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I don't know what a good answer to that would be, as I have no clue how Prime operates. Standard has the widest coverage of any of the plans, both geographically and in terms of services, but I don't know anything about getting involved in care with a MTF as a retiree or retiree spouse. I'd...

At this point in time, your only option for a Tricare covered revision without a "real medical issue" (as if a BMI of 50 isn't!!) is through a MTF. There are only a couple in the country that have/had DS surgeons in place. Madigan in WA is/was one, and I recall reports of one at the major MTF...

Hey good lady!! One of these days I just KNOW I'm going to pop in here for a visit and your name will be at the top of the board, celebrating "No surgeries or medical procedures for ONE WHOLE YEAR!" <3

This is a super exaggerated "explanation" of new brain science understanding of addictive behavior. Obesity and emotional eating are two different animals in terms of brain science. They are also different animals from chemical dependency-induced brain changes. Absolutely you can change your...

Boyce is a good cutter, but you need to ignore all his diet and supplement advice and refuse to buy the crap he sells.

Thanks! Yup, I arrived in MT a year ago last fall, and Mr. EN followed this past spring. It's very good to be gone from NJ--although Mr. EN thinks we all lied to him about winters here being milder (or at least no worse) than in the Mid-Atlantic. It's been a bugger of a winter, and plenty left...

I've had multiple surgeries in this hospital over a period of more than 20 years and have accompanied both family members and friends through surgeries there. It's fine. My only aggravating experience in the place was in the ER, a very long time ago, when I got sub-par treatment that was based...

I never had a weight goal. To me the scale is a crazy-maker. I went first by health and fitness improvements, and secondly by clothing size changes.

My Muslim friends never had any issues with medical exemptions from the religious requirements of Ramadan. One man with diabetes and the occasional pregnant woman. They all made some efforts to modify their intake, but none of them did the sunup to sundown absolute fast. ETA: Regarding "how to...

NO. You should be sensible and take it easy. Don't push your limits. You can't feel much of what's happened in your gut because of all the nerves that were cut. That's why things are often a LOT harder after a week or ten days, because communication is getting reestablished and you're getting...

The proposed faculty appears to have a lot SADIsts.

You might have to clean the toilet a little more often, but it's rarely an obnoxious issue once you've healed, unless you eat something that makes your guts go crazy.

Yes, there are several folks around. @Whit @ginger are two that come to mind.

I'll add chiropractor, for the same reasons as therapeutic massage. Both help me lots. Today, nine years out, the owies are different than they were as I lost the weight, and I don't need work /treatment as frequently as I did in the first couple years.

*eyeroll* There's an ignore button, boys and girls. Try it sometime.

Um, I would like to hope that the OP is the person whom I led here from our FB group to post her experience. So quit shitting on her and ask questions that will elicit more responses, especially peeps like newbie postop @CaraOC. You, my dear, are wayyyyy too new to have earned bitch credentials...

Oh dear lady, if only you knew how awesome you are. You're a hero. Hang in there. I wish we could find the magic wand to fix you. May you have lots of grace, strength, love and wisdom as you walk this path. And may you be absolutely right that I've left all that bullshit behind me! Ha! If only...

Ha, yet another DS male blows us all out of the water! *cue the lineup of pouting women* :-D

Hi feeder! So glad to see a smoke signal from you , even though the news is not wonderful. <3

I had been on insulin for 14 years and oral medication (first Glucophage and then Actos) for 13 years. I was so insulin resistant that even a very tight control regimen and over 160 units total per day couldn't give me a fast glucose under 200. That was my condition the day of surgery, a Monday...