kids a lot better, and even outrun them.
The rate of weight loss has slowed just a bit, but I'm happy because I know I can stick with my ~1500 calories diet and I should continue to lose over time, especially as I build up muscle.

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As the title suggests, I hiked 9km up and down a mountain (240 metre elev gain) for 2 hours nearly every day this month. It was an exhausting, hellish struggle to maintain and every other aspect of my life suffered as a result.
I would eat maybe 2 days a week, portioned, healthy meals of vegetables and meat. the other days just a protein shake and a muesli bar, or nothing at all.
I started the month at 83.9 kg. I ended the month at 83.8kg.
I worked my ass off, I fought for breath and struggled and starved and sweat and suffered.
And it was all for NOTHING
I feel miserable, heartbroken and demoralized. I've called out of work and spent the last couple days just lying in bed wishing I was dead, actively contemplating taking my life.
What the hell is wrong with me? Why can't I lose weight? Why am I always such a fucking failure?
What am I doing wrong!?
Edit: I've only ever eaten a single meal every 1 to 2 days, usually in the early evenings. So only eating twice a week is essentially only missing a couple of meals.

Hello I recently became a size that fits Brandy and I have been going crazy buying it. I already have like 15 tops and one hoodie from there. My question is how exactly do wear some of the shirts? Here is the tmi part: my breasts are saggy from weight loss and my nops are also tattooed. So i definitely need to wear a bra but a lot of the shirts show bra/strap! I never wore a sticky bra would that work for the sagging? Thank you in advance I hope this doesn’t break a rule, I’m not too familiar with reddit:)

Hello everyone! I am in my first month of taking Sema, and tomorrow will be my fourth shot. I know it's unrealistic to expect weight loss in the first month, but I'm confused as to why I haven't lost any weight at all. Despite my suppressed appetite, I don't count my macros but I'm certain that I am consuming less food. So I'm wondering why I haven't seen any progress yet.

