Cloeymn36

I seriously appreciate your post because my gas pain has been major and i couldn't think of what i could be doing to affect it but perhaps I am just drinking broth too fast and overall need to chillax!:smile:

Hi Bandster Buds, Well, I was banded on 3/17. Woke up in recovery and thought, "Whoa, anesthesia rocks, I don't remember anything!" Fought back pain from gas all that night and walked the lonely halls in my sexy hospital gown with my boobs flopping to and fro... I only had one bout of nausea and that was the night I came home from the hospital. Hadn't had much to eat (drink) and I think the gas was just too much. Heaved pretty badly but managed to move on. I'm still dealing with major gas issues. Can toot but I have to really push and don't want to do that because it hurts my abdomen and surgery area. Getting broth in and juice....but I feel enormously full in my chest and upper abdomen most of the time so it's hard to tell if I'm hungry or not. Tried the gas-x, not really working. Walking, stretching..... I'm a little worried I'm having more gas than normal or that I have become the newest Thanksgiving Day Parade float. I have only lost 6 pounds since starting the liquid pre-op diet. What the hell?????? Does gas add weight?? lol Somebody make me feel better and tell me that my gas is somewhat normal???:smile:

Seriously. I don't care if she poses for tiny hooters monthly. Attacking someone's character is pretty serious business and I don't particularly find that one's character and overeating is connected. Does that mean that ALL skinny people who eat healthy have GOOD characters? Hmmmm....

Now I never listen to this woman because I basically think she is on a major power trip and so rigid in her thinking and rude to callers but I unfortunately got stuck in a car with her on the radio and I can NOT believe what this woman said about overweight people... A woman called and said that her husband recently gained 30 lbs. and she wondered if it was wrong of her to be bothered by this. Dr. Laura said, "Of COURSE you should be bothered! Your husband is living an undisciplined life - eating whatever he wants and not exercising - this is all about one's CHARACTER. Obviously your problem with your husband is that he has NO CHARACTER to allow himself to behave this way!" This woman has a national syndicated talk show and she NOT ONCE inquired as to what could be happening in this man's life that he put on this weight. The idea that there could possibly be stressors within him, the marriage or even looking at this change in the husband with some empathy did not even remotely happen. Instead she attacked his character. So I guess she officially endorses discrimination of overweight people by anniliating their characters. Lovely! I wanted to pull over and take a bat to my radio!

I think that there are very good doctor's in Mexico and surgeries are and can be very successful. I work in a hospital that has a Bariatric Program and I work closely with the medical director of that program. He has mentioned to me that people who get banded in Mexico have trouble at times finding doctors who will assist them with complications (although rare) and fills because of the liability they are afraid of. And that is coming from the bariatric program themselves. But other people I see on the board have no problems at all finding fill doctors. So, go figure!

Yep, Anne you're right. As the HR director, one does have access to decisions made on behalf of the policy holders WHICH COMPLETELY SUCKS but nothing much one can do about it. Now, if this person were to say something to other employees, then it becomes a violation of an employee's right to confidentiality regarding their healthcare.

I have the same exact dilimia. I was supposed to have the surgery Jan 11th and it was moved to the last week in January with a vacation coming the 1st week of February. I postponed the trip. I don't want to have to worry about experiencing any complications and being away from the needed medical care. I also anticipate some pain and discomfort from a new surgery and I don't think I would enjoy my vacation as much. For me, I chose to wait.

Oh wow. I'm reading these posts and squirming considerably which means that they are hitting home BIGTIME! Yes folks, even therapists are uncomfortable with our OWN feelings. Often when seeing a very overweight person I have sympathy. Then I became more overweight (going from mildly to moderately to morbidly) and that feeling turned into empathy (boy do I know what YOUR going through kind of thing). Generally I have a soft spot for all people who struggle and wear it on the outside because I guess I know that it what I show to the world. The thing is.....and I know that this isn't necessarily right for me to feel....I always cringe when I see an overweight person in clothes that don't fit, poor hygiene, disregard for what they're presenting to the world. I'm embarrassed for them. And, I suppose, ashamed. No matter my size, I always make a point of dressing well, putting on "the face" and in my way saying to the world, "Yep, I'm overweight but I STILL can look good". I guess when others don't it makes me mad because I assume that they will be perceived as "a fat slob" and I don't want that stereotype to take over because then I have to fight it personally. Wow, shallow huh?

St. Joseph's Bariatric Care is great 651-326-3600

A tear rolls down my cheek thinking of my own best friend I lost last year. Amazing what unconditional love and devotion can inspire in our own hearts. Hugs to you. Long live Mr. Whipple and my Rusty.

I work in psychiatry and counseling so suicide behavior and acts are part of my day EVERYDAY (and believe me, it is so hard sometimes). To say that it hasn't entered my mind would be lying but it has with only the slightest fleeting moment and long enough to think, "nope, not the answer". I hate my obesity and what it deprives me of in so many ways but to kill myself because of it would be to forget that I love MYSELF, ME INSIDE THIS BODY and I deserve to live. That is why I am getting the band.

I love that you shared this. I have the same problem. For me, fattening food is an inside hug. Healthy foods just dont' hug me much. Now, obviously bread, Cookies, cake and candy taste a hell of a lot better and my desiring them more is understandable. But, I have a negative reaction to fruit!!!! When I was a kid our mother didn't have any snack food open for eating EXCEPT fruit. So even though my tastebuds say "eh, ain't so bad", my head says "this is GOOD FOR YOU FOOD" - run!!!!!! For me, when I see someone eating healthy and being in control of their own nutrition AND they are thinner then me, the resentment comes from jealousy - of their control, their thinness and their (what I perceive to be) lack of food addiction. I assume they have no fun in their life because they can't throw back a half sleeve of oreo's and watch t.v. right? But for them, possibly food isn't the hug and the fun it is for me so that's why they aren't struggling for their dieting.... Does that make sense?

Honestly I think a lean cuisine and a salad is perfectly fine unless your salad is comprised of crazy caloric stuff and the size of Pittsburgh. I know that I don't intend to eat a 1/2 cup of food 3 times a day because I don't want to ruin my metabolism and lose weight so fast that I have skin issues. I told my surgeon just that and he said, "Good because I don't know who told you that nutrition info. but they aren't setting you up for success eating that little." Good luck toots.

That "put them in a bowl and microwave them" scenario was absolutely cruel. For God's sake I sat here reading that and starting having little chocolate orgasms until you mentioned putting in the Lawry's. Hmmm...I wonder if that would be kinda sickly yummy? Ha Ha

Hi Ho, Hi Ho Just waiting for my "GO!" then I'll be banded not EXPANDED HI HO, HI HO!!!