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I am going in tomorrow to my doctor to find out if I have a slipped band, or find out what is wrong with me??? I had 6 weeks ago a tt and a breast reduction. I have had a very great recovery and have felt great for several weeks. About a week ago I started having extream pain in my cheast (same place I always feel pain if I overeat and bp) and it has only gotten worse and I finally had to realize that somthing really is wrong. I dont know if it is somthing that might have happened due to my plastic surgery or what? I have been feeling so great that I am so close to my goal weight, (I started at 230 and am down to 167, my goal is 150 at 5'6") I have been running and toning up and really feeling good about myself, this will be such a setback. uhgg I am so discouraged:( wish me luck tomorrow.

The bping is when you overeat or you eat somthing like bread, or celery, steak and other things that might possibly plug up your stomach ( for everyone the foods that do this are different) and so you will start burping for your stomach to try to break things up. This hasnt happened to me thankgoodness, but I do think that this is one of the reasons why it makes it easier to make the right choices and to not overeat, for the fear of it happening. I guess also for some people it is a painful feeling like there is a golfball stuck in your chest. I do know that alot of people on here talk about it happening several times a week, but my dr told me that if you are pbing alot it could possibly ruin your band and you will have to have it removed if you dont figure out your eating, and how to stop it.

so after I got banded the nutritionist came in my room to talk to me about a few things and then let me see and hold a lapband like the one I now have in me, then she showed me the needle that they do the fills with. umm that looks like a preety big needle and it has me a bit nurvous. However everyone claims that it really doesnt hurt to bad, Is this true????? Im am not much of a wimp, but still it looked simalar to the needle that my epidural was done with:( I am just wondering

Hi I live in Queen Creek, Dr. Valencia in TJ Mexico for the surgery. I had such a great experience down there.

I would say that you would probley be able to do this, you would need somone willing to pick you up. only because you both may be on pain killers which they say not to drive while taking. I stayed in the hospital for 2 days and got so board I felt like I could have done the same things at home as there after day 1. I have heard that men usually have a harder time than women do, maybe because they are more of babies, ha ha! I hear it is because women have menstral cramps, deliver babies and all sorts of different things that give us a little higher pain tolerance. good Luck!

Hi Mischievous1, congrats on gettting banded! I cant even imagine the feeling of looking at food and not wanting it, not to much longer for me!

for anyone in arizona, I have a lady nurse that has an office in mesa and charges only $100. she will take patients from any doctor. I have talked to many of her patients and they all say great things about her. if you would like more info let me know. I will be banded the 25th of this month, so I havnt tryed her yet, but plan to.

you have been through so much, and it sounds like you have been blessed with so much strength! I know you will loose this weight and check that off the list of huge accomplishments:) its kinda funny to me to think of my own reasons for becoming like this and as huge as they are I read other peoples stories and think wow, I dont know how I would handle it. But I do think that we all have somthing in common and that is that we are all stronger than we think. We can, and will come out on top, in obsticles in our lives. Good luck!

Hey, my story started in 98' I had always been super athletic and even voted for having the greatest legs. go figure:)so staying fit was a way of life. I married my highschool sweetheart and had a baby. When my daughter was a few weeks old my husband was killed in a car accident. Here I was young with noway to provide for myself and my new little baby. I was from a small town and felt like all eyes were on me, that was a time I wanted to become invisible so that others wernt watching me be on public display as I was going through my greiving process, and then when I choose to begin dating and picking up the peices there were those who thought it was to soon. I wanted to just not have any reason to stand out. I did move away about 2m after the accident and jumped into schooling full time and the rest of the time trying to be a new mommy to my daughter who had lost her daddy and now preety much her mommy to. The guilt was overwhelming to me. I new that I had to do it though, I worked my butt off and did so great in school ( what a distraction from the real sadness in my life) but I have to say at this time things were still good, and I did have a lot to be greatful for considering. Looking back I think my baby knew and understood that me going back to school was the only way. She was so great, she always just loved her sitter and was NEVER sick, and was just a little rock even at that age. ( her and I will always have an extra special bond) anyways back to the weight thing. So after schooling I moved to a new state where I had never been befor and started working, and later open a buisness that is doing great today. I did remarry a fantastic guy and have 2 more kids that are the greatest. But through 2 more pregnancies and my old habits of being an emotional eater. Everytime I was sad, happy, moody, in my pregnacies I ate, ha ha anyone knows that during a pregnancy you feel every feeling so intensly almost everyday of your prego. so needless to say I packed on the weight and going back to being athletic I worked out hard and didnt loose much. so here I have sat for yrs at this weight of 212, and I am finally ready to tackle this issue in my life once and for all, I know that it will be hard, but I can handle it after all else I have done. I want the way I look represent how I feel inside. I am so happy and successful. I want to be able to go back to that small town and people to be able to say that I did it!

