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Topic: RE: DOCTOR question
I use Dr. Lacy Anderson. She is in Norman and part of the Integris network. She is so awesome. She helped me do my 6 month diet in order to get my surgery and went the extra mile to make sure everything was done properly so my insurance would approve me with no problems. She has several patients who have had bariatric surgery, both bypass and band, and has family members who have also had the surgery. She is very understanding and knowledgeable. She is a family practice doctor and I use her for just about everything. I have had several doctors growing up and she is by far the best I have ever had. If you want her number and address just send me a message and I'll be more than happy to give them to you.
Topic: RE: I am merely overweight!
That is sooo AWESOME!!! Kudos to you Lois! I know I was very excited when I was in the "obese" category and not the Super Morbidly Obese or Morbidly Obese Category.... It feels good being put into a smaller range other than OMG HUGE!!! :)
Congrats on your success! Wishing you the best for continued Success!!
Congrats on your success! Wishing you the best for continued Success!!
48lbs lost PRE-OP - LBL on 3/24/2011 -- 11lbs of skin removed! 
Topic: I am merely overweight!
After staying the same for days on end, I finally lost another pound. Now at 158# I am oficially overweight for the first time in 32 or 33 years. I spent about about five or ten years in this category, so I've never been a "normal" weight in my entire adulthood. Wish me luck on the rest of the journey.
5'3/4" 56 years young
Heaviest Weight 250; Consult Weight 232; Surgery Weight 211
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Are you maintaining? Join us at http://www.obesityhelp.com/group/VSGM/discussion/
Heaviest Weight 250; Consult Weight 232; Surgery Weight 211
Shorter
Are you maintaining? Join us at http://www.obesityhelp.com/group/VSGM/discussion/
Topic: RE: Trying to pick a surgeon and a procedure.....
All,
WOW thank you so much. You have each offered me such a unique perspective and useful information. I can't thank you enough for that.
Darrell, I agree with your theory about female MDs. My GYN is a woman and one day I went into her office with my bottom blood pressure number at 100. She immediately went into action. When I told my male PCP about the referrals she set-up for me, he told me that was silly and that I should just come see him. I was apalled. He is unfortunately still my PCP and I'm scared to death about what he's going to say when I tell him I want surgery, but I guess the good news is he doesn't have to be my PCP and I can find someone else if need be.
Ladies, thanks so much for giving me insight into post-op pregnancy as well as the importance of doing your homework beforehand. I spent a ton of time on lap band forums and blogs, finding everything I could. Now I'm doing the same with RNY. It really pays to look at both sides of the coin, I think.
Anyway, thank you all for replying, it just makes me so overwhelmed when people who don't know you take the time to really try and help you. What can I say? I'm a sappy, sentimental girl!
WOW thank you so much. You have each offered me such a unique perspective and useful information. I can't thank you enough for that.
Darrell, I agree with your theory about female MDs. My GYN is a woman and one day I went into her office with my bottom blood pressure number at 100. She immediately went into action. When I told my male PCP about the referrals she set-up for me, he told me that was silly and that I should just come see him. I was apalled. He is unfortunately still my PCP and I'm scared to death about what he's going to say when I tell him I want surgery, but I guess the good news is he doesn't have to be my PCP and I can find someone else if need be.
Ladies, thanks so much for giving me insight into post-op pregnancy as well as the importance of doing your homework beforehand. I spent a ton of time on lap band forums and blogs, finding everything I could. Now I'm doing the same with RNY. It really pays to look at both sides of the coin, I think.
Anyway, thank you all for replying, it just makes me so overwhelmed when people who don't know you take the time to really try and help you. What can I say? I'm a sappy, sentimental girl!
Topic: RE: Support Groups in the Tulsa Area?
Hi Angie!
I would love to get to know you and it would be awesome to have someone around here that I could go to support groups with. I know that I need to try go to at least one a month especially right after surgery. I'm sure there is plenty I still need to learn, and I know I will have questions plus just going somewhere every week will help to keep me accountable. Miami isn't too far for me, heck of a lot better than driving clear to Norman once a week. I don't mind the drive to WW but I think the cost of gas would eat me alive.
