Daisalana

rofl wheet. It's ironic you said that storing losing, something about that came up recently in my relationship. I never farted or did #2 with DH around, when we first moved in together- after 3 years of dating.. I still wouldn't do those things. We were living in New Mexico, and my family came for a visit. When I get scared, I have 'scared farts'.. not to be confused with 'rainbow farts'. We were going up a trolly up the side of the Sandia mountains (I hate heights), and some drunk wedding party was on there swaying it. I started farting, and I blamed it on my dad.. who cares, it's dad! And my dad, in front of DH (DB at the time) is going "No I didn't, YOU did". I was so mortified, I actually cried and yelled at him later!! I would send DB to the gas station or to neighbor for something when I needed to do #2. I FINALLY got over that in the past 6 months-- living together 4 or so years now. I can now do it, as long as he's not in the room connected to the bathroom. But a couple weeks ago, he walks in the bathroom and goes "PEW!!". And he killed it. I am back to square one!!! Men.

.......men.

Good luck!

Are you eating too much or too fast? Even if I chew well, if I eat too quickly or too much I still PB. You may need a slight unfill if you're doing it all the time. I PB a few times a week, depending on what's going on (PMS makes me tighter). But it's always my fault.. sometimes I try to eat bread, which I know..won't work. But I try it anyway. And yes, that can cause your band to slip.

Just wanted to see, did you look into Dr. Freeman in Anniston? I live in Huntsville, but I had Dr. Freeman do it. He is fantastic, I drive all that way just to do follow ups with him. Good luck with the insurance :ohmy:)

I flew to Vegas a couple months post-op.. didn't feel a difference.. flew to NYC last month.. didn't feel a difference... I ate (snacks) & drank on board during all the flights.. And to get free vegas trips, make sure you use a comp card when you're there. Then you can get free rooms/food/shows, and sometimes vouchers for flights in the mail if you spend enough at their casino.

Really wanna know? I google image searched for 'rainbow farts'. Hah!

Aw, back to last week...reason I love DH :ohmy: He just e-mailed me this [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx88uQO_Ork&feature=related]YouTube - Not Fire, Not Ice[/ame] And said it's his new song for me. Aw. It use to be "Southern Girl" by Incubus.. hehe.

I'll be damned, people really are farting rainbows.

Well said Johnny! Although, in the heat of the moment, those nice happy thoughts aren't going through our minds.

And you could make the violet dance for the Bobster! :ohmy:

Sorry for your loss, but don't let that deter you from what's right for your health. Just from what you've said, it is way more likely it was drugs/alcohol than.. the band. The band doesn't do anything to your brain to cause a coma. And if you're weighing gastric bypass because it's safer.. statistically the band is safer. Very bizarre situation, but I doubt it has anything to do with the lap-band.

And the wonderful thing about the band is, if you decide "Ok, I'm done.. no wait, I'm not!" it's still there! Go at your own pace. DH has been a good boy, he keeps all comments minimal or positive! But if I eat something I shouldn't, he'll give me a look and go from there. If I give him an evil look :ohmy: he doesn't say a word. He did say the other day he (and my dad concurred) doesn't think I'll ever be 'skinny'. Hrmph. That's for me to decide!!

Yeah it is, I joined it same time I joined here.. I could not navigate that place at all, and I'm pretty computer literate. I could never find the same thread twice, and I had no idea where it dumped me (sometimes I would be in RnY section for no reason). And every single page has an active-x notification which gets really annoying..

I didn't like Depo, it didn't control my irregular periods and I put on 30lbs in 2 months. I was on ortho tri-cyclen & ortho tri-cyclen lo since I hit puberty due to my periods being out of whack. At some point my doc said I don't have to take the 'sugar pills' and never have a period. I normally do that.. I swapped to Yaz last year for a change of pace. When I have to go off of them (like for surgery), my periods are still all out of whack. So, I'm greatful for my pills!! I do always wonder though, if I'd lose weight even quicker if I wasn't on them. I know Depot affected my weight, and supposedly the pills can too.

