Cavegirl

Hi everyone well i had my surgery today and everything went well except for the MACK truck that hit me in the operating room. :cry Right in the gut!!! What im wondering is i have bad pain right at the bottom of my sternum. Feels like i need to burp really bad but i cant seem to. Feels like i have walked a mile but no luck on easing the pain. I have drank Water, had a little broth so i could take my pain medicine but that is all i have had. Could someone tell me what i may be able to do to ease the pain. I have also taken gas-x dissolve strips Thanks

I was wondering if anyone here had ever tried the revitol before. I have seen on their website they are the best. BUT all websites say they are the best. Any first hand people out there can point me in the right direction. Thanks

Trixie, Sounds like the revitol cream is pretty good I might get some and try it, I got bad stretch marks with my first daughter and once I lose the weight I would like them to not be so noticeable Thanks for the info.

Well im going tomorrow to get my surgery in hurst :clap2: and was wondering if anyone had any last minute items to take with me to surgery to make it more comfortable. I am taking carmex for the parchness an insulated cup for ice for the ride home a pillow for the seat belt my TEDDY BEAR for comfort:bounce: loose fitting clothes with a button down shirt Has anyone had nausea after surgery I live about 2 hours from surgery location and I would hate to be pulling over every 10 minutes on the side of the road:faint:that would be bad. Thanks for your :help:

mia, Yes I tried the gas x strips, but they did not help me really at all. It was getting pretty bad with the pain. My husband went and got Maalox, mixed berry- dont get strawberry "YUCK" and within 30 - 45 minutes I was getting rid of the gas and the pain subsided. Heating pad, maalox alot, and walking. Hope this helps it did me im 2 days out from surgery and I am almost back to normal.

Thank you all soooo much for the advice we are now at day day 2 and it is getting better, I did find that the MAALOX helped alot better than the gas x strips it curbed the pain within about 30 minutes and with walking, heat pad, and maalox it is really helping alot. Thanks again for your help. I was beginning to wonder if I had made a mistake. No one told me it was going to hurt so bad. I would say on a scale of 1 - 10 for a while i was at 14. IT WAS BAD. But it is better now.

I agree with you nina, it is a very complicated mess, I just hope all sides can come to the table and come to some type of an agreement before this whole thing blows way out of proportion. Remember " The enemy of my enemy is my friend" Maybe we can just all be friends and this will all go away. One day.

Green, Thank you for not meaning any disrespect, however I do think I have a fairly good grip on reality, granted these people are stuck in the early centuries and it is not going to happen overnight, it is going to take years for them to influence Americas way of life. That is only if we let them. Hell they even quit calling them terrorist for a while and started calling them freedom fighters. In Chicago some muslims that drive cabs at O-Hare won't give you a ride if you have a dog, have been drinking, or sometimes even are a woman because it is against their sharia law, muslim checkers in the grocery store won't check your groceries if you have pork in your basket because it is unclean. It is like a pebble hitting Water in a pond, the ripple effect. It starts small and gains momentum through time till everyone accepts it, then there is no one to stop it. I am like you, I hope that these people are to stupid to figure it all out. I don't think they are going to hit us guns blazing, they tried that, didn't work out to good for them. We took Afghanistan, and Iraq in record time. They will use the media, to influence thought, different organizations like ACLU, CAIR and the like to influence laws and thought process in America and Canada, then they will sneak terrorist across our mexican and american border to wreak havoc. Granted we do have the best weapons and military in the world, but if we have to have approval from the UN to take action, well lets just say we know how that all works out. I don't think I put any hate filled crap in what I wrote, I wrote it as I see it and how it is unfolding in our world. If you ask me if I like terrorist doing what they do, my answer is NO, should we do whatever it takes to stop them, my answer is YES. Should we do it there or here, my answer is there. I don't like doing what we have to do to win, we all bleed red. Not all muslims are bad, I know that is an overused statement but it is true. The problem we have is very few good muslims are speaking out and criticizing what the bad ones are doing. WHY, because they are scared and in fear of their lives, Islam is a very radical religion when you have suicide bombers trying to convert people to islam. I have thought of alot of ways to try to beat this thing before it turns into something we can't turn away from. We could go bomb the batcrap out of the whole middle east, destroy and kill everyone, and start over. That will never happen nor should it!!! The ONLY way to beat this thing in our lifetime is --- empower the women --- . They can get this thing turned around quick. Behind every good man is a better woman. I would like nothing else than to see this thing go away and we all be friends. In the mean time, I hope the younger generation of muslims and islamic clerics, can see through all the propoganda and realize that we also bleed red, just like everyone else. It is obvious you have your opinion, and I have mine. Although you may think it is stupid, but I choose to not live my life with my head buried in the sand. Cavegirl, or cavechick (makes me sound younger)

well I made it back home all went well except for the gas pains "ouch" but hopefully it goes away quick thank you for the prayers it helped alot

