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After 6 mths the weightloss slows down. Just change your exercise routine. Shock ur body, you will continue to lose whether its inches or 1 to 2 lbs a week. Enjoy the journey. I am 19 months out and still working hard.
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I know what you mean the closest I got was 209. Now I am back at 250. I am not happy where I am and onederland is my goal. Good luck on reaching onederland!
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I hit onderland at week 22 after my surgery. It seemed like a long 22 weeks, but now I realize that it was pretty fast. It's funny how time seems to move so slowly after surgery. It's only after you reach your goals that the time seems short.

Ah yes, I do remember that feeling well. Forever to onederland in reality only took a week , that 200 mark just lingered for what seemed a lifetime. But then it happens and what a wonderful feeling !!
Now I'm patiently waiting to get to goal , and waiting and waiting and waiting
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It does seem as I approach 200 things have really been slow. I hit 208 back on July 9th, and I seem to be just holding there. I haven't weighed myself in a few days as I've been out of town, so I am hopeful when I return I will have started moving again.
As always though, while I sit at the same weight, my body fat % goes down and my clothes start getting too loose. Like clockwork.

I only recently made it to onederland. My weight lost had slowed in the last few months so compared to the 20 lbs a month I lost at the beginning, it is much slower. You'll get there. Keep up the hard work!
pam

Here's what I don't understand -- why does such "fandom" arise around specific surgeons / bariatric centers, to the point that the fandom becomes cultlike?
And by "cultlike" I mean an organization (even a social group) in which criticism or inspection or even questions about a professional person is considered unseemly or disloyal?
I do understand that if "Team Surgeon X" is run by people who get referral fees for signing up patients to book their medical procedures with Surgeon X, they will want to protect Surgeon X's and their own financial interests.
But there's the rub--medicine is BOTH a profession AND a business. And its business aspects should NEVER outweigh medicine's professional obligations. That's the very reason why the professions (all of them) have ethical codes.
In the U.S., the American Medical Association's Code of Medical Ethics applies. See http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/medical-ethics/code-medical-ethics.page. Here's a short excerpt from that Code:
The practice of medicine, and its embodiment in the clinical encounter between a patient and a physician, is fundamentally a moral activity that arises from the imperative to care for patients and to alleviate suffering.
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The relationship between patient and physician is based on trust and gives rise to physicians’ ethical obligations to place patients’ welfare above their own self-interest and above obligations to other groups, and to advocate for their patients’ welfare.
I assume that Mexican doctors and their practices have the same ethical obligations to their patients.

If you don't agree with what Susan has posted here, by all means, state your opinion. It's 100% ok to "attack" her message, it's NOT ok to attack her personally.

@@1cutiejulie
There are risks with every type of surgery.
Has anyone lost someone to WLS? yes
Before your surgery did u feel like u were gonna die? No
Is this a normal feeling? Yes, Fear is normal
Should I actually say my good byes? 1 week to go If you feel need to say good byes..Do it.

I wrote letters to my husband and children telling them how much I loved them and my hopes and dreams for their futures. I told them to open them if anything happened to me. As I got on plane ( had surgery overseas and travelled by myself!) changed my mind and told them to open them when I was in the recovery room cos they deserved to know now much I love them and not when I've gone.

Yes!!! @@1cutiejulie! I backed out of my surgery twice!! I am 3 1/2 months post op an I am down 83 pounds. Best decision of my life this far. I was nervous wheeling down to surgery and once I stated that they put me right out an woke up in my room a couple of hours later.

Whew! Finally approved!
My last NUT visit was 4/6. Submitted to insurance the next day. 4/11 get a letter asking for more info, basic stuff that I thought would have already been submitted like surgery date, hospital info, etc. Resubmitted by 4/15, got approval via automated system on 4/22 and finally got the call from the surgeons office today. I am scheduled for May 16th!! Yay! Let's get this party started!

