Melbourne Chat Thread!!!!

[susannah 2]

Hey Bronnie, ooh the Gadolinium! Yuk. I always drop a Xanax each time or I will flip out. Have a good rest to get over it all. You are off to a good start pre banding.

Is anyone planning on watching the start of The Biggest Loser on Sunday night? I will be watching it from my sick bed! LOL. I am going to milk the poor patient routine to the hilt!

Susannah

[bronnie70 0]

Thanks Girls.... im recovering from my MRI experience but... i broke my first day of Optifast. I was so distressed r/e the MRI that i looked for food :help: .

Well... tomorrow is another day. I can do it!!

I already know i have a fatty Liver as it is printed on the post removal of gallbladder report in 2000 so i really must pull my finger out and be strict with myself pre-op.

[Jachut 487]

Tomorrow is another day, that's right. Sorry the MRI was horrible.

I am going to be watching Biggest Loser. I loved it last season, I love all those shows.

[dionnem 0]

Hi All,

Thanks for all your advice, I'm so glad I found this site as I have only moved to QLD 12mths ago from VIC and this is such a small community that I haven't told anyone about my band. I am interested to know about drinks after the band like diet coke (that I am unfortunately addicted to). I know you are advised not to drink with your meal but I was wondering do drinks like diet coke fill you up in the interim? Susannah good luck with your band only a couple of days away, I will be waiting to hear how you went with mine only a couple of weeks after yours 19th Feb.

[TaNgLe 0]

Hi Bronnie

sorry to hear the MRI was horrible but at least it is over with now and you can start fresh tomorrow with the optifast.. good on you for deciding to start now. I really should start thinking about doing something like that too..i am terrible for putting things off tho. With the sleep tests it will actually be the physician who sends you for it if anyone. Dr Nottle doesn't usually do it so i have heard so keep your fingers crossed and maybe u will get let off too

Susannah, good luck.. not long to go at all now you lucky girl and well done for doing so well with the Optifast

catch you all soon and keep up the good work

loretta

[bronnie70 0]

Loretta... so youve had everything done and just now waiting for an op date??!! Did you have to have blood tests? Where are you going to have it done?

[She Smiles 2]

Bronnie, don't worry about the small slip with the Optifast. You had a rough day and we are allowed to make mistakes, we're all human. Tomorrow is a new day and you'll get back on track when you are feeling well again. I'm sorry the MRI was so painful.

Dionnem, I was addicted to diet coke pre band. I'd drink about a litre a day!! I broke the habit when I was on my Optifast diet, because my surgeon and nutritionist banned it. Carbonated drinks of any kind can erode the band and result in it having to be removed. So no, I wouldn't recommend drinking coke to fill you up in between meals. You should be trying to drink 2 litres of Water a day. Coke is a diuretic, so its like one step forward and 2 back as far as Water drinking goes. The same goes for any other kind of caffeinated beverage (like coffee, redbull etc). But you might want to talk to your surgeon about it, he might have a different view on it!

I don't know about watching the biggest loser. What time is it going to be on? The last Australian one was on at 7pm which is when home and away is on, and I can't miss that (tragic, I know! hahaha)

[TaNgLe 0]

Bronnie,

Yes. I saw Dr Nottle around the 15th of november and the dietician and physician early december.My GP had sent me for regular blood tests so i took those with me. It was the physician who sent me for sleep tests at Footscray because of my asthma. I didn't mind them that much. It was kinda weird tho but i had had a real busy week at work so i slept no probs lol. Dr Nottle viewed all results and told me i would get a call possibly around june / july letting me know the date of the op.I am on his public waiting list so now i just have to play the waiting game.:phanvan I think i will be operated on at Williamstown Hospital or possibly Werribee but have to stay in overnight because of the asthma.Just hope these months go quickly cos ,like you, i just want it done YESTERDAY ! lol

Take care and all goes well

Loretta

[bronnie70 0]

Hi all....

Loretta... I heard that werribee Mercy Hospital doesnt do Lapbanding. Apparently a day stay unit in Werribee does but as i said that is 'day stay' only. so... i think you'll be heading to Williamstown. As for me i guess going private i'll be going to Western Private Footscray. The dates given to public patients seem to vary. I know a girl who had her 1st consult in early september 2006 and had the op a few days prior to christmas and im sure she said she was public... just under 4 months wait.

Does anyone know if Dr Nottles private patients can go somewhere other than Western Private?? Just curious....

