How to Contact the Brookhaven Obesity Clinic

i am 450-500lb i need help could you please send me some information so i can see if this a good way for me to get my life back i just turned 24 years old and i feel like i am going to die if i dont do something about the way i am living…please help me

I would like to volunteer some of my time to a particular patient

Todd, thanks for your comments. Those things are what we need to hear. I had my doubts when I watched the documentary, but I’m sure people line up to get into there because there aren’t many places where people can support each other with smiliar problems. I think that alone might worth more than what is actually done there.

i am 30 years old and i am 690 pounds i have congeive heart failure and i sleep with a bipap because of my sleepacmeia i really need help i would all the information you could send me

Chester, please contact the clinic directly. I have no affiliation with them. I wish the best for you.

Just saw both ’07 shows. “Unsafe for surgery” and “Rescue Me” Have a million questions/ Is this place in any way connected with Brookhaven Labs out in Suffolk County? These morbidly obese patients depicted obviously don’t, can’t work for a livng. Where do they get all the money wuth which to feed their enormous appetites? Who pays for all this treatment? One young man, refusing to stop eating even while in bed in the clinic, as it seems with many others, is able to get food smuggled in to him? People actually bring foor in to these poor souls, who have completely ‘out-of-control’ food addictions. What give with such shenanegins INSIDE the clinic itself. And I see absolutely nothing said about the obvious presence of serious emotional disturbance in ALL of these ‘patients’. They seem to content thenselves with treating the symptoms here rather than get to and root out the causes of their eating problems and lack of self-control,and thoroughly analyze each person to help them understand hwy they can’t stop eating. Am I missing something here? Is this a respectable clinic that’s been vetted by the Medical Community or is it just another black hole for whatever money they get for the ‘efforts’ they make to help these people. I feel like calling them and either trying to speak directly with this Dr. Kolman and ask him to answer these questions, or ask for his e-mail affress so I can ask him online. I’m still stunned, and probably shouldn’t be, at how wasily these folks were/are able to cheat right under the noses of the people who are supposed to be helping them. Anyone want to get in on this? Vince

I watched this documentary last night and as a person who
has struggled with weight all my life, I was confused.
Currently I have my weight under control through positive thinking, a very well balanced food intake and plenty of excersize. It is hard losing weight. There are not easy answers or ways out. I realize it is a very emotional issue, trust me. But it comes down to how you value yourself and the life you have been given. It has helped me a lot to know that there are people who have embraced life to its fullest and their lives have been cut short due to illness or any other unexpected death, these people would have traded anything to have the life we eat away. My email is starsoul08@gmail.com if you would like to chat about some of the ways I got it and keep it under control.

Good luck to all of my friends that suffer from eating disorders and know it is in your control.

i have seen the program on tv. I cry every time because i see my self i some of those people. i need help

I AM A 32 YEAR OLD MOTHER OF A 14 Y/O SON WHO WEIGHS AROUND 470LBS. HE RECENTLY TRIED OUT FOR FOOTBALL WAS REGETTED BECAUSE OF THE LIABILITY.WE HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING TO HELP HIM WITH HIM PROBLEM BUT HE IS IN DENIAL OF HOW BAD THE SITUATION IS AND THE VERY REAL POSSIBILITY OF DEATH.IF ANYONE KNOWS OF ANY PROGRAMS THAT CAN HELP WITH SOMEONE HIS AGE PLEASE RESPOND.THANKS.

I have watched several of the shows about this clinic, and I feel this is just a money making scheme for the owners of this place. If you were in th e hospital for high blood pressure they would not put you on a diet that contains salt, and would make sure your visitors did’nt bring this to you. I’m sure most of these people are paying or someone is, not the clinic and what is the point if they let people order take out food. If they can pay nine thousand dollars for a wheel chair for a patient that DOES NOT ADHERE TO THE RULES AT ALL, then maybe they can put that money to use with a gaurd at the door to stop fast food coming in. Don’t tell me they can’t stop this, I’m sure there is a way to watch the doors, and I don’t believe these delivery people sneek food into the windows., If they do then there should be a way to stop these deliveries. I think if there is no morbidly obese people then the clinic would have no reason to be there..therefore they need patients. And where do these people get the money for all this food? I think if you have an morbidly obese relative or friend, then you shouldn’t be allowing this to continue by helping them. I think Dr. Kolman is making a lot of MONEY off these people and his intentions in my opinion is not for the best for these people.. Where are the sucess stories. I have never heard one yet.
This place should be checked out, but I’m sure that is not going to happen. If you are thinking of going to this place please check out all the options firs..

