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They shouldn't allow radiologist's to talk to patients after they do x-rays, especially when they don't have a clue on what it is they are talking to the patient about. With that said, I have to have surgery as soon as my insurance and the doctor's office can work things out. I slipped my band back in January when they over filled me, of course the doctor isn't taking any responsiblity for his assistant's mistake. The other news he shared with me when I say him was that I may have to be converted to a bypass, he won't know until he gets in there and looks at the damage. You know with all the trouble I have had with his assistant screwing up my band I might just want the bypass because at least she couldn't screw me up again ever. Due to her poking a hole in my tubing last July I had to have my port and tubing replaced, now I have to have the whole band done...goody.. The doctor told me that it's just like the first time they place the band in you..liquids forever, then mushy, then food...no heavy lifting, no anything until they tell you that you can move...Oh and let's not forget the best part and over night stay at the hospital!!! I hate laying around I'm a very active person and have people to see and places to go!!! I start my fall classes soon and this just sucks!!!!

Well I made it though the liquid diet, and the upper GI. The good news is there isn't anything wrong with my band or my stomach...I'm fine. So let me share with everyone what was wrong with me...in a minute. Has anyone been told that they should drink there protein and take there vitamins because if not your hair will fall out? Well I stopped drinking my protein and taking my vitamins..my hair didn't fall out, but this is where my problem comes in...I was starving...really. I don't eat enough to just stop taking my protein shakes and all the pain and nausea was because I had protein deficiency. I seen myself gaining weight because I wasn't eating enough and completely cut out more food...I let the "fat" person that still lives in my head drive. It's easy to do when you have let that person drive for so long before. All is better now have started drinking my protein and taking my vitamins again and all the problems went away as soon as I did.

well it's day 3 of a 13 day liquid diet, all is good but can I just say...Man I'm Hungry!!! I sit and think about all the things that I would like to eat. Since doing this though some of the pain I have been experiencing in my stomach is gone, I wish for the day that I feel like I once did before all this.

No gallbladder or spleen had both removed at different times of my life. Thanks for the thought though. So did they have to do something for your gallbladder?

Hey everyone...here I am gaining weight still. I had a fill a couple of weeks ago, but I'm still gaining. Went and got weighted and measured today and I told them that I have been experiencing pain, bloating, gas...things that I don't find normal..oh let's not forget about being able to eat a hippo. So now I have to be on a liquid diet till I see the doctor that's the 8th of July. They think I might have slipped my band when the physician's assistant overfilled my band. All I know is the pain is like being punched in the stomach or like you have pulled a muscle. They told me that everyone experiences different things when their bands slip. So anyway when I see the doctor after the liquid diet, they said he will do a upper GI xray...oh yippie!! So even though I didn't really do anything wrong I feel like such a failure, and like this is all my fault somehow. Sorry for the pitty party just feel bumped out and ready to cry...thanks for everyone's shoulder. I will let everyone know how things turn out. I think the worst part of this is that they will have to do a bypass if my band slipped, well that's what I was told.

Nope now I can say I'm really super confused. So you actually have to purchase a bunch of other stuff, not just the HCG.

sunshine- do you use the injectable or the under the tongue HCG? You have me looking into it. I have a question about the alldaychemist.com website, I have looked at the HCG there and don't know how it comes when I look at the pictures (injectable or oral). I also was wondering should I order more then 1 when I order, and does it take a while to get it? your new addition is adorable!!

I'm the right height to bump mine on the kitchen counter, and shopping carts. So I'm always bumping mine and not realizing that I have done it unless I hit really hard. I feel bruised for days sometimes you can even see the bruise. I had that popping feeling once when I started doing sit ups and ab exercises, when I told my doctor he about had a fit. He told me NO more ab exercises. He never told me what the pop feeling was though. Just take it easy if you feel like it hurts. I mean you don't want to be like that saying 1 step forward and 2 steps back...you don't want that.

I will agree with that, that the pain is due to bumping your port. I know I have bumped my port and didn't even realize I had done it until it starts to hurt...like a bad bruise. The dog ran up me while I was laying in my recliner and stood on my port, that hurt real bad..like someone punched me in the port, now that it's been a couple of days it just feels like a bruise. I was banded in 2007, and had my port and tubing replaced last year in July. My port was leaking. I would just let your doctor know when you see them, just so they can poke around and make sure that is all it is.

