Lord knows, you don't need to hide behind hair or anything else. I looked through your profile. You are GORGEOUS! And such a good attitude, to boot.

Hi Web Diva! Just came across your posting and I am also interested in getting just a regular medic alert bracelet, but have no idea where to get one. I was surprised when I read your posting that you got one free! Would you care to share that info?? Sure would appreciate it! Jeri

You look fantastic. Dianne

I finally updated my profile with pictures of myself and my family. I posted on the main board but wanted to post with others who had surgery the same time as myself. Hope you all are doing exceptionally well!

Ronda, i'm so sorry to hear you are having issues. I started with severe hives and swelling at about 30 pounds of loss. have had them since. i see a doctor in nj for a condition called idiopathic edema where in your fat cells store water. The body then attacks the fat cells because they contain a foriegn substance (who would have though****er was foriegn, but in your fat cells it is). Hence you breakout in hives and swell and your checks can flush at any time - usually with heat. Also, you tend to pee more at night - when you have to get out of bed then you do in the day time.... Basically, your body is holding on to fluids..there are many causes. You could do a web search on it...you could also ask your doctors to contact a Dr. Jerome Check at Cooper Center for Reproductive Medicine. I know the reproductive part is weird but he is a board certified endocrynologist who has a practice full of idiopathic edema patients and pcos patients. i was referred to him by my allergist after exhaustive tests. my allergist said since i did have pcos i would be better served seeing him...was he right. since i've been seeing dr. check, i no longer get hives - unless i miss my medications. he has a specific treatment regime for idiopathic edema which he has worked on for over 25 years. anyway, i sound like a commercial...it's just that i dealt with these hives and problems for about a year before i got real help...most doctors just kept saying it was stress and depression even though i wasn't stressed or depressed....my god i had just lost a massive amount of weight for me. and then i found out that one of my real weight issues was this wonderful syndrome and there is a solution...not a cure....but a solution and it wasn't in my head. anyway, you can look in my profile there is some info there - not much...but please do a web search and take a look for dr. check...his cv is amazing and so is he in his slightly excentric way. 4/19/2004 -85 looking for another 40