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I have a question about the drinking rules: Firstly, can you drink anything up to the point of eating.. for an example, they always bring you out a full glass of Water before your meal comes at restaurants like red lobster.... can you drink that water and then stop drinking when the food comes? or is there a period of time both BEFORE and AFTER that you cannot have a drink?

you need to get steristrips to seal it together or it will turn into an ugly scar. recently I had this happened when I was showering after laproscopic surgery on my elbow - the gap needs to be closed because its deeper than usual, and can easily get infected.

thats too low, you would have to boost yourself up to 35 bmi, and you would need two comorbidities

hey dont give up on med mutual. they do cover lap band. i am with medmutual - super med plus -- insurance under my families daimlerchrysler. they require six months of documentation of wlhistory (it can be anything though as long as its supervised) psych exam 5 year weight history PCP notes and any co morbidity documentation you have to support your claim im in the process of putting together my PreD packet now

Unlike what they stated in the seminar they wrote me documentation about what they found out from medical mutual! I am glad I have it in writing. " Documentation of supervised weight loss experience for six months. (includes my weight watchers experience) A complete diet history form. Please list hte various diets you have used over the years. Please not if you were overweight as a child or in your teen years.. ALso focus on your dieting efforts for the past five years. Documentation of your medical concerns related to your obesity. To begin the process, please take the enclosed forms. Also need outside psych exam. I am very pleased to have the go ahead that they have a file for me there. Really, the only thing I need to do is have all my doctors fax this information over to them. I am extremely P.Oed that the endocrinologist has not yet had acknowledged my patient information request. I might have to have my mother go on over there to get it done. The speed of getting my information for my PreD packet is based on the speed of all the doctors coming together. Monday the results of my labs will be ready to fax over to JH. Now the ball is rolling

Unlike what they stated in the seminar they wrote me documentation about what they found out from medical mutual! I am glad I have it in writing. " Documentation of supervised weight loss experience for six months. (includes my weight watchers experience) A complete diet history form. Please list hte various diets you have used over the years. Please not if you were overweight as a child or in your teen years.. ALso focus on your dieting efforts for the past five years. Documentation of your medical concerns related to your obesity. To begin the process, please take the enclosed forms. Also need outside psych exam. I am very pleased to have the go ahead that they have a file for me there. Really, the only thing I need to do is have all my doctors fax this information over to them. I am extremely P.Oed that the endocrinologist has not yet had acknowledged my patient information request. I might have to have my mother go on over there to get it done. The speed of getting my information for my PreD packet is based on the speed of all the doctors coming together. Monday the results of my labs will be ready to fax over to JH. Now the ball is rolling

i agree, I am also young, only three years older than you! (I am 20!) all my life I have struggled with the problem with food, not the problem with losing weight. I had lost sixty pounds during my first year in college, through extreme exercise (not learning how not to eat cake) -- and wham! I was hit with a chronic illness that screwed up my mobility and now I have gained 70 pounds! Very smart chica. When I was seventeen I was 200 pounds and just getting ready to graduate highschool

the problem I have with Star is that she use to preach on the show about how no body is going to change her and that she is comfortable in her own skin. She use to say big is beautiful and that she loved herself. For every woman who believed in her, she let everyone down. The second she got a "man" (who is definitely rumored to be gay) she up and got the procedure done to look good for him. And then she wrote a damn book about it!! not only is that tacky -- but it makes her a hypocrite and I really think she has zero credibility now. She should have just been honest about how she felt about herself. This wasnt for health it was for looks, and for security with some guy

Went to the PCP today. She is a slim woman with a dark pixie hair cut -- but instead of being pixie like - shes got a serious demeanor and "doctor shoes and a doctor outfit on". The EKG was alright.. I didnt really realize it wasnt that big of a deal, just stuck a buncha stickers on me and I was relieved that my heart is ok. I had been having palputations since gaining so much weight. I weighed in (with shoes) at 248 pounds. (thats a 40 BMI) yikes. My slim average was 188. (thats sixty pounds over... yuck) Im surprised im even recognizable. They took a blood sample and a urine test, and told me to call on monday so that they can fax everything to Jewish hospital. So basically, the hard part is over. All other information just needs to be faxed over, and since professionals tend not to listen to patients.. Jewish hospital might have to get that information themselves.

