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If you have worms you can also google this. There will be plenty of information, including solutions, about this problem on line. But, as for the best way to clean out your intestines, I suspect that it is the stuff they require you to take at home before a colonoscopy. That stuff will certainly empty you out! And you don't need a prescription. Just go to your pharmacist and ask him/her. It might not get rid of worms, though. They might have a way of embedding themselves in the bowel lining. Do google for more info. And good luck with this problem.

Yes, I had one with a girlfriend and her boyfriend. It didn't work out that well for my girlfriend. Her boyfriend paid a little too much attention to me because I was new to him. We also had a foursome. That worked out much better.

Yep, I am like Fanny Adams. I tend to be book retentive. I stopped going to the library years and years ago. I said that this was because of my fear of germs but really it is because I like to keep what I read. I also like to have a stock of unread material on hand in case I get laid up with a broken leg or some other catastrophe. This ended working out well for me when I got cancer this past March. I had tons of stuff around the house to read. In fact I still haven't read everything in my personal library. This is because some of my books are deeply buried behind others. I really should spend a couple of days unearthing them, shouldn't I?

We had a guy, Stockwell Day, who believed in Creationism run for Prime Minister of Canada a few years ago. He had been elected head of one of our two major parties but the electorate didn't take him seriously after the media kept saying that Stockwell was a guy who believed that The Flintstones was a documentary. He and his party were soundly trounced.

I love reading and I was buying a lot of books when I was fat, when I was too fat to find clothes that I liked, and yet was in the mood for a little shopping. And people have given me their books when downsizing and I inherited my mum's books. As a result, I have quite a few books which I haven't read yet. About the only good thing about being laid up with cancer over these past 7-8 months is that I have had the chance to do a lot of reading (and I have been feeling too crappy to do any shopping). This meant that a lot of my books finally got read (and I saved a lot of money). Red shoes can look nice with navy, I think.

I have never had a pedi but I do have a helluva lot of books - 11 bookcases and most of these have two layers of books on them. I should try having a pedi. I have ugly feet, big (size 10.5) and bony, and even though I am Canadian people do see a lot of them. This is because we take our shoes/boots off when we are indoors and I almost never wear socks. I should do people who see my feet a favour and have a pedi.

Ugh! Mine periods were horrible. A couple of days of insanity followed by 24 hours of terrible cramps and diarhea. And I started really young. I turned 10 in July and got my first period at the beginning of September. Because I never wanted children I thought that all this suffering was most unfair and I was always trying to find a doc who would remove the apparatus that was causing me so much grief. I was relieved when I crashed into an early menopause. So relieved that I refused HRT for the first five years, then tried it for a couple of years in my late 40s before going back off of it. With menopause I did suffer from hot flashes for about a decade and I do have osteopenia. You are lucky that your periods were/are easy.

Yah, she is probably over it. And why do people call their animals "furbabies?" I have cats but I would never refer to them as furbabies even though I don't have children. My pets are animals, specifically cats, who live with me and my husband. They are not my children. I love animals and find them very interesting but not at all childlike.

John McCain - Lost in Space

Yah, the link didn't work for me, either.

Ebony, you raise good points which I had never thought of before. Thanks for your reply.

I would never get implants. My breasts are small and I prefer them this way. I like the European look in clothing styles, I think that it is more elegant, and those women are smaller breasted. Women look more petite, more delicate, more chic with small breasts. Also smaller breasts are easier on the back and shoulders. I have a friend who had hers reduced and loves being smaller.

Having your head adjust to your new smaller body is a common problem. I have gone from 200 lbs to 116 and I was recently 108.8 but I still like to wear baggy, "floaty" clothes, however, even though this drives my maw-in-law nuts. She is a big chesty woman who used to be a sexpot and who still likes to wear her clothes sprayed on. I guess we like to stick with what we know, eh. I guess my biggest change is that I now wear great big wide belts around my (baggy) outfits. I still find it amazing that I can wear a belt and that, moreover, the belt looks really, really great. I guess that this is my NSV. But back to the subject: even at an emaciated 108.8, and I looked like an insect, there was a little part of me that still felt tubby. I guess we never really lose completely that sense of being mama's little fatty. Or maybe this takes many years to lose.......

