Free Weight Loss Surgery Questions
How can I get free weight loss surgery? I want to get the Gastric Bypass surgey, but there is no way I can afford it and I don't have insurance at this moment, but I will soon. I am so desperate I will do something on T.V. And YES I've tried dieting and exercising and that hasn't helpd me lose the weight. I'm open to any suggestions. Thank you very much. :)
Anyone know how I can get weight-loss surgery for free? My medical insurance will not pay for it...and I work full-time, single mom and a young widow. I am losing weight through diet and exercise, but the results are not happening fast enough for me. I want to live for my children...Give me a staight up honest answer and I will give you 10 points, but I can only do that for 1 person, so please be honest and give me helpful info. Thank you very much and have a great day!
Will Texas Medicaid pay for gastric bypass/weight loss surgery? I am on SSI and receive Medicaid. I am needing to have weight loss surgery and the only insurance I have is Medicaid. Does anyone know if there are doctors in the Dallas/fort worth or even east texas area that will accept Medicaid for the gastric bypass surgery? Or are there doctors who donate the services for free on occasion?
Texas Medicaid and Weight Loss Surgery? I am on SSI and receive Medicaid. I am needing to have weight loss surgery and the only insurance I have is Medicaid. Does anyone know if there are doctors in the Dallas/fort worth or even east texas area that will accept Medicaid for the gastric bypass surgery? Or are there doctors who donate the services for free on occasion?
Weight Loss Surgery? I am 24 years old, and I weigh 330 pounds. I honestly don't eat a lot, and I don't eat the wrong foods. In fact, I eat quite healthy. Lots of fresh fruit & veggies, salads, yogurt, sugar free stuff, but I can't lose the weight. I've tried every diet under the sun, and yet nothing happens. I've been contemplating the weight loss surgery, and I'm just wondering if anyone else out there has had it, would you recommend it? is it safe? how long is recovery? I have a 2 year old, and I want to be able to run & play with her. I want to be around to see my baby grow up- I'm at my wits end. Any advice will be appreciated.
Have you gone through weight-loss surgery? This is not an invite for people to critisize someone's choice, but only to share valuable information. I would like to hear from those of you who have used surgery to take off weight. Be it Gastric Bypass, stomach stapling, or the newer stomach banding. Was it worth it? Did you have many complications? Did your health insurance cover the costs? Because of the personal nature of this question, I understand if you would rather answer by email, so feel free to click on the link in my profile. Thanks!
high protein shakes and weight loss? Start of I am overweight. I started Adipex prescribed by my doctor the end of April . I have lost 31 lbs so far. I work out at YMCA and recreationally swim (play with my kids) 3 to 4 times a week. My doctor suggested this meal replacement I haven’t even heard of myself but he has and he has been using it with other patients with great results so I trust him. Average weight loss 2-5 pounds a week on it. I will continue my Adipex for Appetite suppressant and I started the meal replacement today. The meal replacement is sold through him and he gave me free boxes 50 dollars worth. It will end up costing me about 100-150 month. Essentially the diet is high in protein and low in carbs and fat. This diet is calorie restricted. My question is Is protein what I want to lose the weight and if it is would adding a protein shake once a day aid in further weight loss? I am trying to avoid weight loss surgery. The way it is going I see great things.
I want to throw up to lose weight...? Hi i am 17 female and i weigh 315... i am tired of feeling bad about my self i dont know how i gained so much damn weight its driving me crazy i try to diet but i just cant do it i fail i don't like to go out i dropped out of school because i was so insecure about myself... i don't have medical right now and my mom is over weight too ... so anyways how bad is throwing up? i am really thinking about doing this maybe starting today... is there any safer way of doing it ... and is there any other way i can lose weight fast?..or how about that weight loss surgery can i get it free or something??.. please help pleaseeee i cant take it anymore i have to do something about how much i weigh or it will just get worse and worse and and..... please tell me something ... bye
Is something wrong with my computer? All of a sudden i started getting A TONNN of random popups even if i dont have internet explorer open and like, last night i went to bed, he computer was still on but no programs where open, i woke up the next day and i had 20+ popups about free ringtones, or weight loss surgery,or porn, and its really making me mad, does anyone knoe anything to help? alot of people are saying things about spyware, well i do have zwinky installed if that makes a difffernce with anything?
