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reenieb
on 9/5/09 9:34 am
RNY on 03/08/04 with
Topic: RE: We're all in the same boat!
Every time I read a post of yours, Judy, I see Scarlett in my mind's eye, waving her fistful of Tara at the heavens and saying, "As God as my witness I will never go hungry again!" That indomitable spirit of yours - never give up, never, ever, ever... Love you, Maureen
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
pammy157
on 9/5/09 12:23 am - colchester, CT
RNY on 03/30/04 with
Topic: RE: When are you hungry?

I know we are all different but with our surgerys so many of us are the same!
so far I've been lucky and not had the hunger you discribe.
I've had my other issues. Again while I know from what I've read and also Reenie our Dr A now gives patients a sheet about Low blood sugar an how you can get it after weight loss surgery -for me it was something i'd always had just not as drastic. I don't need to go into details cause everyones read it before. enough said about that!
But I think the point I'm trying to make is while I might not have the hunger issues you guys are suffereing with I believe you when you say yhou have them!
don't you find that one of the biggest things we get is when we complain we are not believed??? That is what really ****** me off! pardon the wording there but its true. If anyone else went into their doctor and said I'm having this or that right away they'd start with different tests and stuff. for us its like well everyone gets hungery. Geesh! duh we KNOW that but for us and the size of our tummys we shouldnt go thru it.
I've been wondering about how we relate to those poor individuals who have had their stomachs surgerically altered due to health like cancer. I had a friend many years ago who had stomach cancer and they had to take her's and alter it. I dont' know how never did get the details and for her the cancer had spread all thru her body so the surgery was just another way to torture the poor thing.
But I do know that people had that surgery all the time and live their normal life expectancys. Ok so how do they cope? what are their issues and are they the same or close to what we go through? I've tried googling things like that but just become so board by all the jargon that i give up reading.
I also wanted to say that when i read things you all have written I also note the date of your surgiers.
I dont' know if it is a co-winky-dink or what but when you guys who had your surgery in the beignning of the month start stuff and i had mine at the end of the month i usually will see the symptoms you all disccribe a few weeks later.
not always but sometimes so I read and file it away in my little bitty brain so that if i do get something odd I can say O yes this one or that one had that its normal for me!
 

Marilyn C.
on 9/4/09 11:39 pm - Bullhead City, AZ
Topic: RE: When are you hungry?
I would like to know what your were precribed, as well!!How & When do you take it? Is it really working for your hunger issues?
Marilyn C (Bearlady)


Ms.Judy
on 9/4/09 2:54 pm - HOSCHTON, GA
Topic: We're all in the same boat!
As I've read all of your post, I thought , we're all in the same boat!! Our school is doing a new program for the staff and all the kids. We all have a pedimeter and we are all supposted to be eating good nutritious food. Last Friday I had to go be weighed and get  take a test to see what kind of health risk I have. I didn't tell them I've had WLS.
When I went to work at the school almost 27 years ago I weighed 218 pounds and last Friday I weighed 218 pounds. In all the years I've done every diet known to man and had surgery and nothing has worked. I told my friends I've weighed anywhere  from 169 pounds to 263 pounds in the last 27 years and I'm right back where I started when I went to work there. Really in the last 52 years my weight has been like a roller coaster ride. I sound like I'm feeling sorry for myself and I AM ! But, I'm not giving up, I'm going to keep on trying.
Y'all have good long weekend!  Judy

God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it or use it for good. Today is very imporant, because I'm exchaning a day of my life for it.

KimberlyH
on 9/4/09 2:31 pm
Topic: RE: Starting TOPS Next Week
my younger sister who had wls a year before us has been going to TOPS for years.....she loves it...says its a great support system for her....I think you may enjoy it.

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe"  ----"Anatole France"

"Joyously grasp the ties that bind you, for they lead straight to the heart"---"Wm."


Kimberly...

KimberlyH
on 9/4/09 2:28 pm
Topic: RE: When are you hungry?
Hiiiiiiiii Elizabeth...nice to see you back and doing ok....I missed ya!

Its funny I would read this now....last night about 3 am I woke up with a really weird hunger pain...ate a snack then went back to bed...hope it was a fluke ...but I swear it felt like I was starving...weirrrrrrrrrd

Anyway check in now and them...youve been missed

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe"  ----"Anatole France"

"Joyously grasp the ties that bind you, for they lead straight to the heart"---"Wm."


Kimberly...

Ms.Judy
on 9/4/09 2:26 pm - HOSCHTON, GA
Topic: RE: When are you hungry?
Elizabeth, it's great to hear from you!! I've missed you.  I am having the same problems you are. I want to eat all the time, I feel like I'm going to starve..  I manage to eat well durning the day, but at night I want to eat so bad. Sometimes I eat durning the night and don't remember doing it!  I had some Atkin's protien bars that had chocolate on them, one morning I got up with chocolate on my mouth and on the front of my gown!!  So, I guess I might as well eat when I'm awake and enjoy it!!  Judy

God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it or use it for good. Today is very imporant, because I'm exchaning a day of my life for it.

KimberlyH
on 9/4/09 2:22 pm
Topic: RE: On The UP Side of This (and then I'll shut up)
 and as the great Anatole France say...."To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe"  I try to live by that....be well Reenie, your thinking in the right direction......

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe"  ----"Anatole France"

"Joyously grasp the ties that bind you, for they lead straight to the heart"---"Wm."


Kimberly...

KimberlyH
on 9/4/09 2:16 pm
Topic: RE: Hyperparathyroidism
Yeeeeep...Vit D very important been saying that for sometime now....mine was a severe low (7)...got it up to about 65 now and am feeling much relief., no more aches and pains in my bones and  also my last dental check up was a breeze....but on that note...you must take the DRY FORM of Vit D to absorb it properly...we dont absord the gell form very well at all, if any. I was and am faithful about taking my vitamins daily but appariently it wasnt enough...but Im good now I take 50,000  3 times a week of Vit D...and iron, multi vitamins, and get my B-12 shots monthly....so far so good now. Take you Vitamins ( D dry form and calcium citrate)...and iron supplement with multi vit...DAILY... and get  yourself checked periodically...its IMPORTANT!

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe"  ----"Anatole France"

"Joyously grasp the ties that bind you, for they lead straight to the heart"---"Wm."


Kimberly...

reenieb
on 9/4/09 4:22 am
RNY on 03/08/04 with
Topic: RE: When are you hungry?
What did he prescribe for you?
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
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