Daisalana

I heard someone mention getting one of those big house dresses from wal-mart. I plan to wear that with my flannel men's PJ pants (makes me completely shapeless, so I'll pretend I don't have a body LOL) and flip-flops. I personally would rather go home right after surgery, and sleep in the car. I hate not being in my house, in my bed when I'm not feeling well.. or sleeping. Even if I'm in pain, Id feel reassured knowing I was on my way home to my bed.. and my down comforter and feather pillow and heated mattress pad.. Mm.. Now I wanna get off work and go to bed. LOL

It may be illegal to try to force you to disclose it, but they can fire you for it. We had a CSR with cancer, who was almost fired because she took too much time off.. and another girl who broke both arms from a rollerderby thing, and she is getting fired..

Thank you guys for sharing, glad everything was uneventful! And NOOOO there is NEVER TMI!!!!! Those of us anxiously (are we there yet?!) waiting for the surgery want EVERY gorey detail, so we know all the things to possibly expect! I am surprised, I guess, by everyone saying how much pain they were in that they didn't realize. I've never had major surgery. I had tonsilectomy/uvula-ectomy when I was a kid and I was eating veal the night I got home (see, I love my food) LOL I don't remember pain from it, or have any significant things to compare it to. One thing I worry about is my chronic back pain. Laying in hospital beds, really flares the nerves. When I had a metabolic breathing test, and the sonogram at my first meetings, the little bed they had me lay on, I started to get into blinding pain from the akward position. When I do get my back shots, they put me under and when I wake up, the position they have me in is also excruciating, and they will give me a shot of demerol while I adjust to a comfortable position. I hope these doctors are as considerate, so I don't have to worry about the pain from my flared up nerves. I'm honestly more scared about my back pain than my stomach pain. I have a pretty high threshold for pain due to my back problems, so I'm fairly confident right now--I know, when I log in the day after my surgery I'll probably be a big ol' baby About pain meds, I hear people mention getting their liquid form of pain meds before the operation, I know my doctor gives them, should I be asking for the Rx ahead of time so I can make sure my pharmacy has it, or will they take care of it..do they know to give it early so we can check on it? I guess I will ask at my pre-op, which is 5 days before surgery but I want to make sure that's enough time. Congrats on you new bandsters, I can NOT wait to join you!! Keep walking, and drinking --- Just wanted to add, my surgery hospital stay is 23 hours lapriscopically. I check in 5:30am on Monday morning, and I am to go home 4:30am on Tuesday (My poor family, which is turning into a caravan.. my fiance and mom were going.. then my dad.. and now my g'ma) He said after the surgery they will do some test with an x-ray, I guess to make sure it's placed right. They said if they can't do it laproscopically (i'm dieting like a mad woman so I can have it laproscopically) it is 3-4 days in the hospital.

My doctor said to stop taking hormones, birth control, and anti-inflammatories (NSAIDS I think I've heard it referred to) 7 days prior to surgery. I'm on birth control, and have been since 12 to regulate my periods, and I'm wishy-washy with it, I've never gotten pregnant, and my gyno's said that I would likely need glycerin shots or something to get pregnant due to my size. That will be a thing of the past! However, I take my birth control, with 2 gynocologists telling me it's ok, back-to-back so that I do not have periods at all. Normally if I stop my birth control for a day or two I will get my period. I'm suppose to stop taking them on April 9th, for April 16th surgery but have a couple concerns. 1. Don't want AF to come for my surgery 2. When can I start taking them again? During clear liquid phase can I have them..or does this mean I will be a month off? That means I would have my period for a month straight.. no thanks Is there a.. liquid form of BC that can be obtained? Hrm.. if anyone has gone through this or knows any info, please share!

Nuva ring doesn't sound very appealing Well he told me to stop taking them a week before surgery due to blood clots, NSADS due to ulcers. My BCP are tiny tiny, much smaller than an M&M, so when I have my pre-op on April 11th, I will just ask if I can start taking it right away. Thanks for all your info!!

Grats on you new bandsters!! Pam, I have to say.. a year from today I wonder if someone said.. would you go through this pain again to be where you get to? what you would say!

Good luck guys! Make sure you log in and tell us how it goes

LOL NVGirl! I went to that fit something place, where you keep a daily food journal someone posted. Thought it sounded clever.. So I create a user name.. and I have a generic one I use for all kinds of stuff.. and it says.. someone already has that name. I think, WHO would have MY unique name?! (it's not the name I use here).. so I try to log in with it, and DOH it was me. I don't remember this thing. I looked at my info on it, and kind of heavy sighed. It was when I was doing Atkins and was 240lbs. My goal was 210lbs by March 2004. Guess I missed that.. :think

I just e-mailed this to my boss.. Hehehe.

