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I can't help but to wonder about bypass patients. They are the ones likely to regain after intestinal tissue begins to regrow and they are back to absorbing fat and calories again. If I did all that to my body, lost a ton of weight, got a taste of "thin" for a bit, then regained, I might be a bit frustrated too.

Heh... too funny. :mad:

Ohhhhhh, I love this thread. I love you Wheetsin! You are my new hero! My biggest pet peeve myth is the starvation mode. Little children in Africa are in starvation mode, we are fat and certainly not in starvation mode. What about exercise will prevent sagging skin? Or consume as much Protein as you want because what you don't use you'll just pee out like Vitamin C tablets. Not true, what you don't absorb and use turns to fat and you have to burn it. hair loss is a lack of protein, Biotin, <name whatever you heard last>. If you are not deficient in those items anyway, taking more won't make your hair grow. I have a bunch, I'll likely think of them as I see others post them. Bottom line, it's calories in vs. calories out.

I paid $7800, that included absolutely everything including two nights in the hospital. I would battle the insurance co though. If you have WLS coverage, you should fit the criteria.

Very sweet of you to write, thank you. Good to hear you are doing so well! It will all be soooo worth it. If you are in Phoenix you are welcome to join our bandster lunches (that we are due to have again). Congrats on your surgery! This *really* is the beginning of your new life!

You have a couple of really serious comorbidities. The stroke history and diabetes. It can be possible to band someone with your issues but you'll need to find a mighty good surgeon that has a ton of experience. Good luck to you!

I didn't even bother trying to quit before surgery, I knew it was useless. I can't give up food and smoking at the same time. This sounds absolutely horrible but my next step is major surgery... tummy tuck. THEN I'll work on smoking. I figure by that time I'll be an absolutely perfect person in every bloody way! HA! NOT suggesting others do things my way, it's just my way. If I live through it I'll let ya'll know. :mad:

Because they are STOOPID!

If you eat a solid Protein first and THEN feed head hunger, you'll barf. There simply is no room. The band will fix stomach hunger, the head hunger is something we all deal with and you continue dealing with it. There is something to the idea of not being able to do something, you physically can't pack that much food in a pouch so the obsession with food and head hunger ... it doesn't go away completely but for me it's about 95% better. You CAN eat around the band, there is no doubt there. If you think you won't be able to resist eating around the band then the band may not be for you. But if you can manage to fill your pouch with a solid protein (takes hours to drain into your bigger stomach) and THEN feed head hunger, you'll do well. If it goes through a straw it will go through your stoma. If you opt to not fill your pouch with the right foods so there is no room for cake and ice cream, then you won't do well. But it comes down to a choice. There is no magic cure for weight loss. Regardless of which method you use you STILL have to work at it. Spending $10K doesn't mean it's a free for all and you can sit on the couch and eat while the weight drops off. With gastric bypass you'll dump if you eat fat and calories but that usually only lasts for six months to a year then you are back to diet and exercise as the intestinal tissue begins to regrow and you can absorb calories again. Banding and a sleeve are restrictive so you can only eat so much food before you barf it back up and it is quite painful. Not something you'll want to do on a regular basis. DS is bad IMO because of the malnutrition that often times follows. So it's a choice but most of all, it really comes down to how bad do you want thin? Traditional diet and exercise didn't work for me, it was too hard. I just couldn't stick with the program. Banding is hard, VERY hard, but it's the kind of hard WE can do. Our population, we fatties.

I remember that one. She claimed that's how her friend's band was placed, vaginally. Oy veh....

I experience the same thing. If I have so much as one glass of wine it's a promise I won't lose for that week.

Dang, and to think I didn't get that with my band. I feel so... cheated!

Hubby is Devil's Spew. Today that seems fitting.

Nonono... anytime anyone disagrees with me then obviously, they are wrong. HA! I know we've disagreed but for the life of me I can't remember what it was. Do you?

My apologies. I thought the topic you were discussing was people agreeing with one another just because they are friends. No, I rarely correct anyone and their grammar. Holy crap I'm the LAST one that should be doing that. Although I did get frustrated for a bit and had something in my sig line regarding loose and lose. It wasn't directed at any one person but about 50% of the forum. Or so it seemed.

That's only because you were WRONG! And you just wouldn't admit it! :)

HAHAHAHA!!!!! I've seen people swear they have no band because they have no restriction, I've seen most every newbie question if their band has slipped or eroded, let's face it, we've all seen most everything but I have never seen that one! Priceless! What did it taste like?

I've come to the point that I get really honest with these people. I tell them they need to sit down and seriously consider if they want a band or not. I seriously question if someone else is pushing them into a surgery they don't want or what the deal is. If someone is pushing them into a band and they don't want it, they shouldn't be getting the band. If they are coming up with reasons such as that then to ME it sounds like they either don't want it or simply aren't ready. And that's okay! Each person needs to decide for themselves if this is right or not. But worried about small incisions or extra skin and not wanting to lose weight because of that... I point blank suggest they seriously consider what they are doing.

What isn't being discussed is when we have disagreed with one another in posts as obviously, since I disagree with Jasmine about another topic I am one being discussed. I don't take my disagreements with you to PM, if I disagree with you about the topic I'll say so in a post. It's a discussion for goodness sakes, that's how it works. Sometimes I agree with you and sometimes I don't. Besides, I think you and I disagree on most political issues. It's just the religious ones we agree on for the most part. However, we disagree on the history of Christ, the history of Christianity, etc. Heh... I guess the disagreements don't count, only when we agree.

Noooo, that wasn't me! Not unless I'm the one that originally typed workship.

When it comes to a public message board anyone is free to respond. That's how message boards work. We all jump in and respond if that is what we choose to do.

How did your doc come up with a diagnosis of a GI bleed before you were even scoped?

What makes you think you have epilepsy? Having one seizure 17 years ago could be from a number of things. Yes, tell the surgeon everything. I don't know of any reason why a single seizure years ago would be problematic.

But none of that stuff is positively fatal. Gotta see the upside to things at least until you know what they are.

I don't drink a lot but an occasional glass of wine or drink... sure. Just remember to include it in your daily caloric intake.