Before a month ago, I was perfectly fine besides the extremely low hemoglobin level I was living with for two years. The only issues I had were I could only walk from my room to my bathroom, my room to the living room, living room down the stairs to my car, and back up to living room, then to my room. Just those little distances had me taking about a minute and a half to catch my breath, heart beating really hard. Besides that, absolutely no symptoms. Until a month ago, when all of this started. I wrote the following from memory as best I could from the first day to the day I got treated.
I know this is long winded and may be kind of hard to follow, to my dad it’s really clear bc he lived it with me, but to my sister she said some people might have trouble following. Regardless, I am not distrustful of doctors. And I know it’s very specific, but that’s just because it’s an account of how it happened, how I came to the conclusions I came to, and how I know I was experiencing a certain symptom.
I know it’s not easy to take peoples word at face value, but I’m not a paranoid person. I just know my body extremely well. Any change in it, any pattern and I will notice it. & what I was going through is hard to mistake as I was completely bed bound, awake for days at a time bc there was no position I could sit or lay in to help. I feel like I’m constantly being gaslit as if I didn’t go through any of this. I have no reason to have faked these extreme symptoms for a month, as you’ll see it took a full month of this to get me to go to a hospital, and in the end I was forced by my dad and sister….
I had a hemoglobin level of 5 about a month ago, & I was living like that for years, then I woke up one morning extremely bloated like a balloon, & my arms & legs were weak & any position I tried to lay in, I’d wake up gasping for breath or my blood pressure would instantly drop & then come back, I stayed like this for 2 days hoping it would just stop & it didn’t. So I went to hospital & they told me my hemoglobin was 5 but that my heart was fine bc my blood pressure & echocardiogram came back normal. So I got one bag of blood then left the hospital for person reasons.
When I went home, I completely deteriorated. It started with my heart not being able to beat strong enough when I layed down, especially flat on my back. (I have a really bad wound on my foot), I was retaining an insane amount of fluid & the more fluid I retained, the harder it was to find a position where my blood would circulate well enough, so I kept losing oxygen. The more oxygen I lost, the more issues I had. I couldn’t sleep for days trying to find the right position to get oxygen, it felt like I was suffocating or drowning in my own blood. If I was too exhausted and tried to force my body to stay in a position I wasn’t getting oxygen, my body would force me awake w a gasp or my limbs would just move on their own. If I found the right position & slept in it, I’d wake up feeling much better, but the second my body and organs were waking up, the issues would start again. If I forced myself to sleep in the positions I wasn’t getting oxygen & didn’t move regardless of my body trying to get me to, by morning i was experiencing hypoxia. I was dizzy, confused, had extreme difficulty breathing, it felt exactly what it feels like when you suffocate but you just aren’t dead. I was seeing flashes of white and floaties, I couldn’t talk right, I couldn’t think straight. So I began to think this was full on heart failure bc all the symptoms matched. I found out the fluid buildup is what was making it even harder for my blood to circulate & that indicated kidney issues bc it was holding onto any sodium I ingested & wasn’t doing enough to expel the fluids from my body, so I started taking over the counter diuretics to help & I stopped eating any sodium At all so my kidney wouldn’t hold onto it. The only position I was able to sit in was on my computer chair with my feet flat on the ground I could even lean left or right or move an inch. Everytime I urinated I was able to breathe a little easier. You could literally instantly feel the relief. I began taking supplements/ nutritious foods to help my body work. Iron, fish oil, potassium, beet juice, oranges, apples, avacados, fish, yogurt, bananas, carrot juice, pomegranate juice (organic), celery, & these were the only foods I was eating. When my blood pressure would get high, it would make everything instantly worse, much harder to breathe. I smoke 2 packs a day normally & I couldn’t smoke one drag of a cigarette without worsening my symptoms ten fold. I was scared to drink water or fluids bc my body would just hold on to them at normal levels, but I’d have no choice but to keep drinking enough to flush my kidneys bc they weren’t doing it on their own so I’d have to take a diuretic & keep drinking water until I urinated enough bc my kidneys weren’t cleaning the toxins from my system it was making my chest tighten and blood pressure issues to get worse. Once I’d urinate enough until it was clear colored, Id feel a lot better. My legs had gotten extremely extremely swollen and were holding most of the fluid in my body, my blood would pool, especially in the foot with the wound, I’d have to put my legs up and then down to help myself breathe, bc it was helping my blood to move. I looked up ways to get rid of fluid retention and found a lymphatic massage which I followed to get the fluid into my arms, & the next day when I woke up my arm was as big as my legs so I knew it actually worked which surprised me bc I didn’t think it would do much but I couldn’t get it to go to my right arm too bc I only have a right hand, my left arm is amputated from the elbow. It took some relief off my legs but not nearly enough and it actually made the breathing even worse bc now the fluid was closer to my lungs. I would not get a wink of sleep for days trying to find a position where I wasn’t suffocating, all that lack of oxygen was causing hypoxia & after ever time I experienced severe lack of oxygen & hypoxia, another organ would stop functioning as well. Anyway, after so long I flushed my kidneys so much that I was completely depleted of sodium. I know this bc over the course of about 18 hours I urinated 2 buckets, I literally could only rest for about 10-20 min before I would have to pee again and this was without any diuretics, at first I was okay with it bc the less fluids i had the better I felt & was able to breathe much better. (I forgot to add that by this point, my heart had gotten much worse and couldn’t even pump blood while I was sitting up, so finding a position by this point was nearly impossible) by the end I was so insanely tired of going to the bathroom and anything I tried to eat or drink would not absorb in my body it would just be peed right out. It was causing severe pressure in my brain, it felt like my brain was swelling. I threw up a bunch of beet juice. I had severe nausea. My head was pounding, I couldn’t stand up. Doing research through all of this was really hard for me with what i was going through, but i eventually realized it was hyponatremia and I just needed salt. So then I had to figure out how to balance the salt in my body which wasn’t as easy as it sounded. (I also went through symptoms days before of high acid in my blood which was another sign that my kidneys weren’t functioning properly, I took tums by accident while I was trying to figure out what was wrong and i instantly felt a little better that’s when I was able to find out sodium bicarbonate is needed to clean the acid out of your blood, so i also was taking that whenever I felt those symptoms) so for the salt, first I had just gotten some salami from the fridge and I would eat one piece at a time trying to slowly give myself salt throughout the day, I had complications w that, then I saw that you could drink Gatorade or anything with electrolytes to fix it, so