Gummiebear

I had a fill a few weeks ago. I felt rather alot of tightness in my back and chest about a week after. Occassionally I am still having the tightness. I have never really had this problem before. I did call the doctor but at the time it had went away. Now its back. I wonder if I need to Relearn how to eat because in the Whole time I have had my band (2006)I have never had any problems eating whatever I wanted and I have never had to do the whole drink slowly thing. I can swollow everything just fine. Foods like onions and peppers I could eat before now give me gas. Its just I feel alot of pressure in my throat/chest/back. One thing my doctor mentioned that that maybe I am having espogeal spasms.. I really dont know much about that. I wonder if it sounds like that could be my issue. or maybe I am just finally at some kind of max resitriction and need to eat better or maybe I am a tad too tight? Any input would be great.

I went to the doctors the other day and they told me we would have to start watching my port because it seems the stitches never held and my port is just floating around on its own. I didnt ever get much scar tissue either I guess. Anyone else ever had that happen? I have had my band for 2 years BTW. Also, some of my Fluid has depleated over time, I am not sure how much really but I have less in there then I did 10 months ago when I last went for a fill. She didnt specify how much. I am not sure if thats typical because I was always told that you didnt lose fluid and now I am hearing that you can lose some over time.. IDK..

I have Lupus and sometimes when it acts up I have arthitis in parts of my body or sometimes my entire body. Today its in my knees and I dont feel like I can walk hardly at all. Plus I have been sleeping almost all day long this last week because I get really tierd. So I havent been getting much exercize at all. I wonder if I should try to suck it up and gimp my way through my walks or if that it anti-productive really. I am sure alot of people have arthitis and try to exercize anyway. Am I being a wimp? lol

In our area they say it does. The rule is One hour before school and one hour after school u can not get into any trouble even off school property.

Ok is it just me or is this crazy. Our schools policy is that if you are in 2 fights in one year (even walking home from school) and even if your just defending yourself and didnt start the fight you are out for 90 days. Basically the kid is going to have to repeat thier grade level. And this isnt just for older kids it applies to little kids. My son is the smart brainy type so basically het gets picked on a bit and he was in one fight already this year where he was defending himself and was suspended. Then apparently yesterday a kid pushed him over the side of the over pass by the freeway when he was walking home from school and he didnt fight back but there's still a chance he could be suspended for 90 days. This is rediculous!!! Kids who are the victoms are being punished. And what do they want these kids who get picked on to do...Stand there and get the tar beat out of them so they dont get kicked out of school.

I do the family affair thing. I walk with my kids to school (instead of driving them) which is a mile and a half one way then I walk home. My kids are really entertaining and we have lots to talk about while were walking. Not only am I getting the exercize I need they are getting some aswell. And we have quality time together.

WOW I cant believe how awesome you men look. Good Job.

excuse my spelling my keyboard sucks and so does my spelling lol

Ok so through-out this whole process I have never admitted to myself that I have a problem. I have moaned and groaned to myself about how my restriction isnt good and I haven't lost my last 20-25 pounds. But I came to the realization that I am choosing to be over weight. I now know the band isnt going to do all of the work for me. I choose to eat too much.. I choose to not exersize enough.. I choose to let my hubby sabatosh me.. I dont have to do any of it. I dont have to eat food because its around and I can exersize more. So I have decided today to choose to be thin. No matter how hard it is and even if my band doesnt work as well as other people, I can do it anyway. I dont need great restriction to get off my ass and move around more. So what have I been waiting for? I suppose inside I wasnt really ready but I am choosing to be ready today and tomarrow and the next day. Restriction or not

There is a branch of the Mormon church that broke off LONG ago and they do practice polygamy but LDS people (Mormons) we do not consider them a part of our church. Also Mormons Do consider themselves Christans, we believe in Christ. I know its hard for non-LDS people to not generalize us into a lump with other churches that call themselves Mormon but religion is one of those thing most people dont understand every aspect of every religion. There are just too many. As for Polygamy many other countries practice this regularly as part of thier culture. Speaking for my own feelings on the matter, I could never see myself being in a situation like this. If I were raised that way maybe I would feel different but I am way too jealous to handle anything like that. As for Polygamy in the US I think it can be a hardship for our country seeing as many of the people (not all) put there wives and children on Welfare to help keep thier families running.

Snowbird, My doctors guildlines are at least 100 pounds over weight I just assumed that it was that way for everyone but as I am learning everyone has there own rules about everything lol. Also you could be right, I dont really understand him. He says he likes girls with bigger butts and boobs but sometimes hes checken out girls that are smaller then me. Ehh men make no sense to me. I do feel like I should help him but everyone is right he has to want to help himself. I hate hearing comments about his weight from people like his co-workers telling me that I am letting him eat too much ect. It really puts me on the defensive. He is in a job where he is driving all day and its really high stress. He almost never gets to eat with the family so I am not servering him food he usually buys it when hes out working which doesnt help because thats mostly junk. He also blames his weight on our decrease in sexual relations. So I know hes thinking about his weight. He sometimes makes comments like, "You dont want to have sex with me because I am fat huh" when the truth is the last few times we have done anything hes the one whos stopped in the middle of whatever and said I cant finish because blah blah blah.....Then he will make up something lame like I didnt feel like you were into it so I didnt want to finish. So confused....whatever the issue is I hope I can get it resolved quickly and he doesnt seem to be helping me out in the communication department.

I am in the same boat as you are. I am a normal (average) size and I still feel like I am really fat. I am also in a size 10 but now I wish I were smaller. My mother-in-law who never has anything nice to say said I was skinny I almost fell over myself. Sometimes I feel like people are saying things like that just to be nice because they are not used to me being smaller.