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thanks Alex, I wasn't concerned about the absorption, because I know that my stomach will still be intact and working like a normal stomach, it was only worry about getting the actual pill past the band. Very good point about the weight loss though, I haddn't thought about possibly needing to change the doseage of medications after weight loss. Thanks for the feedback!

WOOT! Way to go Blossom!

I am absolutely going to have a reduction done after I've lost my weight. I actually had a friend's teenager (daughter) ask me if I used to be in porn. I wasn't quite sure how to take that... Yeah, I have dreams of being a D cup... While I was breast feeding my son, my dear supportive mother told me I looked like a circus freak...

Oh, I've had adult onset of asthma for 20 years. I've been hosptialized for asthma more times than I can count. I'm currently on 3 diffent inhalers, 2 different nebulizer treatments, and a couple of different pills. It is just something when your oxygen saturation is below 90%, and they question whether there is a problem.

This is a great thread! I think there is great wisdom here. I do know that the Band has already saved my marriage. Not my band, but my husband’s. I had fallen into a deep, deep depression, and couldn’t find my way out of it. I finally went see someone about it, and I told her about Mike and his weight. I know she didn’t believe me when I told her that he couldn’t walk through a doorway, but had to squeeze his way into every room, how his sleep apnea was keeping me awake at night wondering if this would be the night he died in his sleep. (Of course, worrying about his sleep apnea kept me from finding out about my own…) So she had him come in for a couple of combined sessions, and bingo! She was able to put her finger right on my issue – I was in mourning for him eminent death, but he was dieing a slow, slow death. And I was stuck there waiting for him to die. It was a pretty dark place to be. When Mike finally had his Band installed, his real BMI (not calculated) was over 80%. Part of this goes back to the notion of relationships, how we relate to food, to ourselves, to people who are important and not so important. My mother and sister are convinced that once my honey loses all his weight that some other woman is going to “steal” him away. Heh, little do they know he wouldn’t even notice their machinations… I do know that once I start to lose my excess weight that I will be have some serious issues that I will have to deal with, issues that concern being attractive to men. Right now I’m dealing with a couple of guys at school who think I’m pretty cute (oh sure, they do have a great eye…), but I get so freaked out by it. I’ve used my excess weight as a shield, but what do I do when I don’t have that shield anymore? The idea of being vulnerable scares the living hell out of me. It isn’t that I feel susceptible to temptation, but vulnerable as in no armor to face the cruel and vicious world. I was a Navy Wife for 10 years when I was married to my first husband. The military has a very high rate of divorce, especially the Navy. You have people who are separated for sometimes years at a time, and people do change from what they see and experience. And it is really true, there are lots of people out there who simply shouldn’t be married to each other. I’m not sure if it is always a tragedy when these relationships break. I know that my divorce was the best thing that happened to me because it made me look at all the abusive relationships I’ve been in, and helped me to find my way to a better way of being.

“Can't we just stand in the rain so the water transdermally absorbs? I've heard you can die from drinking too much water - not sure if that's true. You'd probably have to drink a lot more if you are a personal trainer or a professional athlete since they lose so much through perspiration.” I am from Seattle, and go to school in ID, and I know for a fact that I have to drink more water in ID than in WA. So, in a sense, we can in fact, absorb water transdermally. But perhaps you have to be a native of the Pacific Northw(e)st…. And while I can happily drink tap water in Seattle, man, the stuff in ID is nasty!!! It is hard to get in my water there…

