AppleSmith1226

Welcome!! I am waiting to be banded too!! I go to meet the surgeon 2morrow!! I am excited and nervous trying to compile a list of questions for him!! I am just so ready for my band... But I am so scared and nervous. I don't wanna hate my band after I get it and I don't want complications!! I just wanna use my band as a tool and get healthy ... that's my main objective!!

Well I know you are anxious right now to find some answers to you post .. .and you seem a bit agitated so maybe we can chat later ... I am just curious to know what went wrong did you not lose a single pound? I am very surprised that there is nothing that your doctor can do. This scares me beings that I am waiting to be banded.

What do you think that you will turn to now Toni after removal ??

Hey everybody I decided to post a thread for those of us who aren't banded yet. If you have chatted with me you already know that I was recently diagnosed with PCOS!! Yeah it was a shock to me too. It really sucks but at the same time I am glad that I know now and things are finally coming together with why I could never lose weight and keep it off. I finally know why all these things are happening to my body. And I finally know why I have not been able to conceive a child with my husband and we have been 2gether 3 yrs and not even reallt trying but now since we are thinking about nothing has been happening. But now I know why I bought 2 boxes of ovulation test and I would NEVER ovulate... And I would miss numerous periods and never be pregnant but anyway LOL if you have PCOS you can relate. I had been dancing back and forth about getting the surgery since the first time that I had ever seen the commercial (you the one with the lion walking through the living room LOL) and I finally decided to pursue this now. And times 10 since I have been diagnosed with this syndrome. And I would like to get healthy now while I am still young and babyless. With lots of time on my hands. I have my 2nd appt with a new surgeon. The first surgeon told me that I had to wait 6 months hands down rather my insurance said so or not ... He has a MANDATORY 6 month diet. I don't wanna wait 6 months... 3 months is fine but 6 no way. Not if I don't have to. So I see the new surgeon Nov 29 I am really amped! I have Aetna currently and I know they suck as far as the Lap Band but I will have Amerihealth the beginning of next year Jan '08!! I am so excited about this because they are supposed to be alot easier to deal with as far as the surgery goes. And if your BMI is low than they make you jump alot of hoops but my is 49 :cry I love and hate that all at the same time LOL! But I am hoping for the best. So I am getting all these pre op appts done between now and Dec 31st ... so come the first of the year they should be able to submit everything and have me a surgery date within Jan or Feb.. but that's all in this little perfect dream of mine. I hope and pray that it comes true. But I need the support of others who aren't banded yet and going through the same thing I'm going through the beginning of a long long dirt road LOL! But come in lets chat awhile I am always looking to make new friends and learn new things!! Love to talk and listen! So get back to me! Especially PCOS females I want to learn as much as I can about the syndrome.

Hey let us NEW bandsters and Soon to be bandsters know about this excess skin issue!!! PLEASE and THANKS!!!

Naw... barely no skin left at all! Ahhh... a little bit but I can live with it. Had lot's of it but already seen the surgery On my way to the surgeons!!! Lot's of it but I would not/ can not see a surgeon!

I Am Soooooo Happy For You!!! Cant Wait For My Big Date!!! Have They Set A Surgery Date For You?? Which Insurance Do You Have. I Feel Bad For The People Who Used That First Dr. Just Think Of How The People That He Has Gotten Over On??!?!?!

You are going through the exact same thing as me sunshiny!! Are you due for surgery soon ??

Ms. NYC ... you may have PCOS .... google it and read the symptoms!!! See if you think you have it ... I have been there before... I was just recently diagnosed and everything makes since now cause I have has this disorder since I was about 14 or 15

I love it too girl!! I wanted to try out for it but I can't send in a video. I am really rooting for B ... he works so hard and I am so proud of him. And I really want him to win this year or either Kay!!!

OH MY GOSH AMY!!!! This is like such a coincedence!!! I just had a pap done 2 weeks ago and my testosteron level was elevated and I might just have PCOS!!! They Dr was very concerned cause I have gain 15 pounds in a 3 month time frame and it is also very hard for me to loose. I am hoping and praying that I dont have the pcos cause I want kids really bad!!! And so does my husband!! I am very concerned and worried. I don't know what to do. I feel like if I have the lap band surgery and loose this weight these issues will go away... NONE of these things started happening to me until I tipped the scale over 300!!! Did you start to grow body hair ... and I am constantly clearing my throat! I just want this all to end!

wHAT'S UR SKIN LOOKING LIKE ?? ANY LOOSENESS??? LIKE BYPASS PATIENTS??

Hey Baby Cat Which Insurance Do U Have?? How Long Did U Have 2 Wait 4 Surgery??

To All Of You That Have Lost All Of This Weight What's Your Skin Like ??? I Would Like To Know Cause I Really Can't Afford A Tummy Tuck After The Lap Band Surgery!!!