I wanted to loss weight faster. So I did my best to loss weight. and I lost weight and hair! But why hair?? I didn’t want a surgery or I didn’t want to have pills to loss weight. Still don’t want those. So, I decided to have balanced diet and exercises. I started to have vegetables, all kinds of fruits, fish for protein, 2 breads for a day, plenty of water, pickle & lemon juice without sugar. I didn’t have chance to go to gym or doing outdoor exercises, so I rather started working out at home like doing free hand exercises for like half an hour and using running machine for like 40 minutes a day. It was really working and I lost like 7 kgs within a month. But the problem is, I lost plenty of my Hair with Weight! I could realize that I am losing hair coz I completely stopped eating Rice. I used to eat rice @ launch time and ate bread @ dinner time. When I was dieting, I used to eat 2 breads for a day @ breakfast time. For the deficiency of carbohydrate I lost too much hair. Then when I though of start eating carbohydrate again (not too much, balanced) I realized that Avoiding Carbohydrate is the fastest way to loss weight and it was the main reason I was loosing weight and if I start eating the Rice and Bread and all the carbohydrate contaminated foods again, I’ll gain the weight again that I lost, or if I start doing exercise more (though I don’t get that much time), I’ll not loss weight as fast as I was loosing weight before. So, as you can see, the whole planning was working out, but I had to stop doing all those because of the falling of my hair. SO, can you please tell me a way to loss weight faster without loosing hair?? {I was happy by the way I was loosing my weight (except the hair falling part). If you suggest me something similar to my way of loosing weight, it would be pretty much helpful for me. Please don’t suggest me to go to gym/outdoor exercise or having pills/surgery}
Can you tell the diff b/ween s/one who has smoked a cigarette and s/one who has used a patch/gum via a test? I'm opting for a weight loss surgery that requires me to be smoke-free for at least six months. I can't quit food AND cigarettes all at once. It's REALLY not possible for me to do (without losing my mind 10 times a day). Three days before every check-up just to clear my system out IS doable though. How long do cigarettes stay in your system? Can they tell the difference between nicotine in your system from a cigarette than that left by a patch or gum? I know it's sneaky and deceptive and I'm SURE I'll get a couple of wise-asses that tell me I need to quit...but I just can't, ok?
My health is fading...please help? HELLO! MY NAME IS SANITA I AM A 28 YEAR OLD FEMALE LIVING IN OHIO. I WEIGH 425LBS. AND I AM MISERABLE. I HAVE NO MEDICAL INSURANCE BECAUSE MY JOB DOESNT OFFER IT AND I CANT GET ANY INSURANCE ON MY OWN DUE TO MY WEIGHT. I HAVE TRIED TO GET EMPLOYMENT THAT OFFERS HEALTH COVERAGE, BUT ALOT OF PEOPLE DO NOT WANNA HIRE ME BECAUSE MY EXPERIENCE IS LIMITED BECAUSE I AM SICK ALOT AND HAVE GAPS IN BETWEEN JOBS. I CAN BARELY TAKE 10 STEPS WITHOUT FEELING LIKE I AM ABOUT TO FALL OUT. I CAN'T STAND MORE THAN 5 MINUTES WITHOUT MY BACK KILLING ME. I HAVE TRIED LA WEIGHT LOSS AND WEIGHT WATCHERS I ONLY LOSE ABOUT 20LBS AT THE MOST. I NEED TO KNOW IF THERE ARE PROGRAMS WHO OFFER THIS SURGERY FOR FREE OR HAVE A REASONABLE PAYMENT PLAN EVEN IF I HAVE BAD CREDIT. I REALLY FEEL LIKE IF I DONT GET THIS SURGERY I MAY DIE SOON. I HAVE SLEEP APNEA, ASTHMA, HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, ACID REFLUX AND CONSTANT BACK AND CHEST PAINS. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME.
Celiac and Pregnancy, Crazy? Ok where do I start. For about 2 weeks I was experiencing some brown blood which I assumed to be my period? I finally came online and saw sometimes is could mean pregnancy but it means it's a tubal pregnancy or miscarriage. Thing is I had my period, just brown and occasionally only spots of red for almost three weeks! I let that go. I've been having sharp pains in my left and right sides and my stomach is hard as a rock and the area below the "gut" and above the vagina is hard(I've heard this is linked to pregnancy?) I've also had extreme bloating feelings and gas along with diarrhea. And as well as weird cravings and bursts of hunger, but when I eat about 15 min later prob not even I'm having sharp pains. These are all symptoms of pregnancy I'm sure we'll all agree. I've also researched some blogs with people who had the extreme bloating and sharp pains and 98% of them were pregnant. But, get this. My aunt was diagnosed with Celiac disease(gluten free diet, will eat away your small intestine)and it's hereditary but she doesn't even know who she could have got it from. Well let me just copy and paste symptoms I've found linked with it, I'll mark it with * If I have it. What are the symptoms of celiac disease? Symptoms of celiac disease vary from person to person. Symptoms may occur in the digestive system or in other parts of the body. Digestive symptoms are more common in infants and young children and may include abdominal bloating and pain * chronic diarrhea * vomiting *only just today but sick feelings I've ignored too constipation *NO* pale, foul-smelling, or fatty stool *NO* weight loss *NO, weight gain thats why i'm leaning toward pregnancy Adults are less likely to have digestive symptoms and may instead have one or more of the following: unexplained iron-deficiency anemia *NO* fatigue*NO* bone or joint pain * arthritis*NO* bone loss or osteoporosis depression or anxiety *OH YES* tingling numbness in the hands and feet *NO* seizures*NO* missed menstrual periods *Not sure yet, last one was brown infertility or recurrent miscarriage *Hope not canker sores inside the mouth *NO!