Shrinkin' Violets- Part 2 Read Here

[TracyK 3]

Haydee-tell your sister congrats from all the violets and welcome to band land!

[TracyinKS 7]

WOW!!!!!!!!! didn't know that Haydee! Your entire family is soon to be surigically altered! WOOOOHOOOO

Kat: thinking of you! what about some warm broth? sip sip sip

[TracyK 3]

quick question...I know we had talked about this before BUT the chantix is working overtime.

Last time I had my lip waxed i had a horrible rash breakout. What were some of the alternatives you ladies mentioned?

[Daisalana 33]

I don't do my upper lip, but I have heard the bleaching stuff is good for that? I see it at Walgreens all the time. Oh, also the lady who waxes my eyebrows, she also does some string thing.. she rubs a string back and forth really quick and it 'plucks' the hair out. She said she does it for facial hair (cheeks, lips, etc.). See if your salon has that?

Sometimes I get to do fun stuff at my job hehe. We're always buying promotional items, we did some generic white tiger beanie babies years ago-- everyone loved them.... the place that makes them, stopped making them though. So then I found us these little white tiger keychains.. They're cute, but everyone wants beanie babies again.

I found some UGLY generic beanie baby white tigers (bulk) for $4.00 each at 100. 400 bucks for UGLY beanie babies. Then I saw TY made white tiger beanie babies in 1996- Blizzard. Just to see, I called some toy stores online, asking how many they can get.. prices, etc.

I finally found somewhere that was able to get 200 of them, for $2.25 each. Wow. A retired beanie baby for cheap. And all the other toy stores, the most any were able to get was about 20-50 of them. So cool, just ordered a bunch of beanie babies!

[Haydee 2]

Yep, Tracy, pretty soon we'll be a plastic family... After I got banded another one of my aunts went down there and got her nose and her boobs done. Then a few months after that another aunt got boobs and a butt implants. Now today another aunt is getting boobs and face lift. In May, my cousin is going to go get boobs done. Can you tell that we were not so blessed in the boob department in my family? The only woman in my whole family that has sizeable boobs is Erika. We have no idea where who she got that from. Everyone else has mosquito bites. My boobs are unfortunately fast getting to be mosquito bites. They're shrinking faster than my gut is...

[Haydee 2]

TracyK - the only thing that works for me is plucking. I pluck each friggin hair one by one. The wax gives me a rash and then I get like this thick crust on my upper lip. OMG, it's so gross. And the bleach also gives me a rash. I've never tried threading, which is what Laura is saying, but I would assume it's just like plucking. The thread plucks each hair out of you very quickly. I've seen it done, just never had it done myself... For whatever reason my skin has become super super sensitive ever since I was banded. I don't know if there is a correlation at all but it really has...

[kity 2]

Tracyk~ I use dipilatory cream on my upper lip...and I only need to do it about 4-5 times a year (maybe less). I do have my brows waxed...but the wax on my lip gave me big puffy blisters...how cute is that. I have NO problems w/ the cream...and it is about 6 bucks at the drug store. I have sensitive skin and I have no probs w/ the cream. Also, Susanne uses the cream w/ no probs.

Kat~ I agree...perhaps you need to fly somewhere to get the unfil. Sorry your dealing w/ this. Keep at least one of us posted.

Haydee! We have a new violet!! Sending purple power to Erica for a fast recovery.

peaceout

Edited March 28, 2008 by kity

[Daisalana 33]

I was asking about 'threading', and my waxing lady demonstrated on my arm. :smile:

But I've also accidentally plucked a hair from my upper lip and my eyes were watering bad. Oy. When I have to do stuff for my upper lip, I'm crossing my fingers on bleaching hehe.

[kity 2]

OMG...I just had to edit my last post. Instead of writing puffy, I put 2 s's where the f's should have gone. Thank goodness I read the post...lmao...I am laughing so hard, I have tears....I hope no one caught that.:lol::smile::willy_nilly:

[TracyK 3]

OMG...I just had to edit my last post. Instead of writing puffy, I put 2 s's where the f's should have gone. Thank goodness I read the post...lmao...I am laughing so hard, I have tears....I hope no one caught that.:lol::tongue::smile::willy_nilly:

I have done that too....

What is the name/Brand of the cream? I get the blisters froms wax and can not take it anymore. That thread thing sounds like it just plains HURTS!!!

[TracyinKS 7]

all this talking about lip hair has my upper lip ITCHING!!!!!! (and I am prone to fever blisters, but the wax didn't give me one...thank goodness)

Haydee: I laughed out loud at the mosquito bites comment!!!!!!

Well........... mine are long and low unless I've rolled them up and stuffed them into a bra! ROFL :smile:

Have a great weekend!

