bandster_1007

i went a whole year taking lortab's, when one of my doctor's finally told me that the codiene was causing headache's, also tylenol is a big culprit. speaking, or i should say typing, of migraines, i'm having a horrible one right now, and i just took a maxalt 2 hours ago. DAMN IT!! I'm sitting here at work trying to figure out what i'm going to do to make it through this. my shoulder's are on fire, and the pain in the top of my head is excruciating.

off topic but i had to respond. when i was pregnant, i was single and in college (and 18), other students seemed to think that it was a necessity to touch my belly. omg, that drove me freakin' nuts. i used to complain about it, and i would always say, "i'm not buddha, i'm not going to give you good luck, keep your hands off!!!". funny. i do refer to myself as fat, because i am. i've never been one to speak to myself positively. one thing that i have no tolerance for is saying you are stupid, which i never call myself. but....fat...i am fat. you can't be 5'2" and 225 lbs. and not be fat..however, if someone else calls me fat, i'm going to knock em' out (in my mind)...like one time, my brother in-law called my dh on our cell phone, which you can hear everything, and he said "what are you doing", and my dh for whatever reason said "fat people"-i guess because we were eating, and my brother in-law said "who-tabatha". i could have killed them both!!!!!!

mbanja-that has been the case with me. i am beginning to think that a lot of mine were sugar related. funny, when i read on what i posted i said i had a migraine for a week, well, honestly i do not think that is physiologically possible, but i had a reoccuring one for a week. it was awful, but i could take med's during that week, i just can't now because i just had a fill. the maxalt melts are working great, but it bothers me that i have to pay $50 for 9 (i'm going to try to get that increased because i think my insurance will cover more), and i have taken 3 in the last 2 days. i'm like omg this could become a $200/month habit. thus the reason i have always tended to fall back on the trusty pain pill. cheap and sometimes effective. damn migraines!!!!

lol!! mine have not changed yet, but i thought it was sooooo funny that you said depressed. i nursed my son until he was 2 years old, and I was a DD (but i was skinny then). then after i stopped nursing, i went to a sad C. i kept telling all of my friends that my girls were sad they just didn't feel like perking up anymore. haha...i haven't ever heard anyone else describe it like that. people used to think i was nuts. i keep telling dh that they are going to get sad again, so he'd better enjoy them (i'm a dd again, but now i got the gut to go with it).

my son attends a private christian school where corporate punishment is used (although i believe very rarely). the parents are not only notified, but they have to be there when the punishment happens. luckily, i have not experienced this yet. in that school any type of rebeliousness is considered to be a severe problem and the child can be expelled. the school is very big on respect and being considerate of one another. i used to think they were kind of dramatic, but in all actuality, i believe that is what is missing in a lot of kids today. you hardly ever hear kids say ma'am and sir. i used to not like the ma'am and sir because of the formality (at least in my own household), but i do now, and my son had better not be caught not saying ma'am or sir to another elder. he just might have to lick a bar of soap. i do not think that "parenting" should be government monitored. i mean, to me that is almost as absurd as trying to make a law against sagging pants (that happened recently here). there are boundaries, and i seriously do not think a law like that would ever pass. i can see each side of the spanking debate. i do believe that it can be very demeaning and hinder the emotional development of your child. but i also believe there is a way to do punishment that is not emotionally scarring. negative reinforcement is proven to be more effective, but sometimes, with my son, it just does not work. we try positive reinforcement to deter the bad behavior before it begins, and that is pretty effective. but i'm going to be honest, sometimes my son gets in these moods, and a spanking will get him out of a 3 week long slump. no one says that when you spank your child your supposed to leave marks or even do it angry.

yeah, i have found that i do not like a lot of foods because of the chewing. shrimp does not taste good after it has been chewed for a while. i have to drench it in cocktail sauce to like it.

i loved the chocolate in milk . i'm a choco milk lover. i drank the strawberry sorbet yesterday. not only did i not like the taste, but my stomach didn't agree with it either. there were some good recipe's sent with my unjury, like pumpkin pie pudding, etc.

i couldn't do it before (i didn't have to) and i struggled with it afterward. if we could control our eating habits, we wouldn't need the band. i am still struggling, but i am luckily making progress.

be careful with that ibprofen, it is a nsaid. not recommend for frequent or long term use with the band due to it's erosive properties.

i have eaten shrimp on a couple of occasions, i was really loose though. i was told that after you are tighter, it is more difficult to eat shrimp because of the consistency.

i can feel it whenever i decide to take a drink. i try not to make a habit of drinking with my meals, but sometimes when i snack i would drink. i'm on liquids right now though. however, if i ate a snack and then took a drink, i would feel it sort of pop through. it didn't hurt, but i felt it.

i went a solid month with no migraines after my sugery. the TOM came to visit and i had a migraine for a week, now i am rebounding from it every night. let me tell you, it is hell when you have a migraine and you are on liquids only. i ground up skelaxin last night and drank it after i took a melt maxalt. do not depend on not getting anymore, be prepared, and be prepared to be in any stage of a diet, considering most people have to go on liquids after a fill.

