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LuvMyHarley    0

LuvMyHarley
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I to am from Corinth, TX just North of Lewisville and know exactly where Justin is. I can hear the Race track from my backyard. Big Race Fan and Harley Davidson Fan. My husband and I both ride. I have a consultation appt with Dr. Powell June 18 and so hope I can get this done. Good Luck and if you get together let me know.

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Mystyblu    0

Mystyblu
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Hello everyone

I just wanted to pop in and let you all know I have taken my first real step towards my banding. I had my first visit to American Institute of Gastric Banding in Richardson. The next step besides the blood work is a psychological evaluation. Did any of you have to have a psych exam?? Anyone know what I can expect from this exam??

Just curious

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dixie    0

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Hi Mystyblu

I don't have to have the psych exam for banding on 6/7. However, several years ago I had back surgery and had a 300 questionnaire to fill out. Apparently some folks will have surgeries, hospital stays, imagined medical problems, etc. for attention. Seems like it asked me about 200 different ways did I hate my mother {smile} and I answered the same way 200 times "NO". It seems back surgery, like this surgery, is elective IF you meet certain guidelines (Blood Pressure, Weight, BMI for LB surgery or PAIN in the case of back surgery). Anyway, my experience was really more comical than frightening. Here I was loaded on Morphine trying to read and make sense of these stupid questions and STILL hurting! It's not a big deal! Don't worry about it.

Good Luck,

Dixie

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tambonzjo    7

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Mystyblu,

I had to do a psych exam before my surgery. She didn't give me any questions to fill out, we just sat and talked for an hour then just before she called the men in the white coats, I ran out the door and safely to my car....hehehehehe!!! Just kidding, we did just sit and talk. No big deal.

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dixie    0

dixie
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I think as long as you don't carry n a "serious" conversation with the little green men:sick

or see TOO many black helicopters, or HATE your Mother TOO bad, you will be fine!:bandit

Again, good luck!

Dixie

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bubblesstina    0

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Hey Mysty, The psych eval was teh easiest part of the whole process!! If you are going to Psy-Med they will give you the questionaire that asks the same question 200 times, 200 different ways, then they will talk with you for a few minutes. You have to go back a 2nd time to have your results visit. I spent more time waiting than I did speaking with the councellor. She was VERY nice and you could tell that she deals with over weight people all the time. She never belittled me or made me feel like a big fat looser (like a marriage councellor did when I went to him, now my marriage is over...HUMMM I wonder if he had been more kind and not so consumed with the fact that I am fat if we would have kept going and worked out some issues...) any way..

Go to the eval, don't stress over it, I did enough of that before mine for both of us.

Good luck and keep us posted!!

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Guest Big "D"   

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I go tomorrow to AIGB in Richardson. I am so excited to have found this forum. I am on the lower end of the BMI 35- 195lbs. I will be a self pay but am afraid I may not qailified. I have beeen over weight my entire life and recently developed hypertension. Surely I will not have to eat my way up another 25 lbs that I recently lost (on another fad diet) to become elidgible.

Any Feedback would be appreciated!

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bubblesstina    0

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Hey all DFW banders...

Go check the "movie Night" thread. We will be having a get-together at my house on June 25th. It will be fun and would love to have as many of us there as will fit in my yard, and it is a big yard!!

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Paul in Allen. Banded Wednesday June 15, 2005

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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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        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.

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