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Topic: RE: 18 MONTH CHECK UP
Hey, DB...
Congrats on 18 months! Glad to hear you are doing well. Hope your labs come out great. (Got mine done yesterday.)
Take care, Kathy
Topic: RE: 18 MONTH CHECK UP
Hey, DB...
Congrats on 18 months! Glad to hear you are doing well. Hope your labs come out great. (Got mine done yesterday.)
Take care, Kathy
Topic: RE: dang...I gotta cold !!
Hey, Laura!
Hope you are feeling better.
When I feel any scratchiness or anything, I take zicam tabs. They dissolve on your tongue. They are basically zinc but supposedly help lessen the effects of colds if you take it first thing. Seems to have helped me stay away from illnesses (so far - now that I have jinxed myself ...LOL!)
Take care, Kathy
Topic: RE: Peripheral Neuropathy in all extremeties
Laurie,
I'm so sorry, hon, for your problems. That's horrible.
Did the new doc a few weeks ago run blood work to see what is going on with you? Shouldn't that have shown deficiencies related to the neuropathy? B6? B12? Others?
I would definitely call and complain to the hospital management. How dare they treat you or anyone else like that. I'd be fuming mad.
Please know we are here for you.
Hugs, Kathy
Topic: RE: Has to be removed.
Sorry you've had so much trouble, Brenda.
You might want to try posting this on the lap band forum. Others there might have experience like yours and can offer some better insight into what can/should be done.
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/lapband/a,messageboard/board_id,5359/
Best wishes, Kathy
Topic: Has to be removed.
I just left Dr. Rodriguez's office. I have to have my band removed. I have had it for a year and 1/2. It just works like a tube not a pouch. I tried calling some other Dr.'s in my area of Plano and they won't see anyone elses patients eventhough my dr. is retiring.
Has anyone else had to have thiers removed? Has anyone had to change dr's? This is really disheartening and difficult for me. I am still paying off the loan for my band and I don't have a clue how much removal will cost or how to get a dr. that will take someone else's patients.
Topic: RE: Peripheral Neuropathy in all extremeties
Cocaine--you gotta be kidding me!!!!!!!!!!!
Complaint at the least for their behavior!
Sorry you're going through this and that they treated you like that.
Topic: RE: Peripheral Neuropathy in all extremeties
Aw Sweety, I'm so sorry you're going through this... I would have been P'O'd too... I'd probably file a formal complaint to be honest, but that's just me. They had no reason to treat you like that.
Topic: Peripheral Neuropathy in all extremeties
WOW - what a horrible 24 hours. My arms have been numb/tingely for a few weeks now. Last night in church, out of no where my neck and face went numb/tingely too. I FREAKED!!!! It was soooooo scary!! I had to leave and go to ER. There they treated me HORRIBLE! Accused me of losing my weight by taking cocaine 
Can we say, "instantly PO'd" Then the doctor started in with psyc eval questions. SERIOUSLY!!!!!!! He asked me if I worry a lot and if I feel guilty alot. What the heck is that???? Oh I was soooooooo flippin' mad! I told him that this has never happened and I live an hour away and needed to find out if it was safe for me to drive home. After test, he came in the room and said, "Well, you won't die tonight, so you can go home and follow up with your pcp." What a bedside manner!!!!
Today I saw my pcp (the new one) and he said it's definately peripheral neuropathy in all extremeties (arms, hands, face, legs, and feet) The legs and feet went numb in the middle of the night last night. I was pretty darn freaked out to see things degress so darn FAST!! 
He's sending me off to U of M hospital for a consult for a revision/take down! I'm scared chitless!!! Both to have the surgery and to NOT have the surgery.
Keep me in your prayers!
Laurie
Can we say, "instantly PO'd" Then the doctor started in with psyc eval questions. SERIOUSLY!!!!!!! He asked me if I worry a lot and if I feel guilty alot. What the heck is that???? Oh I was soooooooo flippin' mad! I told him that this has never happened and I live an hour away and needed to find out if it was safe for me to drive home. After test, he came in the room and said, "Well, you won't die tonight, so you can go home and follow up with your pcp." What a bedside manner!!!!
Today I saw my pcp (the new one) and he said it's definately peripheral neuropathy in all extremeties (arms, hands, face, legs, and feet) The legs and feet went numb in the middle of the night last night. I was pretty darn freaked out to see things degress so darn FAST!!
He's sending me off to U of M hospital for a consult for a revision/take down! I'm scared chitless!!! Both to have the surgery and to NOT have the surgery.
Keep me in your prayers!
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