This thread is going to be sooo inappropriate!

[anonemouse 1]

I snorted when I read that. Honest.

Holy crap! I think I need to hang out at OH more often.

Believe me, you don't want to. I've given up on that place. There are a bunch of people there that will drive you up the freakin' wall. Seriously, my teeth grind every time I go there. It's like nails on a fucking chalkboard.

[Shalee04 7]

OMG ... i cant believe im sharing this story, but here goes...

ok... DH and I dated on the internet (met, courted, you name it ..) we met on a Saturday and married that next Wednesday. been happily married for over 10 years.

WOHOOO For internet Love Stories!!! I met my DH because of a chat room we both talked in on AOL. But we never talked to each other or knew about each other. But one night we both happened to go to Hollywood Athletic Club Where alot of the people in that chat room hung out on Monday nights. 4 months after that night we started dating, 8 years later we were married. and here we are almost 15 years later. still happy and in love. :-D:tt2:

[WASaBubbleButt 41]

OMG I can't believe I am reading this stuff again today! Here is another poop thread and how to overcome the intrusive and abusive odoriferous side effects of DS:

The whole stink issue - Duodenal Switch Support Forum

This is in the above thread:

In contemplating this surgery, you do need to be prepared for the stink factor. Seriously. And yes, my mom had a colostomy, and I smelled up a room worse than she ever did. Colostomies depend on where they bypass the intestines. But to me, it smelled like a baby diaper if it ever leaked or if she changed it

In my opinion, we smell more pungent and it lingers. Yes, it lingers on your clothes if you pass gas in them. It lingers in your car if you do it there. I got pulled over in a check stop and almost died of embarassment. i laughed later but at the time it was terrible when that poor unsuspecting cop stuck his face in my car when he asked if I had been drinking! Okay, the memory still stings a bit and yet I still laugh about it too. what can you do.

But you learn where and when to relieve your gas, and what to eat and when. You learn to pass gas in the bedroom closet if you have guests over! And to take Probiotics or Devrom, light lots of matches and candles at home, or get an inonizer air purifier (they do work!). You learn to flush while you go to the bathroom, and to use a drop of bleach or "Just a drop" in the toilet if you're worried. You carry a mini air freshner in your purse etc.

It is an ongoing issue for me. I'm not going to lie. Again, just my opinion, but it does become a new part of your life. Before I found my secret bathroom at work, I would drive home at lunch to avoid sharing my co-workers bathroom. I also spent about 5 months avoiding anything social in the evenings because of the gas I would get early every evening (it gets better after the first year). I cried about it many times. In fact, I just moved into my parents house this month and my mom innocetly told me that I could have her air purifier. I was sad because she could smell it when she walked upstairs even though I had my bedroom door closed all night. So, I use the air purifier and leave the window open a bit or leave a candle lit. Most of my gas is while i sleep.

But it is an issue you will need to deal with. It's not the end of the world but it wil be a factor to consider and be honest with yourself about.

And generalized body odor is not anything you need to be worried about. Just when you fart or poop.

Thinking and pondering... Why did I get a band instead of DS????

This stuff has just gotta be true, nobody could make up this stuff.

[wrk-n-prgrss 0]

Wasa:

I came and read...and you are right its therapuetic. Its hard to convey on this board the toxicity and outright rage that a group of DSers on OH have towards all other WLS. It got so bad that OH had to give us bandsters a private forum so you wouldnt be attacked. It was so disgusting to see someone post and say they were in bandster hell or ask if they needed a fill and have that group come on and tell them they were F-ing morons and total idiots for getting the lap band in the first place. They would provoke with threads saying 7 out of 10 bands fail etc. Newbies were confused and the DSers could never be reasoned with.

I love how they continually deny the stink problem. They can deny it all they want every doctor I have ever talked to says that is a real problem and actually is a reason to NOT get the surgery if you have better options. In my mind almost every other main stream WLS is better.

I dont go to R&R on OH because its not a healthy debate its this group of DSers that are so into their propaganda they are delusional.

[plain 12]

*sniff sniff*

Excuse me, but it smells like fresh spring morning in this forum. Did somebody use Just a Drop?

[snuffy65 1]

OMG I can't believe I am reading this stuff again today! Here is another poop thread and how to overcome the intrusive and abusive odoriferous side effects of DS:

The whole stink issue - Duodenal Switch Support Forum

OMg this quote is from that forums. Would you women really go through all this to lose weight? I'm a guy and I sure wouldn't.

I have a really strange issue with the smelliness. I'm going to try to put this delicately. Guys would never have this problem because their equipment is different. When I'm in a situation where I can't release the gas, I clamp down and don't let it out. Somehow it escapes, but not into the air, into another oraface. Then when I stand up in escapes. It sounds just like a regular fart, but it's coming from a place that I can't close down. This is going to really embarass me sometime.

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

Bubble,what are you doing hanging out at OH ? lol

That's pretty interesting though. I have enough problems with gas now. I can't imagine it being worse. I would never be able to leave the house!

[WASaBubbleButt 41]

Wasa:

I came and read...and you are right its therapuetic. Its hard to convey on this board the toxicity and outright rage that a group of DSers on OH have towards all other WLS. It got so bad that OH had to give us bandsters a private forum so you wouldnt be attacked. It was so disgusting to see someone post and say they were in bandster hell or ask if they needed a fill and have that group come on and tell them they were F-ing morons and total idiots for getting the lap band in the first place. They would provoke with threads saying 7 out of 10 bands fail etc. Newbies were confused and the DSers could never be reasoned with.

