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ObesityHelp is happy to announce our new ObesityHelp Drug Discount Card. In coordination with NeedyMeds, ObesityHelp is offering this card to our members at no charge.
This ObesityHelp Drug Discount Card offers you another way to save on various prescription costs. You can save up to 80% off the price of certain prescription medications. Members can use the card if not covered by insurance or by members that decide not to use their insurance. For instance, if a prescription medication is not covered under your insurance plan, the co-payment or deductible is high, if the maximum benefit has been exceeded, or if they are in the donut hole, members can utilize this card. The drug discount card is not an insurance plan, but provides patients with discounted rates on prescriptions. When this card is presented with a valid prescription to a pharmacist, a 0-80% discount may be provided. However, you may ask the pharmacist to process the discount card through the pharmacy system, as well as your insurance card, then choose whichever offers the best savings. The discount card often provides better discounts than many insurance plans.
The ObesityHelp Drug Discount Card is accepted at over 61,000 participating pharmacies (within the U.S. and territories) and includes large chains stores such as Walgreens, CVS and Wal-Mart, Rite-Aid and other regional chains and local stores. Additionally, the ObesityHelp Drug Discount Card can be used for over-the-counter medications and medical supplies if they are written on a prescription along with pet prescription medications purchased at a pharmacy. Your card can be shared with friends and family members, and you are invited to print a card for their use too. The card is active now and has no expiration date. When the ObesityHelp Drug DiscountCard is used, OH will receive a minimal amount to assist us as we make the journey with our members to fight obesity. If your pharmacist is not familiar with the drugdiscount card, they can call Argus Health Systems at 866-921-7284. The phone number is found on back of the card.
What If I Have Insurance?
Anyone can use the ObesityHelp Drug Discount Card card but it cannot be combined with insurance. You can use it instead of insurance if:
- The insurance has no drug coverage
- There is a high drug deductible
- There is a low medicine cap that has been met
- There is a high copay and the card offers a better price
- You are in the Medicare Part D donut hole
The card cannot be used to lower a co-payment.
A Few Things You Should Know
- This card is not an insurance program-it's a discount card.
- There may be no savings for certain drugs, including many inexpensive generics.
Here's how it works:
- Download your ObesityHelp Drug Discount card HERE and print the page.
- Cut out the card.
- Give the card to the pharmacist along with your prescription.
- The pharmacist will tell you how much you can save using our drug discount card.
ObesityHelp appreciates our members!! Look for more exciting things to come for OH members!
Sincerely,
Member Services
WHO: EVERYONE IS WELCOME
WHERE: IKEA Round Rock Restaurant
WHEN: Saturday, January 21st
TIME: 10:30 am
WHY: Because we all need a little support sometimes, and who doesn’t want to hang out with a lot of positive, motivational, supportive and FUN people.
See previous posts for more information:
If you are from Austin/Round Rock -- Check this out!!
OH Rox Round Rock Support Group Meeting
You are welcome and encouraged to bring before and after pictures, as well as pen, paper, questions, thoughts, and ideas.
OHRRR is really looking forward to making a difference with this group in 2012!
Looking forward to seeing you there!
We are trying something new by alternating between Round Rock and South Austin for our meetings.
Tomorrow's (2/18/12) meeting will be at Central Market at Westgate at 10:30am - noon. Here is the address: 4477 S. Lamar Blvd. Austin, TX 78745 http://www.centralmarket.com/Stores/Austin-Westgate.aspx/
This months meeting is going to be centered on Staying on Track. Please bring a pen and paper for notes. We also encourage you to bring before and after pictures if you would like.You and any others you may know of in search of a weight loss support group are invited! Our group is not limited to one certain weight loss surgery, it is open to pre-ops, post-ops, those thinking of weight loss surgery, and those who just in general need some type of accountability.
Our goal is to provide a support group that is positive and motivational. Also to create a strong foundation within this area to lend support to those in need.
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!
We want to let you know that our Terms of Service has been modified. Please check out our revised Terms of Service http://www.obesityhelp.com/content/terms-of-service.html.
All modifications have been made in our ongoing efforts to improve the experience and provide support, education and information to our ObesityHelp Members.
Sincerely,
ObesityHelp Management and Staff
Since its founding in 1998, ObesityHelp.com has been serving the weight loss surgery community with education, inspiration and support. Part of this has always revolved around the power of the individual journey. It’s not any easy way out. It has never been any magic bullet. ObesityHelp.com has been proud to collect real stories of the good, bad, ugly, beautiful and everything in between from real people, for the benefit of all those seeking information, advice, insight, or support.
Want to share your story?
There are many ways to do so here, stemming from your profile, where you can maintain free form content, photos, blog posts, reviews and more.
Amid this, however, we have a journey sequence where we selected a number of questions addressing steps common to all weight loss surgery patients. Over the years we have collected over 70,000 responses from our 700,000 plus members.
This month we are taking this long-standing feature and bringing it more to the forefront. We have decided to highlight life before versus after weight loss surgery, with the intent of helping call attention to the life transforming power of the only intervention yet known to provide long term improvement or outright resolution of life threatening co-morbidities such as sleep apnea, diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
In upcoming releases we intend to make it easy for people to browse the most educational journeys based on geography, surgery type, gender, initial weight, and other criteria.
Why are we doing this?