[mdrai 3]

Not that I have to use such products... roflmao... but I've heard that JOLEN is good! :smile:

[Kat817 19]

Hi girls--

Well flying to my surgeon, is not really an option. I would have to fly to San Diego, and then drive for a couple hours---I cannot get a passport til I get my name changed.....a damn good reason to get that done, but I cannot change it and my ID until after our trip or my travel doc's and my ID wouldn't match!!!

I called my Uncle for help. He is an MD----he has a friend who does lots of band things. He actually called me, we talked for quite awhile, and he told me he was going to recommend something a bit unorthodox for a band Dr. to say-----but he told me to totally empty my stomach, even if I had to gag myself, and then to have some HOT---as hot as I could handle it Water or preferably sweetened tea---as I could use the sugar--and drink it in a sipping manner, but as quickly as I could. His theory was that with this getting so tight during me being sick, I was just as likely plugged with mucus (like we discussed Tracy) as I was super swollen. He said after 2 years with no more than 2cc.'s he couldn't imagine me swelling that much. So I tried the throwing up, got a small amount of greenish snotty slime-------sorry it is so gross----but that is the sinus junk I am dealing with. I drank one coffee mug about 1/2 full of hot tea. It stayed down. Well like I told Rick, my stomach holds that much! It doesn't mean it is going through, until I have to potty, I will have no idea if it went through, and I am so dehydrated it might not even make me go! So about a half an hour later, I drank another 1/2 a mug. So far both are down, and I am not hurting golf ball style or anything.

Jeff, my Uncles friend told me, that depending on why the band is swollen depends on what you treat with hot or cold. He said the make up of the band....indicates hot--being plastic and silicone, the warmth eases it. If the issue is stomach, sometimes cool eases the swelling, as in following a fill. But since I had not really done that, I wanted to work within the band, and if it was mucus plugged, then the warmth might dislodge the blockage.

I am not having pain.....I felt like hell yesterday, I was running over 103 fever, but when that went away, I feel fine. I am not starving....I was terribly thirsty, the tea helped. Still not sure if it is going through or not.

Fill Centers USA--as a rule has been wonderful! The patient coordinator I talked to has called me hourly to check on me, and been trying to work things for me. Found me a Fill Center in Heber Arizona, she said she googled it and it is about a 5 hour drive-but she would (the Dr.) come in any time this weekend to unfill me. So.....

If this warm liquid goes through, and I can take it in---I will try to hang in there, and see my Dr. If not we will leave for AZ at the time we decided it isn't working, and she said no problem, it sounded like the ideal way to handle it.

The Fill Center coordinator was going to write up a report on the unwillingness of the Albq. office to work with us---she said that is not the face they want to present. For now, I am ok-----just waiting, to see how things go. I feel pretty good.....kinda weak. Going to check my BP & pulse again here in a little while, that will give me a clue whether the dehydration is easing. Earlier my BP was only 78/52!!! But my pulse was 124! Not too good the doc said!

Tracy, when this gets handled---and it is not so chaotic, I plan on calling you and talking for real! You should have your box by then. And Rick said you don't have to pay anything for shipping, if I will mail it out of our house he is willing to pay------anything to clear some stuff out!!! I don't see him getting rid of any motorcycles or motorcycle junk though....smart alec that he is!

But I Hope some of it works for you. I got the box ready, he took it to the PO---I have no idea ---he said he sent it with confirmation---but he had no idea what he did with the slip, he said it must be in the truck! men.........

OK----gonna go reheat my heating pad--------another suggestion--heat on the band site----he said this is quite common with sinus problems, allergy sufferers are being warned of this now with banding.....

BBL~~~ thanks so much---I love you girls!

Kat

[Daisalana 33]

Uhm.. just something funny.

What I got you guys for the V trip, I ordered 2 different kinds of something similar. One of them ends up bein a LOT fancier than the other (didn't think it was suppose to be). So I went to their website to figure out what I got and why it was so fancier.. looks like they had an 'oops' on their website, and the item they gave me was suppose to be 6x more expensive (it now is)... I guess it'll make more sense when you guys see what I'm talking about.. I was going to go order everyone else the same thing so everyone's looks the same.. but the new price is outrageous, so.. the thought was there!!

[Suziecat 379]

Kat, keeping my fingers crossed that the warm tea does the trick. What an awful thing to have to be going thru.

I haven't had any issues like this or even close to it. This is one reason why at my last appointment we decided not give me a fill. I had lost 10.5 pounds since 6 weeks before and I told him I was feeling comfortable. I have never had any issue with PB'ing or throwing up and I'm not wanting to start.

Hang in there and keeping you in my thoughts.