emzee
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you look wonderful!!!! you mentioned sometimes you get a blockage and it cause pain, i wondered what do you do when that happens? All the best to you, such dicipline. 
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Bearnkat
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emzee wrote:you look wonderful!!!! you mentioned sometimes you get a blockage and it cause pain, i wondered what do you do when that happens? All the best to you, such dicipline.
Thank you so much. Yep, there are times that one doesn't eat like one should or as slow as one should and you end up paying the price. To clear a blockage, you just wait for it to go down or go into the restroom and clear it by bringing it up.
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My SIL had the same surgery about 4 years ago and she is so HAPPY! Just like you. Congratulations on your new life without all the excess weight. All the best to you for a long and happy life!
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Bearnkat
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Hi Margie, Congratualtions to your SIL and thank you so much for your post.
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MikeSmith
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Congratulations Chuck!!! You're looking smaller... 
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Bearnkat
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Hi Mike,
Thank you so much, how's it going in the Houston area? We were just down at Lake Somerville this past weekend, stayed at the park, to attend a family wedding in College Station. The weather was perfect except for all the mosquitoes. They were really swarming and thick.
Take care and tell you lovely wife HI for us.
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Hi Chuck just came accross this topic. You are looking good. My sister did the bypass and has got down to her high school wieght , She was a skinny kid. She also was lucky to have a good doctor that got her a breast lift, tummy tuck so the lose sking was removed. It was hard for her , she is one hell of a cook and my family likes to eat. She still cooks for us but has kept to her plan and we support her. But like her if I can't lose more weight I will have to pick a plan and do it. I have health problems that only wieght loss will help. I ended up in the ER last thur and that has got me to thinking again. Its to easy to set back and do nothing. How hard was it , the healing after it was put on?
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Scrapz
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You're doing great, Chuck! Keep up the good work!
Kathy
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Here is a medical prospective-
Lap band is just that a band is placed at the top of your stomach to limit the amt of food the stomach can hold and the premise is that when it is filled that you will stop eating because you feel full Less food + less calories taken in. Simple as that.
Gastric Bypass surgery is a totally different thing. IT by passes alot of your intestines so that your food is not absorbed as calories as much AND you do not eat as much for a number of reasons, 1) that pouch can not hold much food 2) there is something that occurs that is not well understood but something happens to hormomes that tell your brain we are hungry and that hormone seems to be shut way down with the gastric bypass surgery so there is a double whammee and much more weight lost with #2 choice but there are surgical considerations like open abdomen most times for the bypass and an instrument that places the band so much faster recovery from LapBand surgery then Bypass surgery.
IF you have Bypass surgery you want to do your homework and get the best surgeon who does only this surgery instead the general surgeon who does hernias, appendix surgury, gall bladders and bypass. the reason is there are lots of complications that can occur and when you go to a surgeon doing only this surgery then you are getting someone who is well versed in techniques etc. Also google looking for the top in your area, talk to patients who have done it so you know what they are saying about the surgery and the surgeon. It is major surgery to have a gastric bypass but it is well worth the trouble if you have bad Hypertension, stroke due to hypertension, Diabetes, bad joints due to weight and I could go on.
Best of luck to you all who are thinking about it but if it were I, I would do hte bypass for the reason that lap band just controls appetite by making the stomach smaller and nothting else so some people just eat more and more and strech that small stomach but bypass there is a hormonal thing that goes on they are really not hungry to the point that some lose too much weight and now medicine is lookinig at trying to reverse the bypass safely on those people. Lapband is slower and sort of plateaus.
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Scrapz
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RVER wrote:
Best of luck to you all who are thinking about it but if it were I, I would do hte bypass for the reason that lap band just controls appetite by making the stomach smaller and nothting else so some people just eat more and more and strech that small stomach but bypass there is a hormonal thing that goes on they are really not hungry to the point that some lose too much weight and now medicine is lookinig at trying to reverse the bypass safely on those people. Lapband is slower and sort of plateaus.
The same thing can happen with bypass surgery. Bypass patients can also stretch their stomachs and gain all that weight back. Neither surgery is a cure-all miracle. Lifestyle changes are necessary to be successful either way.
I considered lap band surgery. I never discussed it with a doctor, but I decided to try a serious diet before I took the first step. Like a last chance diet, then if I couldn't do it I would pursue lap band. I've lost over 93 pounds since Labor Day 2008. I feel great. I no longer take med for high blood pressure, which I had been taking for about 10 years. I was never on a med, and I am controlling my diabetes with diet. My next hurdle is to get off the cholesterol med. I no longer have constant leg and foot pain. I'm so glad I went this route instead of the surgery. I want to lose about 25 more pounds, then I'll get to the hard part - keeping it off. Every day I will have to remind myself that there is no food that tastes as good as thin feels.
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