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Please keep in your mind you are pre-op so right now there is no damage to you. This is when you should fall and pick yourself right back up. They and start a food journal with foods and amounts and work your way back from there. We all fall but, as you said, that is no reason to throw in the towel. Each day write down something you are really wanting out of your surgery (other than just losing weight). Maybe it is getting off meds. Maybe it is wear clothes you dreamed of. Try and set markers so you have small victories. I went on the front lawn (when I hit 50 pounds loss) and danced to "Can' touch this". This was my victory. I don't care what the neighbors think, they don't get it. I wish I could be more of a help but if you follow these steps I believe it will help you more than concerning yourself with what has already been done. Good luck to you.

If it helps you get through it here is my story. I started at 250 on May 6th (when I had surgery) as of my 60 days out I was at 200. Once I hit 199 I went on the front lawn and danced with my daughter to "Can't touch this" at my 90 days I hit a stall and am stuck at 187. That is ok because one it breaks the excitement will be like the first day again. My goal is 130 and I know I am going to make that by the end of the year. Stay positive and always be thankful for your loving husband.

I have spoken to my doctor and he said they do not give out Zofran. This it is for cancer patients. I can not take the liquid flavored crap on the market. I don't know what else to do.

I would love to hear your opinion on this post. I sit at work and wonder why life is so unjust. All my life I have struggled for everything I have. As a teenager I had to work for any money I needed. I did not get to go on the class trips, I did not get the yearbok, famcy clothes yet I worked and learned how to get what I wanted and what I needed. As an adult I still struggled, with a 1 year old son I went to college and earned a degree, and still worked my way through at RadioShack. Due to circumstances beyond my control I found myself a single parent. Once I finished college I moved back to my hometown area and my son and I started a life. No help from my parents, young and not being able to leave the home even to meet people. I went garage sale to garage sale buy this and that. I filled my 1 bedroom apartment. He got the bedroom and I on the couch. Once I settled I landed a job at WalMart (hey it's something). I was having trouble finding a way to work and get my child off to school, at no point in my life did I ask for or take a goverment handout. My mother told me I need to stay at home with my son and collect welfare. I wanted more for him and myself. I wanted to work. This whole time my parents lived right below me and would never help. When I did ask them for help she told me there is a shelter in our area that would take us in. Slowly over time and my son growup. I started different jobs paying more money. Was able to purachse a washer and dryer and moved into a mobile home (2 BEDROOMS). I got up to working 2 jobs but that took away a lot of time with my son and cost a lot for a babysitter. When my son was 9 I met a man and seem to be the dream life. We all moved in together and I found that "Larry" did not have any thing of his own, like money, the house was in foreclosure and the diswasher was filled with bills (how can I make that one up). I found that I was pregant. I had a wonderful daughter. As Larry's drinking was consuming his life I took my kids and moved out again. Starting over, I bought my first piece of new furnature, A COUCH. Things were always tough but I figured that as much as I have been through I can start over again. Now my son is an adult and in the Navy, I could not be prouder. My aughter is now 9 years old and I found myself a man when she was 2. He is not a perfect man, we keep our money seperate and split the bill. We have been together for 7 years now. To sum up the run on drama story. Why do sone people get life handed to them and have no clue the value of a dollar, or don't mind sitting on their butt's waiting for the goverment to send them something to barely live on and here am I. Working like a dog 3 shift making just enough to pay my bills and have a little left. WHY IS IT SO UNFAIR, life that is......

Beach lover - Did your Uncle do anything for you when he hit it? I would buy an RV travel in the states, Buy a nice home on a lot of acres. Donate some to animal shelters (have to look at them close) I am not their to pay someone else's salary. I would buy thigns for it, NO CASH!!!!! I would set my mother up with her own little house with room for the biggest garden ever. I would not help my sister because she nevered helped herself. Pay for any neices and nephews who want to go to college. I guess over all just be happy. I would not invest anything into this country right now.

Even tho it can be taken, it should be taken for a short amount of time. The more you take it the bigger the risk of comlications with it.

You sound like you are right on tract. As long as you stay with the new life style you will get the rewards we all have gotten. It is call major weight loss. Good Luck to you and cant wait to see pics.

To help each other out let's start a blog as to what meds we have found that should not be taken. This could only help one another. Please feel free to add on. FLECTOR PATCHES, AND SKEAXTON

Here is some advice I can give you. Eat off small plates (cake plates) this is a mind game when you see the plate is full. Put your fork completely down between bites. When you don't feel empty and more stop eating and you can eat somemore later. Try little bites of things to see if it still agrees with you or that you even like the taste of it. Use a table spoon when serving out your plate. Alcohol. hummm, I just tried it for the first time and what I had would have been a gulp for anyone else but it too me all day until I gave up on it. I hope this helps you and good luck.

No other probelms other than the nausea. I am just ready to cry.

I am 2 months out and all along I have been complaining of servere nausea. There is no ryme or reason for it. I have been tracking myself and I don't see anything that provokes it or helps it. The nausea medicine in the stores just seem to do nothing. Anyone have any ideas.

I have spent the day clothes shopping. I am losing all my weight in my legs and butt, but nothing in my gut. I am able to find jeans to go right up but can't get them buttoned. Does anyone have any ideas? Can you please tell me where everyone does their clothes shopping.

I have BCBS in Pa, I did not have any pre-op to follow. If you have other conditions it can be bottom line 35 BMI if there is no other conditions it has to be 40 BMI. Talk to your doctor about it and see what he recommends.

Is there anyone in here from Pennsylvania, like the Northeast

Before you leave the hospital make sure they do an emezyne test. I had so many problems after getting my Gallbladder out it took me many time admitted to the hospital, home nurses, and 3 months to get over mine. There is a good chance you can get acute Pancreatitis. Then they found stones outside the gallbladder and when they went to get them they tore the bile duct. This was the worst surgery I have ever had. Child birth was better than this. This scared my family so bad it has taken me years to convience them to let me have another surgery (this is the one). I sure hope this one goes much easier. This is to inform you and not to scare you. Good luck, let me know how you are doing.

I am down to 2 cigs a day. It is very hard but I notice If I cut it our completely then that is when the headaches start. For all of you who have shown compassion with this post I thank you. For those of you with negativity or using foul language please do not post on my blogs again.

I have been trying to quit smoking for this surgery. When I do start to try again I get really bad headaches which put me in the hospital. I don't know what to do at this point. Does anyone know how to pass the blood nicotine test without quitting?

Like a child on Christmas Eve, once I had my first appointment with the doctors office I could not wait to get started on all my tast to be done. I ran home with my binder (they had given me) sat down and read the whole thing. I had a new outlook on life already. That same day I called my family doctor to write a letter of support and had them fax it in. I then saw my councelor and had her write a letter of approval and fax that. On Saturday ran out and had my blood drawn. I was on the road. I gave up the soda (I loved very much) started out to the store buying the right food and reading boxes. Ran to WalMart and bought the most expensive scale they had. I even started to buy babyfood for after the surgery. Wow, sice that first meeting I was too busy to notice my doctor's office had not done a thing. I found out that I won't even meet my surgon until right before surgery, When I call them with concerns they give me a line or 2 speak and hang up. I am starting to lose all the interest I have in thhis whole thing. I feel I have shown so much effort and am not seeing anything in return, this is very discouraging an upseting. I need support with this, and even though my family is there, they don't understand. I need to see somethig from my doctors side that shows they are their and moving on their end as well. If you have any feedback on this PLEASE let me know you feelings. I feel alone and ready to jump ship. I have even found myself crying on the phone with the doctors office and still got no where.. .