So, I'm 230 pounds. I'm also 4'8. And I can't control my weight gain. I'm not trying to make excuses, I have tried everything. I was a dancer and a gymnast a while back when I first started losing weight. I've always been an active girl who never really took in a lot of calories. The weight gain made no sense. Neither did the really short stature. I could gain weight just by smelling food.
Around 8th to 9th grade I started to get strict with my weight loss. I was teaching myself how to dance and my mom got me in gymnastics since it was my dream to be a gymnast. I lost weight mostly in my arms and legs. My stomach went down a bit but then I started gaining again. My mom and I didn't know what was happening. I ended up fracturing my kneecap in gymnastics and I had to be taken out. This wasn't surprising, I have really flexible joints so they tend to slip easier than others. I gained weight during recovery, which is to be expected. I continued on with dancing and calorie counting when I recovered but the weight wouldn't come off. I got so discouraged.
We went to the doctors about the weight gain and he didn't know. He ran some tests and it was all normal. He did notice some weird symptoms with my skin so he sent me to the dermatologist. At the dermatologist's office, he inspected my skin for an unrelated skin condition but he also noticed stretch marks. Deep, angry stretch marks. It didnt make much sense because some of them were in places they shouldn't be. He felt around on my back to see if there were some more and that's when he felt the lump between my shoulder blades. He looked at his nurse and told her to cal the endocrinologist. He told me I have a buffalo hump. A classic sign of Cushing's Disease. He said he wants to send me to a specialist to see if that's what I have. I looked it up on my phone and my stomach dropped. My body was the same as what was shown. I had just about every symptom. I showed my mom and she said she just knew that was it. I fit that so much it HAD to be it.
That was around October. I'm 18 now, 230 pounds, 4'8, and I get tested next month. With my luck, its probably going to be caused by a tumor. Cushing's is caused by steroid medication or a tumor on the pituitary gland or the adrenal glands. I don't take steroids. I fell into a deep depression after finding out. Despite this, I'm still trying to lose weight. Is it working? No, like always. But I'm not going to give up. Whatever happens next month, I'm not gonna stop.
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