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For My Birthday(4/18) I Just Want A Surgery Date

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Mzflaningam    34

Mzflaningam
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Ok I have been browsing the site for a few months and have posted a few times but now i want to introduce myself. I am a 22 year old mother of 3 and want to live better for my kids and be able to keep up with them. I have battled with my weight my whole like and the last 20lbs i can really feel i get out of breathe my knees hurt really bad.... so my pcm brought up the lap band after a few other weight loss fails ... so i went to the seminar on march 5... met with NP and mental health eval on march 16... did labs on the 19th.. nutrician class on april 5... n approval on april 13. I have tricare south prime and herd horror stories about getting approved so when i called tricare n they said aproved i was soo freaking happy. now i am anxiously waiting to find out my lap band birthday??? My dr officae could call me any min now lol

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yellowrose88    43

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Happy Birthday and hope your wish comes soon quickly. Good luck!

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Sandrie    23

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Happy birthday. I'm on the same boat got my surgery date yesterday but now don't know what to do either the lap band or ibandlap? Which surgery are u doing?

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TexasSoccerMom    26

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Happy Birthday and I hope you get the call you are waiting on.

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Mzflaningam    34

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Happy birthday. I'm on the same boat got my surgery date yesterday but now don't know what to do either the lap band or ibandlap? Which surgery are u doing?

What the difference between the 2? I believe it's the lap band system though

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Mzflaningam    34

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Happy Birthday and I hope you get the call you are waiting on.

Sadly I didn't get the call :( however there is tomorrow lol i am just impatient I think I don't hear from them by Friday I will call find out what's going on... How long you think I should wait?

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Sandrie    23

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The iband, is what they are calling it. But it's the Lap band and gastric plication. Gastric plication is when the stomach is folded in half and stitched. It looks like the sleeve but without cutting or stapling. I feel like its too much to recover from cuz I do have three kids too and my husband works nights. So I'm basically alone. The doctor suggests me doing this for better results and a little faster in weight loss. But I have researched it's been a few candidates since its still new.

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mags2u    57

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HaPpY~BirThdAy and congrats on making one of the best decisions of your life. My final "fat straw" that broke the camel's back WAS my back. I have a herniated disc in my back and was tired of hurting. Kind of like when Dr. Phil says, "how is fat working out for you?" Well it wasn't working out too well for me. I was banded 1/10/12 and have lost 46lbs. Definitely know this is a process and takes time. Hope you get your call soon for your date. Best of luck to you and keep us posted!~

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Jepegurl    23

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The iband' date=' is what they are calling it. But it's the Lap band and gastric plication. Gastric plication is when the stomach is folded in half and stitched. It looks like the sleeve but without cutting or stapling. I feel like its too much to recover from cuz I do have three kids too and my husband works nights. So I'm basically alone. The doctor suggests me doing this for better results and a little faster in weight loss. But I have researched it's been a few candidates since its still new.[/quote']

I don't think most docs are doing the Iband yet. But it sounds interesting... There is a girl on here that recently had it done in Texas but I can't remember her name.

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mags2u    57

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They say weight loss is much faster and they are seeing better results than band? But I do think it is newer.

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Jepegurl    23

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They say weight loss is much faster and they are seeing better results than band? But I do think it is newer.

Since I was really considering the sleeve, this seems like a decent compromise. But for now, I'll never know!

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Sandrie    23

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Since I was really considering the sleeve' date=' this seems like a decent compromise. But for now, I'll never know![/quote']

My surgeon recommended it for me but with the lap band. It's like two surgeries in one. I feel like that would be too much. But it's a great alternative to the sleeve.

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Mzflaningam    34

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You guys think I should call them it's been like four days? If not how long should I wait?

I am just afraid cause I got a new number n I left it with the patient advocate but that's not the same person who schedules the surgery

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Sandrie    23

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I think you should call them. I was like u I never would receive a call and I just called them. My doctors office is always busy probably yours too.

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Mzflaningam    34

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I GOT THE CALL May 10th I will be banded eeek start my pre op diet apr 26

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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