Wow. I didn't know DS people were stinky. I don't think I could have made that decision. Having to buy special products for unexpected stinks in public? :ohmy: Spring fresh.. When I PB in public, it doesn't bother anyone else.. unless yer that girl who threw up in the kids hair hehehehe!!

Plain- A few months ago it was in the news about a VERY LARGE man who adopts his son's kids (when he has them) for some reason. On the latest adoption, he was being denied.. not because the kids he has are overweight.. but simply because HE was overweight. They were afraid he wouldn't be a good role model. This, is outrageous. This, the goverment has no right to judge. I can think of plenty of people with kids, who are not good role models, and it has nothing to do with their eating habits. So, this is where I say the government is crossing boundaries (much like, I agree they should not have banned trans fat). But in this article, the children are being abused if the parents aren't helping them maintain weight.. well, that's the argument. I'm still in the air on it, but the first scenerio I am 100% opposed.

How can you be a troll with such horrahble speelling! And ya'll got me worked up now, I'm going to my doc and asking where the hell my rainbow farts are!!!! And the band fairy? I did it the hard way.. and I bet the fairy was cheaper. Dammit, hosed again.

I did! I also explained to the girl how I am still in a lot of pain and waiting for him to call me something in, so she said she'll try to catch him between surgeries. And I just called my family's GP to get set up as a new patient.. another one of those doc offices where no one answers the phone, you just have to leave messages. :ohmy: --- Last night really made the light of the issue of a new hospital big to me. The hospital is 30m away in another city, we all go there. For years, the 2 hospitals in that city have been fighting over who gets to build a hospital in MY city. Due to this, we have had none. They appeal back and forth. Last week on the news it said So and so finally got approval to be the one to build the hospital...... but so and so has 3 months to appeal this decision. ARGH. We need a hospital out here. Especially since the one 30m away has gone SO DOWN HILL.

Yeah, I don't have one. Ironically, I've been talking about getting set up with my parents GP, but I didn't know how you get set up as a first time patient.. And for this instance, I didn't know if he'd be able to get me in quick enough as a new patient. I need to just go have a physical done with him to get my name on his charts. But yeah, I definitely NEED one. My cell phone died, and that's the number the surgeon is suppose to call me when he's out of surgeries. argh.

Wow! Judy getting a tattoo, sleeping with a lesbian. Hm.. Judy are you really a preacher's wife in real life? I haven't decided on tattoo or not. I want another one, but I always said I wanted ONE more.. that's it.. and I've put it off for years till I decided what. If I get this one, I'd have to figure out a place to get it. I have a violet flower on my ankle already, hehe!