Went to the PCP today. She is a slim woman with a dark pixie hair cut -- but instead of being pixie like - shes got a serious demeanor and "doctor shoes and a doctor outfit on". The EKG was alright.. I didnt really realize it wasnt that big of a deal, just stuck a buncha stickers on me and I was relieved that my heart is ok. I had been having palputations since gaining so much weight. I weighed in (with shoes) at 248 pounds. (thats a 40 BMI) yikes. My slim average was 188. (thats sixty pounds over... yuck) Im surprised im even recognizable. They took a blood sample and a urine test, and told me to call on monday so that they can fax everything to Jewish hospital. So basically, the hard part is over. All other information just needs to be faxed over, and since professionals tend not to listen to patients.. Jewish hospital might have to get that information themselves.

celebrex never worked for me, ive been through darvocet celebrex methotrexate plaquenil, gold shots and lastly enbrel :-P

no, I wouldnt do it. All the statistics for errors are usually in the category of unexperienced or little- experienced doctors. I wouldnt want to be a guinea pig on this.. maybe if it was a microderm abrasion or something.. but not the lap band

horray congrats on your success! I love to hear about great things like this

you know, I weigh (probably) 240 + and people say the same thing about me because I wear a size 18/20. You dont have to be 400 pounds to need help with weightloss. I have struggled with food metabolism and stuff just like you -- I know how you feel, I hate that too

I was talking to my mother today and she jumped down my throat about talking about the band too much. :mad: i was offended, and i accidently started a statement like "as my mother you should... " needless to say she got seriously offended. I dont think my mother realizes how embarrassing it is for my old friends to see me 50-60 lbs heavier than when they last seen me.. I dont go see them. I have been in hiding. Rheumatoid arthritis made me into something I am not.. a hermit. I almost died when i saw my old bandmates a few weeks ago. What did they think? GOD how i miss being a size 14. They dont understand why i cant go running or i cant walk the mall for more than an hour on my feet because they hurt so much.. no body understands why I wont play my music. I cant even be seen on the stage this ugly and large. Its one thing to gain twenty thirty lbs, but fifty sixty is enough to make me sick. I have been having heart palputations... and I think my body cant belive how much harder it has to work just to keep me alive. i can barely have intimacy with my bf because I constantly think about how disgusting I must be. (not that he is mr buff or anything) but looking at myself, sometimes I stop and want to just die because I look nothing like how I did. last night I bought a pair of jeans in a size TWENTY.. that is sick. I have worked so hard before to go from a twenty down to a fourteen and now I am a twenty again. It wouldnt be so bad if i were halfway volumptuous.. but my gut is where all my weight is. I have NO clothes that fit me anymore. I want to cry when i put on my old clothes and they are so tight.. I hate having to buy all new stuff. And the selection is awful.. they are all just big nasty tents. I ahd worked SOOO hard to loose sooo much weight to gain it back with a serious disease. Why am i b eing punished? and my mom wants me to stop talking about this and wait til the summer== thhis is just the application process!!! No way will I stop working as hard as I can to make this happen. NOWAY. :mad: :mad: :mad: Well I need to have blood labs and an EKG to move foward with all the stuff I need to do. (like the submission process!!) so I cant make it to toledo for all this stuff because of school so I am currently getting a new Doctor PCP I have a list of about fifteen lady docs I wouldnt mind seeing. basically I need someone to run these tests. *didnt get my endocrinologist reports in the mail yet *need to send in for my five year PCP records from toledo (they require fifteen dollars from me!) I will probably do this tonight at the grocery store. tommorrow I am calling to see which doc is accepting new patients and to confirm their med mutual carrier status. Once I can get those labs done, and my info forwarded I should be able to start the actual submission process BTW, i think i will be able to come up with the six month dieting attempt records.

Tommorrow I am seeing a new PCP for the lab tests I need for the pre determination packet and whatnot. Instead of going to my hometown to see the doctor I just got a new one. I have been living alone in cincinnati for about three years, and everytime I get sick I end up having to go to the E.R. It would be much easier to have a doctor I can go to without having to drive for four hours to get there. I am happy about that. I am extremely disappointed at how slow Jewish hospital is at just comfirming that they have the first packet sent about my insurance info. Everytime I call, they say "we will call you". Its been about two weeks since I sent it, and all they have to do is call me back to tell me what I need to gather together for the predetermination packet. I think its pretty ridiculous, and I cant imagine how slowly it will be when they submit the packet if they cant even call to see whats needed in the damn packet. THe problem with everything is if they dont know who the hell I am, how am I going to get my weight history everything faxed to them. I have so many other doctors that are going to have to work with them so that just doesnt make any sense at all. I also called the endocrinologist and they claim that my REQUEST for my records hadnt come in yet. I might have to have the people at jewish send a request because they dont seem to listen to patients.

Tommorrow I am seeing a new PCP for the lab tests I need for the pre determination packet and whatnot. Instead of going to my hometown to see the doctor I just got a new one. I have been living alone in cincinnati for about three years, and everytime I get sick I end up having to go to the E.R. It would be much easier to have a doctor I can go to without having to drive for four hours to get there. I am happy about that. I am extremely disappointed at how slow Jewish hospital is at just comfirming that they have the first packet sent about my insurance info. Everytime I call, they say "we will call you". Its been about two weeks since I sent it, and all they have to do is call me back to tell me what I need to gather together for the predetermination packet. I think its pretty ridiculous, and I cant imagine how slowly it will be when they submit the packet if they cant even call to see whats needed in the damn packet. THe problem with everything is if they dont know who the hell I am, how am I going to get my weight history everything faxed to them. I have so many other doctors that are going to have to work with them so that just doesnt make any sense at all. I also called the endocrinologist and they claim that my REQUEST for my records hadnt come in yet. I might have to have the people at jewish send a request because they dont seem to listen to patients.

what does SV and NSV mean? :confused:

75 lbs whew! lucky duck!