One minute I'm nervous, the next I'm impatient, the next I'm scared, the next I'm excited... What a roller coaster. Lol
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June 7th for me!
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Yes! Im june 8th in st louis!
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Valentina, HIPPA does allow provider to provider communication, they can disclose pertinent protected health information about a mutual patient without consent from the patient or a parent under certain circumstances. The federal government sets the minimum standards for HIPPA, individual states can supersede the minmums by mandating additional restrictions. However, the particular situation the original poster shared did not meet sharing of PHI between providers outlined by HIPPA. I don't usually comment but providing partially correct information to prove a point that was not needed got my attention today. Next time, maybe help support the person. Discouraging words when someone is vulnerable can create undue stress.
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Valentina, HIPPA does allow provider to provider communication, they can disclose pertinent protected health information about a mutual patient without consent from the patient or a parent under certain circumstances. The federal government sets the minimum standards for HIPPA, individual states can supersede the minmums by mandating additional restrictions. However, the particular situation the original poster shared did not meet sharing of PHI between providers outlined by HIPPA. I don't usually comment but providing partially correct information to prove a point that was not needed got my attention today. Next time, maybe help support the person. Discouraging words when someone is vulnerable can create undue stress.
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I read the thread but I appreciate your attempt to enlighten me. Thanks for the prayers....
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Reading your post brought back soo many memories but I had to smile and say all those feelings are so worth it once you get through it.
I am 8 months post op and it was rough all the way up until 8 weeks post op and to be honest the eating started becoming painless very recently. Maybe in the last two months. I do agree with others, the hormones at that stage are out of control and the fact that you now don't have food as a comfort anymore was such a reality check. You have to relearn everything and build an entire new relationship to food.
But if I can give you any advice is to not look to your friend or anyone for your own journey. If you take your Vitamins and Protein to the best of your ability you don't know what result you will have. Your success is not built on someone else's. The fact that you've made it to be one of the post op people gives you opportunity to build a new entirely different life. I know most people in this forum are soo happy including myself. Being down 95lbs is not even the thing I'm most happy about when I look in the mirror and see my results from sculpting my new body with the tool I have been given, a second chance, I could cry all over again. And that feeling alone is sooo worth it!
In a few months you're going to look back and you're going to laugh and hopefully have formed a new relationship to food and found a multitude of others things you now enjoy instead of eating your "favorite foods"....feel better!
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I just had a mini melt down myself! I once loved food and now I hate it (I'm at the purée stage). I felt today like "I WANT OUT". I cried so hard my eyes swole up. This is not just a physical change but a mental change. This forum is truly what people need. I cried and than clicked on my bariatric app. It's not easy but I'm sure we will all get there.
"In the end we only regret the chances that we didn't take."

I had sleeve 19 months ago and have only thrown up one time. So it's definitely NOT normal to be throwing up every day. As for regrets, even without throwing up, I had a period of "buyer's remorse" as most people do. The early weeks are rough, but it does get better and better.

Valentina, HIPPA does allow provider to provider communication, they can disclose pertinent protected health information about a mutual patient without consent from the patient or a parent under certain circumstances. The federal government sets the minimum standards for HIPPA, individual states can supersede the minmums by mandating additional restrictions. However, the particular situation the original poster shared did not meet sharing of PHI between providers outlined by HIPPA. I don't usually comment but providing partially correct information to prove a point that was not needed got my attention today. Next time, maybe help support the person. Discouraging words when someone is vulnerable can create undue stress.
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Valentina, HIPPA does allow provider to provider communication, they can disclose pertinent protected health information about a mutual patient without consent from the patient or a parent under certain circumstances. The federal government sets the minimum standards for HIPPA, individual states can supersede the minmums by mandating additional restrictions. However, the particular situation the original poster shared did not meet sharing of PHI between providers outlined by HIPPA. I don't usually comment but providing partially correct information to prove a point that was not needed got my attention today. Next time, maybe help support the person. Discouraging words when someone is vulnerable can create undue stress.
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Sorry for your loss.
However it isn't up to the doctor's to set HIPAA. That was done by the federal government. The hospital cannot relax it.
I have been on the other side of healthcare for 27 years. I work for the insurance company. If anything HIPAA has gotten much more strict. We used to be able to email the documents. As that was considered private enough. Now it is expected to be sent encrypted or via a secure server.
I rarely can get a healthcare provider to fax me a document or bill unless I assure them in writing that it is a secure fax. Even then some will only snail mail the itemized bill.

I am always somewhat amused by the irony of someone chastising and berating someone else because they feel the person chastised and berated someone else. pot, meet kettle..................
I am sorry this happened to the OP. I hope it turns out to be a blessing anyway, even if it is not the way you wanted things to go.

You know. I've been sitting reading and rereading this trying to decide if I was going to comment. Sorry, but the ugly monster got the best of me.
Valentina- I may be new-ish to this forum but why do you think it is ok to bash someone who was sickened at the thought of her personal information being spread around a large office? You say you aren't ashamed of having surgery- good for you. But do not project your opinions on others as though you are right and they are wrong. In fact- YOU are shaming anyone who does not subscribe to your belief that you need to tell everyone your business. Heck- I bet you have told tons of people who actually couldn't care less.
Who we choose to share our surgery with is our own business and ours alone. That goes for you. Rent a billboard for Petes sake. But don't think for one moment it is ok to tear down those who think differently from you.
As for Hippa laws- there has not been any "relaxing" since the days it was set in motion. Your facts are wrong. I've been a healthcare provider since 1985. Been there. Done that. When she is acting in the capacity of a patient, her rights are to be maintained just as any other non-employee patient.