Alright I honestly don't know why I had the pitty party the other day...went and got weighted and measured yesterday and I'm down 4 pounds and 3 inches, and that's great because out of the 10 pounds and 8 inches i put back on because they over filled me and had to take out all the restriction, and then of course replace most of the restriction...we all know how it goes...I now only have 6 pounds and 5 inches to be on track with my ticker tape signature. Not bad for a person who was told running all over the hospital drawing blood wasn't exercise...my doctor told me that wasn't exercise because you start and stop...i call it intervals (get the heart rate up, then slow down, then amp it up again). The leg is healing nicely, I haven't been wearing the walking boot, but I haven't been doing anything that puts unnecessary strain or pressure on it. I really want to run just to see if it's healed enough for a slow run. Hope everyone is doing great...the weather is finally starting to look and feel good here in Indiana, and it's a real mood lifter. Well everyone enjoy your day!!!! :smile:

Well I have done it again...started running after not doing for a month, and it felt so good I pushed myself to far and to fast...I have stressed my leg again...I refuse to take the month off from exercising and wear that darn walking boot again. I have promised DH that I won't run until the leg is fully healed so I have decided I will just walk...I hate walking I don't feel like I get a good enough workout just walking. I have been having a pity party the last couple of days, I just feel like since I haven't reached my goals I'm a loser, a failure of some sort. My DH tells me to look at where I'm at and where I have come from...I know poor me right. Just tired of the doctor asking me when I'm going to finish this journey and meet the goals.

well I was just thinking I should log in and say HEY. I made it through clinicals, as of 3pm yesterday I am now a certified phlebotomist. In another year I will be a degreed Medical Assistant. So now all my craziness is over for the time being, now I have to figure out how to put me back into the loop of things again, and not just on the weekends. I couldn't exercise for the last month because of the crazy hours and I was just so tired when I would get home...I know NO excuss, the doctor said the same thing when I say him last week. My husband has now put a challange out on the table for me, to run 1000 miles and at the end of that 1000 miles will be something that I really want. He hasn't said what the prize is but knowing my hubby it's good...he didn't give me a time limit either, but if I want the prize I will work harder then I every have before to get it. I was going to start working on that this morning, but I didn't because I had some other stuff to do that I wasn't able to do while I was on my clinicals. So I guess it starts tomorrow on a weekend...maybe I'm just ment to be a weekend warrior..lol.

I don't do protein anymore unless I'm sick or I have been filled. Protein drinks are an easy food, if you think about it. I have stopped doing everything it seems like. I haven't been able to exercise because with me running all over the hospital for 8 hours I'm to tired to think, let alone care about exercise after I get home. Right now I'm on the 5am till 1 pm shift, and believe it or not these hours aren't bad, but you do need a power nap when you get home. I feel I'm lucky if anything around the house gets done, thank god for kids and husbands. I'm lucky if I eat at all, last week I don't know if it was nerves but I was so sick no matter what it was, this week I'm eating but just not a lot, just till I feel full. Hey good luck on that tummy tuck goal, you will make and things will be fine...just have faith.

I haven't found an exercise that eliminates all surgical procedures. I know that as I loose weight and exercise my stomach doesn't seem as flabby, so myself will not be getting a tummy tuck...but as I exercise and lose weight I do have a boob issue and I will be having surgery on them one day...just not soon. So in my opinion exercise helps alot but doesn't help everything....just an opinion though.

Diffently not skinny jeans, I have thighs that I call tree trunks. They don't look good in skinny jeans. DH thinks the thighs are changing shape...I can't see it but he thinks my legs are looking pretty good. The weather here is also changing and I really can't wait for summer, happy with spring and watching all my tulips coming up...but I'm really a hot weather girl. I don't want skinny jeans, I just want the ability to say that I have lost a hundred pounds...I want my 100, that's all.

I'm moved by everyone here...I want what you all have succeeded at...I want to be part of this "club"...I want my hundred pounds. I was banded 1/18/2007 and still haven't reached my hundred lost. I'm now coming to all of you asking for your help, your encouragement, your motivation...anything you all are willing to give me.

