eilujann

Thx for all the advice. I love this resource and u all for ur help. I did call my doc yesterday and was able to start anti nausea meds today! The meds worked right away and it feels so great. I am also going back to a soft foods diet because they believe i am inflamed. not being nauseated motivates me to fix all my other probs. I have a dr appt in 15 days and they will adjust more then. For now i am good. Thx for the support everyone! September Losers ROCK!

Thx for all the advice. I love this resource and u all for ur help. I did call my doc yesterday and was able to start anti nausea meds today! The meds worked right away and it feels so great. I am also going back to a soft foods diet because they believe i am inflamed. not being nauseated motivates me to fix all my other probs. I have a dr appt in 15 days and they will adjust more then. For now i am good. Thx for the support everyone! September Losers ROCK!

Hey guys! Can u invite me on Facebook? Its eilujann@msn.com OR Julie Ann Freeze Dalton. My pic is me in a black dress with heels. Its an old pic. My surgiversary is 9-6-12, start weight was 258, current weight is 220, goal weight is 130. Thanks!

High blood pressure - gone.
Type 2 diabetes - gone.
Cholesterol - normal.
sleep apnea - gone.
Back and knee pain - gone.
Weight loss - 120+ lbs. (actually 126 at today's weight).
Waist size - Pre-op: 48" - 50". Post-op (11 months): 36"
95% of Prescription meds - gone.
Dealing with the psychological aspect - it starts with "finding your why". I found mine.
Health - Obesity is a progressive, degenerative disease that is the second leading cause of premature, preventable death in the U.S. The links between obesity and heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea and a dozen other serious diseases are well documented and virtually undeniable.
Options - Diet and exercise as a treatment for folks with a BMI of 30 or greater is a myth. It is a statistical virtual impossibility with a failure rate approaching 100%. And science is just now beginning to understand why - http://www.drsharma....or-obesity.html . For more information - "Medicare's Search for Effective Obesity Treatments - Diets Are Not the Answer" - http://motivatedandf...s_dont_work.pdf . Bariatric surgery is the single most effective weight loss option known to medical science - by a very wide margin. The September 19, 2012 Journal of the American Medical Association reported the results of a study done with 1,156 surgery participants 18 - 72 years old, along with two control groups totalling more than 700 participants. One key aspect of their findings: "At 2 years, 99 percent of surgical patients had maintained more than 10 percent weight loss from baseline and 94 percent had maintained more than 20 percent weight loss. At 6 years, 96 percent of surgical patients had maintained more than 10 percent weight loss from baseline and 76 percent had maintained more than 20 percent weight loss". Read more at: http://medicalxpress...higher.html#jCp
Quality of life - The ability to go into any store, anywhere, anytime knowing that there will be endless options for the new you. The ability to walk up a flight of stairs without being out of breath. The ability to play with your children (and grandchildren) for more than five minutes. The ability to take a long walk in the woods with your black lab and actually enjoy every delicious, pain free moment of it. The thrill of looking in the mirror every day and thinking that you look pretty damned amazing. The knowledge that you almost certainly will live a longer, happier, more fulfilling life. The ability to comfortably sit in a restaurant booth. Or an airline seat. The almost limitless energy that you had long since forgotten. Just plain feeling good about yourself for the first time in a long time. Living your life free of the "obesity stigma" - that only those of us who have been there can really understand. The absolute elation of knowing that you did it. That it's sustainable. And that you are finally in control.

Complications - zero.
Would I do it again? - If I had it to do all over again there is one thing, and only one thing, that I would change. I'd do it twenty years earlier!

Well crap! I am 33 days post op for rny. I couldnt tolerate any hard pills so i stopped taking them all together 2 weeks ago. I just ordered a ton of chewables and was super excited to recieve them. But now u guys r saying u hate those too. Sounds like a no win situation to me.

Thanks Jerrie. Just got them today. I will let u know how it goes.