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You are soooo brave to admit this to everyone!!! PLEASE GET HELP NOW! Go to rehab. If you don't, you wont need to worry about your band or your weight or your children....you will be dead. I am sorry to be so blunt but I see this everyday because of what I do for a living. I am so scared for you because I know what drugs do to the body. You needn't be concerned about the band. The drugs you choose probably wont affect the band but they WILL AFFECT YOUR HEART AND YOUR BRAIN. The cocaine and ecstacy will put you at 100 percent higher chance to have a heart attack. It skyrockets your blood pressure and as a result you could end up rupturing a blood vessel in your brain and have a hemorrhagic stroke. You are already at risk for blood pressure problems because like everyone here, you carry extra weight. The drugs will intesify that risk. GREATLY! Again, I am sorry to be blunt, but sometimes it needs to be said. You NEED TO BE SCARED! I wish I could take you to work with me. I deal with death every day and those people that die prematurely....in their 20's, 30's, 40's and 50's.....the majority of them have drugs on board. Ususally cocaine or some form of it. The exercise is great for you...but if you are doing aerobic exercise while on cocaine, your heart eventually may not be able to handle the overload. It is already working too hard while on drugs....do not go and exercise too! You already found the courage to admit your problem here. That is the biggest step. FIND THE COURAGE TO GET HELP NOW! Now is the time before you move on to a daily habit or choose more or other drugs to obtain "the feeling". I know you can do it! You care about your kids, your health, your God, your life. You took the scary plunge and tackled your weight with getting the band. YOU CAN DO THIS. It wont be easy, it wont be fun, but you will be alive and healthy! We are here to support you!

you Are Not Worthless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My last straw.... I woke up christmas morning and could find NOTHING to wear. I mean nothing. I usually wear sweats around the house and scrubs to work. It had been a while since I had to get dressed "normally". Now when I say I had nothing to wear, I mean Nothing fit over my hips. I could not and would not go to my family xmas party in sweats or scrubs. I stayed home, cried, ate, cried, ate more, cried. Finally I got on the internet and discovered the band.... then I wept for joy because I knew that this was going to help me save myself.

I am curious about this as well. Meat tenderizer is powder. Do you just mix it with water and drink? Can you get it down if you feel like you are going to PB? Comon...expert advice needed

Ok I know that every doctor wants you on their version of a post op diet but I was liquids for like 2 days and then moved to pureed for the rest of the week and then went to soft stuff(mushies) and then by the start of the third week was on normal food for the most part. I doubt you did anything to your band. Your body would tell you something was wrong. Ease up on yourself. No one is perfect. We all cheat and bend the rules at times. Just get back on the wagon. Maybe call your doctor and tell him you were so hungery you had some cottage cheese...tell them it made you feel so much better and you tolerated it. Ask if you can move to the mushie stage.

My PCP actually offered to write me a prescription for an anti-depressant when I told her I was consulting a surgeon about the band..... I actually laughed and told her I would stick with the band....I'd rather be thin and happy than fat and happy.

HOLY FREAKING CRAP!!!! Sorry for the language but I wanted to say worse. I CANNOT BELIEVE THEY LEFT YOU PUKING EVERY 15MIN FOR AN ENTIRE NIGHT!!!!!! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO THEY NOT KNOW HOW HORRIBLE IT IS TO PUKE RIGHT AFTER ABDOMINAL SURGERY....THE PAIN.....ARRRHHHH!!!! Its too bad you didn't have the surgeon's phone number to call him everytime you puked to make sure he got no sleep and had a miserable night along with you!!!! That just pisses me off. They knew they needed to fix that from the start and left you hanging. I am sooooo sorry that you suffered like that! I hope to god you are doing better. Keep us posted please and let us know you are getting through all this!

Thanks for clearing that up. Just to give you all a chuckle, I honestly thought it stood for Non significant victory. It was killing me every time I read about someone's NVS....I kept wanting to write back saying that "of course that is significant....don't call it non significant.." Glad I never responded!

Since you are handing out definitions.... I know what a NSV is I just dont know what is stand for....if that makes sense

That is very cool. Where and how do you get one done....who do you go to? What does it cost?

I am an Organ recovery nurse. I go out and talk to families about donation and then if they wish to donate their loved one's organs, I stay and make it happen by setting up the process and finding the matching recipients. I work on call from home and so I have access to the computer on and off all day.

WOW those are moving