I have always been in overweight and chained them together diets, the loss and then the regain of weight. The confinement worsened my excess weight because of the bad eating habits adopted at that time, such as the evening aperitif, the small cake to comfort myself… The click to lose weight was the announcement of my son’s marriage a year and a half after confinement! I was going to go back to a Weight Watchers diet, which was the one that worked the most, and I didn’t want to embark on an invasive surgery like a Sleeve. And by chance during my vacation in Montpellier I had the opportunity to meet a shopkeeper with whom we talked about weight loss. She told me that she had gastric balloon pose with good results. On the way back home, I thought that this gastric balloon might be the boost I needed to start losing weight!
“I was in morbid BMI”
I took information from two clinics in Lille. The first team did not want to put this gastric balloon on me because with my BMI greater than 35 kg/m2 I was in morbid obesity. The private clinic on the Champs Elysées accepted the installation of this gastric balloon after an assessment with a doctor and a psychologist. This balloon was installed in July 2022. The installation took place in a radiology office in the presence of a radiologist and the doctor from the clinic. I swallowed the capsule which contains the gastric balloon with plenty of water. The radiologist checked that the balloon was well positioned in the stomach. The balloon was then filled with physiological saline thanks to the mini tube attached to the capsule. The pose was really fast and the only somewhat unpleasant moment is that of removing the mini-tube attached to the capsule. I did not suffer from nausea after the installation as it can happen and I very quickly got used to the balloon which makes it easier to feel full and therefore to reduce the quantities of food ingested thanks to the space it occupies in the stomach.
“I learned to eat my fill and to listen better to my body”
After the balloon has been laid, a telephone follow-up is carried out and a dietician follows us to carry out a diet to accompany this balloon which is not definitely not a miracle cure ! This support is really essential: the dietician taught me to eat my fill but no more, to better listen to my body. Four months after installation, as planned, I eliminated this balloon through the stool without really noticing it. But the good eating habits were taken!
“I lost weight quickly”
I lost weight quickly and continued to lose weight, a total of 35 kilos. Today, I stabilize more than I lose. My BMI is not yet normal but the dietitian tells me that it may never be. In addition to the aesthetic side, the balloon is a method that has allowed me to be in better health: no more gastric reflux and no more medication, therefore, no need for a CPAP machine for sleep apnea…For me, this gastric balloon was really the boost I needed! The 3600 euros invested were a good investment!
Thanks to Dorothée for her testimony