Im over the MRI saga of yesterday and today is another 1st Optifast day for me !!! Hey... those hospital gowns are damn small. I had to put one on prior to my MRI... well i tried to put one on. Wasnt a good look :embarassed:

[susannah 2]

Hi Girls, Bronnie don't be hard on yourself mate. I know how bloody horrible mri's are. That is why I am overdue for scanning, coz I avoid em! What else are they going to tell me, '' Another x amount of lesions, blah,blah"' I know I have MS.

Loretta, it must be so hard for you waiting as a public patient. You will get there no doubt.

Jacqui, I read that one of this years contestants on the Biggest Loser who weighs 190 kgs, had a lapband and lost 70 kgs. He decided to have it removed and is hoping that the show will be his last hope. You know what I wish him well because we all know what a struggle this whole weight loss caper is.

Meredith, why don't you watch The Biggest Loser on sundays on channel 10 @ 7.30 pm. That is the weekly weigh in. Mate I know what being a soap addict is like, I love Days and B&b! :biggrin1: Yes I am tragic too.

Dionnm, Keep posting here. I used to love drinking diet coke here and there. I have not drunk it for nearly a month now. It is amazing how you lose your appetite for fave things when you abstain for a while. I think constant consumption of any food or drink just feeds the addiction.

Fee what's happening?

Lastly a big hello to any Aussie lurkers. Come on in the water's fine!:rose:

Susannah

[fee 0]

Hi all....

Loretta... I heard that werribee Mercy Hospital doesnt do Lapbanding. Apparently a day stay unit in Werribee does but as i said that is 'day stay' only. so... i think you'll be heading to Williamstown. As for me i guess going private i'll be going to Western Private Footscray. The dates given to public patients seem to vary. I know a girl who had her 1st consult in early september 2006 and had the op a few days prior to christmas and im sure she said she was public... just under 4 months wait.

Does anyone know if Dr Nottles private patients can go somewhere other than Western Private?? Just curious....

Im over the MRI saga of yesterday and today is another 1st Optifast day for me !!! Hey... those hospital gowns are damn small. I had to put one on prior to my MRI... well i tried to put one on. Wasnt a good look :embarassed:

The day suregry is on princess highway near the police station on the opposite side......yes you can get your band put in at the Avenue...as i know someone that was banded there 2 weeks before me by Peter Nottle.

[TaNgLe 0]

hi Bronnie

Looks like i might be going to Williamstown hey? A friend of mine got operated on last year at werribee but that was before that day surgery opened so maybe they dont do it at werribee any more.. i don't know. Maybe ask Dr Nottle when u see him and let me know How is the Optifast going? good luck with it

susannah,this time in two days u will be on your way to a new you! can u believe it? u lucky girl! I'll just sit back and wait i guess.. hopefully time will fly like it usually does :phanvan

anyway, have a good day guys and catch up soon :rose:

[susannah 2]

Hey, Bronnie ask your surgeon when you see him if you can be banded at The Avenue. Then you'll be an Avenue Bandster like a few of us here.:biggrin1: Susannah

[dionnem 0]

Hi All,

Had to suffer through the liver ultrasound today and blood tests did anyone else have to do that? The Procedures ok but whats with the people doing them, honestly if they hate the job that much they shouldn't be doing it. !! Thats my gripe for the day. I hope the results will be ok, I guess i'll here if they are not.

I'm going to wean myself from the diet coke as cold turkey just isn't worth the pain, I'm down to one a day and hope to be over that by the end of the week. I am back on the diet tomorrow 100% as you know I have been struggeling but reading waht you guys have to say is really good inspiration, I just have such a lack of will power, but tomorrow will be the 1st of the month and the 1st day on my way to a better life!!! I have been given the ok to do Tony Ferguson program instead of Optifast VERRRY similar but 8 different flavours I love the Espresso as it gives me that nice coffee taste sort of like a latte without the milk or coffee!!!! Are you all doing Optifast???

[susannah 2]

Hi D,Tomorrow is indeed a new day, take it one day at time. I didn't have a liver ultrasound, but I did have a battery of blood tests done. Did you have to have a sleep study done?

Tomorrow is my last day of three weeks of Optifast. Yay!!! My tip is that the chocolate is nicer than the vanilla. Eight different flavours would have been good. I was told Optifast only. Not that I asked for any other brand.

Susannah