How r u feeling? Much better I hope.  Your new picture looks beautiful!
Denise 

I have been having some problems this week. I had a fill Monday afternoon. Afterwards, I met a friend at a Mexican restaurant for some refried beans and a cheese quesadilla. That night, I woke up at 2:00 am with severe stomach pain, burning esophagus and throat and regurgitation. I was up at least 2 hours, miserable. Pepto Bismol did nothing to alleviate this. I had a sour taste in my mouth and thought I just ate something wrong and had some food poisoning.

 

Last night, it happened again. I woke up at 2:00am, about 3 hours after eating a mushroom quesadilla. Same symtoms. I took a cough drop hoping to numb my throat. When I finally woke up at 4:00 am, my throat was still burning but then my chest felt some pressure on it. The pressure has since moved to between my shoulder blades, and now is back in my sternum.

My Doctor's office said that I rushed into eating real foods too quickly. So I am now on liquids for 2 days, then 2 days of soft foods. And hopefully that will alleviate my problems. If there is no change by Monday morning, then my latest fill is too tight.
 

I have Federal BCBS Mississippi and it paid for most of my RNY.  I think all I paid was around $400.  Three years ago Fed BCBS would only cover RNY, and the next year they added lap band.  But they would not send a pre-approval letter to my surgeon's office. I didn't have to do the 6 months of dieting, but I did have to prove that I had been morbidly obese for 5 years.  Since I would rarely step on the scale at the dr's office, I asked my surgeon's office if they would accept photos as proof.  My daughter had twin sons in 2001 so I had five years of pictures of myself with them.  You can see how they grew in those five years....and how I grew too!  They accepted the photos but never had to use them.  BCBS paid without question.

Good luck to you!
Pam

This is for me to test my new ticker. ObesityHelp is making this a whole lot easier by now offering the Health Tracker on their site instead of making us go offsite to find these. Much, much easier!!

http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/amos/3938455/Health-Tracker-Now-Live/

Thanks for listening,
Tammy

thanks!