Brian K.

I had LB surgery in 2006 I too have had GERDS for a long time. I recently developed full blown intolerance for lactose. Since eliminating cows milk from my diet I suffer no GERDS at all anymore. If all normal complications and concerns have been looked into try eliminating milk and see if it helps. Within a week I noticed it was gone. I choose not to use Nexium or Prilosec due to them causing me to lose hair.

Has anyone here tried 5-htp for controlling the food cravings? My wife has tried it for food craving control and has seen her cravings for sweets reduced. I'm to chicken sh!t to try it.

Why are we not supposed to drink carbonated soda??? I have and I still burp as usually. I've also gone for the fluoroscope fill and have my band at the max according to the doctor now.

This is where we got ours. http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=70787&catid=60731&trx=PLST-0-SEARCH&trxp1=60731&trxp2=70787&trxp3=1&trxp4=0&btrx=BUY-PLST-0-SEARCH

I'm no doctor, but have lived my whole life with severe allergies and asthma. I had many serious close calls with asthma. I can say with certainty that Advair 500, Singular and Rhinocort have changed my life. Everybody is different, but I don't get the usual bloody noses from the nasal inhalers. I can breath out of both sides of my nose, all day! No more nose twitching. I have a heart condition (bad arrhythmias) and high blood pressure to which none of it is affected by the allergy or asthma meds. I used to wake up in the morning with a hacky cough to clear some congestion, thats gone. I am the type of person that doesn't like to take medicine unless its really needed because of my heart and I have become such a believer of these meds for allergies and asthma I can easily recommend them.

Also try Steaz, I ordered a case of the diet black cherry and it was really good ice cold. Here's there web site http://www.steaz.com/diet_beverages.html It's sweetened with Stevia.

I use iespell from here http://www.iespell.com/download.php

Before my car accident I was an elevator constructor. Since then I have been an elevator operator at construction sites bringing fellow tradesmen and there tools up and down. Hence my name goingup. Maybe someday after I loose some weight I may return to construction.

I had my surgery on Tuesday Morning at 7:AM. Woke up at around 11:AM and was in horrible pain. Then was left in ICU for about 5 hours with not one person helping me. I started to get irate and my wife tried to calm me down. What was happening was I had herniated disks in my neck. When I came to after laying for so long on the operating table it must have irritated my disks horribly. I wish I had knew this could happen. I felt numbness and pain down my left arm into my hand. I couldn't move because of the surgery pain, neck pain and that they had IVs, electrodes connected to my chest, blood gas monitor, nasal canular, all in a bed with buttons on the outside that needed a key to operate. I not lying when I say no one came into my room in ICU in about 5 hours time. When my wife would ask for a nurse she said they were busy and to wait. I received no meds during this time. My doctor showed up because my wife called him down to the hospital. I then let him have it as well as the one male nurse that showed up. Needless to say after that blowup things got better care wise. I still today have to say I don't like what I went through. But I'm here now and on the road to a new life.

Thank you everybody. It helps to know a few clicks away someone thats going through the same can coach you along with knowledge and that little pat on the back when needed. I have a little girl, Danielle 7lbs.4ozs.. That gives me the complete package with my son, soon to be 6.

Is it normal to have lots of gas and only be able to drink 1/4 cup of liquids maybe 3 or 4 times a day. Yes, Doctor Chau.

Princeton Medical Center. I really couldn't believe the type of care I was getting. If my wife wasn't there she'd never have believed it. She just gave birth to our daughter 3 1/2 weeks ago here at this hospital and the care was unbelievable. She was treated like royalty. Not me though at first. So maybe it was just a bad day there. It figures on my time.

Hi, to everyone at the forum. I will be coming here quite alot from now on. I am having the lap-band done on 2/7/06. Also what a great site this is. 1] My question is after errosion can you do a rue-n-y procedure? 2] What do you feel caused the errosion? 3] Does this happen to everyone evenually or from a bad lap-band procedure? Current wieght 402lbs. Soon to be half a man.