Frustr8

So @ Yessican, was this new MD what you needed and are you going forward on your Weight Loss plans? If you have p8sted again, I think I may have missed it???

And, although you are"Smarter than the Average Bear" as Yogi Bear would say in the cartoons, you are also Smart enough to have seen Good surgeries, actions that improved each life, and seen happy outcomes. As a Nurse you are not centered on illness as our Pysician brothers and sisters are, but on health and better life outcomes. We are caregivers in the truest sense, so give a little of THAT to yourself. Instead of Physician, ?heal Thyself, it will be Nurse Sustain Yourself, Be kind to Yourself! You have been and will continue to be the PERFECT,PERSON FOR THIS JOB!??

And a little " There go I except for the Grace of God, if I hadn't done this Bariatric Intervention!", don't have to PREACH it, your life, actions and weight loss should be sufficient! And All ? from Central Ohio and ME!

And someday yet I will gain coyrage, like you did, to show the changes in ME, they are still subtle to many people but I can start to See some Fat Cacoon starting ? to Crack Off! Hoping to Still be Less the Woman I started Out Here With! And IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN! SW319 current 279 and DROPPING, thanks be to my surgeon, Bariatric Pal and a still-liquid diet. And I'd like think I MIGHT HAVE a small stake here myself!

Better lay off the Halloween ? don't want you looking like the Thanksgiving Turkey, although a Mini-taste is so so good for the Soul, and Glory Glory your new installed Appestat did Work! ? from me in Central Ohio to YOU!

And I think I read in Germany and the Netherlands, they don't stop or restrict your bread intake, big bread- eating populations there!??

Well Macadamia, soon 2 MONTHS for YOU and I, still going Good?

My suggestion is Rather Good if I say so. Sams Choice Organic & Vegan Protein Broth, my Nutritionist groaned but it has stayed down for ME, and when you are entering 9 weeks post I'll take Stomach ?where I can find IT!???

So Who is Stalled this 1st Fine November Sunday? Who has just come out of one? And who else like me hasn't had ONE yet?

Latest rebooking of EGJ, my newest endoscopy,November 9th at 2:50pm, please Lord, let this be the "Money ?Shot"Prayers, Good Wishes or At least, think of ME then!

Waving ✋ my hand and slowly and limply. Surgery was wonderful, so was my post-surgery days, until I started chanting "I am thinking I am developing A Stricture" and them saying No You Aren't 1 it still is early 2 You're swollen inside 3 You never had one before 4 We are the professionals, not you! 5 Give yourself a month or so, we doubt it and you! 6 Do you desire that much being the center of the universe? And guess who was right? ME Me ME! Took them untill October 12 to do an endoscopy, yep stricture measuring,9mm, And also 5 or 6 brand new ulcers, 2 within the pouch and the remainder on the back wall of my Jejunem. And this was 1 time I would have wished to be wrong.That time didn't work, neither did October and 26 and this Friday, November 9th,i get explored once again! May this be the "? Money Shot! Fearful may need eventual open surgery, no they didn't say so, but my inner Medical Geekness, maybe so?

Chuck Walsh, your program might give you a Pass if you're taking 2 a day. I take 1 prenatal, smallish, not expensive, I take one of WalMart's more generic brands I think Spring Valley. Any way both OSU, my Bariatric surgery program and my local "bandaid" station Knox Community Hospital in my town have said my vitamin levels are 99% perfect, also my minerals.I take liquid calcium,citrate 2 times and have been on Magnesium 1000 a day to prevent leg cramps, take 2 250 pills in Am and 2 more in evening, that adds up to right amount. Now take the sublingual B12 from Bariatric Pal store, 1000 and my NP was extremely happy with them. Used to take extra vitamin A and D before surgery, have not to re-add them.. Of course I will have a 3 month lab check to,my levels before my 3 month. It is a joy to no longer grind those twice daily chewables, nasty doing, vile tasting, and I think would gag the average maggot!

And alas, it still continues. Next Friday , 9th November I go for another attempt to repair this stricture endoscopically. And I am beginning to fear I will never get better. I basically am still on strained soups , brothses, protein drinks, half strenght punches and juices and water water water..

And babycakes, celebrate when it does and for the majority it will. You don't want to move to Stricture City with me! Oh it's an exclusive location, but. it's lonely there. You might be in the penthouse, but there are few to talk to- And every time you think you have found a buddy theirs gets fixed. You are left sad , sorrowful and querying "Why me Lord? I wanted to heal perfect too!" Well attempt #3 will be this Friday the 9th of November, 2 months, 4 days after the initial surgery. All shamans, medicine men and others of this ilk, Frustr8 wants made All Better!???

My Carafate are huge white kinda oval pills, I have to pour boiling or very hot water on them. let them soften , I usually use a shot glass, let it cool and then stir up the slurry. And lucky lucky me, I get to do this every 6 hours around the clock. Either Dr Noria my Bariatric Surgeon / endoscopist has great faith that this is going to shrink/eradicate my 5or6 newer ulcers or she is benefiting from a major drug industry kickback! And it has all the charm of ingesting white flour paste.?

Yep thats how the place got its name , most Daddy's people were between Newark in Licking County and Zaneville in Muskingum county which has the dubious honors of being half-way between Columbus and Pittsburgh Pa, at least that's what THEY say, to me it looks they're closed to Columbus and the famous Y-Bridge where the Licking and Muskingum Rivers join. Never liked Zanesville, thought it was too dirty, had some kinfolk around Newell WVa, I always thought the whole upper peninsula of WV a is THAT WAY. They also probably didn't like me either! ?LOL

Maybe that rotten little kid that walked up to me and asked Are you fat or just a Lady? maybe with a shape again he won't be confused. I really wanted to tell him--- Go PLAY in traffic Junior--- but it wouldn't be very nice of me!

That's why I took Roux N. Rabbit with me, nurses probably thought Poor Thing, she needs her Sleepy Bunny, don't care if the thought I had regressed to childhood , she was soft and gentle against my Tum Tum! Thank you for marking her down after Mothers Day WalMart! Think I paid a dollar for hers best 4 quarters I ever spent!

You and I better move to Egypt, we are going to be build like the Great Pyramids!

jflower Gummies Bad, most doctors will tell you, the HIGH SUGAR/Syrup content is a No-No, especially when you are cutting/deleting carbs!

So instead of Seasonal Affective Disorder, you have Summer Affective Disorder,stand to reason there would be some, you are just rarer and don't have the benefit of good PR. Remember there was someone on the Learning channel, seems to me a Lady, anyhoo. she had relocated from Upper Midwest to Florida, got so sick she liked to die, only thing that cured her? To move back to Minnesota, the suns rays at the lower latitude of Florida and angles of the suns rays about did the poor lady in!

Don't be scared, almost all posters have gone through it and no one has died from apprehension. No fears, no tears around HERE it is the brand new start at life, and life abundant. YOU CAN DO IT AND DO IT WELL! Promise✋?!

Don't know if the iron infusions hurt, but baby the shots sure do, they do what they call Z-track, but they sting and then ache & ache.

heaves*** I just feel like "graves" are next!

Only too doggone well. I have it too and I am a bypasser with a stricture, I foam but then also puke it up. And even if it was a small amount I puke. a disproportinate long time, go from foam,slime , food to slime and then dry graves. That's why I am still on Zofran, when my original 2 week script ran out PCP. wrote me one. And My surgeon's partner Dr Noria says to stay on it until she gets me fixed. CrissyB said it took 3 times for hers stretch Back out to normal-- but now she can eat food.???