Don't boo me off the thread, but I was reading pages here and there of this thread to see what it's about :nervous I am happily engaged, but I wanted to put my 2 cents about someone worrying about being wanted because you became thin! For starts, you could always say 'Hey, would you love me even if I gained weight?' (I see all those super skinny women do that in the TV shows!!) Anyway, I've been overweight my entire life, I even have little kid pictures and I've not only been overweight, but also a friggin giant. I was always the girl bigger than all the boys. Some how I had plenty of self-esteem, I always felt sexy, flaunted what I got.. ho hum. My fiance, we met 6 years ago when we were vacationing (seperately) in Las Vegas with our families. Back then he had a rockin' body, 6-pack and muscles(he's lost his ripples and is replacing it with pudge lately).. his parents were horsetrainers and he helped them. I didn't feel self-conscious about being a big girl, because I knew what I had to offer LOL. I'll keep the story short though, we met in a bar, talked, hit it off, ends up he lived an hour from me- back home.. so when we were done with our vacations we started dating. Eventually he went to college across the country, I finally moved with him after a year when I was done with mine.. Then a couple years later we moved back to my hometown where we are now. All these years, I'll hear him make comments about fat people, and I just have to give him a blank look. It's like I'm not one of the fat people he comments on. I will then make a comment like "they're smaller than my left thigh!", and he shuts up. At the psychological evaluation, my fiance went with me to the meetings so he could be informed in the decision I was making.. and the doctor asked me (this was in private), if my fiance is worried about me losing weight? I said.. No, why would he be?? and he said, some men prefer bigger women, and if he got with me because/when I was big, he may not be as attracted to me. I had to kind of laugh, because I know.. and not to sound mean, my fiance is pretty critical of fat people.. I don't know how I slipped under his radar!! I've seen some of his exes, always really short tiny stick girls.. and I'm 6'0 and over 300 at this time. Anyway, I got to thinking, that night I was talking to fiance about my psychological evaluation and I told him what the doctor asked, and I said 'You don't care for fat girls.. why are you with me?!?!' and he said 'I liked you for you, not your weight'. And I guess he got hit with a 2x4 from cupid or something and has never thought about my weight. I guess because I didn't either until I had back problems.I think I'm opposite of anorexics. I look in the mirror and think I look great by time I'm ready to step out the door, until I see a picture of myself and then I go DAMN where did that 100lbs come from!? That's why I officially haven't let anyone take my picture since October when we went to Six Flags.. We had tons of pics, and I couldn't believe how big I was in them. I didn't mean to make this so long, but the thing is.. they could only want to be with you because you're big too.. so I wouldn't worry about someone 'only wanting you because..'..because paranoia would definitely hurt a forming relationship if you worry about what they 'only like' about you.. I hope this makes sense!! People should like you for you, and not because you're big or because you're skinny. So if you've lost weight, don't sabotage it because of what their ulterior motives are, which are likely non-existant! Congrats to those of you losing weight, can't wait to be on the other side.

I don't mind cleansing the bowels first, I just didn't want to do it on my car ride there.. On some other thread someone said they didn't have to do it and they had diarhea during surgery.. I would much rather have it before I go there!! If your doctor didn't tell you about it, just ask.. It was in my paperwork of pre-op diet. I've decided to take off all of my jewelry, thanks. Fingers crossed there will be no shocking on my body though!

I glanced over some pages, but out of 61.. figured it would be easier to ask.. What is TWOterville?

Since I am self-pay, I also pay for a 'program' which includes support meetings (in Anniston-3 hours from here), and 6 doctor visits.. for fill or other. Since this is quite a ways from here, and we have lap-band surgeons in my city.. I was wondering, after I do my 6 visits with my surgeon for fills, how hard is it to swap to someone else to do fills? I'd rather have them done locally, and before doing the surgery get aquainted with a doctor in town for any emergencies. I'm also doing local support groups instead of the ones I had to pay for in the 'program'. How mean are doctors about you saying "I want you to do my surgery, but it's more convenient to have my fills done elsewhere"? Do they understand, you wanted them for the surgery, but would prefer fills locally? I haven't said anything to my doctor, or called the local doctors about this option. I noticed some people had problems getting local doctors for fill, but for people who go to Mexico..if I had done that, there would have been no way for me to fly to Mexico everytime I needed a fill, so I figured someone has got to be willing to do it?

What is physically happening that causes stress to tighten the band? I'm a little confused about this. Does your stomach tighten up, therefore tightening the band, or ??

travelgirl, so you were able to take the pill when you went home during the clear liquid phase? I'm going to ask my doctors when I go for the pre-op what I should do if I'm bleeding to see what they prefer.

Just found this thread.. I'll go for the Bronze for now

Happy anniversary Inquiring minds want to know what the outcome has been for 1 year?