Well I'm almost back to the fill restriction that I was before they decided to over fill me. I had stopped working out because I fell back into the thinking that I can do everything for everyone all the time, when I do that I always take myself out of the loop. Well I have stopped babysitting for my step sister cause that was taking up alot of my time, and I'm on spring break from school...so I have started exercising again...so now I'm back in the loop. It also helps that I had to get weighted and mesured on this past Thursday...up 10 pounds and 8 inches...theirs the kick in the butt that I think I really needed. I hope everyone else is doing well.

You will be fine...because even though I have had to have the port and tube replaced, I just know I would be heavier then I am now, and that I am more then happy to have done it...not just the first time but also the second time. I can only imagine my what my life would be life without my band. I was a diabetic, with thyroid issues taking a bunch of pills...now I take nothing but vitamins...so I'm more then happy to have done the band, and to even have my port fixed...and if i need to i would do it again as many times as I have to.

My port and tubing was replaced July of 2009, all was well until just this January. My doctor's assistant went to give me a bump in fluid and ended up overfilling me, so now I'm still not where I was before the overfill. The doctor was like all this poking of the port could cause this one to start leaking one day. I was like yeah you act like I overfilled myself, like you filled the needle and handed it to me to fill myself with it...if this one starts leaking you need to talk to your staff not me, I didn't do it.

I would do so much better if the doctor's assistant would just stop touching me. I'm not the weight that my tracker says. See back in January I seen the doctor, and he wasn't there so I had to see his assistant. She was like I will give you a small bump in the band and it should all be good, she overfilled me...so I'm still loose cause it was bad, maybe in March I will be able to get some of the fluid put back in. This isn't the first time she did this to me, she did it so much in the first year and half that I had to have my port and tubing replaced. You say you wouldn't know what to do if you seen the scale go up more then a couple of pounds...I have seen it go up more then 10 pounds on more then one occassion due to the assistant. I'm tired of the fight and watching it all go the other direction...I'm looking at the easy way out(weight watchers, nutrisystem, etc...) anything...I have even begged friends to break my jaw just so I could have it wired shut...I will say this out loud to all of you...the doctor will be the only person touching my port and doing my fills every again. I was so overfilled that day that he was afraid my port had flipped because he couldn't get the needle in to get the fluid out, he really had to push the needle in harder...I'm still bruised and sore around my port.

I agree with that...I'm not giving up, I'm just tired of the fight...I'm so tired.

addictions change that's for sure. I had my band done january 2007, and I went from food to exercise...and yes exercise can be an addiction, from that to shopping...now I'm in debt, to sex. Just thought I would share all that with everyone.

Well today is Wednesday and I ran on Monday, even lifted some weights. I hadn't exercised in so long I'm out of it. I mean I couldn't run the whole time like normal, couldn't breathe right either..But I kept going, and the weights I added because my arms need some special attention again. Well my arms are sore and I didn't do that many reps or that much weight. I will be back out on the treadmill tomorrow. I can't workout as regular as I would like because of my class schedule and within the next couple of months even that schedule will change. Well the 18th was my 3 years since my band, I texted all my friends and was like I'm not happy with where I'm at yet, but I am happy about where I'm not at. I'm happy that I'm NO longer 233.9 pounds and a size 20/22. I'm not at goal and I keep having to see numbers that I don't like..it never fails though because everytime I get a couple of numbers away from my goal I sabotoge myself and then go visiting places that I have already seen, that makes me feel bad, then I go back to being almost at goal and then the circle starts again. I still not the size that I was, and really I'm not the size that I wanted to be, I'm smaller...yippie! Now I'm working on the numbers goal.

I hate working out anymore because after I run my legs seem bigger then what they were before, in other words my thighs on my jeans don't fit my thighs. I have now been told though that I have to get back into exercise. I had a fill last week, and they filled me to full, so I had to go back the next day to have an emergency unfill. I was so sick thought I was going to die. Now I'm so unfull, that food tastes so good, I have been eating everything that I'm not suppose to. I got a small refill yesterday. Was told to exercise not only my body, but to also exercise good judgement on food, and not to rely so much on my band. I hate being loose, I was at a good spot, and with a small bump of fluid it would have been a great spot, but instead of a bump I got overfilled. So now I have to start all over again to get to that really good spot, I'm visiting numbers that I hated the last 3 times I seen them...so I guess I'm exercising again starting tomorrow. Ok my pitty party is over...thanks for listening.

Sorry to hear about your hand, and the ring. Is the dogs ok. You really should have the puncture checked, I really hope the dog that caused the puncture had his shots.