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Thanks. I think I will do that. I am just tired of having doctors make a big deal about me having WLS and then treating me as if I hadn't had it.

I am hoping one of the members here who live in Portland have some suggestions.

I wish I could but since this is an ongoing issues that has involved emergency hospital stays it wouldn't be practical. And I don't have the finances to travel there. I am not currently working and living on a very fixed income. Do you think that either of them could recommend a surgeon down here?

Some of you know my history. I had a DS in 2002, a revision in 2010 to some kind of hybrid, RNY pouch, DS intestines with a 200 cc common channel. Surprisingly my issues aren't really related to my WLS. The problem is I have had dozens of abdominal procedures and my insides are a mess and I...

Thankfully that was a long time ago. I'm so glad I don't have to deal with the issues I had. Even though I didn't get the arthritis/dermatitis complications again I still had to deal with problems from the overgrowth for a long time. My revision must have eliminated the blind loop because I...

I got this about a year after my surgery. I was sicker then sick. And the pain was terrible. I was lucky in that my doctor referred me to a dermatologist who had seen one case like mine in a woman who had WLS so he biopsied my rash and diagnosed me right away, otherwise it might not have been...

I saw a great documentary about people who jumped off the Golden Gate bridge. It was called The Bridge and it showed all the people who jumped off the bridge during a one year period. Very moving. I remember hearing in that movie that many of the survivors interviewed regretted their decision...

My heart was broken when I heard the news and then I was nearly hysterical when I found out it was suicide. I knew Robin back in the 70s, before tv, when he first moved to LA to do stand up. I hung out at a comedy club and was friends with many who worked there, including the comedians. I am...

I used a bidet thing I put on my toilet for years. Then I was thinking about how I like my shower sprayer for those kind of things and found something called a diaper sprayer. I removed the bidet thing and put on the sprayer and it is the best thing I found. I even put one in the second...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_behavior_therapy Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a therapy designed to help people change patterns of behavior that are not effective, such as self-harm, suicidal thinking and substance abuse. This approach works towards helping people increase...

I would support her 100% if she wanted a sleeve but she isn't interested. She doesn't want to not be able to eat whatever she wants in the amounts she wants. Like I said, she just doesn't want to gain weight from her choices. At least it seems the world is a little kinder to overweight kids...

I am dealing with this in my own life. My youngest daughter is obese and on the fast track for morbid obesity. And there is nothing I can do. I know I set a horrible example for her for many years but I have 5 kids and she is the only one who is obese. She is a hard core food addict. Of...

I did the Reclast and the first day was hell but the next day I woke up completely fine. My DEXA scan a year later showed marked improvement and reversal of bone loss. My endo was thrilled. I did my second infusion with no issues at all. Totally forgot I had it within an hour. I think he...

Not really guilty but I was afraid I would look like a big bully kicking a poor victim while she was down since a lot didn't know the back story. I was also worried about getting moderated for not being "supportive" enough. I did send out a few PM's though to let people know not to get...

I weigh and record my weight daily and have since the beginning. If you want to know what I weighed on any given day in the last 3 1/2 years I could tell you. I do it for accountability for myself. I don't allow myself to get emotionally involved with the numbers but if I am going to gain...

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Last week 110.2 This week 111.4 Total change +1.2 I don't know why but the gain didn't even faze me. Maybe because I am sick again and I don't care much about anything but it seems that nothing has changed except the number. Food feels the same, clothes feel the same. The only thing that...

I agree. I used Chantix to quit and the e cigs to stay quit. I started with high nicotine tobacco flavor and gradually, as needed, put in zero nicotine tobacco flavor. Now it is all zero nicotine. I keep it with me but I rarely use it now, only if I am around smokers and I get the urge or if...

I wrote it to remember my friends and to hope that maybe their deaths will help others to keep from smoking. I know it does me.

In the last 5 years I have lost many friends. Friends I have had for years, when we were young and invincible and nothing could touch us. I've lost count. There was Sharon, she was my best friend, then Jim, Pete was another hard one, Cheryl, Judy who I've known for over 20 years, Mary, Rose...