my son is 6, and luckily he is a very trusting child. he doesn't need to learn by experiencing, or even visually, he is an audio learner for the most part. so if i say, "do not play in the kitchen, you can get burned", he won't play in the kitchen. when he was a toddler and even younger i made it a habit not to tell him "no" just because i was too lazy to deal with him. if he wanted to touch one of the breakable figures on the shelf, i would take it down and show it to him, and then put it back up. so i wasn't one of those parents who said "no" constantly. i wanted him to understand that "no" was usually said for his safety, not for my sanity. now things are different. i say "no" a lot, and i need to work on that. however, my 6 year old may only get a spanking once a year, sometimes not even that often. every once in a while he does something that we ABSOLUTELY NEVER WANT HIM TO DO AGAIN, and we exhaust every other punishment first, then he gets spanked and it works. lately he has been being a very argumentative, ungrateful six year old, and i'm contemplating on what punishment i'm going to use, considering that it is our own fault that he is acting the way that he is. anyways, the best punishment that has ever worked for our son: he was 5, and he had a friend spending the night. well, he pushed him off of the trampoline (the other boy called him a name or something). of course, we wanted to spank him, but we didn't because we were so angry with him. this came as a HUGE shock to us, becuase he had not ever been a child to act out of anger. so, he was grounded from his room. we cleaned the office of anything that he might want to look at and left only bare walls and a sofa bed. every day after school he would go to the room and wait until dinner, then he would go back. this lasted for a week. he was so bored in there that he honestly peeled some paint off of the wall (we thought it was funny, so he didn't get in trouble for that), needless to say, he remembers that very clearly and whenever he does something serious again, he will receive that punishment again. however, if he lies, it is an automatic spanking and then he gets to choose his other punishment. i like to let him decide how he should be punished. sometimes, he wants a spanking (i don't like that), other times he is too hard on himself, but it teaches him.

i would have went back to work, but my appointment was at 3:30 in Little Rock. I only live 20 miles from the hospital, BUT, when you get out at 4:00 traffic is already backed up. i didn't make it back into town until after my office had closed, and i didn't want to go in. do you feel bad? i wouldn't think so, they are doing anything to you that should make you feel bad. when they first put the saline in my stomach felt a little crampy (which was really weird) and my port is still sore, but i felt fine. my doctor says we have to go on liquids for 48 hours, then soft foods for 48 hours, then regular foods after your first fill. i have an apl band, that also holds 10 cc's. i asked the nurse about it, because i assumed i only had 3.5 cc's left until it was full. well, it turns out that the 10 cc's apparantly is not a definition as to how much the thing can hold. she said my band is "said" to explode-pop would probably be a better word- at 500 cc's. WOW! i haven't eaten anything yet. at 4 p.m. today i can go to softs, so i will probably have fish and potatoes for dinner.

salsa1877, i have to ask...how is your relationship now with your brother?

hey....in defense of arkansas (we really need it), we are in the bible belt, there are definately some fanatics here. ...lol..but don't ever think that someone won't call dhs on your for spanking your child. where there is fanatic one way there is always a fanatic in another way.

AMEN!! verbatim my thoughts. however, spanking, in my opinion, should never be first resort, it should never be done while angry, and it should always be explained and planned (not a parent just coming out of nowhere and smacking the child).

i know that you posted this in the august post, and i am an october. i also know that i recently had my surgery, only a month ago. psychology was my major in college, although i have gone into another field. i would venture to say that everyone one of us has to deal with something on the level which you speak of. eating has become a protection and a comfort for most of us for some reason or another. unfortunately, the surgery does not fix that. i tell people honestly that this is the hardest thing that i have ever done. and i just got restriction yesterday. it was so hard emotionally, and you have to do a lot of soul searching to find the root of the problem. it is my philosophy that a big majority of our "problems" emotionally stem from childhood factors. many people would argue that.

it really does work...be careful though with the final lotion. it can & will bleach fabrics if you are not careful.

IF you are allowed full liquids, try putting some Beans, or your favorite side dish in a food processor. if the consistency is too thick to put through a straw try adding some broth or Water. the healthy choice soups blend down really well. i would melt some cheese in it, and it was very filling. i also really enjoyed great northern beans. make sure though that you can have full liquids or anything that fits through a straw. i would hate for you to do anything that goes against your doctor's orders.

i totally agree that you should go to er. you need to get some fluids in thru iv. it may take a bit to find someone to remove some of your fill, but right now you need some fluids. you have been several days already, please do not prolong it too much. you must feel horrible. i am so sorry that you are going through this.

so, you have good restriction, too!! i can't believe it, i'm really honestly shocked. i had never felt it before. i was thinking that i had made a mistake and that it was going to fall back on me and willpower, boy was i wrong. i know that feeling it got yesterday when the water was stuck, was horrible. i will avoid getting that again.

i ate popcorn for the first time 4 weeks out. but i didn't eat a whole lot like i used to. i would only eat probably a couple of cups instead of the whole bag. (at first i only ate a handful). we went to the movies this weekend and had popcorn and i only ate two handfuls!! i was so proud.

now that i have posted my replies. i am HELLA frustrated. head hunger is my problem. i need to change my name to head_hunger_monster or something like that. i only got 1/4 of my monthly this month, but it left the ugly Water weight (about 10 lbs worth). i get my first fill today and i am ever thankful for wendell's post, or i would be beating myself up...i am almost back up to surgery weight.

again, i have not had a fill, so please don't beat me up, but i have heard that white bread is very hard to eat because it is so doughy. have you tried a whole grain, lower carb version? my dr. told me not to ever eat white bread if it can be avoided and that more than likely we would pb on it but not on the wheat bread. ....just a thought.