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it is likely a yeast infection......got them occassionally w/ the band and its loss in the summer. i used myconozole in the tube lit dab will do it....or vinegar to get rid of it!

I agree and not agree with the nurse / clerk. Yes they likely do treat the people with complications from Mexico. People have complications....mine were not due to the surgeon....they were 4 1/2 years out....... and can happen to anyone pregnant with band and sever morning sickness!!! Nor do I question that price....though I would make sure it includes all things!!!!!!!!!!!! Pre op tests, blood work and anesthesia. Second my band issues were not covered by my insurance...I had to pay for the emergency removal and the asesthesia....... they covered the hospital stay, x rays and determining what was wrong and other issues to keep the baby alive at that point which was to keep me alive! The would not pay (even though life threatening) cause our policy does not include any types of WLS. And the removal was considered a WLS

:scared0: got the shock of my life!!!! COLIN ......mr I will never talk:mad0: is saying word approximations for everything if prompted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:thumbup1: He does have over 200+ signs. But no real verbal expressions but Sponge bob! For the first time since Miranda was in hospital for a week plus in 2005 HE SAID MOMMY and then "Ice ub ou" ....translated to I love you...... he just said smelly feet to me as I am typing when he was sticking them in my face!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8 3/4 years... I have waited to hear him say mommy (he has always said "Spongebob though" ) I am so excited.....Grandma was crying when he said stuff to her on the phone.................. We have seen specialist after specialist.....COlin either refuses to cooperate or stares at them (he is mexican american and does have that machismo thing in spades.....he has about 9 little girls at school who love him to death!) We have struggled cause he is so late for talking for a little guy with Down Syndrome...... he used to have a few vocalizations.....long ago....but they went away..... but he was never diagnosed with autism too (Devon has that too!) SO I know have a new reason to be happy:w00t::001_rolleyes: to hold me over till I get my sleeve!!!!!!!!!!

Why can't you play volley ball? SOme people do not start loosing till they start eating regular foods, others loose a ton. Some people loose it fast others loose it slowly. All seem to stall for a while. The things I always tell people to check...... (and I need to recommitt to!) 1) are you gettingin all your Protein ? 2) are you drinking enough Water / liquids? 3) is your Fiber enough? (I have to take the special K fiber water.....it has 40 % and that always makes it go better for me) 4) are you getting 20-30 minutes of exercise at least three times a week? remember that stalls are normal and physics says eventually you will start to loose.......less in and more energy out means it will come off....just sometimes very slowly! (and we all hate that!) I wish you the best of luck and try to begin your knew life with the positive attitude, that your family is negative.....try to ignore that and go on and live your life!

I was alays told there is a sspecific number (I think 35 g) of Protein that can be absorbed at a given time? Anyone else heard this? It is why I have tried to keep the drinks to spread out over an hour or so? I do the isopure (40 g whey) or the pro performance 95 (35 g of soy).

I have to do a protein shake once a day or it will never work...... I have differnet issues with my sleeve than my band. But my band required them on and off....I decided I would just always do one with my sleeve! (right now I need 100 g a day with breast feeding)

2.2 lbs per Kg. I used to just divide by 2 or multiply by 2 for a quick esitmate ie.....you lost 22 kg so it is about 50 lbs 2.2 * 22 = 48.4 lbs

Did I mention six and half in diapers (five are incontinent) and the cabin smelled like dog pee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was not fun!!!!!!!!!!! I would post photos....but they do not do it justice!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The kids had a great time (or at least the photos make it look like that) and how Dare I only loose a pound while I was gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh and Eric came for only 2 days and then rescued me....I sent him to the hotel with the asthma child and his mom! (who takes their mother in law ona rustic camping trip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT ME A SECOND TIME)

I wish mine would stop bread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think I learned to well how to eat around my band. THose lessons have served me well. TOAST or the heels toasted........ or the smalles crispiest end piece! I was hoping you would be doing better! Sorry! (and i have puke 3 x....... I need to learn the stop point, cause before it was when I sneezed....that is too late for this slever!) Eric is writing a program for a company as a side job! Taking way to long! I am tired!

I take mine at bed time.....with milk. I had to do this cause I am still taking prenatal....breast feeding and the extra Iron...... I sometimes eat a cracker or something little after......but they usually make me nausious. Get used to them if you get pregnant....they only get worse! (they do have a chewable prenatal. I just swallow mine!

I am wondering if Emerson will ever let this tooth break the surface.............I am over it !!!!!!!!!!!!! And want my DH to be done with this damm program so we can get paid and I can buy our disney tickets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I went alone......me and my breast pump. It was 6 months from birth of my lost band / emergency c section. It all worked out well......and me and Emerson still ok and bf.

Are you taking any medicine...... I know that after I take my Vitamins or my other medicines..... I DO NOT FEEL LIKE EATING ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or drinking...... it can last about 2-3 hours. I get naucious occasionally too! So I learned to take it when I get the most into thinking of snacking (at night after the kids go to bed!) about an hour before I go....... then it quit messing up my not wanting to eat / drink!