I was reading and I heard from a members post that their insurance company sends their file through three different opinions before approval or denial, a regular guy, a nurse, and then a doctor for the final ok? I dont know what my problem but I kind of personify the insurance company. How much money do these companies have? I know that because I have a chronic illness I have gotten MORE than my fair share in what Ive sucked out of them, than what Ive paid. So when they get the files is it a panel of people with business suits on pondering and looking through it and prejudging you, or is it just a few coworkers checking off a criteria list? I know the local headquarter at medical mutual is huge, I cant imagine what the head company is like. Its very intimidating

hi guys, I am not banded but I am definitely considering it and have a few consultations with various doctors scheduled this month, but I wanted to ask what kind of eating habits did you have before being banded and whether or not you have been successful at losing the weight. If you have been successful at weightloss, are you where you hoped? Has anyone ever wished they had gotten at Reux-en-Y instead for the dumping syndrome? I personally have pretty screwy eating habits. In order to lose weight I have to be on a vegetarian/vegan diet (which i am off of now because of weakness). It is the ONLY time I have ever had success (a -60 lb success at that). The temptation that follows me is unbearable unless i completely restrict it out of my life. (and its still bad unless I have exercising like crazy - which I no longer can do because of degenerative joint disease/rheumatism) i wanted to know, can you guys resist getting 3 meximelts at taco bell instead of 2? are you still hungry or Truely full after restriction with just ONE taco? are you full, or FULL - like "this will do me for the rest of the night full"? what about golden coral? can you really fit down everything you would have desired? When did you stop desiring as much food as before? Is it a real desire? thanks

i wanted to thank everyone for your answers on eating before and after the band. I always thought I was different for being able to eat so much.. although I dont do it at every meal, it seems to be some months on and some months off where I get into these crazy food binges. I never packed in so much food that I got physically sick- i just think my stomach must be two foot ball sizes instead of one.

I was talking to my mother today and she jumped down my throat about talking about the band too much. i was offended, and i accidently started a statement like "as my mother you should... " needless to say she got seriously offended. I dont think my mother realizes how embarrassing it is for my old friends to see me 50-60 lbs heavier than when they last seen me.. I dont go see them. I have been in hiding. Rheumatoid arthritis made me into something I am not.. a hermit. I almost died when i saw my old bandmates a few weeks ago. What did they think? GOD how i miss being a size 14. They dont understand why i cant go running or i cant walk the mall for more than an hour on my feet because they hurt so much.. no body understands why I wont play my music. I cant even be seen on the stage this ugly and large. Its one thing to gain twenty thirty lbs, but fifty sixty is enough to make me sick. I have been having heart palputations... and I think my body cant belive how much harder it has to work just to keep me alive. i can barely have intimacy with my bf because I constantly think about how disgusting I must be. (not that he is mr buff or anything) but looking at myself, sometimes I stop and want to just die because I look nothing like how I did. last night I bought a pair of jeans in a size TWENTY.. that is sick. I have worked so hard before to go from a twenty down to a fourteen and now I am a twenty again. It wouldnt be so bad if i were halfway volumptuous.. but my gut is where all my weight is. I have NO clothes that fit me anymore. I want to cry when i put on my old clothes and they are so tight.. I hate having to buy all new stuff. And the selection is awful.. they are all just big nasty tents. I ahd worked SOOO hard to loose sooo much weight to gain it back with a serious disease. Why am i b eing punished? and my mom wants me to stop talking about this and wait til the summer== thhis is just the application process!!! No way will I stop working as hard as I can to make this happen. NOWAY. :eek: :mad: :mad: Well I need to have blood labs and an EKG to move foward with all the stuff I need to do. (like the submission process!!) so I cant make it to toledo for all this stuff because of school so I am currently getting a new Doctor PCP I have a list of about fifteen lady docs I wouldnt mind seeing. basically I need someone to run these tests. *didnt get my endocrinologist reports in the mail yet *need to send in for my five year PCP records from toledo (they require fifteen dollars from me!) I will probably do this tonight at the grocery store. tommorrow I am calling to see which doc is accepting new patients and to confirm their med mutual carrier status. Once I can get those labs done, and my info forwarded I should be able to start the actual submission process BTW, i think i will be able to come up with the six month dieting attempt records.

i wanted to say congradulations on fifty pounds lost! thats a huge achievement in itself. 1/4 of the way done. Never overlook that!!

i have tried xenical.. its ok, if you like oily panties.