Help Alexis With Gastric Sleeve

Hi! My name is Alexis. I am a transgender model and I’m making this campaign to help me with gastric sleeve surgery. Through this surgery my life will forever change and I will lose the excess weight and keep it off for good. I have struggled with my weight with the onset of my early 20’s. I am currently over 195 pounds and almost up to 200lbs. I have done absolutely everything in my power to try and lose the weight including all sorts of dieting, keto diet, hiring a personal trainer, working out daily, following strict diets and life style eating changes from cutting carbs, sugar, fat, etc, ordering meal preps, juice cleanses and as a second to last resort taking prescribed phentermine, hydroxycut, topiramate and Wellbutrin. None of which have worked successfully as I have put the weight back on just as quick and had even gotten sick from taking them accordingly. I’m tired of the struggle and my mother is way over 200 pounds overweight and also my father. It unfortunately runs in my family, and with age my body is turning into that. I am also afraid of getting hypoglycemia as my mom was diagnosed with that and potentially type 2 diabetes. I’ve looked into all the reasons as to why I could be having this issue and I do believe it’s mainly genetic along with the fact that I am post orchiectomy for 12 years resulting in unusual hormone levels which I constantly supplement to normalize in me. Unfortunately weight gain is a side effect from those medicines as well as a side effect of the anti depressant I have been on for almost 10 years , lexapro. I have tried other anti depressants to curb the weight loss and none of them have worked for me and have had very bad side effects. Lexapro does work, which is why I continue to take it. I have extremely bad hunger cravings in the middle of the night and sometimes can be an emotional eater. My stomach doesn’t know when to say it is full and I sometimes continuously snack and crave sugar with out even realizing it until it’s too late. I never spoke about this before because I like people to think I am fully confident with my body and I don’t have these problems deep down inside, however it is starting to show on the scale and when I try to fit into my clothes. It has made me severely depressed and not want to do things I have enjoyed because I can’t keep the weight off. I have taken the initiative to look into surgical intervention and I had my first consult with Blossom Bariatrics here in Nevada. I found an amazing doctor who made me feel comfortable and would perform what’s called a “gastric sleeve” surgery. I have done all of my research for over a month now on this procedure and the doctor explained everything! I’m more that ecstatic to finally have a solution that can forever change my life and bring my weight back down to a healthy 130 pounds! Yes! 130lbs! I was shocked when the doctor guaranteed me that I could be the weight that I once was when I was healthy years and years ago! However I do need some help getting there and hope that I can with the kindness and compassion of all of you! I put $2,200 down and am scraping by financially just to get by and support myself and would very much appreciate any help I could get for this. Even if it is one dollar, or even if you don’t agree for some reason , sharing it would still mean the world. I love you all and really hope to achieve this for the sake of my health and well-being. Thank you so much for hearing me. With Love, Alexis