We Greens are a mix of fatties and skinnies. My kid brother and I were the blonde chunky ones (we took after an aunt) who had to watch ourselves while the middle brother took after both of my parents, brunette and naturally slender. In my 20s I lost the beef and did not gain weight again until menopause. My mum went into menopause at the age of 39 and I was 41. She and I gained weight in exactly the same way even though I have never had a kid and she had had three; our arms and legs, hands and feet remained slim but our torsos bloated up hugely. She used to joke that she looked like a pregnant spider. Before I got the band, I did, too. This was definitely an apple-type weight gain pattern. Long after I went into menopause people used to ask me if I was pregnant. I definitely do believe that genetics can play a role in one's weight issues. Some folks get more miles to the gallon and there once was a time (in prehistory) when this was an excellent survival mechanism. Along with genetics there are those issues of portion control, level of physical activity, and the type of foods that we are eating. All of these factors play their parts in this problem of weight control.

I think that you might be more conservative than you think. Twelve year old girls who have access to television and the internet and media savvy friends are pretty sophisticated and the outfit which you described sounds more like what teenage private school girls do once they are off school property; they like to roll up their skirts, tie their shirt tails, etc. Don't worry so much about what your daughter sees when she is out with you, would be my advice. It is better that she experience the variety of life while under your guidance, don't you think, than later on when she is out with friends or on her own. It sounds as though you are giving her a grounded home life - you are, afterall, out doing things together as a family - and this will result in her growing up to be a solid individual, one who can look at an outfit like that and figure out that it is not appropriate dress and why it is not.

I have gone from a C to an A cup. I have gone from 200 lbs to 108.8 lbs. This is underweight and I am hoping to stabilize at around 120 lbs.

I was only able to climax by penetration but I could do this super easily. Now that I am on anti-depressants I don't climax at all. On the other hand, I am pretty cheerful even though I no longer have a sex drive. I fake it now for the husband's sake. I figure that it is the least I can do.

I went into menopause when I was 41. My mum went into menopause when she was 39. She had her last period 6 weeks after my kid brother was born and that was the end of it for her. She took no HRT and lived to be 87. I am not on HRT. I tried it briefly about 3 years after my periods stopped but I didn't enjoy getting my periods again; I am one of those women who always had bad periods. I did have a lot of hot flashes for a number of years after I stopped getting my period. The hot flashes were a real drag but then so was getting my period.

Tapeworm is good.... Do you have a name for the little fella?

BBK - The impression that I received from reading your mother's letter was that she sounds like quite the manipulative drama queen. This letter was, and make no mistake, all about her and her feelings and the maintenance of her self-image of herself as your mother; it really has little or nothing to do with you except, of course, that it says very hurtful and destructive things. It has been both my personal experience and my observation from looking at the relationships of my friends that the parent-child relationship is the most psychologically loaded relationship one will ever have. I know that I have fully recovered from bad marriages and romances but that I still at my advanced age will dwell on the damage done to me as a child by my incompetent yet loving parents. Indeed, this is why I still see a therapist. My parents are now dead. I have found this to be surprisingly relaxing. That sense of guilt they gave me is gone.

If you don't want to tell folks about the band, just tell them that you are practising portion control. In point of fact the band helps us with really only that one thing: it is a barrier against gluttony. What we choose to continue to eat, protein and vitamin rich heathy foods or junk, is up to us. I have always preferred real food to junk but I was a real piggy at the table. After being banded, I did, however, overhaul my eating habits. This and finding myself physically blocked from eating the amounts I used to eat made the band a very positive experience for me.

Actually I have just finished up with the chemo. It is likely that I am cancer free. Certainly my tumor is gone and it was a biggie. I will be getting a full body scan next month just to ensure that it hasn't spread anywhere else but this is unlikely since there was no sign of spreading when I first began my treatments. Now I just have to recover from the cancer cure - the radiation and the chemotherapy. Both types of treatment are extremely hard on the body as they are extremely toxic; of course they have to be in order to kill off the cancerous cells. I am gaining an appetite and weight, though. I never thought that that would be a good thing. LOL

Thanks, Jack. Those are nice words to hear.

Same here. I treated it like any other surgery. Smoked, ate, and drank liquids the night before. Went in and had an easy surgery and a fun recovery thanks to the terrific pain meds.

Hi, Wheets. I haven't been posting much since I was diagnosed with cancer of the right larynx. The treatments have really been knocking me out. I am now, they believe, (there is one scan still pending) cancer free but the chemo and the radiation have left me exhausted and bald. I will say one thing, cancer is very slimming. I now weigh an anorexic 109.8 lbs and that is with a defilled band. I have enough spare skin that I could repave a whole family of burn victims. In fact, undressed I kinda look like a Sharpei. This is very weird for me. I have never ever been skinny! Of course, I have never been bald, either. BJean is still around but the rest of the old gang seem to have dropped off the site. I miss 'em. I have missed you. How is the pregnancy coming along? Feel free to give me a PM if you like.