I want to loose about 5 sizes, my goal is to be a size 12-14 and damn what the scales say! I worked with a personal trainer for a while (before I went back to school) and she was a 12-14. I learned the very hard way that the scales lie. Wwhen I was 19 I was an athlete and didn't know it. I weighed 190 pounds, but was a size 12. I was doing judo and tae kwon do 4 hours a day, 5 days a week, but I was still being told I was morbidly obese when I had a BMI of probably around 25% Mike and I now frequenly split a restaurant dinner, since it is a very rare case where I eat the entire dinner. If I do eat the entire meal, it is usually because I will have done something really dumb like skip Breakfast and lunch. Oh, and he really is my hero. Boy oh boy, DeLarla, you sure gave me a "WOW" moment. I like to say I was raised by wolves, but Mike tells me that isn't fair to wolves. My mother would come home from work and imediately get stoned on pot and pills. Every couple of months she would so us a favor and cook us dinner, but it had to be a "big" occasion. I can't ever remember her going grociery shopping either. My dad would never buy groceries when I was a kid because we "were just going to eat all the food anyway." He would buy 30 pounds of cheese and a 25 pound box of baccon and call it groceries. We usually had milk, although when I was very small the kids only got to drink powdered non-fat milk mixed half strength while my mother would sit there and drink whole milk. We would have to eat chicken bones. If you pressure cook a chicken long enough the bones have a mushy consistancy. Oh yeah, DeLarla, I think I know exactly where you speak from. I have to admit that I am a food horder. I do not feel safe unless my pantry and freezer are over stocked.

To be more compassionate To be more gracious To pass all my classes with a “B” or better To not spend another frelling day in the hospital (guess how I spent my New Years?) The caveat to this is the time I will need to spend in Hospital for my banding of course.

And here I was hoping that losing a bunch of weight would raise my core temp. I run a full degree lower than the normal person, and as such, have a very low metabolic rate. Of course, those of us who are fans of forensic shows know what this mean too....

Okay, here goes. My surgery is scheduled for mid-March. It would be sooner, except that is Spring Break and I’m a full time student. My BMI is over 40, and I have acute asthma. Turns out, there is a type of asthma that is exacerbated by weight, and I’m sure tired of spending time in the hospital because I can’t breathe. After the last stint in the hospital (and the steroids) I gained another 15 pounds, so I’m now about 275 pounds and a size 22/24. Not terribly happy about that. I don’t have an eating disorder, which is apparently unusual for someone my size. The various medications, sleep apnea and major stress have all wreaked havoc on me. I am hoping that the weight loss using the Band will help with my other health issues. I haven’t seen anyone else talk about the effect the surgery has had on their fibromyalgia, and I hope to see some added relief for that too. I’m also looking forward to being able to be more active. I currently (okay, before the last stint in the hospital) walk 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week (hoofing it around campus) and I was doing Pilates twice a week. Next semester I am adding tai chi and horseback riding. I was really looking forward to going skiing this Christmas break, but well, stupid asthma….. Okay, for a fat gurl, I guess I’m not doing so bad in the activity department when I can breathe. I don’t have a goal weight. I had to learn the hard way that weight is meaningless. I do have a goal size: 12 or 14. Probably size 12 pants and 14 top. I want to go into the shops and buy a bra that actually fits me. I’m thinking that a D cup could be lovely, as opposed to the niche porn star size I currently am… J Or to quote my mother, “circus freak size” My band research has been a little unorthodox. My husband (Mr. Research) got the band 18 months ago. And so far, he’s lost 170 pounds. When he finally got the band he weighed 600 pounds. Okay, the official weight was 596, which is close enough to call it 600. So he’s got some way to go. I have checked out other boards, but my husband isn’t on this one. He suggested that I find a board that he’s not on, incase I need to complain about him… J he’s already banned me from Extraordinary Bandsters, incase he needs to complain about me. Well, thanks for letting me take up such bandwidth.

Thanks for the welcome! I'm glad you don't need your CPap machine anymore DeLarla. Lucklily, I have a warm humidifier for it, which makes a world of difference. Instead of drying out my nose, sometimes I wake up with a snoot full of water.... But seriously, I do have a love/hate relationship with it, and I am SO glad to hear from other people that after they loose a big chunk of their weigh they no longer need the machine. And New Hope! WOW! Not needing your neb since banding! Well, double WOOT to that! Congrats on that one big time.