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I totally understand bowel prep for a RNY, but I cannot understand why you'd need one for banding, and I've been in medicine for many years. Then again, the more I read, the more obstinate I fear I'm going to be when I go for my surgical consult. I'll try to control myself, but I can't promise anything. If there's research and data that is good to back up what my surgeon want s me to do, that's one thing, but if there's not, then we're going to have issues. I think a lot of these practices (not taking birth control pills, bowel prep, pre-op diets, etc...) largely come from MD who are used to treating RNY patients and not Bandsters.

Okay, here's few threads, and one poll http://www.lapbandtalk.com/am-losing-my-t12139.html?t=12139 http://www.lapbandtalk.com/hair-loss-band-t30639.html?t=30639 http://www.lapbandtalk.com/help-im-losing-t30185.html?t=30185 And here's a poll about it: http://www.lapbandtalk.com/poll-does-everyone-t23457.html?t=23457

use the search function at the top of the page and put in hair loss or hairloss or Biotin There TONS of threads around here about it and I think the consensus is that bypass patients usually have worse trouble with it than bandsters. I'll try to dig up one of the threads and put the link here.

Totally depends on the fullness of the schedule of the radiology department. It might be tomorrow, it might be in a couple of days, in might be in a couple of weeks. I would go prepared and make sure you tell them you are able to do it right then if they have an opening. I got lucky last week and was ready for a VO2 (exercise) stress test and they got me in that afternoon. You can get lucky sometimes, but the last time I had an upper GI, I think it was about two weeks before I could get in. But again, it totally depends.

Yay!! Congrats on starting off on the right foot and on having a band date!! Welcome to the posting side of things.

Thank you for continuing to share your journey through your plastic surgery! You are helping soooo many of us.

I'm not sure what you mean by the 3 month *and* the 6 month. I have read on here (use the search function and put in Aetna) that Aetna rarely approves for the three month supervised diet. But I am by no means an expert. If Aetna's diet requirements are *either* three or six months, then you would be doing it concurrently by doing it at all. I will caution you NOT to stop visiting your doctor after completing three months thinking they'll approve you with that. Keep going monthly while waiting for their approval. If they deny you and you've stopped going monthly while waiting for their answer, then you'll have to start all over again. Hope this helps

Yes to both.

NOT this one:

like this one:

I would use a one cup measuring cup, not a liquid measure cup (like a pyrex cup), unless what you are measuing is liquid.

Very, very cute!

HPB, it will take TIME. I know that's not what you want to hear right now, but that's the facts. Yes, you will meet someone else, in time. Don't rush it! I do wish I could tell you when or how long it will take, but I can't, no one can. Crying is a perfectly normal response when you are sad, it's okay to cry. Cry, cry, cry. Get it out, mourn the loss of the relationship. It's okay to mourn, you have lost something. Realize that there were warning signs there for a long time now, you know there were. It doesn't make this any easier, but when you are a little calmer, you'll be able to see them. This won't help a lot right now, and I know when I was your age, I would not have believed someone who told me what I'm about to tell you, either: You are 20, 20 is waaaay too young to settle down into a committed relationship for the rest of your life (others may disagree, but that's okay). Now, that is not to say that I am poopooing your pain, I know it is real, and it is really awful right now, but you WILL look back at this and realize it was a good thing, and it is a learning experience. At your age, and with the self-esteem issues you have, you really need to concentrate on you right now. Another person who "loves" you is not what makes you have self-worth. I know it took me a loooong time to realize that. I thought that if I had someone who said they loved me, I was valuable. I could handle how the world looked at me (as fat) because there was at least one person (other than my parents) who loved me for me. You don't need that. You need to love you and commit to making this change in your life without any distractions. Solid marriages and relationships have been rocked by this. You are not alone. HPB: I think of relationships at your age and maturity level as WONDERFUL learning opportunities. They are good practice for "the one." Later on down the road I hope you will look back at this time and reflect on what you've learned from this experience, hopefully it will be that you are a stronger person who really can stand on your own two feet. We are here for you.

Hello, I was to see Dr. Obeid, but he's had a family emergency so I will now be seeing Dr. Wagner. I don't know when Dr. Obeid will be back (no one does), so I may or may not have him as a surgeon. Very nice to meet more Michiganders!

The last time I lost a large amount of weight (80lbs) I went down in band size, and up a cup size. We'll have to see what happens after banding.

Hotpink_Bubbles: I suggest you stop coming into this thread at all. I know it's a challenge to ignore it, but you've GOT to. Otherwise this will just continue. You'll come here and be unable to stop yourself from responding again. You are human, that's just human nature to want to defend ourselves. With maturity comes the ability to decide what battles to continue and when to take the high road and walk away without saying a thing. May I suggest you go and start another thread about your surgical experience and your recovery for us to support you in? Do NOT mention ANYTHING about your ex-BF in it. Merely make it a thread about you, and you alone. That way you won't feel the need to come back to this one to check in on our responses to you. Go to the User CP and put Sin and anyone else whose responses you don't want to see, on your ignore list. That way you won't see those responses that will get your ire up. I'll be happy to respond and support you in another thread, HPB. Hope to see one soon!

Some places don't place Foley catheters, some do put them in during the OR and then take them out before you wake up, some take it out after you wake up. It all depends. Thanks for posting this, it is a good education piece for others who haven't yet been banded. Ask your doc if this is standard practice.

Welcome and congratulations on the weight loss!

Good for you, kay!

AL=Abdominal Lift (sorry)

Hi kit, no need to post multiple threads, most of us love to read all over the board, welcome to LBT! Here's a thread geared toward lower BMI bandsters, hope this helps you some: http://www.lapbandtalk.com/lower-bmi-bandsters-t26697.html You *might* have a challenge finding a doc to band you at such a low BMI, but that thread is certainly a good place to start looking. At your BMI you will almost definitely have to self pay. I do wish you luck in your journey and hope you keep us posted. I don't think it's an awful thing that you would want to get banded, the Band is a tool, and if you need that tool, then you need it. Just because I am two hundred pounds overweight doesn't make my pain with being heavy and worse than yours at your weight. We all have our own perceptions, we're here for you!

Oh for goodness sakes! You are both not only too young, but too immature to worry about being in a committed relationship right now. I wish you BOTH the best of luck, and I hope things go well for BOTH of you. Take some time off, cool down, call it a good learning experience, walk away, and please stop bringing your break-up in here. We are here to support each other, but this is taking it a bit far...

I've not heard this yet:omg: Thanks for the heads up, and unless my consultation reveals this to me, I'm going to act like I never heard it. Heck if I'm going off. Anyone know why you'd have to stop the Pill? I've worked in healthcare for 17 years and can't recall ever having to ask a patient if they stopped their birth control. I'm off to do research!

Most excellent!!! I am near Ann Arbor, I'll check at the Holiday Market in Canton (there's a lone Farmer Jack there, too, ours on this side of town are all gone :mad: )

DH is laughing his butt off!