I do love Dr B ( just from the little bit of time I spend with him when I check in each month). He is so patient with all my endless questions and seems to truly care about how you are and what's going on in your life. If all dr's could be more like him, people wouldn't dread the office visits so often.
Thanks for the heads up on the meeting in Miami, do you know when each month it meets?
Thanks again for the helpful info!
Breanna
I would love to get to know you and it would be awesome to have someone around here that I could go to support groups with. I know that I need to try go to at least one a month especially right after surgery. I'm sure there is plenty I still need to learn, and I know I will have questions plus just going somewhere every week will help to keep me accountable. Miami isn't too far for me, heck of a lot better than driving clear to Norman once a week. I don't mind the drive to WW but I think the cost of gas would eat me alive.
I do love Dr B ( just from the little bit of time I spend with him when I check in each month). He is so patient with all my endless questions and seems to truly care about how you are and what's going on in your life. If all dr's could be more like him, people wouldn't dread the office visits so often.
Thanks for the heads up on the meeting in Miami, do you know when each month it meets?
Thanks again for the helpful info!
Breanna
Topic: RE: Fantastic read on fat intake - Not so bad after all
Thank you bunches Jay!! I'm totally reposting this on the exercise and VSG forums!! Interesting reading!
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You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan
My Goals:
1) 200lbs ACCOMPLISHED
3) 170lbs
4) Run 5K
"Unneeded food is not any less wasted in a body that doesnt need it, than it is in the trash." ~Brandilynn
"Those that will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." ~William Penn
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You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan
My Goals:
1) 200lbs ACCOMPLISHED
3) 170lbs
4) Run 5K
"Unneeded food is not any less wasted in a body that doesnt need it, than it is in the trash." ~Brandilynn
"Those that will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." ~William Penn
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Topic: RE: Trying to pick a surgeon and a procedure.....
I would encourage you to look at the pros and cons of BOTH procedures. Go to the specific surgery forums on here and ask for those that have had each surgery to give you a list of the good and the bad. Not just the sunshine and roses version, but the real day to day life experience.
RNY is to date, the top that you can get for losing weight quickly. It does however have the malabsorption that will make you dependent on supplements for your life (though there is new research that is showing that malabsuprtion only latest for several years and then they DO start absorbing again). There is also the reforming of a pouch and the bisecting of bowls that are then reattached to your new pouch with your old stomach left inside of you. There is dumping on certain foods and also foods getting stuck if not chewed til liquefied.
The band is the least change to your internal organs. It is the shortest (that I have heard) of the surgeries. You do however have to have the band adjusted to offer the most comfortable and greatest resistance. There have been many issues sited with the band as far as slipping, being embedded and the port flipping, slipping and quite extensive scar tissue around both the port and band. As with the RNY you do as well have the issues of food getting 'stuck'. Chewing food til liquefied is a MUST.
Consider the recovery time for each one. Ask people about hair loss and getting in enough protein and water daily. Ask how hard it is to find good supplements and how sensitive your pouch is to certain foods afterwards. Ask how it feels to have the incorrect fluid in your band. Ask how it feels having an adjustment and having a foreign object in your body.
I'd totally go to a support group that the center you are considering having your surgery done through and speak to the post-op patients and ask them for how the felt afterward and the recovery time. Which surgeon did their surgery and how the felt about the staff, and care and the surgeon's bedside manner.
And get familiar with BOTH surgeries. Don't leave it up in the air. Get you some concrete medical information on each. The good, and the bad. The high points and the low ones.
Best wishes and good luck on your journey!! Information is power and you need all you can get before you place your life and body in another person's hands!!
*big hugs*
RNY is to date, the top that you can get for losing weight quickly. It does however have the malabsorption that will make you dependent on supplements for your life (though there is new research that is showing that malabsuprtion only latest for several years and then they DO start absorbing again). There is also the reforming of a pouch and the bisecting of bowls that are then reattached to your new pouch with your old stomach left inside of you. There is dumping on certain foods and also foods getting stuck if not chewed til liquefied.