my dad got me electrolyte drinks and after 3 of them I was feeling much much better, it says to them incorporate salt into your diet after you feel stable again, and I took that as eating the amount of salt I used to eat, which was dead wrong, I ended up eating a quarter of a burrito from chipotle & once again my brain felt like it was swelling & I had all the same symptoms again so I knew I messed up trying to balance for my kidneys again but this time was another bout of constant urine until it started to smell, the second it started smelling I suddenly couldn’t eat anything at all, anything I had been eating fruits, vegetables, even beet juice, even the smallest bit of an orange if I tried to eat it would make my chest tight, blood pressure spike, more pressure in my head. I was sitting on Komode in my room too sick to do research to figure out what was wrong this time, but after a while I was able to research low blood sugar, i wasn’t totally sure but I felt I was dying and I had to take a chance and I happened to have jolly ranchers in my desk right next to me and the second I put one in my mouth I started feeling better. So at that point I had figured out the issue was now my pancreas. I didn’t know much about pancreatic issues (I was gonna be a doctor before I dropped out of college so I am really good at anatomy) but my symptoms pointed to the pancreas. When there is too much pressure on the kidneys the pancreas apparently starts having issues too. The smell in my urine was amylase, I was having pain in my right front side and in the back, I couldn’t eat anything. So the treatment for that was to completely stop drinking fluids and eating completely. I did this for 24 hours hoping it would be enough then I only ate pancreas friendly foods which for me was pineapple, but it was too early to eat and it caused issues again. My blood sugar got low again and my dad gave me a spoon full of honey which made me feel better & ur supposed to have protein after to stabilize the sugar, my dumbass asked for eggs, forgetting the yolk has fats in it which you are not supposed to eat w pancreatic issues, so once I ate the eggs I felt bad again. By this time I was so fed up with my body not working and having consequences to every little thing I put in it, I was excessively hungry from all the fluid loss plus it’s another symptom of pancreatic issues, another symptom is irritability and anger, and I got so mad at my own body I decided to pretend nothing was wrong I just wanted to eat some walnuts and once again it made things worse making me more angry so my DA said f it is gonna smoke a cig while I’m at it & im not going to move all night looking for a position with oxygen so that night I severely severely deprived my body of oxygen. I was just soo soo beyond exhausted, when I woke up I had the worst hypoxia I had had so far. I knew the damage was wayyy too far gone now. I was full on suffocating no matter what position I was in, & I still refused to go to hospital and my dad was worried so he did some research and found something called boost oxygen it’s 95% inhalants oxygen and the second I started using it it brought back oxygen to my head, my foot, my left arm, my left artery was so tight I couldn’t move my neck to the left- it made that feel better too, all my extremities that were fully deprived of oxygen suddenly were feeling a lot better. It made my lungs work better too but it was still like I could feel the tissue death in them, like they were holding the normal amount of air but it felt weird…hard to explain. I knew I was gonna end up in the hospital soon. That night I ran out of the boost oxygen I fell right back into the hypoxia, my dad had to rush to Walgreens at 1130 at night to get more and I spent the next couple days using this oxygen to keep me hanging on by a thread. I woke up one of those days my stomach/abdomen was distended, I wasn’t digesting any food, I couldn’t urinate no matter how hard I tried, my organs were making gurgling noises, and this is the only part I’m unsure of. I was having severe pressure in my neck at this point for days, and now when I was sleeping or trying to sleep, my breathing would stop as if it was no longer involuntary, and I would have to manually breathe to get it going again, then it would happen again. I was also having sleep apnea during all of this. So at this point I was feeling like my lungs were going to collapse, and that finally made me scared enough to call an ambulance and go to the hospital. Yet once the emts came my blood pressure was normal and my pulse ox was 100, so they didn’t believe I was going through anything I was saying I did. Once I got to the hospital I had a male doctor & the second I told him I think I’m in organ failure he was combative and just wanted to prove me wrong and he condescendingly asked how I know that and anything I said he just didn’t believe. Then they did some blood tests and another male doctor came back and said none of my organs were in failure, my kidney & pancreas levels were slightly off but nothing crazy, they acted as if none of my symptoms made any sense especially since my pulse ox was normal. The only thing they could find wrong was my anemia level of 5 that I had been living with for 2-3 years. I told them to please test my heart, I figured it had to show up on at least an angiogram. They tested everything and said my heart was fine. They gave me 2 bags of blood and I was feeling a tonnn better but I was still feeling shortness of breath, pressure on my chest, everytime they injected anything into my iv even saline my chest would tighten, i was still getting bouts of dizziness, & every time I told them these issues they did nothing. Just “ok”, oh, your heartbeat is constantly rapid? Okay. Oh it feels like someone is pushing you into quicksand when you try to sleep? Ok. I talked to my doctor after they did every heart test and I was upset I said why is it that none of you care to explain any of my symptoms as if they didn’t and aren’t still happening? You only care about what you can see on a test, but that doesn’t change the fact i went through and am still feeling these symptoms. She said “we’ve done every test and there’s nothing wrong with your heart to explain your symptoms” I said ok I believe you there’s nothing wrong with my heart but is there anything at all that can explain the symptoms I’m having? And she pretty much said no or that these issues are hard and sometimes it takes longer for other symptoms to show up. So she completely gaslit me, and I started questioning myself. But when I got home from the hospital and remembered everything I went through the last month day by day I knew that I felt what I felt, so I went to read more about anemia and severely low anemia like I had explains my symptoms ALONE, yet none of them ever said that. When I told them I wasn’t getting enough oxygen they acted like it made no sense when it’s KNOWN hemoglobin carries oxygen to your body & when it’s low it makes the heart work harder and my hemoglobin was FIIIIVVVVEE. Like WDYM you don’t know why I’m having these symptoms? When my pulse ox came back 100 (which still confuses me as to how it could’ve been 100 when my hemoglobin was so low) they acted like my symptoms were so far fetched and how the more I read about it the more I’m insanely confused as to why they didn’t attribute my symptoms to my anemia? I get that I was wrong thinking my heart was in full failure, but anemia also causes heart DYSFUNCTION that is reversible once you get more blood. Some heart tests were before I got blood and some were after. My question is is there any reason my tests could have been coming up as normal? And why did my doctors act like my symptoms made no sense simply because my heart tests came up normal?
I know I waited much too long to get treatment, but it’s bc I truly hate dealing with doctors and nurses and not being listened to.

