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do you all know of any one seling one that isnt like $200+ ???? im sure its worth it but its just not in my budgit right now!!!!

yea in the pictures the j&j band's port looks flatter.

so a girl at work told me that i need to go through a center of excellence or ill never get it covered my my insurance. so i called my local center of excellence (Norton hospital) and the girl set me up with a seminar with Dr Shena and told me where to get the question packet for the insurance company. she told me not to call it weight loss surgery, call it correcting morbid obesity. she was really surprised that my Dr didn't do more considering my BMI is 43. i know that isn't THAT high but she acted really surprised. anyway i just printed off the question sheet and I'm going to call them when i get home and go over it. i haven't read any of it yet but it was 20 pages long and i fill it out as they answer the questions. I'm really excited. i have the sleep study consult Monday i and i don't know if i still need that or not. i mean i don't have the money to be paying on things i don't have to have. ya know???

omg i do the same thing. i get home at about 4:00pm and sometime around 5:00/6:00 i want to eat everyting in the house! i have started trying new recieps. ones that i would have never cooked in the past becuase they take so freakin long. i get occupied and i learn something new! then by the time its done im starved and ready for a shower. i never feel like eating after a shower so then i can just relax, digest and watch tv till time for bed!

good for you go get one its your house to and you are adding time to your life thats whats important besides he will like the outcome, if that even matters to you.

so as you may know i have gone back and forth on this whole thing. my Dr said that the insurance wouldn't cover it. people at work says it covered theirs, Dr take over 4 weeks to fax a paper and still hasn't done it, then says i need a sleep study. she schedules me a sleep study for 2 months away. i wait a few weeks and move it closer. i was really thrilled but then i thought, "this is stupid why am i going on that quacks opinion when their are people at work who has had it paid for????" so i talked to one of those people and she told me to go to a center of excellence. she went st Joseph (or something) in Lexington and the whole proses took 4 appointments. i want it to get going but all this time dragging it out gives me time to think about it. i guess it would be better if i just dove into I'm getting scared cause i have to wait and so it feels like it will never happen and when i think that it will it freaks me out. i do know that i really have to do something about my weight now. if i keep waiting then I'm going to have so bad health problems. I'm 19 and my back is so bad i cant walk around after about or so cause i have to lie down. it feels like I'm folding in half back wards i hate it!!! any way my whole point of writing this is to tell you all that i may be rerouting myself on a better path to banding.

so as you may know i have gone back and forth on this whole thing. my Dr said that the insurance wouldn't cover it. people at work says it covered theirs, Dr take over 4 weeks to fax a paper and still hasn't done it, then says i need a sleep study. she schedules me a sleep study for 2 months away. i wait a few weeks and move it closer. i was really thrilled but then i thought, "this is stupid why am i going on that quacks opinion when their are people at work who has had it paid for????" so i talked to one of those people and she told me to go to a center of excellence. she went st Joseph (or something) in Lexington and the whole proses took 4 appointments. i want it to get going but all this time dragging it out gives me time to think about it. i guess it would be better if i just dove into I'm getting scared cause i have to wait and so it feels like it will never happen and when i think that it will it freaks me out. i do know that i really have to do something about my weight now. if i keep waiting then I'm going to have so bad health problems. I'm 19 and my back is so bad i cant walk around after about or so cause i have to lie down. it feels like I'm folding in half back wards i hate it!!! any way my whole point of writing this is to tell you all that i may be rerouting myself on a better path to banding.

so after reading what so many other people have done with scheduling things with Dr's i decided to call the place that is doing my sleep study and see if they had something sooner. they did!!!! so instead of JULY 28th i now have one in 11 days. whoot. well it isn't the "sleep study" its the consultation for it but either way things are moving faster. in a way this kinda scares me cause i don't feel like I'm ready to have a real result but i guess i have spent enough time hobbling about being morbidly obese.