Lisa,
call them or visit the office directly.

Address :
250 Beach 17th Street
Far Rockaway, NY 11691

Phone Numbers :
Phone 718-471-7500
Fax 718-327-9074

My sister was admitted to Brookhaven in September. She was horrified. She was left in bed unable to move without assistance she was left to deficate in a diaper why don’t they show this on the series? She is now in a Hospital in Yonkers and we are waiting for her to get well enough for her to go back to another obesity clinic.

Why do you have to be a resident of New York to go to Brookhaven Obesity Clinic? I think that is unfair. Are you saying that the rest of the world or at least the U.S don’t need the kind of help that you all offer? Well, do you at least plan on building other places like yours around the country?

I am a therapist working in the area of eating disorders in the UK. I would deary love to get onto the brookhaven website to contact them to arrange a placement. I tried the link above, but the web page it goes todoesnt have any links/buttons that work. Can anybody help me out.

I’ve had two knee replacements I lost about 45-50 lbs.I need to lose at lease 150 lbs. i hold a lot of water i dont eat right i need a lot of help before i get sicker my joints are bad too i have a lot of little people depending on me (14)how can someone get in the program my number is 313-885-1390,address is 19986 Woodmont Harper Woods MI.48225

We need a support group for gastric by-pass survivors.

I am obese,350lbs.This is the biggest I’ve ever been & the most miserable.I went to a local hospital for info on lap band surgery.After getting info,& learning that you have to change your eating habits after surgery & the pros & cons,I started praying for God to help me make the right decision 4 me & my health.I was awakened one night & had the answer & I knew immediately the Lord was speaking to me.IF you have to make all these changes in your diet & can’t eat but small amoumts of food etc.. why can’t you do it without surgery.What do you need the surgery for if you gotta make all these changes afterward? just make the changes & don’t put your body thru surgery.Depend on God & a support group & a good Dr. to monitor your goals.I’ve lost 30lbs.& its been slow but I pray & when I go to the Dr. if I haven’t gained any,whether I lost a lb or not,I don’t give up & I go on.I have alot of health probs,but if I lose more weight I can come off all meds.What I’m trying to say is, it’s a mind thing & you have to gain self control of your own body again.Rely on God & believe in yourself.Why have surgery when u can make changes without it? God bless each suffering with obesity,I KNOW how u feel & if u haven’t been there u don’t know.

if you can find another clinic ,,FIND IT…i know someone at this clinic…and i do not recommend it to any one……the dept of health needs to seriously look into this place !!!! but thats only my opinion….

My heart goes out to all of us who suffer from this disease of compulsive overeating. I’d also like to offer another solution…I lost 100+ lbs with OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS. You can go to their website for more information. http://www.oa.org.

Try the South Beach Diet. There’s a 99.99% that you will succeed in your weight loss… that’s all I have to say.

And I’m talking from experience.

I would like to find more about Brookhavn. Is it really as bad as Ihear.I am over weight, I am about 365 pds. I would love to lose about 200pds. I have tried it all. I need someone to talk to, I have any support,or help, if you can please give me some help.

Wow! I am a mother of a morbid obese son…unsure what he weighs at this point. Possibly 400 (+)?? He is 24 yrs old, has never held employment, has social anxiety and is going down a self destructive path of over eating…It scares me everytime I see him and know his life is short if he doesn’t do something soon.. What is a mother to do? Where can I go to find support to him and myself? He seems to be in denial and very defensive. Does not want help? Unsure what to do? I am looking for options…he has no health insurance…that frightens me even more…looking for any direction someone can give me…desperate mom.

hello im 22 years old and i live with my father , stepmother and my 10 years brother in the state of connecticut. I really do need some help with my weight you see in the year of 2002 i was diagnoised with Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT)
Supraventricular (originating above the ventricles) tachycardia (SVT) is a series of fast atrial heartbeats that can cause the heart to contract at rates of 250 times per minute or faster. SVT can be uncomfortable and frightening. The type of treatment depends on whether the electrical impulses reenter the atria via a bypass tract (Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome), through the atrioventricular (AV) node, or are caused by a single abnormal group of cells. and i was also diagnoised with
Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome and having this makes my life alot harder.I lost weight more then once but i can’t never keep it off.I weight about 400 to maybe 500lbs right now i need to know how can i get into this clinic and if possible can you sen me all the information i need to get in . Thank You !!!!!!

