jstbginin

Hi, My name is Liz and live in Tacoma WA. I haven't had the surgery for the lapband but I'm going to be. I have to go to a "weightloss seminar" tomorrow from 6-8 pm before I can even set up an appointment with the doctor. Which to me seems weird. But whatever it takes I'm willing to do. I'm tired of being "fat" I've tried weight watchers and it did work but then of course as soon as I stopped I gained the weight back plus 30 more pounds. Plus I've tried other diets, and diet pills, phentermine (Fen-Phen) I lost 40lbs with them but gained it all back once I stopped taking it. Right now I weigh the most I've ever weighed in my life. It was so depressing and shocking at the same time when I got on the scale and saw the numbers 250.4 I couldn't believe it. I'm 5'5 and I don't have small bones. I look really good at 170 you be surprised because of the way that I carry my weight I fit into size 14's when I weigh 170. Boy it does feel better now that I've typed out how much I weigh. I know that everybody who sees this is going to be able to relate to me. I have a wonderful husband of 15 years on July 20th and 3 daughters. My oldest will be 19 on the 8th of this month, and I have a 13 yr old who'll be 14 in February and then my youngest is gong to be 12 on the 20th of this month. Oh and I have 2 pitbull doggies. That's enough about me. Nice talking to ya. jstbginin (Liz) :clap2:

Hi Kutia, I just registered to go to another seminar since I missed the last one that I had registered to go to. At any rate, I'm excited my daughter is going to come with me because I didnt' want to go by myself. I know what ya mean about the price. I'm very very fortunate that my dad is going to pay for it. The franciscan health system has a package deal that includes the surgery, hospital, and the anesthesiologist fees for $12,500. I've been looking and researching the lapband procedure for about a year and a half to two years and the average price that I was finding locally was around $17,000 - $18,000 thousand dollars. So when I was at my doctors for an appointment there were these brochurse from Northwest Center for Weight Managerment. Needless to say I was very excited. I do know that alot of people have had great success stories from going to Mexico and having the procedure done and somewhere I saw a posting from somebody who said that is cost $9,000 but I don't know if that included airfare and hotel etc. Well you'll have to let me know how the meeting goes and I'll let you know how mine goes. Where do you live? I live in Tacoma WA. Thanks jstbginin (Liz)

Hi Dody, Thanks for the reply. First of all I read somewhere that if your taking hormones you have to stop taking them a month before the surgery do you know if that is true or not?? Because if it is I'm going to go crazy for that month I take hormones because I've had a total hysterectomy. Then I do take pain medication for my back I have degenerative disk disease at L5 S1. Then I take meds for depression. So do you know any idea about any problems with any of the conditions or meds that I take that they might decline me for a canidate for surgery? Any info helps. Thanks and I totally lost track of time on the day of the seminar and when I finally asked what time it was it was 6:30 :cry So I have to reschedule. Thanks jstbginin

Hi I'm new to this and I haven't had surgery just yet but hopefully soon. I live in down in Tacoma and the surgery is going to cost 12,800 which includes the surgery, antheseologist (spelling??) and I'm not exactly sure what else because I haven't fully investigated it because I never thought that I would be able afford the surgery but my dad has offered to pay for it. At any rate I will find out as much information as possible and post the results. I do know that the $12,800 price is the price that I have seen in the last month so I just want to assure everybody that it is not an "old" price. Thanks:p