i don't know you but I'm proud of you! it really does take a lot to make a decision like this. you have been living your life longer than i have so i would think change would be a little harder but it sounds like you have your mind made up and thats great! choosing life is always the right way to go! i need to cut out sodas and sugars but i get such bad head aches if i don't drink at lease one a day and water makes me pee a lot. that would be fine but i have a security job and i can only go to the bathroom if some one comes over to watch my desk. i can only leave like twice and i have to pee like every 45-90 minutes..... its ridiculous. i might just start drinking water at home and just have like 1 cup of coffee (black) that was i get the caffeine and its a lot less sugar than my usual chocolate with a shot of coffee that i normally get. i don't know i am less nervous when i read the stuff you reply with it has really made me feel like I'm doing the right thing and like i would be stupid to not do this. I'm not worried about if it will be OK or not i am worried about them cutting me open. like i have never been cut before yea like paper cuts but never anything that required more than a little band-aid. i know it will be worth it so I'm dealing with it.

thanks! i have decided that i don't have the luxury of deciding if I'm going to get it or not. if it is covered then i am getting it. most of every one in my family are 300lbs and over. I'm 19 and I'm at about 255/260 and i gain more and more every month. i started watching my calories and cutting back and running around, playing with my dog more and parking further away from where I'm going and I'm still gaining. people in my family are telling me its just my genes because they were the same way they were just a little on the heavy side until their late teens and early twenties and then they couldn't stop putting on weight. it sucks cause i don't realize it until its been like 10 lbs and then I'm like, "why doesn't my close fit right"? then i realize i have stretch marks in places i didn't so i start cutting out like 75% of my carb intake and all that other stuff and then a month later its like 5 or 10lbs more again. i don't have a choice its either not eat and sleep all the time (from LOW blood sugar) or eat nothing i want and put the weight on anyway...... I'm going to ask around at work cause i wasn't actually turned down by the insurance company my Dr said they probably wont do it and then never faxed the paper to them. 2 other people at work got bypass and it was covered.

wow!!!! i haven't even gotten the sleep study done yet and i was already feeling scared and like i couldn't do it but you have made me feel a lot better. I'm going to write my own power blog and read it when ever i think I'm cant do it. that was really well written by the way. good luck to you. my aunt is 5'2, she weighed 375 and she couldn't conceive. she lost like 80lbs and got pregnant. she was thrilled. she messed up though she couldn't give up food and she put it all right back on. she had bypass tho and now they cant to anything for her. its sad she knows its because she didn't change how she eat and she didn't get off the couch. now she has to live with herself and her kids suffer. i wont be like that. I'm fixing it now!

so after reading what so many other people have done with scheduling things with Dr's i decided to call the place that is doing my sleep study and see if they had something sooner. they did!!!! so instead of JULY 28th i now have one in 11 days. whoot. well it isn't the "sleep study" its the consultation for it but either way things are moving faster. in a way this kinda scares me cause i don't feel like I'm ready to have a real result but i guess i have spent enough time hobbling about being morbidly obese.

wow thats really great i don't think i have ever reached a half way mark to finishing anything. thats my problem and the reason why i think a lot of people are think that I'm wasting my money is cause i never stick with stuff but its get where i don't have a choice. wow half way......that is almost as exciting as reaching the goal. i cant wait. hearing that you have about the same weight goal i do and you are already half way there makes me really eager to get this moving faster.

thats really funny. i don't have any one that makes me think about them possibly being disgusted but i do feel like they are thinking I'm lazy and i don't deserve it. i really feel retired talking out it anymore, i feel like they are thinking, "well fat ass if you'd get up and stop crammin in the burgers..." but it isn't like that. I'm not very active but i also don't eat that much so i think its all in my head that people are thinking awful things. i know i will actually try once i get banded but every one else seems to think I'm wasting my time. how encouraging is that? any way 5'11 is freak awesome I'm like 5'5 and 245-260 (I'm not sure) and I'm not wearing it so well any more. what are you trying to get down too?

