Well, you may have gathered from the topic title that my last appointment did not go well. I think you could call that an understatement. As many of you will have seen from my last posting I have been having huge problems with Water retention and water tablets not working. I decided to return to my old water tablets on the day of my appointment and did lose 9lbs of water in just over 3.5 hours. Hooray! So that helped alot but I was still carrying at least another 5lbs extra water.

Soooo, I went and got weighed and then we had the talk...obviously I had not lost the 5% required and therefore they could not put me forward for surgery. (I had lost the weight but then had the problem with the water tablets and gained water weight!) I explained about the water tablets (that they insisted should be changed!) but it didn't help at all. The woman I was dealing with was just so unhelpful and unfeeling. I showed her my ankles (they were measuring over 16 inches and so full of water/oedema it was impossible to miss) She said and I quote " lots of people have water tablets and they all manage to lose the 5% required!" I was devastated. I asked to speak to someone else above her as I couldn't believe her attitude. The upshot is they are giving me another two weeks to reach the 5% goal. I hope I can do it but with all this water still hanging around I am seriously worried, as they still want me to use the other tablets!!!!! Are they mad, what part of, they are not working, don't they understand. Sometimes I really worry about the NHS and their not too bright staff. (that is not really fair as most people are just brilliant - I was just really 'lucky' and got the moron!)

So here we go again, the milk diet for another two weeks (that will make a total of 8 weeks) and if by week one the water is just sitting there I am definitely going against their advice and using my old tablets! Sorry for going on, but I really needed to get that off my chest.

Had to go and see my own doctor the other day and thank goodness I did. He has put me back on my old water tablets, I have lost the extra water weight and another 3lbs ordinary 'fat' weight Hooray! He says I can stay on these water tablets until I have reached the required weight and then he will look into changing them. (He thinks that if I get through and have the surgery fairly quickly that I won't need them for much longer anyway) Thank heavens for the voice of reason. I feel so much happier and know that they will have to accept me now as I have lost the 5% already. I will carry on with the diet until I seem them again though, just to be sure and hopefully lose some more weight so I can really tell 'that woman' where to shove it.

Phoenix I am glad you are back on your old H20 pills. I am praying you lose whatever is needed for you to have your surgery. That is the exact reason I pray everyday that the Obamacare that was pasted in the USA will be repealled!!!! We would have to go through all the trials you have been going through and then some. Social medicine is not for the good of the people in my book. Anyway, please let me know how you are doing. Make sure you are exercising as that should help too. Wish i was there to help. Lots of helpful and encouraging angels are on their way to you!!!

Aw, thanks SmokyMtnGal,

I am doing some walking but that is about all I can manage at the moment. Partly because of bad knees and the fact that I haven't eaten anything for the last 7 weeks. I just get so tired. Still I am happy to have lost the weight I needed to lose and I plan to lose a little extra so I am well within their guidelines. How's everything going with you?