j_war06

I was told I would never have Acid Reflux again after surgery, and havent had it over a month and thank God everyday. Being obese my entire life I have had acid reflux since I was about 4 or 5 years old. I used to puke almost everyday, and even now with my poorer eating (due to Rita) I still am not having any problems except for hiccuping and pain from the bad foods. No more vomiting, yucky throat feeling, sore throats, tummy aches, and/or burping back my food!!! YAY! I think I have PBs on a regular basis (once, again, because of Rita) and Ill tell yall I will take that ANY DAY over acid reflux. Oh yeah, I am happy to report that I have been off all my meds since 2 days before surgery, and hope to never take any that is not liquid or chewable every again. Well, mainly because I cant, the doctor said not to. I was on SOOO many pills a day due to the fact I have a lot of different disorders that have been so much better since my surgery. No more Welbutrin (well, I might change to another anti, just because I do still have REALLY BAD days), no more Darvecet or any other pain killers for my knees, no more anti-inflammatories (Thank GOD) and NO MORE PRILOSEC!!!!!

Okay, I know I havent been banded long, but as far as I can tell from the diet is that you can not have carbonation. Fact:hard liquor is non-carbonated and therefore margarita mix is non-carbonated, I drank a margarita the other night (small) and was fine, actually felt more relazed. I honestly think that as long as you dont drink things that are carbonated for a long time then you will be fine. Oh, also if you drink too much you may get a sloshy feeling, like your one big swimming pool lol. Just remember a glass of wine relaxes the mind, body and soul, where as glasses of wine embarasses the mind, body, and soul's pride and ego. Have fun and carefully experiment.

Sandy, I had surgery on August 26, and the insurance refused to pay and the company refused to change their exclusion. I am going to continue to fight them to pay, but all in all we ended up taking out a loan from the bank and its not too bad, its just not morally right that the world makes fun of me for being fat and feels sorry for me and even offers to help, until it comes down to actually helping, then they say, "I'm sorry we dont cover that."

Thanks ya'll, the hardest part is finding something to eat that I can actually eat. I have cried almost every night from eating things I shouldnt, but when thats the only food you have thats what ya gotta eat I guess. Even though we have evacuated, its still hard to find stuff to eat that is good for the band. It hurts to eat this kind of food, but it hurts worse NOT to eat anything. All of the MREs have pasta in them or fried foods so that they will get done quickly and be filling. The filling part is the hardest, everyone cooks SO MUCH FOOD, to have nothing, they sure find a lot of something to fry up lol. I dont know what to do, it hurts so bad and I have not lost a pound since my last fill (2 days before the hurricane). Im not too depressed, its just, it HURTS lol. For example a meat market in town finally got a shipment of meat in, so our neighbor went and bought steaks for everyone, by the second bite I almost had tears. With this state of stress, and my mother's lack of hormone pills, I cant complain to my parents because my dad just gets upset and my mom redefines upset. Mom begins screaming and yelling that I am ungrateful and a pre-madonna and that I will eat what is served if I am hungry enough. Then if I am hungry and hurting (I get horrible cases of the hiccups) she says that I can wait, but I cant and find something like string cheese to curb the pain until the meal is ready. I understand that they are stressed, but I am in pain as I am typing and I dont know how to approach the subject.

Actually I had a pretty serious cold whenever I went into surgery, I didnt tell my doctor because I was afraid he would rescedule, but it turns out it was great. #1 the antibiotics from the surgery viz my IV got rid of the cold, #2 I couldnt taste the medicine they gave me after surgery, and #3 (most important) I could not taste the Barium after surgery. Be in reminder though, I had a cold/sinus infection and not bronchitis or the flu so if you feel it is serious you might want to go see your regular doctor, because the worse part of the whole cold surgery thing was the fact it came back a few days later and with the sores + cough=pain and the LIQUID cold medicine was HORRIBLE, I still think its better than the Barium would have been, I am pretty happy with my decision to have the surgery with the cold.

I am not a "big-boned" person, I know that because I have seen my MRIs and X-Rays and my bones are VERY small compared to most people (even skinny ones). I can wrap my wrists together and hold my hands (and I have teeny weeny hands, have to buy childrens mittens) and I can touch my thumb to my index finger when wrapping them around my wrists. I am very interested to see what my body frame really would look like though. They used to have to COOLESTTTT program on DiscoveryHealth.com, but I can not seem to find it again. On it you could type in your weight and put in your body-type and then personalize to pretty close to the way you look and then track your weight loss, and it would show you how you look at different weights, it was really cool.