Demographics: Age: 26 Height: 5’4 Weight: 200lbs Gender: Female Medications: Prenatal Vitamins, beef liver, iron, magnesium, probiotics Smoking status: non smoker Medical issues in past: N/A Duration of this issue: unknown as I just noticed it about an hour ago
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Hello! I'm 24 weeks and some change pregnant with my 4th child. Before start, I will definitely be following up with my midwife tomorrow morning when her office opens however thought l'd ask this thread since it's after hours and I didn't feel like it's an emergency. I got done with a typical day being pregnant with three under 4 running around and took my socks off from the day. I noticed one kale was more swollen than the other and upon further inspection, my left ankle (just above it) is red with a pronounced bump when I feel over it and it is pretty tender when I'm poking around at it almost like a knot under the skin. I took my blood pressure trying to make sure it wasn't anything more serious as to why I had the swelling (normal BP) and tried to see if I have a bug bite but I can't visibly see one. What should I do next? Elevate it and hope it goes away in the am when I call my midwife? Go to another doctor tomorrow to investigate something more sinister? I'm at a loss as this feels very random and slightly alarming. Thank you for the answers!

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I've been stuck in a weight loss plateau for a while (5 months). I tried gym etc but no progress other than muscle gain. Any suggestions? Initially I just barely ate and that worked well for a while. I barely did any physical exercise. Now I tried doing the gym but didnt notice many results. My diet is usually miniwheats in the morning for high fibre, then lunch might be can of corn with an apple or leftover pasta. Dinner varies could be pasta, potatoes or rice with a salad and maybe meat.
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I’m currently a junior in highschool and I’m just a little worried about how my application might stack up applying to engineering. So here’s my stats:
GPA: 4.78 (Weighted core class only), 3.97 (UW All classes)
Rank: 1 out of 104
ACT: 32, (32 math, 31 science, 29 English, 35 Reading)
ECs: FFA member for one year (did FFA quiz but lost), Student Council member, Class Vice President, NHS member, ~40 hrs community service
No APs as my school only offers 3 AP Classes but I will take AP Chem and AP Calc next year. I have 4 dual enrollment classes though. DC US History, DC Physics, DC English, and DC Spanish.
Other miscellaneous stuff: I’ve worked at a hotel front desk for a few years and I have a summer job coming up at a small engineering company (I believe they manufacture parts for helicopters and cars and stuff).
Also I’m applying in state.

I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes half a year ago. I ignored the diagnosis and kept eating what i usually would. Until I realized I need to change my habits when my favorite shirt wouldn’t even fit on me. Im currently 14.5, 5’8, around 200lbs. Today I drank half a gallon of water in total. For breakfast, I ate 5 mini corn dogs, 4 floz of orange juice, and half a pint of low fat milk. (~400 cal) For lunch, my mother made some noodle soup and I ate 1 bowl (~500 cal) For a snack, I ate 2 small honey mangoes (~200 cal), 2 wedges of watermelon(~100 cal), and a pickle (25 cal) I went bike riding for around 45 minutes (-~350 cal) I ate around 1200 calories and burned 350. Good night.

