- Name: Lynn I.
- Username: lmintin
- Location: FRANKFORT, NY, USA
- Member Since: 1/3/2008
- BMI: 38.4
- Surgery date scheduled
- Surgery Type: RNY (02/25/08)
- Surgeon: Matthew A. Fitzer
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Surgeon TestimonialMatthew A. FitzerHmmm, Well, he is very intellegent. My impression did change over time from when I first met him up until I left the hospital. I would rather not comment. He is a very good suregon and knows what he is doing. He is rated one of the best in all of the surrounding area. Everyone has different views, expectations and opinions. Latest Surgery Support Comments
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Monday is your day!
Just remember you
are on the journey
of a lifetime. Try
to enjoy every
minute. It may sound
weird now, but know
that you are cared
for and prayed for
here, and all too
soon this will be
but a memory and you
will be an
inspiration to
someone else. I am
waiting for you on
the losers' bench!
~JudyAnne~
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Congrats to you!!
Monday is your big
day, got ya covered
in prayer.. i know
how being jittery
can be!! best of
luck to you....
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Hello,
My name is Lynn. I had my RNY on 2/25/2008. I would love to meet new friends and as many people who can give me whatever information they would like to share with me I am appreciative! I'm still learning how to use the site. I'm not very good at it yet.  I am also willing to help anyone else with their journey.
I think I need a new computer! on August 3, 2008 5:03 pm
Ok, so I thought my computer was fixed, WRONG! At my Neighbors house again! I was able to get on and everytime I tried to get into here or even my email, a box popped up and said that a problem occured with my internet explorer and it needed to close. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this? HELP!
I have my G.I. appt. on Wed. The one I have really been waiting for. Hopefully I will get some answers. I have to go for exploratory surgery on 8/26. Bypass Dr. thinks I have a Hernia. Who knows! I just want to get to the bottom of all this so I can be normal again!!
I'm at least trying to eat once a day even if it is only fruit. It kills my back everytime I do eat. I guess the Dr. is not going to refer me to the Uroligist until after the exploratory surgery.
Does anyone know how I can look up my BMI now and see what my ideal weight should be? I hope everyone is doing well. I miss being on here and talking with all of you.
Weight today 131.6. Mood, depressed.
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Update and Computer is STILL Down :-( on July 27, 2008 8:33 am
I will try to make this as short as I can but fit it all in lol. So, after many appointments, 2 CAT scans, a visit to a GI specialist who cancelled my appt. twice (now I go back Aug. 6) I am not much better off than I was. I have a couple of possible answers so I guess that's a plus. I have a Kidney Stone a possible Hernia and Bowel issues. Those are pretty graphic so I won't go into detail lol. I have no problem telling you if you want to know just send me a message. I guess I am the one in 99 million who has gotten these things! Dr. wants me to have a couple of procedures but from missing all this work in the process of trying to find out the problem, they will have to be put on hold for a little while. It only took 5 months to find out! I am loosing my hair terrible!! When will it stop?
I will try and stay as positive as I can because now I have really wonderful days that I have never had before. Last week I almost dumped! Oh my was it awful. I ate 2 small bites of garlic pizza. No sooner than 10 minutes later I had this stuck feeling in my chest, I was in a sweat and thought I was going to have a heart attack! My stomach hurt so bad, it was worse than the back pain! I did'nt actually dump but my mouth was watering and I was gagging for about 15 minutes. The whole thing lasted for about 3 hours. Needless to say, I will NEVER eat ANY kind of pizza again!! As for my W.L. I am 134.6 today. To be honest, at this point I just want to get better. I really need to excersize but can't. I eat whatever tastes good. Protein or not. I know, that's not good but I have to right now.
My computer is still down. I miss all of you. I hope everyone is doing well.
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Computer is down :-( on July 11, 2008 3:35 pm
I'm at a friends house, my computer is down!!! Still having testing. Long story...I will update when my computer is back. Weight is now 138. I hope everyone is doing and feeling well.
God bless!
