Obesity surgery

Hello everyone.i want to say THANK YOU TO EVERYONE…your prayers and all your
thoughtfull things said have helped me and my family get thru this very bad week
end. now we are burriering our little Kathryn on thrusday . it is really hard
but i know with Gods help and everyones prayers we will get thru this.I want to
set up a trust fund for the two other sibling(( brother and sister they are 6
and 3)) of Kathryn.if anyone knows how to do this Please let me know…thank you
all so much…STACY BECK FROM GALESBURG ILLINOIS

Dear all,
I thank you so much for the messages, it has been such a help to me.

The problem I have right now is that my insurance company have some
criteria I need to fulfil to get funding for a gastric band operation.
They treat acute conditions, but consider obesity a chronic
condition. They will fund me if I have other co-morbidities or other
symptoms but at the moment I don´t.

They have requested a medical report, and this is the bit I am not
understanding very well…

"the reason that we have requested a medical report is because, as you
point out, this does seem to be treatment to cure an acute condition,
however it would be unusual to authorise bariatric surgery, so we need
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Hi
This is my first post to the group and I have really found it helpful
to read the messages…I just wanted to share that right now I am
feeling a bit overwhelmed with all the information and I am at a
point in the consultations with my doctor where I think that I am
going to be making the decision to get banded. I just feel that I
have read a lot of conflicting information, I am worried about the
fills, how to know what i will need, I feel like I am absolutely in
the dark about so much of what being banded implies. Just generally
very worried!

I live in Argentina although I am from the UK and I just want to make
a comprehensive list of questions to ask my doctor when I go to see
him next, although to be honest it is so mindboggling I don´t know
where to start.
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hello everyone just wanted to let everyone know they have my cousin (( who is 4
years old)) on life supports at OSF st Francis in Peoria Illinois. she is brain
dead and tomorrow they are taking out the tubes that are keeping her alive. she
will be gone after that it is just her body here now God has taken the rest of
her…..Please everyone pray for my Aunt and Uncle and her mommy and sister and
brother… I am at the hospital osf in Peoria..If I do not get back to you in
the next few days it is because I am up here….keep up the good weight lost
everyone…P.S. Theresa please let Sandy I am so so sorry I haven’t gotten up to
see her yet I will try soon but in the mean time let her know I am thinking of
her….love everyone thanks for being here for us all. these are the greatest
groups i have ever been in…..love you all STACY BECK

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.