The band is the least change to your internal organs. It is the shortest (that I have heard) of the surgeries. You do however have to have the band adjusted to offer the most comfortable and greatest resistance. There have been many issues sited with the band as far as slipping, being embedded and the port flipping, slipping and quite extensive scar tissue around both the port and band. As with the RNY you do as well have the issues of food getting 'stuck'. Chewing food til liquefied is a MUST.
Consider the recovery time for each one. Ask people about hair loss and getting in enough protein and water daily. Ask how hard it is to find good supplements and how sensitive your pouch is to certain foods afterwards. Ask how it feels to have the incorrect fluid in your band. Ask how it feels having an adjustment and having a foreign object in your body.
I'd totally go to a support group that the center you are considering having your surgery done through and speak to the post-op patients and ask them for how the felt afterward and the recovery time. Which surgeon did their surgery and how the felt about the staff, and care and the surgeon's bedside manner.
And get familiar with BOTH surgeries. Don't leave it up in the air. Get you some concrete medical information on each. The good, and the bad. The high points and the low ones.
Best wishes and good luck on your journey!! Information is power and you need all you can get before you place your life and body in another person's hands!!
*big hugs*
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan
My Goals:
1) 200lbs ACCOMPLISHED
3) 170lbs
4) Run 5K
"Unneeded food is not any less wasted in a body that doesnt need it, than it is in the trash." ~Brandilynn
"Those that will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." ~William Penn
~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan
My Goals:
1) 200lbs ACCOMPLISHED
3) 170lbs
4) Run 5K
"Unneeded food is not any less wasted in a body that doesnt need it, than it is in the trash." ~Brandilynn
"Those that will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." ~William Penn
~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
Topic: RE: DOCTOR question
If you want to travel to Yukon, Dr Heather Barnes has walked with me through my journey step-by-step. Her and her staff are always excited to see me since I change so much between visits. She listens and works hard to help make me a success.
She's at Integris Yukon, I-40 and Garth Brooks. I can't speak highly enough of her.
She understands. She will help.
She's at Integris Yukon, I-40 and Garth Brooks. I can't speak highly enough of her.
She understands. She will help.
Topic: RE: Support Groups in the Tulsa Area?
Hi Breanna! Welcome!
I live just north of Pryor and also went to Dr. B @ WW... I LOVE that system and support group. There is a NEOK Bariatric Group that meets in Miami once a month. I hope to make it there one of these days, but it hasn't worked out yet.
I try to make it to support group about 1 a month or 1 every 6 weeks. It is hard, but fortunately with my job, I CAN go over on Thursday afternoon, attend support group and then stay the night in OKC and work from our office there. Although, it's not TOO terrible coming home after support group either...
I feel your pain. I know we don't know each other, but perhaps we could get to know one another and go to support group together some time.
Good luck to you! You will just LOVE Dr. B... I do anyways! He is AWESOME!!!
Hugs!
Angie
I live just north of Pryor and also went to Dr. B @ WW... I LOVE that system and support group. There is a NEOK Bariatric Group that meets in Miami once a month. I hope to make it there one of these days, but it hasn't worked out yet.
I try to make it to support group about 1 a month or 1 every 6 weeks. It is hard, but fortunately with my job, I CAN go over on Thursday afternoon, attend support group and then stay the night in OKC and work from our office there. Although, it's not TOO terrible coming home after support group either...
I feel your pain. I know we don't know each other, but perhaps we could get to know one another and go to support group together some time.
Good luck to you! You will just LOVE Dr. B... I do anyways! He is AWESOME!!!
Hugs!
Angie
48lbs lost PRE-OP - LBL on 3/24/2011 -- 11lbs of skin removed!
Topic: DOCTOR question
Okay so I had surgery on the 17th of March. I haven't had a PCP since I was too old for my pediatrician when I was 18. I then saw an adolescent doctor until I was 21 and was to old for them. I am wanting a doctor in the Metro area ****norman, moore, Edmond, MWC wherever) who is understanding, supportive, and knowledgable of the surgery I have gone through. I have my surgeon and my support team at Weight Wise in Edmond but I'm obviously going to have sore throats and colds and things that are not their area of medicine. I need a doctor who knows how to work with our new bodies. If any of you have a doctor you'd suggest please let me know!!
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