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So you have the same doctor as us?????? Sounds like it. Don't get me started. Again. (I've posted about it before). Somefof them get the God Complex. Put your foot down and tell them how it is. After all, you are NOT just a number and a paycheck (but that's how they see us). So, is the pancreatitis gone? We just found out today, from last Wednesday's blood work, that my husband's pancreatitis is showing up again. Wth?? He was discharged after tons of iv antibiotics fir it three weeks ago. Now it's coming back??? And they want to retest it in TWO WEEkS??? Um, no. And if course Dr our NURSE didn't call him back to talk more about it. We want antibiotics NOW and hopefully in pill firm instead of iv because he's already missed a lot of work and well, stating in the hospital just plain sucks and they don't let you sleep. Gah, I hope your stupid drs get it together and have fixed the problem. Ever thoughtt about going to someone else?

Thanks for asking :-) he's doing better. We are wondering if the Coumadin is making him feel tired and nauseous sometimes. He's got two more months left of it. He's already tired of taking it. He's lost 50 lbs and I 33.

Made it to Onederland!!!!! Finally, after a week and a half- two week stall. It's true, during my stall I didn't lose weight but I lost inches. Had to buy pants (down two sizes, almost three!) And those are too big now. Now it's back to losing a pound every couple of days. I wonder when the next stall is.......... :-)

About damn time they're doing this. Jeez. I know this is wearing on you. I will be thinking about you tomorrow and hoping it's minor but ALL FIXED so you can finally start feeling better. Hugs!

Thank you, and I 100% agree.

I'm finding it annoying that some of my friends who have had bariatric surgery TELL me what foods I can't and can eat. Just because they can't tolerate it doesn't mean I won't be able to. Or that I can eat this or that even though it's not on our drs approved foods list at this stage. Annoying. I know they are just trying to be suggestive and help but there's a better way to deliver it than being an authoritative know it all.

It's been ok I guess. Down 31 lbs, and husband 50. We go to stage 3 foods after Monday's stage 3 meeting on Monday.

No, last time we went was before surgery and no one from the office showed up. There were two other patients there waiting too, so four of us, three of us were pre op. I think there's supposed to be a meeting on Tuesday night? Or is that the pouch class? Honestly, I haven't been impressed with much of anything with that office/dr. I wish I could change.

Barbcute, will you be going to the meeting next week?

Beautiful ring Pik!!! Mr wedding rings are falling off too now. I think I'm just going to get silver yarn and wrap it around the ring for now until I find something else to use. I don't know how I'm going to tie it though....... hmmmmm lol

Mondaylady, that's good that you ask because their receipts stink and don't tell you what you paid for. I advise writing on each receipt what the visit was for. I'm sure they charged my insurance for my post op visit with our dr yet he couldn't be bothered to come in and talk to me. The nutritionist went back and forth to him asking him the couple of questions I had for him. I was not happy with him. Again. He never examined me before surgery, right after surgery, nor at post op. Never even told me how my surgery went and refused to give me the only pain med that works on me and made me suffer and made me feel like I was a bother to him. My family Dr called him to get blood work orders and told him I said I didn't want to see him again. At my husband's follow up appt from his pancreatitis and blood clot from surgery (can happen to 1:1000 of bariatric patients, not drs fault!) he asked me why and I told him these things. He apologized. I will give him another chance, though he doesn't know the other reasons. This is why I say to trust your gut. I didn't have s good feeling about him at orientation mtg but husband did so we stayed with him rather than checking other surgeons out. There was another situation where I feel he should have told us to take him to the ER when I called him with concern about my husband's condition but he just said for him to drink more. I should have trusted my gut then and took him to the ER anyway because he had that clot and pancreatitis. It was 4 days later at post op appt that he suffered before Dr told me to take him from his office to the ER. Jerk. I don't care for the office staff much either. So Mondaylady, I just told you what I didn't want to tell you because he may be perfectly fine with you, I don't know. But please keep this between us and please don't let him know you know anything about this. We still have to see him.

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I didn't used to have this problem earlier on. We were told not to use straws either but I needed to try and see if it helped. I've just had a rough couple of days with foods too that I didn't have a problem with before so I'm going back to liquids for a day or twoto get my esophagus swelling down since I've had to get the stuck foods up. I'm learning what's ok too eat and what's not.

I'm really getting tired of the air bubbles and birps, or feeling like I need to but can't, just from drinking. I'm taking small sips, not gulping, and air still gets down. I've tried straws, no straws, didn't matter. It's annoying and frustrating. Any suggestions? (Almost 5wks post op)

Our deductible starts over next year and if every visit will cost us two to three hundred dollars EACH (for my husband as well) then I'm not going back.

How can we get an itemized report for each and every little thing that was paid for, do you know?

$58,000 Do you know what yours was? (I don't want to know what you personally paid just the overall cost of your surgery.) I was just shocked when I saw the bill, especially when we were told about $29,000 and we'll "get what we paid for" which I absolutely did not. :/ It's sickening.

I knew this is an old thread but maybe a newbie will read this....... My advise would be to go to the orientations of many drs if you can. Not just with one and TRUST YOUR GUT. I really wish I would have.

I wish our dr wouldn't wait so long to do bw. 6 mos just seems too long......... I'm going to ask my family Dr to do bw on thyroid and hormones and whatever else he wants to do, hopefully b vits and D at least.

I wish our dr would wait so long to do bw. 6 mos just seems too long......... I'm going to ask my family Dr to do bw on thyroid and hormones and whatever else he wants to do, hopefully b vits and D at least.

I'm good with the evening dose but too busy in the day to take the first one or don't have one on me. Annoying

I'll ask our nutritionist next Monday at our meeting but I'm curious now.

No, they are individually wrapped in a bag.

Our dr's instructions were to take one in the afternoon and one in the evening at least two hours after taking our multivitamin with iron. I keep forgetting to take the afternoon one. Why can't we take the 1000mg at one time (two chews), anyone know?

Lol ya, but I didn't look to see who posted it! Lol