So, I’m desperately trying to get a more slim body so I can look cute, and I’m wondering if cutting out a large amount of the food I eat would be helpful.
For context, I snack a lot, and it’s usually not healthy, and I always eat big meals.
If I start dropping some of the food I eat without cutting out all of it so as to avoid falling into an eating disorder, and I combine this with a bit more rigorous exercise, would it be very beneficial to my overall weight loss?

TRAUMATIC! Worst clinic, treatment and doctors. if you want to see pictures as I cannot upload them here you can check on the Review I did in Google from my personal profile Ana Bel Marquez Andujar
If you’re someone excited about Korean treatments like me and chooses this clinic please READ before you GO 😭
Let me explain you how all the process work. 1. You arrive and there’s plenty of people they get more people that they can handle so expect at least 40 min waiting…

1. They have room boxes with one person who IS NOT A DOCTOR to guide you on what you need 😅 so this is like ordering a meal. What do you want she put it in computer give you the price and you Pay. They don’t guide you at all 🤔 and of course the girls are an administrative function
   
2. In my case as I was with my husband even we went together they ask me to leave already to the other floor. and my husband stayed to finish his payment because yes… Everything is IN A HURRY as it looks a FACTORY
   
3. 7 min DEEP CLEANING 😅 Once in the other floor 16 they seat you. Next they did one of the treatments. They bring you into a place where you lay down next to another 10 more people open space so uncomfortable. They don’t explain they just do. In this case my husband did a cleaning and you can see in the pictures… they took 7 min to do a deep cleaning… 😂
   
4. They move you into another Fabric area where they put you the cream to sleep your face of course also next to other more people (see the photo) you just see people walking with the huge bottles with cream 😅
   
5. They called me to see the doctor (I wanted to have a little bit more volume on my cheeks as I lost weight and my skin looked so tired, and lips and Botox) also some other treatment that I will explain later. So… THIS WAS THE CRAZIEST PART the doctor take the pen and ask me where do I want to put the fillers 🤔 I was in shock 😱 as I said to him how Am I going to say where to put them I AM NOT A DOCTOR I had to say 3 times and he did what he believed was best… as you can see… THE RESULTS ARE HORRIBLE I did this type of treatments 2 more times never happened to me something like this
   
6. Botox… they didn’t ask me to move my face and take the points where my muscle needed to stop moving! They injected 3 times that’s it I paid 3 areas and they injected me 3 TIMES like Whaaaaaaaat?
   
7. After the Botox they did another treatment in another 5 minutes in the same place where they clean next to 10 people “micro needling” that of course I though they didn’t do because TOUCHING THE FACE AFTER BOTOX IS FORBIDDEN even worse with something like this treatment. I was so so SCARED! 😨
   
8. We left the clinic very upset and preoccupied with my face like someone kicked me many times against the wall… and I texted them… they took long time to reply no solution about anything. I cannot upload the conversation from their side but I can mine. During the rest of the days they didn’t answer or provide any solution
   

I was in another country with the face for the first time in my life like this… not being able to enjoy any holidays because I WAS SCARED 😭 and no one was giving me a solution
The same day I was flying back I went to the clinic. They didn’t want to remove what is clear it was not well applied and of course they don’t give you back your money. THEY DONT CARE you are another number. They will compensate with another influencer
Now I need to find another doctor invest more money to solve what they did to me.
VERY TRAUMATIC and still trying to solve it.
Please 🙏🏼 don’t go there. They decorate it well, they work with influencers but everything is a lie. They’re not experts, prices are a lie as they don’t correctly the treatment like… of course the Botox is cheap they don’t put you anything!
Hopefully I can fix my face not sure how long it will take me and how much money I need to invest but the traumatic episode and the physical and emotional pain and trauma will continue.
Hopefully this helps someone to not go through what I had to 😭
Last picture is the FINAL RESULT
Please if someone wants contact me as I will be making a video with a friend of mine for social media to share how they treat people.

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They said they have already been looking into getting it added on for next year because of the popularity and benefits of it!! She said she can't give too much away but says it looks good. Super excited!!!

Hello,
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I am scheduled to see my mom's bariatric surgeon next Monday for a consult but I have this thought in the back of my head that the doctor will say that I do not qualify for the surgery.

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I ended up seeing lactation 3 times and doing weighted feeds. Baby girl never got more than 1.5 ounce per feed and that was with 10-15 min on each breast, but she always closes her eyes and seems to sleep…
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