Sometimes I just want to scream, and cry, and kill my ex. He and I have always been friends, and we dated for a long time. Now he has started being sooooooo stupid that I broke up with him a little over a month ago, and he is driving me nuts. I used to have a friend and he used to be friends with her too, well he didnt like her anymore, but she was okay with me. I heard both of them talk so much bs about one another I was sick of it. All of a sudden the weekend that my RECENTLY widowed gma got married, I was emotional distressed and still dating him, well he took my friend to a club to go have fun and dance and stuff and told me I was not invited, and she (claiming to be a "friend") never asked once "would Jodie like to come?" NO! Everytime I am friends with this girl, she takes what I have, my clothes, aspirations, dreams, and men. I LOVE this guy (I know teen love, all the same tho), we were going to go to college together and get an apartment and everything, but ever since I was supposed to have this surgery, he has been proud of me, but pulling away too. Like he always brags about these girls being his friend and wanting him to go to parties with him and stuff. I know he's trying to make me jealous, but it just makes me feel like crap because I can't be that for him. Lately (last 3 weeks) he has went crazy wanting to party, but not invite me to go, and hang out with my ex-friend. I wish I could have an hour to beat the mess outta her! Anyways, I am gonna go crazy because this guy has lost his mind!?!?!?

Hi, after all these problems I am finally banded (3 weeks post-op). I dumped my bf of 3 years over the summer because he was being a jerk. I think I know why now. The reality of me getting this band overwhelmed him and he calls me every now and then and brags about all these girls wanting to date him and stuff. This bothers me a little, but not nearly as badly as the thought that he was only with me because I am overweight. When I lost the first 5-6lbs that first week he acted genuinely happy, then from there on he asks and then says "oh I guess thats cool." I cant believe I dated someone like that and sometimes it bothers me just because I was his comfort zone. Also now that he is gone I have a WHOLE lot more friends than I ever had before and more self-confidence now that I have been banded and gotten rid of my loose ties. I think he knows that I have been interested in a guy from the part-time college that I attend. I am not interested in dating anyone right now, but I have been just casually going with a few guys (no-romantic way) to different places and riding in their cars and stuff and now he just wont call me (which is fine too) I just wanted to know if anyone got rid of their significant other because of their decision to get the surgery?

Dr. Spiegel in Texas did mine. He has done it on patients as young as 13.

Mashed Potatoes are my friend. I eat atleast a serving of them once a day either for lunch or dinner. I couldnt have them however until a week AFTER my surgery. Granted I did not have to go a pre-op diet. But if your doctor recommends it I would suggest calling his office and finding out if you can have them.

I did not have to go on a pre-op diet before I had my surgery.

I am so sick and tired of saying, "Well I'm getting a Lap-Band soon." It is getting so old. If I wanted it to look cute it would be different, I just want to walk and go to school and make friends. I only have one friend left because of my handicaps. I just want a life, I am tired of living the way I do, I want to go out and do stuff, but I can't, and its getting old quick. I feel like every evil force is working against me. Everyday I get on here and someone else is getting approved, why can't I post that?? What am I gonna do? I cant get the surgery till after school starts, I am such a loser.

Hey all I am finally banded. I was banded last Friday August 26 and just now really feel like doing anything. Its not as bad as I thought it would be and I lost 8 pounds since friday and today is tuesday. Just thot I would let yall know

Dr. Spiegel did my surgery and did a great job, I was really nervous (couldnt tell though, had my game face on) Was a lil freaked out while I was awake in the operating room before the anesthesia kicked in. Really excited and nervous too, what if it doesnt work?

I am doing everything right and lost weight during the liquid stage last week. But when I started on mushy food I feel like I am bloated and cant lose the weight and havent lost a pound since Thursday and its almost Monday. I am eating 3 small small small meals a day and drinking a lot of water on the weekends, and I am not hungry at all, why arent I losing weight? I dont feel like this is all right for some reason.:bored

But the doctor said I could expect to lose more in the first month than in the following months because after I get on normal food I will lose about 6-10-15 pounds a month while this first month I should lose about 20lbs. hmmm I dunno.

Well, the insurance denied me AGAIN and told us that they can do nothing because of the exclusion in the company policy (which is totally discriminatory) and instead of hiring a lawyer and pushing the surgery down another atleast 2 months we decided to just pay for it. I feel bad that I am having this and getting thin while my family has to stay obese and I am moving out next summer and just feel selfish for having this done, even for a medical reason. I WANT and NEED it so bad, just feel bad for the family income problem. Atleast the insurance will pay for the pre-op and post-op testing and stuff, just not the surgery. I am having the surgery next Friday and have never had surgery (that I can actually remember) and am nervous about that, but I am SOOOOO excited about starting over, and yet mad as hell at Mom's company for the exclusion. Just wanted to let you all know about the surgery.

