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Yesterday I hit a real wall. Was ready to go home and od on the insulin that I had to start after multiple problems that started last year.

I was withing 30 lb of goal...165lbs lost. Then H pylori, anemia, kidney failure, kidney stone, dehydration, over medication, 8 car accidents. Then incompetent dr that punctured the tube from my port to the lap band. Finally went back to original surgeon (Dr. Rumbaut...great guy) who replaced my tube and started losing the 70lb + that were gained after Fluid had been removed (after hospitalizations).

So then I had to start insulin, but was beginning to loose weight.

Now, I can't get fills, because of swelling. Barium won't pass through. But everything else can and am starting gain weight again. Diabetes continues to be real spiky, throwing up coffe color blood most mornings from irritated ulcer, gerd and pb. I am so tired of this and of fighting the losing battle.

Hope to call Dr. in morning to see if it is the time of day or if the ulcer is making having the band difficult.. Am ready for something else, but not the weight gain and not the ocd dieting pattern again.

Promised a friend I would not give up and hang in there a little longer....hope I can get some answers from the dr tomorrow.

Thanks in advance or for any replys given.

LA

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Wow. I wasn't going to answer because I don't have the experience you do but then I thought of something someone said to me once, "take care of your health, because once it's gone, it's gone."

You need to get healthy whatever way you can. Stress is a killer too. Go to the doctor, get advice, and do what you need to do. . . whatever that is.

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I can identify, i have not"really" gained but cancer (three surgeries, radiation, chemo) has really thrown me for a six and derailed me. I got through it ll ok, but had to unfill. Thats when the diet and food obsession reared its ugly head. I ot really thin, down to 130lb (im five foot ten), and am now bavk up to 145 a year after treatment. Im a perfectly healthy weight and still very sli but I regained that weight because my eating has gone completely off the rails. From being the poster child for using the bandas a tool, i now have pouch dilation from overtightening and expecting the band to save me from myself. I have horrible hertburn, i cant pretend its not happening for much longer. All I hve wanted to eat for the last year is sugar. My bowel function is truly awful after all my surgeries ad i get really depressed.

I dont have an answer but today I put myself back on a Home delivered diet plan of 1200 a day. This program has always worked for me, its just always seemed stupid to pay so much for food i could buy myself, but just now i need the accountability and the reassurance that if i eat only what is provided, i will lose. Anypositive actipn seems to help.

Thats all i have for you, its really tough to stay on track when life dishes up such ****.

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