katiebug, are your friends fat? maybe their jealous of your awesome curves! lol that is super lame tho it would make me sad but then i would just be like, "you all SUCK i feel great!" but it would still bother me a little 60 is a lot i cant believe they haven't said anything. your tall aren't you? it normally shows better on tall people. i saw your picture with the collar bones, by the way and they look nice good for you. i think about that all the time. thats a goal in life for me have collarbones and wear sun dresses.

your welcome. I'm super scared about getting it but i keep going with my initial idea, like you said. i tend to make excuses for things and then end up backing out but i really want this and i keep telling myself I'm getting it. it helps when i tell other people. i have gotten more positive then negative. and every time i see a thin girl in a sun dress i smile cause next year that will be me but I will look BETTER than her ha ha ha ha : )

go to www.lapband.com its the manufacturer website and their is a video to tell you all about whats going on in their. not that it makes any difference but the reason I'm getting lapband instead of gastric bypass is mi aunt and i have the same life fat genes and she had bypass done and lost but has an awful scare and when she started having less restriction she couldn't have the Dr's do anything about it with lap band you can. you have more help and your less on you're own. my aunt is really encouraging me to get lap band done she said she wishes she would have looked into it more when she was getting hers done she would have chosen it instead of bypass. she broke her ankle and had to be off of her feet work weeks and she gained a lot of weight back and now she is having a REALLY hard time loosing it. i just feel like i will have more help with lapband like if i still want to eat too much then they make it to where i cant. you don't get that with bypass you get one size and your stuck with it with lapband it changes sizes according to my goals. also some of the people on here complain that they aren't loosing and its cause they went from eating 2 big macks to eating 2 cheese burgers and think that that is restriction. news flash it is all unneeded calories that will only work against you!!!! but i will say that their are some who do what they are told and still aren't losing but i have read enough of these posts to think that its only because they haven't gotten to the right place yet you have to get to that certain place (or sweet spot) or in the ballpark of that and then you loose. good luck tho and good for you for looking at both first. i am in the insurance phase so i don't have a date for banding yet.

what you need: yellow cake mix 2 cups of diet big red 1 box sugar free jello (strawberry is best cherry works to) 1 tub or sugar free coolwhip 1 box sugar free vanilla pudding bake the cake as normal. when the cake is done let cool then stab it to death with a fork. make as many holes as possible with out it falling apart. put one cup BigRed in a sauce pan and boil mix in jello packet. after the jello has liquefied pour over the cake then fallow up with the other cup of BigRed. let all of that cool and set up in the fridge. toping- mix the coolwhip and vanilla pudding in a bowl using a mixer works better than doing it by hand but use what ever you got. add about 1/3 of a cup of milk to the pudding and coolwhip mixture it will be runny so keep beating it until it get creamy then let it set for a few minutes it will thicken. it might not look like it will cover the cake but it will it always does. the jello sets up and you cant even tell its jello. it doesn't look or feel like jelly at all its really good and it makes the cake moist! the topping isn't too sweet either its the perfect compliment to the cake! i use to make it all the time for people at work.

when i was like 5 years old i was really over weight so my Dr had my mom make me drink 16oz of water before i eat every meal. sometimes i would be so hungry, well ready to eat, that i would chug the water then i would reel really bloated and not even want to eat. that wasn't very good but the point is is that the water took up that space. it doesn't work for me now i eat any way and then feel super miserable after but maybe it might work for you. i know your not suppose to drink while eating or for like an hour afterwords but i don't know about before. also Hershey's sugar free chocolate pieces are really good they don't even taste sugar free and they are a lot less calories. also if you want to try something thats really good (it isn't chocolate tho) its big red jello cake!!! you can get everything that goes into it sugar free except for the cake mix its self i haven't yet found sugar free cake mix. if you want i can give you the recipe

