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WAIT!!! What do you mean, "there was some bleeding???!!!" Are you talking about the spots on the bandage from the injection, or are we taking some serious blood amount??? I seriously doubt that there was any sailine leaking out of the port, not through your skin anyway. Nor would it leak out of the port from the injection site. They have figured out how to give shots through membrains figured out pretty good. Please speak with your doc and let him or her know of your concerns.

Okay, I'm bumping this because that's just what I'm going to do. I have 5 additional NSVs in the last 2 weeks.

Oh dear gawd NO!!!!!! I think I'd rather have the restless legs that be done up like that. I

And yes Alatina, share your frustrations. This is important. What you are feeling, I'm sure others are feeling too.

Hello MC, welcome to LBT! No, I'm "just' band. I was talking to my surgeon and he said that they are seeing an up-tick in people who've had one or another of the different bypasses, but who are now getting the band as well. He explained that the problem is that the pouch y'all have will get stretched out at the bottom, but that because the botom of your pouch empties into the intestine that is is causeing probelms for some poeple. The problme is a back flow out of the intestine into the stomach. This is not the case with all the time, but one of the reasons that RNY et al. have a band revision. The other main reason is that people start gaining weight back after a period of time. Because they don't have the utiltiy of adjustability, they are stuck.

Bumping this thread because it ties so closely with "body size and dysmorphia"

You dont' have to do this forever. You can do anything for a few weeks. Anything!

Mine's on the rightside, just below my ribs

MIRAPEX! It makes the most amazing difference!!!! Some people think that restless legs are caused by a folic acid deficinecy. Taking folic acid helps me too. I have a chronic folic acid deficiency...

So... when someone goes for teh wynne it has a whole different meaning.... My older sister was being teased by some kid when they were little. My sister's last name was Howell, and this mean little girl would literally howell at my sister every time she saw her, or wanted to tease her. My mom asked what the big meanie's name was. It was.... Wolfe.

When my husband first wanted me to feel his port I was totally and completely grossed out. I mean the gore was rising sort of freaked out. I actually find rubbing my port no so muc soothing as reasuring. Yup, it's there, yup, I really have a chance.

That's because short fat people are invisible. Weren't you paying attention?

Okay, more hugs. I had to run to my math class, but I had more to say to you. (((hugs))) I know you are really worried that you are going to gain the weight back. I mean, hell, that's been all our story, hasn't it. We are great at taking the weight off, but we absolutely suck at keeping it off. I mean, if we were any good at keeping it off we wouldn't our silycone angel, right? Breathe, relax, you are going to be fine. Honest. You have just gone through something that I can't even imagine. Not even with pictures will I be fully about to understand what you have just done to your body. (and we want pictures!) But I do know that you will be fine. You still need extra calories to heal. You've been working really, really hard, and I am sure that the thought of going above your maintenance amount of calories must scare the hell out of you. But you must have the proper nutrition to give your body time to heal. Isn't this time to heal? Time to not worry about weight loss? I know we give that same advice to our new bandsters, that the first few months are time to heal, not time to worry about losing weight. We even tell them that if they gain a few pounds that it is not the end of the world, that they are not a failure. I know that you have told our baby bandsters this same advice, and when you haven't told them, you've thought it at them. Right? I have no experience with what you've just done, but I'm sure it is the same thing. Babs we are all so excited for you! We really are, even the lurkers are excited, I can feel it! (Wave at the lurkers "Hi everybody!" And all the lurkers wave back...) Of course you are mad at the docs. I'm sure you are feeling ... maybe a little betrade? I mean, the PS told you he was only removing some of you fill, and you believed him. You believed the lie he told you. It was a white lie, but a lie none the less. It is completely understandable. But, consider for the moment that you thought you had a partial fill, right? Look at how freaking well you did FLYING SOLO! You didn't even need a fill and look how well you did! We are all so very proud of you Babs! Say it with me "I did really well FLYING SOLO!" (you have to yell the last part.) Okay, say it again, this time with feeling! Okay everybody (even the lurkers this time, in the privacy of your own home), say it with me "Excellent job Babs!"

Okay, first things first. ((((((HUGS))))))) You thought you had 2ccs in your band, so you acted like you had 2ccs in your band. You did great with no fill what so ever. Let me repeat that. YOU DID GREAT WITH NO FILL. So now you have a fill. Now you have more restriction than you had before you got the fill. Now you have more restriction than the restriction you thought you had. Do not let that number rule your life! Knowing how many CCs in your band is just as bad for some people as obsessing over what the damn scale says. Babs, honey, you are doing amazing.

Woot! that's Normal people BP!

I've bumped the thread "I hate fat people" in this forum

So.. this means you won't be drinking enough of Delarla's Ice Tea???

By restrictive lung disease, is Asthma part of that? Resperatory failure.

Bumping. I think there are several current threads that are asking for this thread.

What do you call a woman who acts like a man? A bitch. Stuff that guys get away with all the time are just viewed as being manly, but if a woman acts even a little bit like a guy she is maligned. Kelly, you need to find different people to hang out with! I think any time anyone is called to do something is powerful. You feel that you have a powerful calling to server God. That is absolutly wonderful. I know that Jonathan recently changed his entire life to answer his calling. My calling is information security and assurance. Since god is everything and everywhere... well you know the rest.

Debbydo, you can do as much as you want/can. If you want/need to commit to 5x a week, then honey, that's what you can do! Yay! Okay, in my dance class yesterday I had to admit that I really am 43, and not 23 anymore. Ddidn't say it out loud mind you, but I suppose I have to come to grips with that some time or another. A 90 minute class designed for dance majors is NOT the same as a class given at a communtiy rec center. Not even close... And I can't even hide in the back of the class with the other fat gurl. No, I have to be up front, FRONT ROW NEXT TO THE GIGANTIC MIRRORS because I can't hear the instructor over the music!

While there are definately times I wish I could be more convential, never mediocre. I guess part of my thing is that once again I'm tired of being that nail that sticks up and won't hammer in right. I dunno. Maybe part of my trouble is what I give myself. Part of the problem is that there is no guide hole... if a nail is driven in the wrong spot without a needed guide hole it will spilt the wood. The funny part of what quote is that this guy was returning from duty in Iraq. I would have thought that he served with women who were at least as self-confident as I am, or as I appear anyway. I'm very assertive, yet not aggressive. I don't have to be agressive. As far as I know, "bitchy" is not something that people call me. Or if they do, perhaps they are too scared to call me that to my face?

I'm in. There are probably entire catagories of NSVs I haven't hit yet.

Fat was never about hating myself. Fat was/is about protection. Not gonna be date-raped if I don't go on dates. Shit! okay, that was increadably powerful, now I have to go cry.

If I don't eat breakfast I''ll eat lunch too fast.. not good.