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I saw the doctor today and I'm scared to death!!!!!

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Cathrine Ray
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Went to the doc today (my MD) he said while I was in surgery getting my band they took a biopsy of my liver.... I didn't know that. I guess they do it or this doc does on fatty livers.... and I have non contagious Hepatitus.... Boy what a shock... I was not ready for this one.. Has anyone else been thought this.....

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UT LB Loser
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Did he say how this will affect the band, if at all? Have you been out of the country for an extended period? Can he guage how long you may have had it? Any prognosis on how he'll deal with it? I wonder how common or uncommon this is.

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Cathrine Ray    0

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It won't, NO,NO,Time will tell,don't know......I'm in a fog in shock I was hoping someone of my band buddies might have gone through this....

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Hi Cathrine. I was banded on July 16 and was told by my doc 2 weeks later that I have the same thing. He said that it was pretty uncommon and would have never believed it until he saw it for himself on the biopsy results. I asked him if it would affect my band or what info he could tell me. He informed me that it wouldn't affect my band, I am not contagious whatsoever to anyone at any time, and I would probably have never known it if I didn't have a biopsy of my liver. Go figure! He aked me if I had ever been around anyone with tuberculosis and I said that when I was two yrs old my cousin had it and I was around her. But anyway I am trying to research any info on the internet that I can because I feel kinda strange just knowing that I have ANY form of hepatitus wether it be contagious or not. So I'm in the same boat you are and hopefully we will never have any problems from it.

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Cathrine, that is crazy! I have never heard of such a thing. Did your doc give you some answers to your questions? I hope so! I had something similar when I did my endoscope - they found that I have Barrett's Disease - pre-cancerous cells in the esophagus (sp). Nice!

Same thing, I would have never known had he not done the procedure. They will be doing a 'burn' procedure to get rid of the cells and see if they grow back normally.

It is scary when you find out something about your health when you had no clue that anything was wrong. I feel for you! Do some research and get some answers.

I am thinking of you! Kristen

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Went to the doc today (my MD) he said while I was in surgery getting my band they took a biopsy of my liver.... I didn't know that. I guess they do it or this doc does on fatty livers.... and I have non contagious Hepatitus.... Boy what a shock... I was not ready for this one.. Has anyone else been thought this.....

What you have is called NASH or Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis; it is more than likely caused by your obesity. Hepatitis itself refers to ANY liver inflamation. The good news is that your weightloss will improve this condition. You can read more informaiton here Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH)-Overview

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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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.

        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.

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