This message is for Sharon. I read your message and felt so connected to you. I have been ‘goggling’ all week on “how to make online friends”, “how to meet obese people on line”. Like yourself, this is the heaviest I have ever been and honestly, I do not have a single friend. That is so hard to admit because it makes me sound like more of a loser. But I just can’t believe there isn’t one person that is my friend that I feel comfortable talking to. I would love to start some sort on network, that is FREE and for people who honestly just want to talk sometimes. Anyone out there??

i weigh 400 pounds…its a bitch trying to lose the weight….please help me !!! i need a miracle!!!!

feel free to write me via pieman420@gmail.com

i have a loved one there right now…and in short the statye needs to do a full inspection of the place and thoughly talk to EVERY patient there about progress and what changes need to be made……

I don’t know whether to be blaming the patients or the facility. Of course, there is no incentive for the facility if the patients lose weight or not because they will get paid either way. The patients are just as lazy and have as much lack of willpower after they stay for YEARS so why are they there??? Shouldn’t they be thrown out if there is no progress in their “weight-loss” regime?? The facility should fill the beds with people who are serious about losing the weight. I’ve seen the whole series and there aren’t many success stories because they allow cheating and laziness. If I were an administrator and had to be accountable of this program, I would not want to provide any statistics either.

I have lost 160lbs. I didn’t lose it fast but I made a lifestyle change so it will last. I still have about 70lbs to go. I found the most important thing is to have a big enough why. One that is not medical. Mine was to first have an active life with my grandchildren. But then it change to me having an active life for me. I just turned 60 and this is the lightest I have been in 25 years! It’s not luck it is desire!

I have been obese most of my adult life. After divorce it seems like the weight just kept adding on. I love food and don’t know how to get away from it. I have diabetes, high blood pressure, high closteral,plus have been told that i have a tumor on my bone in my right leg. I am 52 and have no income at this time and NO one wants to hire a big big man. I am at the weight of 465 and have gone up but can’t seem to get much below that. Please send any info that will help.

Hi my name is Stephanie. My grandmother is 60 and her size has balloned to about 400 lbs. The has sleep problems breathing problems, and the can bearlly walk because her knees hurt. I was wondering if you would send my info about your clinic so I will be able to have her look at it? Thank you, Stephanie

I pray for all obese or ‘compulsive overeaters’, as I am. I’ve been MAINTAINING a 120 lb. wt loss for 20 years! I am a FOOD ADDICT. I’m astounded you do not address the emotional/mental disorder of ‘eaters’. The obesity epidemic goes way past nutrition/food plans! It is right up with alcoholism. The medical community has, long ago, got the handle of alcoholism. Why can’t so called ‘eating disorder’ clinics get the same message? It provides ‘false hope’. I come in contact with beriatric surgery patients. They lose the weight, and then turn around and begin to gain it back. A wise/enlightened surgeon said it all. He said ‘I fixed your stomach, not your mind. The disease of food addiction begins in the mind!
I pray for people seeking an answer on the surgery table….

I have nothing bad to say about Brrokhaven.. All Praises.. I mean that place Saved my fathers Life.. He was near 600 lbs and 3 months before he entered brookhaven.. they was giving him less than 24 hours to live… he had CHF.. amongst other things.. My Dad is now Less than 3 hundred Pounds 2 yrs later.. and is doing great… if you work with the program it works for you.. this includes any diet you choose. Good Luck to everyone, because I know the feeling of being Morbidly OPbese it is not fun at all.
Love Peace and Gods Speed..

please help me. ifell as if i am dying. i am morbidly obesit . i am not asking for money, just for resources. i have medicare and medicaid, but no one wants to help. i need in patient help and possibly surgry. i watch on tlc, i know i can do it. i am deeply depressed and fell i have nowhere to turn. HELP

Hello all. I am 45 years old and have been heavy most of my life. I am once again…on a diet. I would like to correspond with someone who is trying to lose weight. I feel I would relate better with someone that has just as much weight to lose as I do and someone around my age. I weigh 320. I just want to talk to someone who knows what I’m going through. Thanks.

