Hey, Michelle! Congrats on the schooling as well as the teaching. That's great. Sorry to hear you still suffer from pain issues. Is the sweating/shaking from the pain or are you having blood sugar issues (hypoglycemia)? Have you done any research to see if your problem could be something like costochondritis? It is rib cartilage issues. Pain can be quite bad and mimick heart attacks and stuff. Not easy to diagnose. Sorry to hear about the fibro being so hard on you too. I hope you find the ****tail of meds that works for you very soon to keep things managed well. Kathy

Yea, Tracy! We hope to see ya around more often now that you are hooked up. Nice of your company to offer the oldies to the staff. Congrats on the broadband. I'm at 162.5 and I was down to 155 for 4-5 days, I think. Right now I'm on the up-zone part of my weight. My this up-zone is lower than before so ultimately a good thing. Not unusual for me to drop to a low weight for just a few days and then bounce up 5+ lbs and hover. Then next thing I know I'll go down a few and that lower weight becomes more of the norm. We'll see. Need to cut out the SF stuff, me thinks. Kathy

You said you had an "urge to eat". That sounds like head-hunger to me becauce I have the same, exact constant urges. I would eat all the time if I listened to my greedy brain constantly telling me to eat. Chewing gum helps immensly. I go through more than a pack a day. Trident Splash Strawberry lime is my drug... err... gum of choice. Good luck! Hugs, Tracy P.S. Congrats on getting down to 145!

Ummm.. I'll take your temps in the 70's and you can have my "beautiful leaves". That sucks about your surgeon moving out of state. I don't quite understand what you are saying about insurance - I'm a lil' dense sometimes so you have to break it down to me! Anyway, how come you can't just find another WLS doc to monitor you in Florida? Your insurance won't pay?

My surgeon left the state of Florida to move to Alabama so I have a booklet of what tests I need done.I am useing my primary care but they arent as knowledgeable as vaughns office was.Sometimes the pcp freaks when the gastric doctor didnt so ...what to do? I am going to have the tests run and where can I compare my results to that I will have a educated reaction about them? Does this make sense?Dr Vaughn has an office # in Alabama do you think I should call them there...seems like he was starting a new life/practise there and really advised us to check out other doctors in our local area like our pcp.In the state of Fla nothing that is remotely inline with bypass bcbs wont touch.I did some med assis interning at the pcp's office thats why they have been so kind as to help me with my labs ect ..otherwise its out of pocket baby I am going to run my labs in Nov when they are due and then I think I'll call Vaughn ??!!?? whats a girls to do (haha) What would you smart ladies suggest.Hope everybodyis having a great day.I know its getting chilly up north I hear tomorrow we are getting some cold air... in the 60-70s ..plz dont hate (just kidding) atleast you guys have beautiful leaves and white beautiful snow.I remember I lived in upstate NY as a kid ~Laura~