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Brazoria county bandsters?

Mert

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Mert    0

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Is there a Brazoria County Lap Band Support Group or intrest in forming one? I am south of Pearland about 30 minutes, towards Freeport.

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I'm still on the outside looking in -- in appeals process with insurer -- but I'd love to be a part of a group. I'm in Pearland near Beltway 8.

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I'm still on the outside looking in -- in appeals process with insurer -- but I'd love to be a part of a group. I'm in Pearland near Beltway 8.

Hey Nana Renan,

sounds like you are having a tough time. I am still trying to get mine filled enough for continuous constriction one year after surgery. go with a doctor with lots of experience. I found an OA group here in Angelton that meets on Tues and Thurs evenings. I have not attended yet, but have corresponded with two members (one of which has the band). do you think you would be interested in the OA meetings or online only? It is so much harder for me to go to a meeting than to talk online, but I want to meet some people in the area who can impart some wisdom from experience. so much of mine is emotional

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Hey Nana Renan,

sounds like you are having a tough time. I am still trying to get mine filled enough for continuous constriction one year after surgery. go with a doctor with lots of experience. I found an OA group here in Angelton that meets on Tues and Thurs evenings. I have not attended yet, but have corresponded with two members (one of which has the band). do you think you would be interested in the OA meetings or online only? It is so much harder for me to go to a meeting than to talk online, but I want to meet some people in the area who can impart some wisdom from experience. so much of mine is emotional

Do the doctors who did your banding not do fills?

I'm not sure about OA meetings. I had a negative experience years ago that left a bad taste in my mouth -- pardon the pun! :)

But I'm happy to chat online any time!

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My doctors do fills. However, there was a problem with locating the port for the first three or four fills. Thats why I say go with a doctor with lots of experience. I get my fills under floroscope only now, and they are effective. I went to the first OA meeting in Angleton and it was very helpful for me. I guess you have their literature? I've had a bad experience with every weight loss program I tried (including OA a few hundred years ago:rolleyes). It is somewhat easier to get my compulsive eating under control since I got the band. I've got to cut way down on the sugar and flour. However, the old saying that the band is only a tool is very true. And living one day at a time.:o

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Hi, Mert! Hope you're doing well.

I'm about to join the world of the banded -- I got approval today and will get my band in less than a week!!

I'm having it done in Pasadena at a place that specializes in bariatric surgery. They have twice-monthly support group meetings and they said the patients who attend faithfully do much better than patients who don't!! So I do plan to be making all of those.

Maybe if we keep this thread bumped up, we might pick up a few more from our area and form an online support group.

TTYL,

Pam

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Hi, Mert! Hope you're doing well.

I'm about to join the world of the banded -- I got approval today and will get my band in less than a week!!

I'm having it done in Pasadena at a place that specializes in bariatric surgery. They have twice-monthly support group meetings and they said the patients who attend faithfully do much better than patients who don't!! So I do plan to be making all of those.

Maybe if we keep this thread bumped up, we might pick up a few more from our area and form an online support group.

TTYL,

Pam

Today, 8/2/07, is your BAND DAY! Wow be sure and let me know how you feel after the surgery and how you are adjusting to the band.

:clap2::clap2::clap2:

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Today, 8/2/07, is your BAND DAY! Wow be sure and let me know how you feel after the surgery and how you are adjusting to the band.

:clap2::clap2::clap2:

Oh Mert!! I'm so touched you were thinking of me today!! But it didn't happen.

Have to talk to the cardiologist and maybe have a nuclear stress test done before he'll sign off -- but he's out of town until Monday. So there was nothing to do but take out the IV, get dressed and go home.

It was a SAD day.

But I'm better today.

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What a bummer that must have been to have to reschedule at the last minute. Better safe than sorry, though. I had a stress test. It was no fun, but then what medical test is fun!!?? Let me know what the latest is.:confused:

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The latest is -- I GOT SENT HOME AGAIN!!!! :cry

This time I was out and in the OR when they made a mess trying to intubate. By the time they realized they needed Fiber optic help, I was too bloody and swollen to proceed.

So....I was sent home to wait until I healed and we'll try again next week.

:)

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I'm in Pearland and currently meet with a support group meeting every Thursday at Beltway 8 and Fairmont Parkaway inside Target at the Starbucks at 6:00. They're usually until around 8:00.

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I'm in Pearland and currently meet with a support group meeting every Thursday at Beltway 8 and Fairmont Parkaway inside Target at the Starbucks at 6:00. They're usually until around 8:00.

Okay -- that's in Pasadena, right? Very close to where I'm going to have my banding done. Wish I'd read this in time to make it last night. Prolly won't feel like it if I am successful in getting my band on Tuesday!

Maybe some of us could meet at the Target at 518 and 288!!!!

Anybody game??:clap2:

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