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How Fast Time Flys! on June 22, 2008 4:09 pm
My how fast time flys! I looked at the date of my last post and it was the end of May!! I guess I have'nt really wrote anything because nothing has really changed as far as my health and how I am feeling. I forgot to go to the most important appt. last week with the GI Dr. I was very lucky to get in this Wed. though so hopefully I will have news either way good or bad.
My weight is now 145. I am fitting in a size 8. 28 more lbs. to go. I think it's going slower because I am only taking in about 400 calories a day. This includes any juice I may drink. Dr. said I am losing muscle now because I am not eating the prot. Can't help it!
One day I will be able to come on here and say I feel wonderful!! I hope everyone is doing well and having a great Summer! | Click here to leave a comment.
Not Much News on May 30, 2008 2:58 pm
Well, I went to the Dr. again. Not much has changed since my last post except they are sending me to a G.I. Dr. as soon as they can get me in. At least I don't have to go back to my Surgeon again for another 2 weeks instead of 2 times a week! On a few more meds. taking more of some that I was already on to.
Good news, I'm down to 152 lbs. Once I feel better an hopefully by that time summer will actually be here I will try to start excersizing or at least walk once in a while. I wish I had taken my measurements before I started. All I can really say is clothing sizes.
Started as a size 18 pant now in a size 9
Started in a 2x shirt in a medium now well that depends on how small the medium is. Sometimes large. Even my foot got smaller went from a size 8 to a size 7/2 lol.
That's all the news for now. I don't always want to seem negative because really, I'm not. Hopefully the next time I get on here I will be saying I feel like a new person!
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My Story
My Story,
Hmmm. Such a long one. Where should I start!? When I was a small child up until I turned 9 years old, I was so thin that my family used to sing a song to me. It went, Lynn, Lynn is as thin as a pin. It used to make me cry. Until I turned about 10 years old and everything changed. I still to this day am not sure. I started gaining weight and gaining weight. By the time I was in sixth grade, I was very overweight and always made fun of. I hated school. I hated life at the age of 12. Junior High was much worse. I will never forget the boy, his name was Carlos who taunted me every single day. He even used to spit on me saying I had no right to even live because I was to fat. He wasn't the only one but he was the worse. My parents took me to Doctors and of course they just said I needed to loose weight and put me on diet after diet. Sure, I would lose weight but gain it back and then some. My Father was full blooded Italian so eating was most of my life just as it was for most of my family who were all overweight also.
When I started High School, I went through allot of changes. I had been dating a boy since Jr. High and he decided to leave me in 10 th grade because I was so big. That devistaded me. I became depressed. I stayed that way up until even now. I started using drugs and drinking. I lost weight and allot of it. To make a very long story short, I gained all the weight back when I stopped using the drugs and drinking.
Time went on many things happened in my life in between. Then I lost my Mother to Cancer, became pregnant and gained 89 more pounds! I starved myself, took every over the counter diet drugs, went on all of the soup diets there are, saw a Nutritionalist and was put on the diebetic diet. I lost some of the weight never all of it. Seven years later, I became pregnant again. I gained 50 more pounds. Lost it all by stress and starvation but gained it back again within 2 years. I went on a Herbal diet and it took me 3 years but I lost 83 pounds. I felt wonderful but then I went off of the Herbal diet and gained back 100 pounds!
That was the story of my life. The Doc put me on prescription diet pills, I went on Atkins, South Beach we all know the drill. Finally last Feb. 2007, I found out that I now had Hypertention, High Cholestrol and I was so overweight I had gotten heel spurs. I was ashamed of myself. It was hard to do anything that a normal person can do. I told my Doc PLEASE, can you refer me to a weight loss surgery Doctor. Just to see if I qualify and if it would be for me. She was very hesitant but she did it.
Through all of the testing, that began in June 2007, I found other health issues such as sleep apnea. I was approved for RNY G.B. in December of 2007 and had my surgery on 2/25/2008. I know this is the hardest thing I will ever go through but with the help of The Lord, Holy Spirit and all of you here, I will have a new life. A better life. Something I haven't had in 29 years!
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