"No way. I'd say at least 1/2 of your problems are due to your negative attitude. This is just a cop-out. Life does not automatically get better because you lose weight. Trust me. Many of us have lost weight and we still have to deal with bad relationships, depression, stressful jobs, feeling out of control, not making friends easily, etc." I know that, but I wouldnt have a negative attitude if I wasnt fat, therefore the fat causes the negative attitude and the negative attitude will then cause bad things to happen if your theory is correct. And plus my point is that naturally thin, normal people, dont have the problems that overweight ppl do, I am not saying that when I am skinny I will fit in here better, but rather somewhere that no one knows how big I once was.

I do want all of you to realize that just getting your kids away from food as a reward for doing stuff is okay. Activity is EXTREMELY important, but make sure that it is something that they want to do, there are lots of programs that dont involve outside physical activity. I myself just dont like to be outside, I feel like I cant move and that instead of weight 240 I weight 1200lbs and just have NO energy, and have always felt that way. Find a local 4-H program and get involved in that (PSST there is a foods and Nutrition project available in 4-H so they can learn how to eat healthy). Also dont forget that learning to use the computer is a very important skill and dont ALWAYS drag them away, just if they are looking so bored they are desperate to look up anything to do just to be on the computer, or if they have been sitting there for over an hour. Let them make their own decisions, but guide them well and set examples as well as stepping in if anything gets out of control. Remember, they will not always live with you and be under your supervision.

Well, I am an obese teenager and looking back at what my parents could have done, all I can think of is this: tell my grandmother no McDonalds, icecream, or junk food except on very special occasions, dont leave me at my grandparents conveniant store with an unlimited tab, and make me eat three meals a day and give me a healthy snack after school. Feed me healthy foods instead of fatty ones. The problem here is that up until I was oh about 7 or 8 my parents were POOR the very definition. They got married young and neither one had a college education or a well paying job. It was enough to live on. Healthy food is expensive, while free hamburger meat and macaroni and cheese and ranch style Beans are all cheap. That is what we had probably 5 days out of the week. Mom and dad were not bog people at first, now they have become obese (especially mom). I pretty much took over my own eating at age 9 and started making my own choices and destroyed myself in that way. This is when I was staying mostly alone because my babysitter slept ALLLLL day and I refused to go to daycare. I was brought up in a world that said EAT, but if you dont then you will be skinny. So basically I am morbidly obese and I eat very little and am not active at all. I am an only child and never had anyone to play with but adults, and I didnt play pretend, even today playing with babysitting clients I cant "pretend", instead I played cards or board games or did crafts with the adults, so I was treated like an adult all my life. I have always been big, and unless I get this lap-band I will probably stay big. I weakness is McDonalds, I hope the band will tell me psychologically that it will make me sick. Whenever I would get shots at the Doctor's or anything like that I would get a happy meal. Even today I treat myself to one after I go to the Doctor. Frankly, it all relates to pragmatism, the belief that society and enviroment shape a person into who and what they are. If you show them how to eat, show them how to be active, and the results of if you arent, and encourage them to do these things, then I think your kids will be alright. Just set an example and dont scare them into being skinny, because in reality you will make them fat. Just love them and encourage them to be healthy.

Ever since I let ppl know I am getting the band I have lost atleast 2 friends and a bf. I just dont understand. I thought they would be happy for me. I dont get invited to clubs, parties, to go dancing, to hang out, nothing except to watch dumb ol movies. I just dont get it?? I want to go, and I cant unless someone goes with me and my friends dont want me to go with them, they always sneak off and go. I wanna go have fun, these walls of this house are getting so old!!

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"So you might need to let them know that you are feeling able to do those kinds of things again and I betcha they'd lose their fear and invite you out." I already did. That is why me and my bf broke up. He always leaves me at home to go and do stuff. This is the prob. They sneak off so I wont guilt trip them into going. They "dont want any attachments." These are the only people in this town my age that havent screwed me over, and now they are on the list too. I have run out of peers.

I live with my Mom and Dad. Plus, young females do not go anywhere alone around here because it is EXTREMELY dangerous. I try to do something here at home, but my attention just cant stay on it. I dont know how many puzzles, craft, crayola coloring pages, or games I have started and just couldnt stand to finish because it required being still and a lot of time. I cant stand to just work on one thing, I have to work on a thousand things (and be stressed to the max) to feel like I have accomplished something.

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