i wish i had seen this yeaterday! i totally would have come out! haha. im lookn for workout clothes i wear 3-4x and 30-32 pants. atleast until ig et my surgery that is! :) 

Hi, Everyone.
For those of you within driving distance of Winfield (south central KS), we will meet this Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009, from 2-3 p.m., at the E-Free Church library, 3725 East 9th Avenue. We have a good time, cover interesting topics, and support one another. Y'all come.
Blessings,
Mary

I just saw this post and am curious if you are in Topeka, why not go to Tallgrass right here in town? We have a great program right here.

suntart66... I am new here. Still unsure if I want to do this. Not even sure I can qualify I have so many medical problems. I do have medicare and a supplement. And going to have it done by TallGrass in Topeka. I have completed all the requirements -- soon to have the consultation appointment. Can you give me some perspective as to how things went for you? Thanks! ladymmg

Thanks for your reply.  I am so interested in your description of Dr. K as a possibility in Lenexa.  I've really wondered about her.  I have read  her reviews here on ObesityHelp, and read her own web page.  The reviews I recall being quite good, but I really wondered why none of them were from DSers. Also, I was so disturbed that she even listed BPD (the old kind, without DS) as a possibility.  If I recall, she said she had done about 25 BPDs and 25 DSs (but those web stats could be a few years old).  Most of the people on the DS message board who have had it say that it is just a myth that DSers have a stench about their whole body. Many also report that the flatulence is controllable by their dietary choices, for the most part.  The most common cause for the flatulence in DSers is usually white flour, sugars, and sugar alcohols.  If they stick to protein and fat, most do not find it too bad.  Then, they often just have, say, a cookie from work in the last hour, so gas won't hit until they've left work, or they wait to have starchy food until alone at home in the evening.  That's what I seem to see them saying on the DS board.  Have you lurked much on the DS message board?  Of course, I am still thinking about which WLS I can best live with, and I am kind of grieving, in that they all can have bad things result.
Oh, I wanted to also bring up more about Dr. K's website.  I read these a few weeks ago, I think it was.  I read the 34-pg DS guide she had in .pdf, and it seemed like mostly just repeating RNY dietary habit advice.  Like your statement in the post above, I don't mean to be offensive about other people's choices, either.  I am just concerned.  I hope she is better than my fear of her.
 I am so impressed that she met with you for so long!!!  That counts for a lot with me. 
I do know I have a beef to pick w/ Tallgrass's bariatric web site, too, in that it basically just has a little ad for lap-band and it's financing, then a little about each surgeon.  Nothing substantive about DS or RNY.  And yet, I do know that at the seminar, the different options are presented pretty equally, and I do read the posts of a woman who went to Dr. Berntsen at Tallgrass intending on getting the RNY, and Dr. B suggested the DS for her, and she (the patient) has been very pleased with the DS post-op.

Edited to add: I meant to put in but forgot:  I wonder if she (Dr.K) was mixing together the old BPD and current DSers in what she was warning you about as the terrible things that could come of the DS -- I think those were more prevalent with the old BPD, which is why it isn't normally done anymore, when the modern DS is so much better.