I'm one of those people that has to share their life events with everyone and so i have told a bunch of people that I'm trying to get banded and every one and i mean freakin EVERY has gotten all cocky about it and tell me that ill just have to diet the rest of my life why cant i just diet and save my money? that is making me so mad. my boyfriend even said something like that last night. i mean they have a point i guess but if i understand correctly after being on liquids you stomach shrinks so if you don't have much restriction then you still will get full faster and after a while if you have almost no restriction and you are ready for a fill then you get one and then you have restriction thus making it impossible to eat the way i did before without being miserable. am i wrong???? does that sound about right? i don't know i still get the feeling that they think I'm wasting my time and money on some gimmick. my boyfriend has more faith in me than anyone else he knows i want it to work and i know he wants if for me but he doesn't know much about it and i can tell there is still a bit of skepticism but he doesn't show it in his speech i don't know i just wish i had some one in my life that has been banded so at least i could talk to them. i have quite a few people in my family who has had gastric bypass and they gained all of their weight back and then some so of course i hear about that as well. i need encouragement please help its going to be a while before i can find out if I'm approved or not and i don't want to change my mind cause i listened to all the morons in my life.

yep they set a date but its isnt for 2 more month. well the consultation isnt for 2 more month i dont know how long it will take after that. that is only for the hospital down the stret from me so i might try the next closes one i think they can take me now but i have to take off of work cause they only do consultations during the day. i dont know how much it will cost or if my insurance covers it so i might have to wait the 2 or so months. i am trying to get set up with realestate classes and get put on birth control (prefereble implanon) and all of this will cost about $2000 and i dont have that kind of money. so wish me luck. by the way if you af wanting to switch birth controls or are just looking for one that wont make you gain weight impanon is great! its a small stick like thing that they inject (implant) into your arm and it last for 3 years. i want it but even with my insurance its still $750 because i havent met my deductible yet.

yep they set a date but its isnt for 2 more month. well the consultation isnt for 2 more month i dont know how long it will take after that. that is only for the hospital down the stret from me so i might try the next closes one i think they can take me now but i have to take off of work cause they only do consultations during the day. i dont know how much it will cost or if my insurance covers it so i might have to wait the 2 or so months. i am trying to get set up with realestate classes and get put on birth control (prefereble implanon) and all of this will cost about $2000 and i dont have that kind of money. so wish me luck. by the way if you af wanting to switch birth controls or are just looking for one that wont make you gain weight impanon is great! its a small stick like thing that they inject (implant) into your arm and it last for 3 years. i want it but even with my insurance its still $750 because i havent met my deductible yet.

so my dr's office hasnt been of any help. impretty sure i might have sleep apnea so i want to get a sleep study done cause i want o get the surgery and loose the wieght and look great for next summer but i cant get the ball rolling until my insurence aproves it. sleep apnea runs in my family big time and i have problems sleeping so im going to get it checked out. i didnt want to do this but i will i have to (one) cause i cant sleep and i feel super tired all the time and (two) cause i want lapband!!!!! gah!!! so i just need to ger it started.

OMG!!! those band-aids are amazing they freakin stay on forever!!! i had a cut on the back of my heal and bandaids wouldnt stay on it so my friends mom gave me one of those and i forgot it was there for like a week and a half the cut heald great but it was kinda gross to think about it being there for a week and half but through showers and the pool! thats amazing!!!

what all can i exect from the sleep study? my dr's office is incompatent and cant even send a fax so im going in another direction. its very likely that i have sleep apnea most of the people in my family do. my dr's office told me that my bmi isnt high enough and that the insurance Co. will probably turn me down unless i have sleep apnea but they would send a fax any way. i didnt want to have the sleep study test done but i dont sleep very well and its really starting to wear me down. i have put on some more weight sence the last drs apointment and i can tell it has afected my sleep even more. i was waking up once or twice a night and now i wake you almost 5 times a night and for no reason. i just wake up and toss and turn a bit then go back to sleep. i sit in a quiet room at a computer all b myself all day at work and it takes all i have to stay awake so i HAVE to do something. i was hoping you could tell me what i can expect with the sleep study. do they do them on saturdays? i dont want to take off work but i will if i have to.