I love how they continually deny the stink problem. They can deny it all they want every doctor I have ever talked to says that is a real problem and actually is a reason to NOT get the surgery if you have better options. In my mind almost every other main stream WLS is better.

I dont go to R&R on OH because its not a healthy debate its this group of DSers that are so into their propaganda they are delusional.

I have this new theory I am working on. ;o)

I figure it this way... for a long time I sincerely didn't know if a certain personality type was drawn to that procedure or if that procedure caused their personality "issues".

I got to thinking, the newbies that don't even have the procedure are just as bad such as peach. So it's not a nutritional thing their wee brains are missing.

This is where my theory comes in. Heh...

I think that DSers are like us in their eating disorder or whatever it is that is wrong with us. But they are unwilling or unable to give up food and they are demanding, unable to tolerate being denied anything in life including food, they demand that the world conforms to their ways of doing things and when their body does not conform the way they insist, they change it so it does.

Instead of adopting a healthy lifestyle they squeal in delight while they feed from the trough. The types and amounts of food they consume is no different from pre-surgery. They refuse to deny themselves a bloody thing and adopting a healthy lifestyle with healthy eating habits, and reasonable calories their body requires is something they are unable to do.

I realize that banding takes the most effort of all WLS types and maybe since we are reaching our goals they are angry that they couldn't do the same. I also realize banding isn't for everyone, I think that many jump into it ONLY because it is reversible and not because it is the right surgery for their eating behaviors. But it is not what they make it out to be either.

They think nothing of degrading and insulting us because we chose a band over stench, but mention how bad they smell and their tails uncurl in sheer anger and denial.

They say they don't stink yet in the next post they are coming up with every product in the market to stop people around them from gagging. If companies make products just for stinky WLS patients, there must be a market so they must indeed stink.

They use baby wipes, adults wipes, and washclothes for their butts, fabreeze, Lysol, and neutralizers for their clothing. They use special sprays for the air, special detergents for their laundry, candles, matches, antibiotics long term, OTC "stop stink" pills, and now my favorite, drops in their toilets.

Tell me they don't stink... maybe they should back off from the trough and get a freak'en grip. They say their obesity is cured. It's not cured, they forced their body into a position of being able to tolerate huge quantities of bad food, they justify it by saying their body turns bad unhealthy food into good food, and all this so they don't have to deal with their issues. Only it does not appear that it's all that great for their body either. If a human being is omitting those kinds of aromas, perhaps they need to reconsider this "cure" they have.

I'll take a band ANY day over stinky.

[WASaBubbleButt 41]

OMg this quote is from that forums. Would you women really go through all this to lose weight? I'm a guy and I sure wouldn't.

Oh HELL no!

I finally found something that I'd rather be fat than to experience. I don't want whahoohoo farts and I don't want stinky. I'd rather be fat.

Denise:

Bubble,what are you doing hanging out at OH ? lol

Entertainment value! Who could resist??? ;o)

Plain:

*sniff sniff*

Excuse me, but it smells like fresh spring morning in this forum. Did somebody use Just a Drop?

I dunno, plain... That or someone just bought a SummersEve douche.

However, I have to admit... I've never heard of douching a toilet before using. :thumbup:

[plain 12]

Hey I just had an idea. Maybe Fairyfacade could work with the just a drop people and create a new "rainbow scent". Sounds like a winner!!

Wasa, I'm with you. I read a lot in their forum. I couldn't quit reading....it was TOO entertaining. I was literally reading with tears in my eyes from laughing (I know.....I'm a mean bast*rd.....can't help it). Especially the lady whose horrible smelling gas apparently somehow eminates from her mommyparts. Wow, romantic.

[Jachut 487]

Oh man, that is downright disgusting.

I can put my hand on my heart and say absolutely without guile that I would rather be fat than stink like that. Seriously.

perhaps its just that I only ever got to a BMI of 35?

And maybe its just me, also, but I actually derive PLEASURE from the hard work that I have put in to this. It has enhanced my self esteem and self respect. I once got cained on this board for saying that had I had a gastric bypass (which I know we're not talking about here) I would have been saddened by the fact that it had come to that. I meant no disrespect to GBPers at the time, simply that I was so empowered by the strength I had discovered within me, strength that success with a lapband demands. I saw other forms of surgery as really having gone past the stage of being able to call up that strength.

I worry when I have to use a public toilet as it is lol. As soon as it hits the Water I flush THEN i wipe and flush again (yes, even in drought!!) - so that nobody else gets to enjoy last night's dinner with me!

[WASaBubbleButt 41]

Wasa, I'm with you. I read a lot in their forum. I couldn't quit reading....it was TOO entertaining. I was literally reading with tears in my eyes from laughing (I know.....I'm a mean bast*rd.....can't help it). Especially the lady whose horrible smelling gas apparently somehow eminates from her mommyparts. Wow, romantic.

I know, it is soooo ... not PC to laugh at their medical problems but I can't help it, I can't quit laughing.

My favorite is still the "spring day" comment. That one was just priceless.

[Chickie 15]

Since we are all sharing...

I had DH convinced for at least 6 months into our marriage that women don't fart. That I didn't fart. I swear to whatever you worship. I had him snowed.

He looked horrified when I finally farted in front of him.

I just wish it had smelled like a spring day!

[Chickie 15]

And maybe its just me, also, but I actually derive PLEASURE from the hard work that I have put in to this. It has enhanced my self esteem and self respect.

No. It's not just you. I feel the same way.

[Daisalana 33]

No, I had a 46bmi.. I was quite large. I would not have gone with stinky to lose weight. Kind of like dumping, I didn't like the idea of possibly poo'ing my pants.

Edited March 27, 2008 by FairyFacade