Ok, so I lived in utah up until just a few yrs ago, and I totally dont think that the kids and depression go hand in hand. I think that these families have probley experienced things in there personal lives which they dont totally wear on there sleaves, therfore it would be hard for you to judge what the reason for there depression. Others may not know what that person is going through until things may build up to the point of them experiencing some depression. Who are you to judge and say that it is because of there children. I have to say that I have 3 children and they are so fantastic! if anything, when things are bad in my own life they, along with my husband they are my biggest supporters, and are part of what carry me through:) Here is a little of my own life experience..... I married my highschool sweetheart and had a baby, when she was 3 weeks old he was killed in a car accident. I moved away from my family in an effort to contiue my schooling to be able to support my daughter. I compleated schooling and opened my own buisness and am now very successful. ( I am not living on welfare as you have stated, that us mormons try to do) anyways, when I moved away to go to school it was dang hard, and I was dealing with a fresh loss, and nobody new me or why at times I would experience depression. I will say that my coming to terms with everything and being able to move on in a happy, healthy and strong womenish kinda way is DIRECTLY related to the LDS faith. I know that I will see my daughters sweet daddy somday in heaven:) Even though I have moved on and remarried another faboulously supportive husband and now have 2 more children I have never lost that fire to be a strong women and to make my own desisions. I have a wonderful husband whom I consult with and when it comes down to it he lets me make my own desissions, I in no way feel like he controlls me. How blessed I am to know that I am secure in my beleifs and have that personal relationship with my father in heaven to know that these things are true. I dont feel like reading some article that can be critiqued would in anyway sway my feelings with my religon. I think you can pick apart anything, and find negative

Hi Shar, you can get the advantEdge just at walmart. I want to say that in a pack of 4 they are like $6-$7. I am not sure on the whey protein tubes, but I would be interested in those also:)

Beliteweight.com is a websit for surgeries in mexico, they do go through a sceduling service, most of there reps are somwhere in california.

Thanks I was beginning to think that I had really overlooked somthing important in all the paper work. But after reading it through again it just says the same stuff as your doctor told you to do about the not having anything the night befor thing. Did your recovery seem to be similar to others?

You seem like such a bitter and unhappy person, to spend so much time bashing somthing that you obviously know not much about. If living without religion would lead me to anywhere close to were you are, then that is reason enough for me to continue to beleive in my savior Jesus Christ and strive daily to follow his commandments and be a better person, mother, and friend.:fish:

Funny you should mention Larry King, Do you know that he is married to a Mormon. He tells everyone that on that same special he did on poligamy. He also very clearly states that there is a huge difference in the warren Jeffs group and the "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" also known as the mormons. Do you think that he would marry somone who is totally so weird like you claim that mormons are. You are baseing your entire opion on the mormon faith from tv depictions and articles you read. Do you honestly think that if all the articles were just normal everyday things that people would get all hyped up like this pbs special, the people who write these articles have to spice it up with " I heard" or " I have a friend who say's" there really isnt anything valid that you are stating to back up that you know these terrible things about the mormons.

