Hi I'm maziemommy-

Anyone else from around here?

Anyone else share the same doc?"Christopher Edwards "

If you are looking for a doc in MO.... I would highly recommend him and his staff!

I would love to hear from any one close to my area.

Hi,

I see you had surgery in Springfield,Mo. I am looking for a doctor who does the lap band at Cox Medical Center. Can anyone help me?

Dr. Edwards through St. John's is the only doctor who does bariatric surgery in Springfield. I have a friend who's insurance is through Cox but they are allowing her to have her surgery through Dr. Edwards since they do not offer barriatric surgery at this time.

Hi,

I see you had surgery in Springfield,Mo. I am looking for a doctor who does the lap band at Cox Medical Center. Can anyone help me?

I have cox insurance also, but my policy has an exclusion for WLS. I am using Dr. Edwards. He is the only one in Springfield as far as I know.

thanks for the tip and i didn't know we could have fruit on the liquid diet. i am on my 2nd week of just liquid, the first week i was allowed one meal a day. my husband is doing well with me. can get a little bossy. i told this week will need lots of hugs.:rolleyes2:

Hi,

I see you had surgery in Springfield,Mo. I am looking for a doctor who does the lap band at Cox Medical Center. Can anyone help me?

At one time (or maybe even now) there was a Dr. who would periodically come to Cox from Overland Park, KS to perform bariatric surgeries. I'm sorry I don't recall his name, but I would think you could call Cox and find out about it.

I can, without a second's hesitation, recommend Dr. Chris Edwards and his staff if that's what your ultimate option turns out to be. Please keep us informed about your progress with this, okay? If you have any other questions, just ask! Best to you. Legs

thanks for the tip and i didn't know we could have fruit on the liquid diet. i am on my 2nd week of just liquid, the first week i was allowed one meal a day. my husband is doing well with me. can get a little bossy. i told this week will need lots of hugs.:rolleyes2:

*hugs Kookie*

It sounds like you're doing great! I, too, added a little frozen fruit to my shakes during the full liquid times. I can't recall why I thought that it would be allowed, so I am trying to get hold of Susan Daniel. Will let you know if I hear back from her. The last thing I want to do is steer you wrong.

I had my first fill on the 19th (yesterday). It was weird. Although I don't really feel any additional restriction yet. I feel the same as before I had the fill....? Anyways I might have to have a couple more until I REALLY start feeling the restriction good. Later!

~Holly~

Kookie, I got this from Susan this morning:

"Yes you can put fruit into the shakes, just blend until

liquid. A full liquid diet is anything you can drink. We just steer them away from too high a calorie liquid."

Holly, most people don't feel much difference on the 1st, and sometimes the 2nd, fill. It's best to kind of "sneak up" on restriction because of the learning curve in eating with restriction.

Does anyone ever just feel sick to their stomache constantly? I do feel restriction now... I just didn't the day of the first fill. Today is the thrid day and I do feel restriction, although my stomache is growling all the time and I feel nausceas all the time. Like I'm hungry but eating doesn't make me feel good.... I'm confused. I don't think that the band is to full ... I just don't know.

~Holly~:redface:

Hi Holly. I hope you're feeling better by now.

I have gone through some times of slight nausea, probably 3 times total. They generally lasted about 2-3 days. With me, it was just a faint feeling of nausea, not ever feeling like I might really vomit, but not wanting to eat or drink much of anything either. I called the nurse at Dr. Edward's office the 2nd time and they gave me a prescription for Promethazine (Phenergan). By the time I got it, I was already feeling better, but I keep a few in my purse just in case.

Let us know how you're doing.

Legs

Hi everyone... I'm back from three weeks of camping in Illinois....

will catch up on all these posts soon! wow.

Pic 1 -is about midnight after driving from Illinois June 23 - 2008...

pic 2 -is last summer when we went camping Aug. 2007....

pic 3 -is the shorts I had last year, on me about a month ago.lol

good luck and great health to everyone!:grouphug:

Amazing, Absolutely Amazing!!!

Hi everyone... I'm back from three weeks of camping in Illinois....

will catch up on all these posts soon! wow.

Pic 1 -is about midnight after driving from Illinois June 23 - 2008...

pic 2 -is last summer when we went camping Aug. 2007....

pic 3 -is the shorts I had last year, on me about a month ago.lol

good luck and great health to everyone!:crying:

I'm sooooo jealous. You have collar bones! I haven't seen mine in decades.

Anyone had experience with Dr. Nigro of WTLSC out of Kansas City? My friend who is in the health care profession herself was banded last week by him and almost died yesterday. From her family has relayed, her colon/intestines were punctured during the lap band surgery and she also had complications from a poorly repaired hernia. She went to the ER in extreme pain a couple days after the surgery, they checked for all the usual things and suggested she go back to see Dr Nigro. She drove several hours to KC to see him, he checked the band,etc and sent her home, even though the ER in K.C. said she should be admitted, he refused. Her husband drove her several hours at rapid speed back to the ER in our city and she was immediately rushed into surgery to repair the damage, they also ended up removing about 6 inches of her colon. She was told that she may have only lasted another few hours without this surgery. They also had to remove the band. One of the most disturbing things was that she was told by one of the Dr.'s and several nurses that they had recently had several more of his patients in the ER with the same issues.

I was on the road to being banded with this Dr. myself but have definitely changed my mind. :embaressed_smile:

I am SO SORRY for your friend. I don't have any personal experience with Dr. N so you need to take what I say as being worth what your paying for it. However I have heard some other negative things both here on LBT and on Yahoo's KCBandster site. Everything from surgery induced infections to a couple years ago he was reported to be asking his patients to keep their fill needle so he could re-use it on their next visit. (Though that was stopped.)

Another area doc I've heard bad things about is Dr. Opie out of Olathe. I have a friend who was banded out of state but was going to him for fills who just had to have a port revision because he punctured the tubing repeatedly while trying to giver her a fill.

The two docs in town that I know well enough to reccommend are Dr. Malley and Dr. Hoehn. Dr. M is a proctor for Inamed/Allergan and has done over 1000 surgeries, he works out of New Hope Bariatrics. Dr. H has done well over 500 last I heard and the hospital he works out of (SMMC) was the first in the area to receive the Center of Excellence Rating. I was banded by H but now get my fills by M. I would trust both with my life as far as surgical skills go but if I were to start over I would have gone with M all the way instead, strictly based on staffing and program issues. Well that and the fact that I really like he has done the most in town and is the companies teacher for new docs in the region.