Indio Girl, Thanks for that, I am now on my heating pad and taking more gas x I hope maybe tonight it gets a little better by tomorrow morning cuz this is miserable, but you're it will only get better from here Thanks Again

thank you so much for the info. I just want tomorrow to be finished so I can carry on, this liquid thing is about to kill me it will be nice when 1/4 to 1/2 cup of liquid will fill me up

Thunderwheels, Im going tomorrow hope everything goes well any last min. items you can think for me to take to make things easier? how are you doing now it has been about a month? good luck

Munchkin, If you like to read I would suggest you read Vince Flynn books. Vince Flynn Or Brad Thor Brad Thor If you like things like Bourne Ultimatum and Black ops and such you will love those books. I am not much of a reader and never have been. But I just happenned to be doing alot of flying lately and I have read everyone of their books they go in order so you have to get them in succesion. But you will definitely get a better understanding of how it operates. Brad Thor is a very accomplished individual, he actually sits in on and participates with the pentagon on War Games: Basically acting out live scenarios of what could possibly happen on our soil having to do with terrorist groups. He says and I have heard other people talk about it also, the next target for these jerk terrorists is taking over schools and killing children, they think that will break our spirit, THEY OBVIOUSLY DON'T KNOW US VERY WELL. Hopefully we can keep torturing the bad guys and never have to worry about that. Enjoy the books I know I did!!!!!!!

When you here TORTURE on the news and listen to the reporters talking about these thugs we have incarcerated, one would think that we are doing to these prisoners the same thing the viet-kong did to our soldiers, THINK about the miraculous country you live in when you here what these reporters are saying. Our soldiers are the most ELITE and caring group of kids and adults that represent the USA, they do not want these thugs coming to our soil and doing to us what the Taliban and Iraq do to their own people. Car bombs, suicide bombers, etc. That would be torture and that would mean that they had failed at their job. I have never talked to one American that says they would rather see car bombs and suicide bombing here rather than there. That is what we are trying to avoid. One thing clear, we did not start this so called war. It has been going on for centuries, we just got brought into this battle when some idiots decided the best thing to do was bomb USS Cole, Beirut, First Twin Towers bombing. Unfortunately we did not answer the call the right way then, but on 9-11 when those buildings fell they got our attention and we finally took action. If we don't keep at it we will not have any Baptist churches anymore. Only mosques, you think I'm kidding. Think about WW II when someone says the only reason the french aren't speaking German is because of the USA. We are at that place in time. When this thing first started going down I heard someone say that in time the muslim people would start killing fellow muslims, because they are not muslim enough. I did not believe it, until they started killing their own people in Iraq in the shopping areas blowing up schools because the people in those areas were trying to help their own people live a good life, and not live in the 5th century. I think some people believe that the people that we are so called TORTURING are soldiers like ours, not the case these people would like nothing more than to see the end of our way of life. Not that our way is perfect we certainly have our flaws. These people have no conscience, they don't care if they die or who they take with them women, children, men as far as they are concerned they have 72 virgins waiting for them on the other side. That is what makes us different we do have a conscience, we do care about human life, look at this thread you would rather see a person let go or just spend his time in jail, rather than get information that could possibly save 1 or 100 lives of innocent civilians whether they are American, Iraq, or soldiers of either country. If it takes a little persuasion to get the information out of them, so be it. You have to remember these people that we are dealing with are cowards, it has been proven on the battlefield. I would rather see the coward terrorist suffer a little, than to see one more car bomb go off in any country and kill more innocent people. So please don't think this TORTURE that you hear about on the news is actually torture, they make it sound soooo bad. We are a better country than that, we are trusting our military for our safety and they make good decisions. If America stays strong in this fight and doesn't turn into a bunch of bleeding hearts we will win the right way, or we will pray facing east 5 times a day.

You sound in the same boat I am in, doesn't look like you have much weight to lose, I have about 70 to 85 to lose and my ins. won't cover unless I have 40 or over BMI. I don't really want to wait that long!!! That is why I am self pay. Is Dr. Marsden in the same office complex as Snow. Good Luck by the way I hope everythig goes well.

I am also going to Dr. Snow on 1/04/07 am kinda nervous, but I feel very comfortable with Dr. Snow. Can't wait till the first 10 weeks are over. Doing alot of research on this and I know what not to do. I am self pay and I understand why only paying 7500.00 in Mexico is a bad thing