chinamama

Anyone heard anything yet?

I like to blend mine also but add a while lot of ice! Also you can double up a little on your Protein if your worried about the amount you are getting. Add half a scoop of unflavored and it will boost your protein amounts. Try playing with the one you have. Add some extra Splenda, ice, maybe some vanilla flavoring, or some unsweetened coffee flavorings. If you have cash and carry or smart and final or whatever your local restaurant supply type store they have a whole isle of flavorings. Relax your palate will get used to it, you just have to keep trying ones until you find one you can halfway deal with. Good luck!

My dr said to go ahead and swallow any pill about the size of a tic tac when I left the hospital. The big ones I cut in 1/4ths. About 2 weeks out started swallowing everything.

All the talking about our bodies happy weight got me thinking. I have always joked that every time I get into a size 16 my body freaks out and something happens to make me gain weight. Is it self sabotage, psychological, coincidence, or just dumb luck??? I would think self sabotage but I broke my leg in 3 places with surgery one time, band slipped with unfill another 2 times, and tubing fractured with surgery another. The difference this time is I have been in a 16 for almost 2 months instead of the one day or one week before.... I'm really going to have to examine this. And I'm also going to have to keep wearing the 16's instead of the 18's that I have more of. Soo what would a size 16 represent negatively psychologically? I am 9 lbs away from 100 lbs total lost over the years, and 4 lbs from my lowest lapband weight. (1 day, then back up). Sorry just rambling thoughts here, anyone feel free to give me some insights. To answer your question Alex, this right now is a hard plateau/stall/gain/fluctuation, whatever you want to call it. Started about week2 and continues thru week 8! Every time I think it's over and I'm dropping, it's right back up again.

Weird... Are you basic? I couldn't find an eob for anesthesia, I seem to remember seeing it. Was the other surgery in 2012 or 13?

Yes mention it. Fast heartbeat can also be a leak, though it is usually combined with a fever.

I only know it because I had a lap band. It was really disheartening to see the surgeon on tue and weigh more than a month ago.....

Split pea soup? My nut let me have it thinned. It has naturally occurring protein, and you could add some extra unflavored protein powder to boost the protein content. I make a big batch in the crockpot and freeze some.

Ok can't find the dr, but I think it was like 7800 for the dr and the same for the PA. I think my copay was $150 Psy charge $672/ paid 407. copay $25.00 Hospital: surgery, drugs, pathology, X-ray ( must be the leak test) etc $28,893.43 bc paid 16,350. Copay $450. Pathology (stomach) $402. Bc paid $402 my part $0 sleep dr paid 0 copay. ( that may have been for the overnight o2, didn't need a sleep study) thought I paid a copay for the dr appt. hubby's overnight sleep study was $100.00 Can't find the eob for my EGD Hope this helps. Sooo about 50,000+ for everything I paid about 800 give or take.

Peanut butter and avocado. HATED avacado Pre surgery, and peanut butter was reserved for apples when my blood sugar dipped. Now I would kill for peanut butter. In fact that is what is impacting my daily calories. When I go over its always peanut butter!

Your questions are why I'm worried not everything is in. When I was banded almost 6 years ago I got those extra charges. This time it pretty much seems like just the daily and surgery copays. I'll try and find my eob and let you know.

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Some have asked about out of pocket costs. I'm 2 mos out and I think everything is in. 3 nights in hospital, and surgery. Pre op testing, I think my out if pocket is right around $850. Seems lower than I thought it would be, hopefully nothing else pops up.

Nah I think may have you beat! Surgery 4/29 Pre-SW 233 (3days before, 9 weeks tomorrow)) LW 212.4 Bounced up to 217.4, today 215.8 So officially 17.2! :-( including pre surgery. I know this is how my body works, I know I'm a slow loser, I know my weight bounces like crazy, but this is still all playing with my head!

Me too im gracieschinamom on MFP.

The problem with Water pills is my blood pressure is normally low to normal so when I take a water pill I end up on the couch with the dizzy s Ahhh this is so frustrating!!

I also had my revision in one surgery, my surgeon prefers it in one. My stomach was adhered to my liver where it had prolapsed over the band, but the band slipped right off my stomach with little or no scar tissue there. In surgery 4 1/2 hours, and my recovery was probably a little slower because if the liver complication.

Any suggestions? Been out of town and driving for 5 days, and I am puffy! Of course had my 2 month follow-up Appt. yesterday morning and I was up, not down!! We talked about what I was eating, and she showed me the pitting from the edema. Overall she is pleased with my food log and appearance, but the scale was once again not my friend! Any suggestions for getting this Water weight gone?

Go for the free consult. I also talked to Kelly, and instead of signing me right up she advised me to wait and let the dr do the peer to peer, then if I was denied again re-contact her. Well I was approved!

Oh my goodness I am craving fat foods. Peanut butter, avocado (which i HATED Pre-op). I could suck down 500 cal of those foods in 10 minutes.

Ok not a vet so forgive me in advance. But had a thought.... I was trying to help a client that was a cutter, and read a behavior modifier that may work here. Put a rubber band and around your wrist and when you find yourself thinking of food inappropriately snap the rubber band. Hopefully your brain will begin to associate that particular thought or food with pain. Fwiw

I did like him but hated the drive for aftercare, and, and complications. The drive was bad from Eugene, but to Bend no way. Dr Hughes was wonderful in taking on my fills when we moved here, and just continued my care when I had further complications and revision.

Welcome to the club. It's just the way some of us lose. I know it, but it still drives me NUTS!! I'll try and attach a screen shot of my last month of tracking my weight.

I'm in oregon also- Bend. Tersigni did my band, but dr Hughes in Redmond did my revision. I love that woman!!

It used to be ( at least with federal) that you could use any hospital you wanted to but they paid at a higher reimbursement rate at at hospital of excellence. So check your co-pays