Newbie here from Iowa...

[ziasss 0]

I've been reading here for a few days, Seems like a place I'd like to visit:smile:

I'm scheduled to go for my orientation on Friday, thr 11th. When I asked my primary care doctor if he thought I could be a candidate, He said sure!

He thinks it would help me alot.

I have COPD and fibromyalgia. I'd lost #80 taking Metabolife, working out with a personal trainer 3 times a week. I got down to 238 when I had to go to the ER one night cause I couldn't breathe. Stayed there for 5 days, IV steroids. nebulizer, oxygen, Then i get home and I'm researcing that, I come across how COPD patients lose weight, and they shouldn't. Well to me this means go back to old eating habits! Not being able to exercise didn't help either. On steroids to breathe about ever 6 weeks. I hate them! Become such a bitch, and a starving one...there came the first #30 pound gain,

Then quit smoking..its so hard! But i did manage to quit, but gained another 30 there,

Then I had something wrong with my leg. Turns out it was fractured, but i didn't find that out for 3 months. By this time. i'm in pain everywhere. Did my internet searchs, narrowed it down to Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthitis or Fibromyalsia. Had all of those tests, everything normal, but have the pain and the tenderpoints of fibro. So now I don't do much of anything...and gained another 20.

So I'm right back where I started 6 years ago! I hate the way I look, the huge clothes I have to wear now. I've tried everything, and i think this is my last hope. My back and legs hurt so bad that I can't do much. I know I'd still have the fibro pain, but I think it would be less if I wasn't packing all this fat around too...

Now that I've decided to do this, i wanna do it like tomorrow....lol

But I'll get my work done first...just wish I had a little more patience.

Well thats me, and any time you find me on, just say Hi

Nancy:thumbs_up:

[micountryfarm 0]

Hi and Welcome, Nancy!

Wow, you do have a lot going on! Don't despair, hon. We all have been there at some point in our life. The lap band may be your answer. I have diabetes and asthma so I can relate to your frustrations. I am a teacher and when I got home from school, I would crash. I have a smalll horse farm and doing chores was just agony. Depressed, I researched and found the LB might be my answer. I was scared but hopeful. I did not want bypass because I did not want to be cut up and rearranged. Thankfully, I was a good candiate for LB although if I had waited bypass would have been my only option.

Now four weeks to the date, I have lost 33 #. I did have a hard time with the anethesia after the surgery and just got over some type of stomach flu, (that was horrible) I feel much better today! My exercising has been somewhat hampered as I have a MCL tear in my knee. I am going a specialist in a few days to decide what to do... so you see, I can relate to you!!

Good luck and keep us posted on your journey!

Stacey