Frustr8

Some source of heat to relax, whether it be hot water bottle, heating pad or in the case of your shoulder direct sunlight. For your sore tummy, even a warm compress, take a towel, wring it out after putting it in hottish water, and put it on there. See if any of those things help!

And , like me, you will always be suspicious of what THEY REALLY MEAN!

And @ Missouri-Lee's Summit we all do have,our personal demons. I have,been on Bariatric Pal. since last winter, I sure have shared some of my demons and failings, but there are more, deeply submerged ones only my psychiatrists and psychologists might might be able to reach, and some no one will ever know! Like an onion I have many layers and only a few have been peeled off.

Oops Take not Rake, what a difference,a,single letter makes!

In this case you will need to use your he'sfound knowledge to,improvise, homemade usually trumps commercial made anyway.

A facet to consider; Would you prefer: A stomach the size of a garden hose?(VSG) or would you prefer: A stomach the size,of a large chicke-small turkey egg (RnY bypass) Either way YOU will never be quite the same But for most of us it is a choice We Gladly Make For it is far better to be gastrically rearranged , surgically altered , abdominally realigned than to continue living sick, obese and inching daily closer to a sad undignified sorrowful death. And That, My Dear Friend, Is The Bottom Line.😪💦😪

Don't know if I can relate but I sure can empathacize! Whew they need. to put a big WW on your hospital gown for Wonder Woman!👍😝👍

Looking forward to no MORE bra extenders, that will mean I'm a real size not a "Make Do"!!!😝👍

I am going to have an RnY September 5th. I am currently on Dexilant 60 mg for GERD, gastritis and keep Hector, my teeny tiny gastric ulcer sound asleep. However I am not an revision but a virgin Bypass. Still want to be friends?

And @lisalou1968 as we start,the last few days of July- first few days of August- how are YOU doing?

Let me show my age- I really liked Calcium Cyclamate best of everything.!

Way to Go,Babe, Way to Go! Hope I'll be brave enough to rake no prisioners Too!

A somewhat related pet peeve of yours truly. If ONE MORE doctor's office asks me if I have had a hysterectomy, I WILL SCREAM! Bariatric Surgeon- okay Urologist/Nephrologist maybe okay Even PCP that I can condone But an Orthopaedic surgeon or an Otolaryntologist WTF do THEY have in mind? Maybe I had better not Hang Around and Find Out?😥💦😪

So an Skilled Ass**** beats an Inept Sweetie Pie in the Baiatrics Game? Hmmn, I Just Wonder?

Don't live in the land of Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda too long. I hem-hawed for years, listened to everybody tell me for a multitude of reasons why I wouldn't be a success. Almost left it TOO LONG, now atv72 I am facing my own surgery. Oh yes. I will heal, but for me it will be a long drawn- out affair. I wish I had the sense to do it at your age, when I was YOUNG.😪💦😪

And Rob has officially entered Two-fer-ville, if I don't make it there before my September 5th RnY, I plan to be there shortly after! Everybody wish me Luck!

But when you have a lot of weight bearing down on your "tootsies" the bones in your feet splay out, your ligaments and tendons try to hold everything in line together but eventually they scream ( about the time your👣 feet start hurting badly) No Mas! And give up the struggle!👣

Dr Trace Curry' s Place! I've seen a lot of his Ads. Helping A Lot of Us Bari-Pals down there! Think he may now have a Branch in Columbus. I'm having mine September 5th 7AM at OSU with Dr Bradley J Needleman-- head honcho of Bariatric Medicine and Metabolic Weight Loss Management. Ms Frustr8 went for the GOLD!

Whew but Thank You Missouri- Lee's Summit, this is why I now cherish YOU as MY FRIEND!😝🌈😝

And Shells I just went back and re-read the Trials, Trails, and Tribulations of Ms Shells the Iowan Beautym I did. this Because. Wednesday August 1st, whenever I stir from bed, I shall start my Dietary Purgatory, and just like the Real Purgatory it is going to take A LOT OF PRAYER to get set free! And I am going to do a 4 week- well a little over because I have mentally commited myself until Surgery Eve when I go clear liquids. This. will be my one and only venture, at 72, God doesn't grant You Do-Overs. So maximum time for maximum results. I want my undoubtedly NASH liver to be so smooth and sleek and slender Dr Needleman will find it a joy to operate on me! And I make up in determination what I might lack in good sense. So prayers, good wishes, round up an Indian Shaman or 2. Ms Frustr8 will be marching confidently into the future. Well I AM going to start out MARCHING by September 3 or 4 I may be dragging my scrawnier Self across the FINISH LINE. And on September 5th I shall roll through those big Double Doors into the Operational Theatre. There my surgeon Bradley J Needleman MD will be waiting in his blue scrubs, gowned and gloved, and prepared to work his magic upon me. 7 AM EST , It Is Going To Happen! First surgery of the Morning, so he v will be Bright Eyed and Bushy-Tailed. Told me it should last 1.5 hours, but if it is longer everybody else on the Surgery Schedule has to wait! First and maybe Only Time in My Life I've Got Preferential Treatment. Scared? Of Course Not! And Shells , even if it might happen and I don't v expect it to, if I don't wake up in v the Recovery Room I'll wake up in Heaven! A Win -Win situation either way!

Very Very Interesting. This well may be a benefit no one discloses.😝💦😝

I hope, on here, we will give you the answers you seek! We don't get very many correspondents from Germany so we will cherish you more. I believe the last was in January 2018 and having her surgery in Switzerland. Welcome Again!

Many, what I would consider, very. honest and factual answers on here. @ neversaynever I am awarding you the Uber-trophy. Not only do i feel your phraseology is superior, but I enjoy your pen name as well. You are saying " World - Never count Me Out!" Strong will and an defiant attitude will take you far!😝

Sweet pickle, Dill pickle or Bread and Butter pickles? Inquiring minds do want to know!

Humerus not an integer.Sheesh!