Brad’s Story – LINX Procedure

Life was very difficult. My weight was so over to where it was hard breathing at night. I had sleep apnea, blood pressure issues, and then I also had diabetes due to my weight, and one day, I went to see my PCP doctor, and she told me if I did not do anything, they…

I have always been overweight, starting from about third grade. It’s something I have struggled with my whole life. I’ve always been active. I’ve always done sports, but I just could never get the weight off. From high school and college, I would constantly try to do different weight loss programs. I hated what I…

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…

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,…

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…

As a kid, I always had been a big kid. I remember having to go to Sears to get my clothes because they were the only department store in the area that carried husky pants because I had to be in husky rather than regular. Then, as I got older, I did all of the…