Brad’s Story – LINX Procedure

Life before was a little challenging. I have two children, 9 and almost 3. I wasn’t able to like play with them as much. I couldn’t keep up. It was kind of laborious. Obesity runs in my family and my father ended up being almost 500 pounds. So when I was about 10 years old,…

Before surgery, I was in a depression state, always in my room, eating a lot, a lot of health issues. I had GERD. I would rush to the ER at night thinking I was having a heart attack but it was just anxiety attacks. It affected me at work as well because I wouldn’t be…

I’ve always been a big guy. From early childhood, I’ve been always the overweight kid, just never ate the way I was supposed to eat. I grew up in a family of big people. My mother was overweight. My grandparents were overweight. A lot of my family is overweight. I just kept getting bigger and…

I’ve always been a bigger person. I was always bigger than everybody else. As I grew up I stopped being able to lose the weight. I stopped being able to exercise as much because I would lose my breath. My weight had gotten to an uncontrolled level. I was the highest I can remember at…

I had really bad acid reflux, coughing. My symptoms were cough and it was really disruptive, if either I was talking too much or fast or eating. While I was eating, or drinking, or laughing, anything would provoke a really nasty cough that sounded like it was coming from my lungs. So everyone would turn…

I seem to have always kind of struggled with weight my entire life. It seemed to get worse after I had children, harder to lose weight and as my children got older and you know, I just found it was difficult to keep up with a lot of their activities and stuff, kind of due…