3 months from the day

Today is it is 3 months from the day of my surgery. I am doing pretty well, besides the ulcer that doesn't want to go away.

Today I also hit my second goal... down 50 lbs as of this morning !!!

Hope everyone else is doing well!

Congrats. 50 pounds lost and gone forever. You are doing a great job. Is the ulcer bothering you? I have never had one but heard they can be painful. I will be 3 months out on 3/9 so Im not far behind you. Keep up the great work.

 

Shannon

Awesome!! keep up the good work.  I hope there is some relief for that ulcer though.  

have a great day!

What are they giving you for the ulcer?  It took 2 20mg doses of Nexium a day to get rid of my ulcers (pre op); and I'm still on the same dose.

Congrats on being down 50 lbs; that is such a nice round number - half way to 100!!

Karen

I have no idea what is causing them, but I have had them since almost right after the surgery. I have been on medication for them for the past 3 months and just had my scope again on this past Tuesday and now there are two instead of one. I am again on medicine and go back in 8 weeks for another scope in hopes they are gone. The DR wants me on Nexium but it is 100 bucks, my insurance doesn't pay for it all. It really uncomfortable and painful most of the time.

They had originally prescribed Nexium twice a day for me, but my insurance company wouldn't cover it either.  (I could start a rant here, but won't.)

They instead put me on prescription Prilosec, for which there is a generic.  They said all the main ingredients are the same with Nexium and Prilosec.  The drug company's patent on Prilosec was almost up so they developed Nexium - same active ingredients, a slight difference in the inert ingredients.  Thus the company gets a new patent for the new drug, and with heavy marketing on the greatness of "the purple pill", they can retain a chunk of the market share of the brand name prescription market.  If anything needs reform, it's the drug companies.

I'm sorry you have another ulcer.  Maybe generic Prilosec twice a day would help you too!  Please keep me posted.

they have added the Prilosec also, so I go back in 8 weeks for the next scope .. tired of them ..

I can imagine you are more than sick of them.