Ironic.... I asked my doctor.....on mini pill...breastfeeding...... but will be on regular when I am done......OB said no issue and to just monitor and make sure surgeon aware of it......... would not a consistent answer be awesome...... and I am way old (geriatric pregnancy.....loved that term last time)

I just left it as I had surgery (this was for my band) and that was that. I never told them where, just who was doing my follow up care......until I had an problem.....4 1/2 yrs later and they needed to speak to placing surgeon for a question. I currently need a new PCP......will likely tell them the same....... it was done and the date and etc. I will tell my OB....but that is because he asks and I have information on different tests that he needs to do it I ever get pregnant again (for any bariatric patient.........)

Back from my "rustic camping vacation with 8 lkids" not to much fun. But as I started mushies....I did the same thing. I remeber the same thing happening when I was banded.....so I am not to worried......clothes getting looser, scale not budging! Falling back to the consistent 1 1/2 to 2 lbs a week really sucks (emotionally at least for me) but it is the way it went on and the way it really needs to come off! Then no one really notices and it lets me wear all my cool clothes again for a while! I can add back regular exercise soon....the kids go back to school in 2 weeks and I can add my Water aerobics and weights and walking back each day! I just can't manage it most times during the summer. But it happened to me before and is happening now......so I am not that worried! It too shall soon change or I hope so......physics has never let me down before (I used to teach it! years and years ago...............)

ok a mom of eight......cofee is a daily requirement if i do not want to get buried under laundry! I just pee a ton between my coffee and all the protein!

I al at almost 32 pounds gone..... my dr here had me start mushies sooner to see if that slowed me down a little ....he was a little concerned, but I am not....... I know that my body will get used to is and that I am getting in enough Protein and such (and checking baby for his weight to make sure he is not dropping) so I was told I was a little more than they would like...... but not unheard of. So do not worry just yet.....and glad you are still alive!

I am glad it was that....... those pesky spouses.....all that worrying....sort of makes you feel good that she was worried! (admit it....you are happy to be loved and worried about!!) I know I was!!!! Love you honey! If you are reading!

I went alone too.......no issues.....but iot would have been a lot less boring if my husband had come! My husband supported me enough to let me take the money out (we have a deal....he earns it...I spend it.....works well for us) and use it. His underlying fear is that this would make me as ill as I was last Dec/Jan and he almost lost Emerson and I while everyone was dicking around deciding if I needed surgery or not. That was his underlying issue! He doesn't get it either..... he has been a skinny guy his whole life.....recently added about 40 lbs to his 6'3 fram bringing him to about a 24 bmi......so he really has no idea of why ....... but he knows if I feel good about myself then it shows in all I do...with the kids, with us, with the house etc.............. So I have his support in a round about way......... he was more worried and did not know how to express it! However after 15 year of marriage and 20 + years of being together....he knows when not to argue with me! But he has been here through the 330 lbs and the 150......his only comment through it all was I didn't realize you had a "boney butt". I really feel he didn't realize how much being overweight effected everything we did till it was gone....... actually I know there are days he wished I still weighed as much cause I would relax and didn't push so much to get things done/....... like house cleaning or yard stuff or other things like six flags and then a drive in movie.....my weight made me a lot less "hyper" as he calls it.

I would see no problem with it.... I make my own ice cubes and then put them in with water to flavor it! But ask your doctor....... I am finding that just like the band stuff is way to sweet for me! SO I really need to water stuff down a lot!

I lucked out with my Isopure RTD...... I stopped by GNC and they had 5 cases of the RTD that were expiring the end of August and he marked them down to 2.19 each and I got him to take another 50 cents off and used my card and a cupon so it was about 1.17 each...... I knew it would be no problem to get them drunk before they exipred, I sed the powder when I had my band..... I hated that..... but the bottles are not bad....... though I had to get all the same flavor...... orange bannana pineapple. But I just go in once a week and pull out wha tis expirining and he gives it to me cheap....so I tried the other flavors. I like the grape the best. Because of all the running I do.....if I get hungry like the band.....i need to have something in the car that is rtd in case I can not get something at a fast food place that is healthy and easy to eat and drive........ it is hard being a part time taxi driver to the 8 kiddos! I have a few issues with blood sugar and dropping that I need to watch when I got to agout 165 lbs......and I have yet to figure out how to drink w/o a straw from a McDonalds cup w/o wearing it (they have the light lemonaide!) and Going into a QT or Quickie mart....is not always an option cause it means unloading the kids.............. that is so much easier said than done!

If you can stomach the Isopure zero card drinks are doing great for me! I got to start mushies today (partially cause I am loosing weight to fast.............. like who would have thought that would be a problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -21 lbs) I am so full from the ground beef and Beans from the burritos I made the kids for dinner.....I think I might pop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but I would call your dr. get advice from his / her nutritionsit. But I can say that the 80 g of Protein I get from the iso pure is making me never want to eat! (and my nails are growing like crazy!)

We chose emerson so it could be a boy or girl......My oldest "normie" wanted to name her Emma....so it would have worked! but without being as trendy as the name Emma is today. All my biological kids had unisex names so that my adopted children could understand it was the same baby as in my my tummy. It was because Colin did not understand when his "aunt" had been calling her tummy patrick....suppossed to be a bioy but we were all surprised when it wasn't.....to this day 6 years later he still asks about Patrick and where is he.......

No issue here either....at all. I had pain wiht my C-section......but I was told that was because they had to do it so quick and I was not completely out when they started all the stuff....I also came around a little in it.....they even came to ask me what I remembered....... but that was because they were trying to save the baby and I had just had the band removal...... but no issues with my sleeve!