I'm scared of this too!! I dont wanna feel the band AT ALL!!!! I wanna feel the same way I feel now ... And I am so scared cause I can't take pain!!!! I just want to be able to work out and do my same exercises and things so that I can lose the weight faster. I can't wait to be able to run!!!!

OH MY GOSHH!!! Chris in NJ that is MARVELOUS!!! What is your secret ... I have to know it.... LOL I will pay you for it LOL!! I am in NJ as well havent been banded yet but hoping for Jan or February SURGERY DATE!!! I am trying to gather as much info as I can so that I can do very well with minimal to 0 complications. I am so afraid of failing this is my last option... Dr said If I don't lose this weight I wont be able to have any babies!!! And that scares me VERY much... Beings that I am a young newly married woman!! So I can use any and all advice to succeed!!! Thanks!

LOL ... me too Paulax ... that's why I asked ... I have had a huge foot since Middle school!! 6th grade I am an 11 and wish to be atleast a 9 ... all the cute ones in our size go first or they don't exist! LOL !!! (hoping for skinny feet too) LOL!!

:cryHey guys did anyone loose weight in there shoes??? I would really like to know so I can maybe look forward to feet not being too fat anymore LOL. Get back to me if you shoe size went down!!!!! You ever heard the myth your feet get bigger and stronger to hold more weight as you again ... like they grown in your sleep or something LOL

So no more drinking during the eating??

Hey Kelly ... I really feel for you ... But I just wanna say ... we all love food. And i know that the band won't make us stop loving food. It will just keep us from OVER doing it. I am not banded yet but I am really looking forward to it because I eat kinda healthy... and I work out 3-4 days a week. I haven't had any soda in a month!! I am doing really good but I when do have a healthy dinner I will over eat. I grew up in a "struggling" household and my parents didn't always have money... So I was always told clean your plate and I still have the same mentaility about "wasting" food. I feel as though I have to just eat it all LOL... crazy I know!! And I live alone. But I think I have worked hard to change alot of habits. I just need something to prevent me from over eating. But what do you do for a living?? What's making you still emotionally eat?? I think 25 POUNDS IS GREAT!!!! GOOD JOB!!! Just change these patterns when ever you wanna eat something or emotionally or bordem eat pull out a magazine and look at clothes you wanna fit in to!! Start doing crunches or jumping jacks. WHATEVER it takes to get your mind off of that food!! Make a collague of all your goals and whenever you wanna eat go and sit in a room and just stare at that collague and vision yourself being that beautiful women that you are and that you want to be!!! Remember nothing taste as good as thin feels!!! LOL!! Get a bodybugg!!!

Hey GR8 what do you mean by no drinking ??? any fluids at all or do you me alcoholic beverages!!

Hey Jenn ... I really feel for you ... But I just wanna say ... we all love food. And i know that the band won't make us stop loving food. It will just keep us from OVER doing it. I am not banded yet but I am really looking forward to it because I eat kinda healthy... and I work out 3-4 days a week. I haven't had any soda in a month!! I am doing really good but I when do have a healthy dinner I will over eat. I grew up in a "struggling" household and my parents didn't always have money... So I was always told clean your plate and I still have the same mentaility about "wasting" food. I feel as though I have to just eat it all LOL... crazy I know!! And I live alone. But I think I have worked hard to change alot of habits. I just need something to prevent me from over eating. But what do you do for a living?? What's making you still emotionally eat?? I think 50 POUNDS IS GREAT!!!! GOOD JOB!!! Just change these patterns when ever you wanna eat something or emotionally or bordem eat pull out a magazine and look at clothes you wanna fit in to!! Start doing crunches or jumping jacks. WHATEVER it takes to get your mind off of that food!! Make a collague of all your goals and whenever you wanna eat go and sit in a room and just stare at that collague and vision yourself being that beautiful women that you are and that you want to be!!! Remember nothing taste as good as thin feels!!! LOL!! Get a bodybugg!!!

I know that you are right Steph and I certainly agree with you billions of things wouldv'e changed by the time I am 30 ... And I DONT think I know everything. I would be a fool to think that!! NO ONE ON THE PLANET KNOWS EVERYTHING so why would I think that I DO ?!?!?! But as I said before to each own. I don't know what the future holds for me but I don't PLAN ON stopping having sex with my husband. It's just something that I dont plan on happening. But I am saying is that if my parents and grandparents both still have healthy sexual relationships at their age and years of marriage I think it is possible for me too... That's all I am saying. Thanks for your feedback!! And as I stated before I may have "hormones on my side" at 19 but I haven't seen my husband in 3 months he is in the military!! So as I said before I am not some horny girl out here just thinking about sex 24/7 I have a career, family, and household just like the rest of you!

WHAT did u eat to make it get stuck ?? What did it feel like??

Anybody here had or have or know of Dr. Wasser ?? Rancocas Medical ??