LOL. It's not *that* kinky.. Good luck with your pre-op and have fun in florida! I did talk to my nurse yesterday about taking the magensium and having to drive 3 hours that day. The paper said take it as close to 1pm as possible, but she said plan to be in town by 6pm and checked into the hotel, then I can take the magnesium and I guess live in the hotel LOL.

LapBandit- hah.. least you learned that. I had the mini-foreman.. and when I tried to cook steak or chicken on it, the outside would burn and inside would be undercooked. I've never liked it.. then Christmas 05 my future in-laws got us the real big foreman with interchangable plates.. After I made a HUGE mess on the counter, same thing happened.. undercooks the inside and overcooks the outside (even on the lower setting of heat.. I was following the book that comes with the grill!!). I think God just didn't intend for all of us to be the cookers.. some of us have to be the gatherers..

My answer is no.. I tried to kill myself once when I was 13, and it had nothing to do with weight, more of a pre-pubescent cry for attention I think. My brother was a junkie (older than me), and it consumed my parents life from my age 11-15.. I've never actually wanted to be dead. I'd want to change. When my back pain first started, it was bad.. not horrible. Then at some point it became a 10 on a scale of 1-10 for pain. It was blinding and excruciating. I went to several doctors and no one would give me any kind of pain killer (I guess I look like a junkie?!) and I almost killed myself a couple of nights just from the pain. I would lay in the bathtub before going to bed to try to relieve the pain (which is associated with my weight) and my legs hurt so bad I wanted to cut them off and just lay in the tub. I wasn't rational.. so, it wasn't to kill myself out of depression, kill myself from the excruciating pain. Luckily I found a doctor that suggested epiderals and cortizone(cortisol? I dunno) shots.. they worked great for years, it wore off about 6 months ago and I'm hurting bad again, got more shots 2 weeks ago and they didn't work at all, so now I'm trying to grit and bare it until I can lose some weight. Fingers crossed. Off tangent, but I've never been so depressed about my overweightness.. I've actually had good self-esteem I think for being as overweight as I am.. I probably would never have thought about a weight loss surgery if it wasn't for the pains I get associated with it!

You guys, I went into a COMA Yesterday. I don't know what happened. Normally, I'm such a light sleeper, the clock ticking can wake me up. I work days, fiance works nights... I got off work early to pick my mom's dog up from the vet and drop it off, and I had plans to go to her house with my granny to watch movies (my granny's partner of 30 years died last weekend and she's having a rough time, so we're trying to keep her busy). I was exhausted some reason. Decided I would nap on my couch until my mom called, so I had the phone and my cell phone RIGHT BY MY HEAD. 30 minutes later, mom calls and said we cancelled, granny had been doing gardening and was tired. So.. I go back to sleep, phones still by my head. We had tornados yesterday.. I remember waking up once, when fiance got home and kissed my forehead.. then I woke up again I don't know when and I was in bed, and tv was on weather, and I saw red and heard the sirens.. and I kept squinting, didn't have my glasses. So I was going "Where could my glasses be... how did I get to bed..I should get up and check the weather.." and then I passed out again. Woke up at 9am (alarm wasn't set!!) and glasses were on my face??? It was SO bizarre, I can only think this is due to the diet I'm on.. I've never done this before.. was like I was on a handful of sleeping pills and alcohol. This morning my cell phone had 20 missed calls from my mom, and I still felt very drowsy. I talk to her this morning and she is furious. She said she was so worried about me, we had tornado warnings and I wasn't answering my phone.. if I was awake I would have probably gone to her house. Told her I don't know what happened and I had the phones by my head, and she still was mad lol. She said she called my fiance at work and he was non-chalant and said I was probably asleep. Hopefully this doesn't happen again... On another note, so we have to be completely nekki? Eek... I have nipple piercings I have been wondering about. I figured I should take them out before I go to have the banding done.. I didn't mention them to the doctor, but I've had doctors ask me to take them out for x-rays before, so figured during surgery they would probably rather I didn't have them? Anyone know? I've had them for years so they shouldn't grow back in just a day or two, but who knows..I'd definitely rather keep them in.

I'm glad they have so many flavors.. I have beef & chicken bouillion cubes in my house all the time for cooking, and when I heard someone mention vegetable flavor, I was looking for it this past weekend. All our store carries is beef & chicken bouillion and vegetable broth in a can. I like powder..

In Alabama, we have some pretty heavy tornado seasons. I love tornado weather. We would only go in the closet with pillows and the animals if the radar showed a tornado *on the ground* en route. That happened so rarely.. opposed to the billions of 'warnings' that come around. Knock on wood here too, but I always go outside and watch the sky. It's so beautiful!

Unfortunately, I'm a flop of a cook. I can't cook chicken.. well, I don't much like it, but when I've tried to cook it's either under or over cooked. Only things I ever mastered were meat loaf, mac-n-cheese, and pre-cooked things like keilbasa, lasagna bakes, etc.

:think Bursting my bubble..