Hi, I would love to join this group. I think that this is exactly what I needed to find. I am starting at 5'5" and 212pd, and my doctor isnt putting me on a preop diet. I wish we knew why sometimes they do and somtimes they dont. Do you think that if you kinda put yourself on a preop diet even if your doctor didnt instruct you to that it would help speed recovery????? just a thought. It is so great to hear from these other postings that there are others that are starting at the same bmi and loosing befor there sergerys and still able to go forward with it. I have been trying to not loose weight thinking that if I did loose a few pds that I could potentially not be able to qualify for the surgery. silly that for yrs now I have been trying to loose weight and now I have been worried to loose, LOL!

do you just go to like a gnc to get the myoplex premixed drinks? or do you order them online?

Hi there, I was told that you are from az. Me tooooo:) I am going to Mexico to get banded on the 25th of may. where are you going right now to get fills? how much are you paying? also where in az are you living? I have heard that I need to read your threads because you are so knowledgeable, that is what I need, a little more info on everything, (the stuff that you learn from other banders, info not given by the docs :fish:

I love this conversation about the gallbladder:) I am a hairdresser and am only taking 1 1/2 weeks off work, I am praying that I am one of the quick recovery cases so that noone will notice that I have even been off. I am one of the "NOT GOING TO TELL ANYONE" kinda girl. which is soooo hard since I talk all day for a living:) I think if I am not feeling up to par quite yet and am moving slower I may need to use the gallblader thing, lol! I am getting banded may 25th, ya hoooooo! in Mexico.

Ok I love that I found this thread to share how hard it is for me not to talk about this with everyone. I am a hairdresser, enough said. Just kidding, so that is what I do is talk talk and more talking. I consider all of my clients my really good friends, so I decided that it would be one of the first things (ha ha) that I wouldnt share with everyone. Only my husband, 2 sisters and my parents know. This is one of the hardest things to keep from my husbands side of the fam. only because they live right by us. But I do know that they will be oppininated about not getting it. I dont want any negativity about it right now. maybe once it is all said and done I will share it with them. they are going to have to know that somthing is up when they see what I will be eating. But for now I am in the closet with it.

I am going to be banded on may 25th 07' and the total price I am going to be paying is 8000. that incluedes transportation, hotel, and also includes free fills for the first yr.

I was just wondering who lived in Astoria???????

Hi I was reading through some replys and read your little blirp about kids and i to have 6m old son, 2 yr old daughter and an 8 almost 9yr old (she alwaysreminds me that she is almost 9:) I am going to be getting banded on the 25th of this month. I am feeling those same feelings of scared nervous and just excited! I am doing it down in Mexico because I would never be able to jump through all the hoops that they want you to do in the US. I have talked to oddles of people who have gone down there and had a great experience so I feel good about it. My starting weight is 212, and I know that people tell me that its not enough to get this drastic thing done. but this is a problem for me and I dont want to continue to go from day to day and gradually get higher and talk and talk about it. I want to just get it taken care of right now so I can have a different story to my life. Sorry I am rambling, but I guess that is what this is for right:)

wow that is so bold to say things that you dont fully understand! The fundamentalist mormons that you spoke of like waren jeffs etc.... are not at all related to "The church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" also known as Mormons. they are 2 totally different church groups that are not associated together. I to dissagree with waren jeffs group and the pologamy and such.

Did you pay attention to the last line in that quote that you pulled up. "Individuals can then choose to accept or reject what has been done in there behalf." nothing is DONE to anyone. [quo te=Sunta;459636]Ok, I went to the Website you suggested sweethot, and found this: "Jesus Christ taught that baptism is essential to the salvation of all who have lived on earth (see John 3:5). Many people, however, have died without being baptized. Others were baptized without proper authority. Because God is merciful, He has prepared a way for all people to receive the blessings of baptism. By performing proxy baptisms in behalf of those who have died, Church members offer these blessings to deceased ancestors. Individuals can then choose to accept or reject what has been done in their behalf." Ummmm.... how is this not an atrocious practice that directly subverts the individual's right to decide if they want to be made a Mormon? They're dead! They can't speak for themselves! Also, how do I ensure that MY name doesn't somehow come up in their files after I've died? Because I NEVER want my name associated with this religion. What about if I started baptizing all Mormon names I can find as some other religion? How would they feel about that?