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Hello everyone.
I guess I will start a new topic with the question I have. I think I mentioned in one of the links that I am going to have the Lap Band which is a new procedure rather than gastic bypass done if everything is ok'ed.
My question is whither any body else has had it done or knows someone that did and how they did with it?
I have been gain weight almost faithfully in the last 3 years, since I stopped smoking which I weight 230 lbs then. I am now up to 279 lbs.
Sometimes I think a lot of it is fluid especially in my stomach, I take 80 mg of lasic twice a day, most days, if I don't I bloat up like a balloon.
I get really SOB from just getting up and walking to the bathroom. I am not able to do anything. I have gone to the ER twice when it got really bad but they say I don't have fluid on my lungs and there is nothing they can do. The SOB has worsen since I had my ACID implanted three weeks ago. Two weeks before that I started on Norpace, which when I came out of the hospital from starting it I felt so good, I was able to do things without having so much tightness in my chest, but two days later it was worse then before I started.
Oh and I went to see Dr. Lever in March. He is the one that said try Norpace and had me get the ACID. I called his office last week and he called back on Friday but I wasn't home so I will try to contact him again tomorrow.
When I eat, it feels like the food stays right between my chest bones and I can't hardly breath, even sitting in the chair. I can hardly sleep at night due to the fact that I can't lay down. I have two really thick pillows and my bed is elevated several inches, sometimes I have to sleep on the recliner. I have been so depressed lately because all I can do is sit and crochet. When I go shopping I have to use a riding cart cause I can't walk. And to top it all off I am going to be a first time grandmother in September and I WANT to be able to help with the baby.
I believe if I can lose some weight I will do better. I'm I having false hope.
Well enough crying for now.
Dora J
I guess I will start a new topic with the question I have. I think I mentioned in one of the links that I am going to have the Lap Band which is a new procedure rather than gastic bypass done if everything is ok'ed.
My question is whither any body else has had it done or knows someone that did and how they did with it?
I have been gain weight almost faithfully in the last 3 years, since I stopped smoking which I weight 230 lbs then. I am now up to 279 lbs.
Sometimes I think a lot of it is fluid especially in my stomach, I take 80 mg of lasic twice a day, most days, if I don't I bloat up like a balloon.
I get really SOB from just getting up and walking to the bathroom. I am not able to do anything. I have gone to the ER twice when it got really bad but they say I don't have fluid on my lungs and there is nothing they can do. The SOB has worsen since I had my ACID implanted three weeks ago. Two weeks before that I started on Norpace, which when I came out of the hospital from starting it I felt so good, I was able to do things without having so much tightness in my chest, but two days later it was worse then before I started.
Oh and I went to see Dr. Lever in March. He is the one that said try Norpace and had me get the ACID. I called his office last week and he called back on Friday but I wasn't home so I will try to contact him again tomorrow.
When I eat, it feels like the food stays right between my chest bones and I can't hardly breath, even sitting in the chair. I can hardly sleep at night due to the fact that I can't lay down. I have two really thick pillows and my bed is elevated several inches, sometimes I have to sleep on the recliner. I have been so depressed lately because all I can do is sit and crochet. When I go shopping I have to use a riding cart cause I can't walk. And to top it all off I am going to be a first time grandmother in September and I WANT to be able to help with the baby.
I believe if I can lose some weight I will do better. I'm I having false hope.
Well enough crying for now.
Dora J
just have to get by with no pasta & potatoes. MY cardiologist never wants me to diet 
, he says just eat less. The Atkins diet seems to be a different way of eating less. He also told me not to lose wait to fast. He's afraid of creating arrythmias. I am in constant Afib already, my pacer works 90% of the time. I have not had a epsiode in 4 years when I went to the hospital and got my dual mode pacer. 
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