Teresa L. Foster

LAP-BAND Patients

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I have had issues with my weight every since I can remember. In third grade I can remember crying after stepping on the scales and it read 105 pounds, 105 in third grade! My family moved every year due to my fathers work as a Master Plumber. Instead of working away from his family we would just pack up and move to where my dad was working. So my entire life was spent trying to get to know the new kids and to fit in. It was very difficult due to me and my entire family being heavy. My three younger sisters and I were always picked on and called names because of our weight. When I became a young teenager I took my weight into my own hands and began to hardly eat anything. I wouldn't eat breakfast and I no longer ate meals at school in Jr. High. at supper time I would have very little to eat. I spent a lot of time doing sit ups and jumping on the trampoline. As the weight began to drop off it motivated me all the more to not eat. At the age of 15yrs. 5'-7" I went from 165 pounds down to 118 pounds. When I once stepped on the scales and mistakenly read 115 pounds I began to get frightened that I had taken my weight loss to far. This was just the start of my roller coaster dieting. As an adult I have lost more than eighty pounds at a time by taking a diet pill callled phentergen, walking seven miles a day, six days a week with an extra 20 pounds on me (5 pounds on each ankle and 5 pounds in each hand). Of coarse when my goal weight was in sight I would end up pregnant. Six children later and a lot more weight it was time to do something more permanently. I was afraid of what the diet pills were doing to my heart. So begins my journey towards Lap Band. I have been trying to be approved since 2005-2006. After my first denial I went back on the diet pills and lost weight just to put it back on. After a second appeal to the Ins. Company I fainally was approved June 24, 2009. Of coarse it has been a long jourrney and I have learned that you are your own advocate! I called the insurance company and the Insurance Specialist at the surgons office numerous times. I feel a lot of the delays were due to the Insurance Specialist at the surgons office. I feel like she dropped my case and wasn't at all aggressive. Even after my letter of approval, I had to call her and the Ins. Co. on a weekly basis Due to surgons office not receiving exactly what they needed. I litterally called her every week to see if I could be scheduled for surgery yet and to see what I could do to speed the process up. Her response was no because she needed more info from ins co with specific codes and so on. I would call the Ins. Co. and they would say that I was approved for the correct code and procedure and if my surgons office was requesting more info then they needed to call. I spent a lot of time on the phone back and forth with the surgons office and the Ins. Co. It always came down to the Ins. Co. needing the surgons office to call and request information, NOT me requesting information on part of the surgons office. I don't feel that the Ins. Specialist at the surgons office did her job very well. Like I said I learned that you are your own advocate. Keep after the Insurance Specialist and the Ins. Co.

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I was born in North Platte, Nebraska. I have lived in Wyoming and Colorado as a child. I married my husband, Stacey feb. 1992. We have six children three boys and three girls, ages 15, 13, 11, 9, 5 & 3. I currently work at Piper's Dental Clinic.
Interests
Making Homemade Soy Candles, Chapstick, Smelly Jellie Airfresheners and Crafts
Occupation
Denatal Assistant and Orthadontic Assistant
City
Sutherland
State
Nebraska
Zip Code
69165

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Not loosing weight.
Not loosing weight.

Teresa L. Foster posted a blog entry in Blog 73085

Hi everyone, I was banded Aug 11th. I initially was loosing weight the first week or so. I am now down 18 pounds since surgery. I havent been loosing weight in quite a while. I am concerned bc I am now at 6.5 cc in a 10cc band. I am able to eat quite a bit more than the 2 oz. at a setting that I've read our pouch will hold. Are there others out there besides me that had to have more than 6.5 oz. to feel good restriction. I have never gotten sick and I dont know what the term sliming means. I'm just a bit disappointed in the weight loss not happening quicker and not feeling the restiction I keep reading about. What do you think?
- October 22, 200916 yr
- 4 comments
Not loosing weight.
Not loosing weight.

Teresa L. Foster commented on Teresa L. Foster's blog entry in Blog 73085

Hi everyone, I was banded Aug 11th. I initially was loosing weight the first week or so. I am now down 18 pounds since surgery. I havent been loosing weight in quite a while. I am concerned bc I am now at 6.5 cc in a 10cc band. I am able to eat quite a bit more than the 2 oz. at a setting that I've read our pouch will hold. Are there others out there besides me that had to have more than 6.5 oz. to feel good restriction. I have never gotten sick and I dont know what the term sliming means. I'm just a bit disappointed in the weight loss not happening quicker and not feeling the restiction I keep reading about. What do you think?
- October 22, 200916 yr
- 4 comments
Hiatal Hernia Repair and Lap Band Post Op Diet
Hiatal Hernia Repair and Lap Band Post Op Diet

Teresa L. Foster replied to Jencaldwell's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A

I also had the Laps Band with Hiatal hernia repair August 12, 2009. I have had bad chest pain especially on my left side. Each time I take a deep breathe it really hurts. Today I am actually feeling better. I hope this means I'm on the road to recovery. Is it the Hiatal Hernea repair that causes so much pain?
- August 14, 200917 yr
- 18 replies

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