We recognize the continuing need to educate the public at large, including employers, law makers and health professionals, about the clinically researched benefits and risks of surgical intervention for obesity as a disease deserving as much proper understanding and respect as any other disease with genetic and environmental causes. The more you share of your own experience, the faster we can educate the public at large as to the realities of morbid obesity and of surgical interventions. Please help us turn the tide in obesity discrimination and even outright well intended ignorance.
What will we do with your story?
Very soon...Any journey questions that you answer will appear on your member profile (which you can have public, private, or public only to people on your friends list). It will also appear, upon approval, in our main Journey section. These will be available for public browsing, where interested viewers can click to learn more about individuals by viewing their profiles.
Get Recognition!
In February we will be selecting our first round of story sharing winners, based on story submissions we receive in the month of January. Winners will receive free admittance to OH events, a year (or additional year) of OH Magazine subscription, and invitation to the ObesityHelp Journey All Stars roundtable. (Stay tuned for more details).
Everyone has a story...tell us yours at MY JOURNEY!
For any questions? Give us a holler at [email protected]
Hello Friends! We're very happy to announce two important topics for the OH cruise in March that will be presented by Colleen Cook from Bariatric Support Centers International: 1: Hope and Help for the Pain of Regain and 2: The Success Habits of Weight Loss Surgery Patients.
We've been hearing that some members are looking for cabin mates to split the cost of the OH cruise in March! Be sure to visit http://www.obesityhelp.com/events/2012-Obesityhelp-Cruise.ht ml , scroll down to the bottom where comments are so you can all talk about it and share info, or post on the message boards! There's still room according to Royal Caribbean, and the more, the merrier! There is one cabin left in our block, and still many outside our block, so come cruisin' and get recharged. Book at 1-800-401-9948. Our OH code is 2201863!
This is going to be a great time to get very good information (and a suntan) and support from Dr. Stapleton, Colleen Cook and Bo McCoy in our conference sessions at sea! Join us! This is a great way to make some new friends from around the country...we're aiming to really have some fun!
Kim Gyurina, Event Manager
The following is an excerpt from a response I made to someone who asked about getting back on track. This person has been very successful in her weight loss journey, but has recently experienced some regain. Statistically, her regain is within the norms for 'bounce back' weight, but it was how she regained that distressed her and it was nearly a mirror image of what happened to me a few years ago. I really felt her distress and fear and wanted to reassure her that all is not lost, that we always have our tool and we can get control of it now, even when we couldn't for so many years before. So if you have have arrived at maintenance and are struggling with some unwanted regain or if you are only thinking about WLS or in the process of losing and want to know if you can and will be able to maintain your weight after you lose it, read on...
Okay, so the real question is how to get back on track and if it's a realistic possibility and probability. I'm here to tell you that it is both possible and probable that you can reverse the tides and get back to where you are happy and be able to stay there. I have to tell you that I too was just terrified because I knew from my previous experience that 'diets' just don't work for me. I'm an overgrown 3 yr old and if you tell me I can't have something, then.... I will. That scared the proverbial pants off of me. After mulling it over a bit, I decided to try a new tact. One to get the unwanted extra pounds off and another, related tact to keep my weight where I want it to be.
So, to take off the weight, the two biggest things I did were to log my intake and activity and to cut back on simple carbs... cut back, not cut out. I made sure to 'take care of business' with every meal and snack, making sure I was eating 5 to 6 times a day. When I say 'take care of business' I mean that I made sure that I got in 4 to 6 ounces of protein, then followed that with colorful, complex carbs. I also made sure that I wasn't drinking any fluids within that 30 min window before, during and after my meal so that I could allow my tool to work for me and help me really regulate my intake to ensure I wasn't taking in more calories than I needed. I maintained a caloric intake of about 1000 to 1200 calories a day when I was working on losing the weight. Logging really helped me think about what I was ingesting and if it was supporting my goals or undermining them. This helped think of things in a positive light. Is this choice going to help get me to where I want to be or submarine my attempt to achieve and maintain a healthy and active life? If not, I often would think twice and let it go without the burden and baggage that comes with feeling deprived. I have to say that I did occasionally indulge while I was losing, but not often because I had my eye on the proverbial prize and I was delighted at the result I was getting; most of the time the 'indulgence' I wanted at the moment faded when I 'weighed' it against my goals. To be honest, the weight came off relatively easily. Much more so than I thought it would.
Now that I've taken the excess weight off, I don't really log anymore unless might weight ticks back up out of it's normal range. If that happens, I start logging again and am able to easily trim off the few pounds.
I honestly think that losing the weight and then maintaining it all comes down to awareness and accountability. If you think about it, I'll bet that you've been playing a bit of 'hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil' as it relates to what you are consuming. You 'know' you are going off track, but tend to not want to see the evidence of it. We all have to find ways to be aware and accountable and to be honest what works when we are losing is not necessarily what works in maintenance and I think that this is one of the main reasons we tend to falter in maintenance. Whatever we did to maintain awareness and accountability in our weight loss phase doesn't really work for us anymore and no one has told us that we need re-evaluate how we are going to remain aware and accountable as we work to maintain or new found weight and it's resulting health and quality of life benefits. It took me a while to find what works for me. It may take you a while to find what works for you, but I'm sure that you can and will.Barbara
ObesityHelp Coach and Support Group Leader
http://www.obesityhelp.com/group/bcumbo_group/
High-264, Current-148, Goal-145
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