Hi all I am Dan fr uk I used to be 26st 5lbs in weight and I had numerous of problems due to my obesity I yoyo dieted all though my life since I got bullied and sexually abused at a residential college as a young adult but I don’t want to go into a long story about it as it left emotionally disturbed for yrs and yrs until a social worker finally listened to what happened to me and we went to the police whom took my case seriously but it was to many years on to take legal action against him but I did manage to him on the at risk register and the sexual abusers list the police hold on abusers I didn’t get justice but at least I have protected others fr being abused by that animal but I got bigger as years went on to the extent I was at deaths door quite litrualy as I had 3 bouts of deep vein thrombosis 2 on the legs and one on the lung which nearly killed me I knew then I had todo something I went to see my local GP whom referred me to a barbaric surgeon whom was really great but he put a spanner in though as he told there was no funding in the nhs fr anyone fr my area but other parts of uk they had no probs I frought fr one long year and I had to go my local press and went on national tv too in the uk why should obese should have the right to surgery on the nhs and why should we have the right to live from getting fat though our neglect but the journalist was ignorant and so was the producer of was too total idiots in my opinion they did realise that certain conditions can be caused by obesity and though disabilities too which surprised them. After being interviewed the show ent the following week and it got a good reception but one important thing angered me alot which I think was too anger people purposely by saying the operation costs the nhs £12.500 where in fact 2 years ago it only costed £4.500 per op and within 4 years of that person having the op the operation will repaid as every patent having gastric bypass ops would virtually will need nill medication so thats how the nhs get their money back. Also its the only operation the nhs get any finachual return on so I put this information to my local mp whom is a pain in the derryaire but he checked the facts I give him and then he put it our pm at the time why was not our county but everyone else was getting funding for weightloss surgery and not our county he then granted a yrs funding instantly for whom needed the op that year. now I am seen as some sort of a god as I got funding I only used common sense and knew which button’s to press to get the right attention thats I am human being that knew how to help myself and others as I also cerebral palsy too. now after my op 2 yrs ago I weight 10st 5lbs and I feel reborn I still have limitations but I can do some things I never been able todo like pull my trousers on, too wearing jeans, too wearing nice clothes too. But like other gastric bypass patients I will have to take vitermins for the rest of my life which I accept but its nothing to compare to risk losing my family I love. so to people whom are thinking or whom are doubting to have the op do it because it will set you free even if you have disabilities you were born with it will set you free still I promise love too all Danxxx

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I need help also, I’m in NY, and so tired of being over 400lbs. I am in the process of having gastric bypass surgery butwant to get below 4000 first. If anyone has anyinfo or needs a friend email me @ wha

Whatisnormal28@yahoo.com

I have been watching ur program..I will say I totally admire U and ur staff, who have taken on so much to reach out to these people who are morbidly Obese…I use to weigh 330…I had tried everything,every diet program on this earth…I eventually did Have the gastric bypass and lost 180 pounds…that was 9 yrs ago and I have still kept it off,as I promised myself never to be that fat again…I understand how these people feel and what they are going thru…BUT I will tell u that it really pisses me off that these CHEATER have no respect for u and ur staff and the work and help ur trying to give them..These CHEATERS are taking up bed space for someone who would follow the program and use the tax dollars the rt way. U need to change the policy 3 strikes ur out..U didnt make them reach the weight that they come to u, they did it to them self and it has to be them that want to make the change, If they are not ready to change it will never happen…And for that Micheal H.,OMG where does he come off feeling humilated bacause the 5 people where trying to help him out of his home..He should have thought about that long befor he got so dam Big..and Tammy the gastric bypass is only a tool,IT IS N A FIX..u still have to watch ur calories and maintain a healthy eating program and u still have to workout..If u dont o these thing,U CAN still gain the weight back..out of 10 people in my group who had the gastric b y pass I am the only onw that hasnt gaied the weight back.
I Praise the Director and his Staff for being their for these people,and i lite a candle for all those who have followed thru on the program and is continuing reaching their goals…For those that Cheat and complain,I just hope u watch the program and open ur eyes to how disrespectful u are to yourself and those that are trying to help u…

hello, it’s me again, is their anyone listen i really need some guidance, i have prayed and i have asked god for some help, i can’t do this alone i need someone who cares enough for me to help me. If no one helps me i just believe that i’m not going to be here for long. Will someone please contact me from the clinic please my email is estherrobinson2@aol.com, waiting to hear from someone who cares.PLEASE PLEASE!

Just a reminder. My mom said that BRHCC will take people up to 600lbs. Another thing: I tried contacting BRHCC by phone and by email countless of times. Not once did they return my phone calls or emails. My mom wasn’t to fond of Brookhaven, so i’m going to try Split Rock Rehabilitation & Health Care Center. It’s only 3 mins. driving distance from my residence.

Please help me, brother died 10 yrs ago 3 days post gastric bypass. I beleive I can do this without surgery. I am very sick, constant pain, Use to weigh 360, now I am 310 Have been as low as 290 but I eat now out of fear and pain. I am 58, How do I get help, I pray that all of us, who are sufferring will be blessed with an S.O.S.

Nita, contact Brookhaven directly by phone.