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Anyone have any thoughts on the recent lawsuit? What about thoughts on Mexico joining in?

Sorry for the misinformation. I have got to stop smoking crack.

Nope, never too late to join! Just add yourself and your info to the spreadsheet. We just completed week one, and are on week two.

So I looked up info on gallbladder, and it says the sharp pains are on the right side. Mine are all on my left side under my left breast. The pains have subdued, and I can eat, but it seems I vomit at least once a day (not full-on vomiting, but regurgitating what I just ate).

I had to have a slight unfill on Friday (band was suddenly tight) and the person who did it used numbing medication. OMG, I am going to request it every time from now on.

Yeah, I didn't go to her blog. I'm just surprised that the website she wrote this to didn't have more people comment about the flat out lies she wrote.

Oh, and in case you want to discuss your "easy way out" with the author who as never suffered from a weight problem, here's her e-mail address: kellycturner@hotmail.com

There is so much in this article that is just wrong, it drives me nuts. I colored the last line in red. Seriously? If you don't *really* work for it, you won't be proud? The Dangers of the Weight Loss Surgery Craze By food. It’s expensive, invasive, dangerous (1 in 350 people die) and irreversible. It’s forced starvation, yet many people gain the weight back because they still don’t know how to eat properly and over time stretch the remaining portion back out. Vomiting is also very common as most people are unable to decipher hunger cues and over fill the stomach. The Lap Band surgery is the same principle, blocking off part of the stomach, except a rubber band is placed around the stomach. The band often slips, and has to be fixed with more surgery. Your tiny tummy doesn’t allow you to eat more than a few bites of food at a time, which makes getting a well balanced diet nearly impossible, and causes many Vitamin and mineral deficiencies (but who cares if you’re thin, right!?) Because of the shrunken stomach, patients must follow a strict diet to reduce complications and to not damage the stomach after surgery. If you have to follow a strict diet anyway, why not just follow a healthy one to lose weight, and leave surgery out of it? Liposuction is a cosmetic surgery where fat is sucked directly from the body. People often look to lipo as a miracle cure, but lipo is meant to be a spot treatment, to lipo multiple areas of the body can be very traumatic and a horribly painful recovery. Fat and blood clots can occur and travel to the lungs causing death. Nerves and skin can be damaged causing intense pain and a puckered, bruised, wrinkly appearance. And you thought making it into the gym was painful. Approximately 1/3 of people who have weight loss surgery need a followup surgery to fix complications. You need to learn how to eat healthily to make a lifelong change. Something got you over weight in the first place, and until you start taking care of yourself the right way, and not the easy way, that weight will come right back on- even after a major surgery. Besides, if you didn’t work for it, will you ever really be proud of it?

I agree that even 3 months out, you're still not completely healed. I ended up in the ER almost three months out from intense abdominal pain. Turns out I had popped an internal stitch from coughing so much (I had bronchitis).

I'll admit, I was once one of those people who thought weight loss surgery was the "easy way out". Why did I think this? I was doing weight watchers hard core and struggling to lose (PCOS). I frequented their message boards for support, and it was a common theme you hear: "WLS is taking the easy way out". It got so I believed it, too. Until I realized I was only 28, weighing over 300lbs, on the verge of being diabetic and probably not seeing my daughter grow up. That's when I knew I needed something more. I haven't been back to a WW meeting or the website because I know what kind of anger and venom they have towards those who have had WLS.

Like butt sex.

I believe most of us started last sunday or Monday. I weigh in every Friday, so I'm just using that as the weight I record.

The thing is, I don't feel tight. I just have a sharp stabbing pain when I eating sometimes. It doesn't happen at every meal and sometimes the same meal will hurt one day but not the next.

Anyone else have this? I haven't had a fill since the beginning of May (almost two months). In the last ten days, I've suddenly developed a weird pain. Sometimes when I eat (no matter what I eat or how fast I eat) I get a sharp stabbing pain under my right breast. It's not when I've eaten a lot or eaten the wrong thing. It normally happens after just 1-2 bites. It happens at least once a day. I often have to burp back up or try and vomit what I've just eaten to relieve the pain. I talked to the Dr and they think my band might suddenly be too tight (again, I haven't had a recent fill). They had me come in this morning and took .3cc out. If it doesn't improve, then they think theres the possibility of a band slip. My question is, has anyone's band suddenly become "too tight", even without a recent fill?

Banded at 28, would have done it 18 if I could have.

I'm bumping the spreadsheet up: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ApBMiLjvkwExdEh3eXQwZ2JOemthWHRhaWRZMldpR2c&hl=en&authkey=CIbr1NIE#gid=0 just add your name and weight if you haven't yet!

Are you actually in downtown Houston, or are you in the outskirts area? I know of a fabulous tailor, but he's in Atascocita, about 30 minutes north of Houston.

I have had an emergency unfill, but not in the ER. I had been vomiting up everything, including water and saliva, for 24 hrs. My surgeon was worried about me becoming dehydrated and had me come in at 8am the next day (it was a Sunday). It took him two pokes, and it hurt like nothing else I've ever known. Of course, he had to go through the bruise that had formed from the fill two days prior. He ended up doing a complete unfill because I was showing signs of dehydration. I waited three weeks before getting refilled, only because I was so swollen (from the vomiting) and weak.

I had surgery 3/15 and my incision still seeps fluid. Then again, my Dr only glued mine shut, not sewed or stapled it, so it's takign forever to heal.

I had only a single incison through my belly button.

I don't believe it makes you stupid to get your news information from Fox. I think it makes you stupid to get your news from ONLY Fox (or CNN, or NBC, ABC, CBS, the Huffington Post, etc). If I read something on a news station, I automatically try and find another source. I don't think any one news station is best to find ALL your news needs- they're all slanted to pander to their audience. Variety is best.

For whatever reason, the spreadsheet won't load on the first click for me. I have to close it and try again, and it always works. Let me know if it's still not working for some of you.

I've revised the spreadsheet and added a column next to our current weight for you to put your (challenge) goal weight, where you want to be by Christmas.

Yes, juts add your name to the spreadsheet! And we are starting tomorrow, so make sure you put your start weight as what you weigh in at tomorrow.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ApBMiLjvkwExdEh3eXQwZ2JOemthWHRhaWRZMldpR2c&hl=en&authkey=CIbr1NIE#