That is so great!!!! Congrats!!! Alice Lap RNY 8-26-04 311/302/196/140

Are you taking your B vitamins? Have you been getting your levels checked? B12 and B1 are critical to us as post ops. A similar thing happened to a lady in my support group who had a B12 deficiancy. She began B12 injections in 7/04 and was walking again without a walker by 12/04. Please have your B12 and B1 levels checked!!! Good luck. Kristy 254/148/130

Are you getting your B-12 shots regularly? My mother had WLS in 1980 and did not keep up with her B-12 injections. She now suffers from neuropathy and wishes she had taken the shots and the B-12 (and other) vitamins when she first began her journey. Check with your surgeon or regular doctor to get a complete CBC and see what your numbers are. You can take too much B-12, but it is rare. Please! If you are not already getting your regular B-12 injections, do it soon! Hope you're feeling better soon. ~Laura

Well luckily my husband works for a huge company (Landmark Comunications) so they have about 15 different insurance options. I work for a small company so we only have two insurance options. HMO and PPO. The HMO option looked at me like I was crazy when I requested a referal. They wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. Of course, I found this out in July 2003 and Open enrollment was MAY! So If I had known in March 2003 that my insurance didn't cover it, I could have switched and had surgery in 2003. But I didn't. My insurance will cover the RNY GB until we renew out policy on May1, after that they will not cover it. Unfortunately, my husband waits until MARCH to tell me he wants to pursue it! So we are going to run out of time. However, I am hoping they will aprrove it before May 1 and go ahead and pay. If they won't, then we will have to research options with my husband's employer. Right now he is on the POS Plan from Cigna I think. Its $6.64 a paycheck just for him. Where he works its mandatory to at least carry that coverage, even though he explained he didn't need it because he was on my plan and the copays are cheaper. I need to get his insurance card and make some phone calls and see what they cover. Maybe at least with him having two insurance plans, we won't have to pay as much for his as we did mine. I knew I was going to Have a $300 hospital copay, but somehow my insurance avoided $1400 in other charges and I ended up with a $1700 bill when I was expecting a $300 bill. Even though it was more expensive than what we budgeted for, Even though the supplements have cost a fortune, and buying all of the replacement clothes has been a HUGE cost, I would do it over in a minute. I finally have a life. I can go and do whatever I want. I'm not tired, I work out all the time, and I am NEVER uncomfortable. I think my husband sees how my life has improved and he wants in. He doesn't want me to be able to go to theme parks and fit on the rides and him not be able to go. Leland

HAPPY DANCE FOR YOU!!!! Congratulations, Jacqueline! I'm not there yet. I'm down 98 today and hoping I can drop those last two VERY SOON! ---- Leslie -98