Morning V's! I missed something, why did your sister do that Terry?? What a horrible thing to do, no one does that to their mom past the age of 5! Well yesterday they sent me to do ultrasounds. First one was fasting.. did that one fine, they told me to leave, drink 32oz of water, come back at 2 and do the lady parts. I drank 50oz of water, came back at 2.. sat there till 4 o'clock.. I went in twice and my bladder wasn't filling up, so she said 'come back when you have to pee really bad'. Never happened. So they did the scary ultrasound where they stick a stick in my hooha (and called it 'tampon like').. my tampons don't play touchy feely!! Then one of my ovaries was in a funny spot, so I had to stick one leg way up in the air and do maneuvers. So go back to the clinic, they said results say I have a cyst on my ovary.. and a high white blood cell count.. 18000 and most people is 11000? Or 11000 if infected? Anyway.. They wanted me to go meet some surgeon at the ER.. so I get to the ER, they get me in right away. 2 hours of NOTHING FOR PAIN.. and the kid who did the IV was a MORON he had to be new. It took him 15m of JABBING a huge needle in my arm to get it, made me cry. And IV's normally don't bother me at all. So then it was burning and pinching the whole time.. 2 hours of waiting for the doc.. doc comes in, feels around, says he doesn't think it's appendicitis. Kudos.. send me home with some antibiotics. So then he's like, but I'd like to get a catscan to make sure. Sigh. So he makes me drink 3 cups of sprite contrast. They said I'll go in 20m to get a Cat Scan. 2 more hours pass. No Cat Scan. I have to pee something fierce. Pain.. nothing for pain.. Haven't eaten at all that day. I literally was going crazy. I started freaking out. Doc comes by asks me how the Cat Scan went, I said THEY HAVEN'T DONE IT!!! I said "I want to go home" and he goes "I'd prefer you do the scan while you're here", and walks off. 30m later, finally do the scan. I cry a little more, I'm so miserable. I get back to the room, the cat scan guy said "You'll be here all night, no one is working radiology". FFS!!!!!! So I asked the nurse to call my doc, he didn't. I asked again and said DON'T TELL ME YOU ARE WHEN YOU AREN'T. Another 1.5 hours pass, I can't take it anymore. I cause a scene in the nurses area. They bring me papers saying I can check out, but it's against doctor's orders. I said I didn't care, signed it and we left. Then mom told me signing out against doc's orders, means insurance won't pay. So apparently I wracked up a big bill. Sigh!! Still debating how to tell DH about it, it'll be a couple thousand at the least. So this morning, still having the waves of pain, called the clinic they don't have any info.. called the doc (who ends up, is a bariatric surgeon in town and was SOLICITING business from me) and he's in surgery till this afternoon. So nothing till then. Meanwhile, still in bad pain. I can't believe it. I will literally die next time before I go back to the hospital.

Hey V's, thanks for all the thoughts. After a whole friggin day in the hospital, and I swear I went insane.. I ended up checking myself out Against Medical Advice. I broke down crying and cussing and saying 'get me the hell out of here'. I'll go into it tomorrow, going to try to sleep now. And they don't have an answer.

Not much time, need to go lay down.. Pain has been flaring up horribly all morning. Went to a doc, they sent me to the hospital for ultra sounds.. they did some ultra sounds, sent me home to drink lots of water and I go back in an hour to do more ultra sounds on my womanly parts. Since last night, it's been getting worse and worse, back to the pain being so intense I feel faint and break out into a sweat. I'll let you guys know what happens. And gosh, I hope this isn't something 'mysterious' where I'm just suppose to deal with it I have been in tears all morning, they won't give me anything for the pain and I'm pretty miserable!

Hey V's, ya'll were about to my lifeline.. About 30 minutes ago, I woke up with such intense stomach pains, it was making me delusional. I turned ghostly white and broke out into sweats, and it hurt so bad, I could not walk right. I fell 2 times, and once hit my head on the floor.. both times, I was in such pain I did not even notice the fall!! I finally got to the toilet and I swear I thought I was about to die. I had bad diarhea, I had grabbed my cell phone. I am one of those people that only go to the doc if I have to.. and the rating of the pain I was in, I was full ready to call 911 and have an ambulance come haul me away...never come to that conclusion before. I have honestly never felt pain this bad in my stomach!! Or anywhere for that matter. My mind was racing with what to do.. I thought I'd call a V to keep me sane. DH takes 30 minutes to wake up and I needed to talk to someone! After the diarhea the intense pain went away..so I took an immodium and started a bath. I texted my mom, who was awake and then we talked, I told her what was going on, she said maybe it's appendicitis.. I got out of the tub, it reduced down to just being sore. She was talking about how she doesn't know what the band does, maybe it twisted my intestines, etc. Pain is no where near my band and I do not think it has anything to do with it. But the pain is starting to come back, nothing like it was, but I'm more than just sore now. I'm going to go try to go back to sleep now since none of ya'll are awake. If anyone has any ideas what this could be, let me know! Hopefully, it doesn't get like it was again.. or I'm going to go to the hospital!