Obesity surgery

hello everyone,
stacy here asking for prayers for my family.My uncle and anuts little
granddaughter was killed today by her uncle. he beat her head on a coffee table
until she died. my uncle bill is beside himself over this. DCFS has my two other
cosins in their care.please say a pray for them to over come this.It is killing
me inside,i needed to tell someone about it. It sounds very weird to me but all
i want to do is sit a hug my grand daughter and eat food..dumb huh. thanks for
being here for me and my family…..GOD BLESS YOU ALL…..STACY BECK

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Hibernation Syndrome

After WLS, you may be feeling tired and become depressed. When you are
several weeks post op, and are either on a liquid diet or you are eating
many fewer calories than you were pre op, this depression and inactivity
can become more pronounced. All you want to do is sleep, you may have
crying spells, you may begin to believe that the surgery was a mistake,
or you may think ‘what in the world have I done to myself?’

All these feelings are completely normal and, to a certain extent, are
to be expected. The low number of calories you are eating produces what
many of us call the ‘hibernation syndrome’ and your depression and
feelings of despair, are a direct result.
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hi everyone, I am very discouraged, My first post op appointment 11
days after surgery I had lost 20 lbs, 2nd post op 1 month later only 2
lbs. My doctor says to increase exercise, and I am retaining water in
my legs, so now I have to take a water pill. Has anyone else gone thru
this. I am doing everything the doctor has told me to do. any advice
would be welcome.
thanks,
Lynn

hello all. first let me say happy new year and ….I will not ever eat gum
again….i started school last night and was chewing gum to clean the yucky
breath well i swallowed it…..my pouch is somewhat hurting this morning.I
tryied and ate about 2 maybe 3 ozes of eyes and ham scrambled but not it is
hurting like crazy….it is because the gum is in there still or is it because i
have made the puch work harder to get it out…..water and other liquids go down
but I can not drink i use to noithing bothered me when i drank but this morning
it is……….other then me being dumb everything else is good….OH YAH MY
GRANDBABY WALKED BY HERSELF THIS MORNING….YAH..I had to tell all my
friends…thanks for always being here for me and my family…..LOVE YOU ALL
Stacy Beck p.s. i have lost another 5 lbs so i am now down to 163.YAH YAH

Don’t know if this is OK to post but you should check out the monthly
newspaper "Beyond Change." It’s sent to your home. They have a web
site: www.beyondchange-obesity.com and I think this is the best, by
far, publication out there. They don’t sell you anything - just give
you outstanding advice and resources.

Hi, thanks for the info. No, I’m not in the military. I moved here 17
yrs ago to nurse my sick mother. She died 5 yrs ago and I’m still here
because there’s nothing to go back to in Boston anymore (moreover, in
the meantime I married, had two daughters, divorced…..).
I guess I’ll have to settle for feeling displaced.
I’m exausting all my options here trying to find procedures, doctors,
hospitals and if my insurance would even cover anything. I don’t have
any concrete answers yet.
Can you or anybody tell me what is the standard minimal BMI allowed
for WLS?

~P.

This was in my Medscape Daily News today: It’s set up for continuing
medical education credits, and I’ve included part of that information, too,
because it summarizes.

Thiamine Deficiency May Complicate Gastric Bypass CME

News Author: Laurie Barclay, MD
CME Author: Charles Vega, MD, FAAFP

To earn CME credit, read the news brief along with the CME information that
follows and answer the test questions.

Release Date: December 30, 2005; Valid for credit through December 30, 2006

Credits Available
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First of all I want to say HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE….And then on the 29 th
of Dec I had to go to the DMV to get my drivers license renewed and guess what
the lady behind the counter made a big deal about the differance in my
weight…She had three other ladies come over and look at my new me….I told
the one lady yah I use to be 427.6lbs and now I am 165lb. she went WOW BIG
DIFFERANCE …She also asked how did you do it. I said I had Gastric bypass and
she goes oh you took the easy way out of losing weight….I just smile and said
if i had enough time i would let you know just how easy this surgery has been
for me and my family…..she just smile and walked away….But the other ladies
asked about hunderd questions..Then the lady that was doing my licence asked if
i wanted to change anything on it ….I went yah maybe the weight ha ha ha
…She said oh okay yah maybe that might work too…okay it was funny when it
was going on.. HAVE A GREAT WEEK.

HAVE A GREAT DAY
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Subject: Prayer Wheel in memory of local soldier

Prayer wheel for fallen soldier of Galesburg, IL

On October 24th of 2005 Kyle Wehrly a National Guardsman from Galesburg, IL died
fighting for our Country.

I am sending a Prayer Wheel for our military….Please do not break it. Please
send this on after a short prayer.

Prayer Wheel
"Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us.
Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our
time of need. I ask this in the name of Jesus our Lord and Savior. AMEN."

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Deadline for comments is 12/23/2005

Medicare wants to exclude the Duodenal Switch and other Weight Loss
Surgery Procedures (shown below) from Coverage for all Medicare
patients. They also want to restrict surgery to those under 65 years
old.

If Medicare excludes this surgery- private insurance companies will
follow their lead and very few people will be afforded this life
changing surgery. The comment period ends next week.

Please send Comments to:

If you are so inclined; drop a note to your Senator, Representative
or President asking them to change Medicare`s proposed decision,
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