* an itchy skin rash called dermatitis herpetiformis * NO* People with celiac disease may have no symptoms but can still develop complications of the disease over time. Long-term complications include malnutrition—which can lead to anemia, osteoporosis, and miscarriage, among other problems—liver diseases, and cancers of the intestine. Also, Celiac disease is both a disease of malabsorption—meaning nutrients are not absorbed properly—and an abnormal immune reaction to gluten. Celiac disease is also known as celiac sprue, non-tropical sprue, and gluten-sensitive enteropathy. Celiac disease is genetic, meaning it runs in families*MY AUNT* Sometimes the disease is triggered—or becomes active for the first time—after surgery, pregnancy*wow it can become apparent during pregnancy*, childbirth, viral infection, or severe emotional stress*I've been crying excessively and have been real sensitive* Forgot to also say something important. My period finally completely stopped yesterday but now, I'm having excessive urinating and just this morning i got morning sickness. OK so my point of showing you all this was I'm thinking, would I be pregnant AND starting to react to Celiac?? PLease someone research this. I would go to the doctor but I just got insurance a few days ago and it's not active til Jan 14. I just wanna research this so I can go into the doctor's telling them exactly what is wrong. Question is though, should I go to the Gynecologist or my regular Physician???
What do you think of my story?? Lucky Man As far as I can remember it all began when I started secondary school back in in 1999. I was a carefree 13 yr old but suddenly one day I began vomiting for no reason. This started the ball rolling for other symptoms such as massive headaches, extreme weight loss, forgetfulness, blurred vision and severe depression to name but a few. Over the following year my health and vision really deteriorated. They thought a strain on my eyes was causing the headaches and I was prescribed glasses. I weighed 6 stone, my head felt like it would explode etc and yet doctors could find nothing medically wrong with me. They thought it was psychological. In July 2001, I collapsed in my aunts in Ennis. The local GP diagnosed me as having depression but this was just a symptom of the illness. It was a very surreal time as I only remember a few minutes of the next couple of weeks. Family were afraid to leave me alone because of the depression. On the 18th August 2001 I collapsed again at home. It was only my mother and me at home and she was very scared and called my grandparents and Dad. One image that will stay with me forever is of my Granddad Peadar sitting beside me on a chair in my room crying his eyes out wailing “ why won’t you tell us what’s wrong with you ?” The worrying thing was that none of us knew….. My family couldn’t take any more and immediately drove me to Crumlin Hospital with a referral letter from my GP. The last thing I remember leaving my house was my nana Patsy helping me into the car (this will be important later). They did lots of tests and scans and rushed me to Beaumont Hospital at midnight by ambulance. After more tests and scans I was diagnosed as having a brain tumour in the pineal gland (over my right eye) I remember being told “brain tumour” but not knowing what it was. I especially didn’t know how serious it was or that it was cancer. I thought I would be back in school by at the latest late September. The Hospital quickly set about removing some of the brain fluid which was causing the headaches as it was being blocked by the tumour. I later found out off my Dad that I would have died over the next day or 2 had they not removed the excess. I had a 10 hr operation to remove the tumour. There were complications during surgery. I had a bleed on the right side of my brain which left the entire left side of my body weakened and left me in a coma for 14 weeks. After the coma I was in a vegetated state and was sent back to Crumlin for chemotherapy. I caught a bug which meant I had to return to Beaumont half way through the treatment. I had a total of 18 operations on my head, spent 9 months in a hospital bed as a vegetable (a parsnip as Jamie says, but was probably closer to a cabbage) I remember nothing of my time in Beaumont Hospital and only know this information from asking. I had my 16th birthday party in Beaumont Hospital. In may 2002 I was discharged from Beaumont and admitted to Dun Laoighre N.R.H As I couldn’t walk, talk or move etc. At this point although I was cancer free I was extremely soft in the head and was still being fed through a naso gastric tube in my nose. The feed always made me sick which brought the tube back up and it wasn’t very nice getting it replaced. I spent a long hard 10 months there in rehabilitation. I eventually went home for weekend visits every Friday afternoon and came back Sunday evenings. The ironic thing is my nan was the first person to help me out of the car As my physical injuries improved I was upgraded from a wheelchair to a walking frame. I remember taking my first unaided steps at home with the same aunt, Trisha in November 2002 (I took 8) I was discharged in march 2003 just before my 17th. I walked out those doors unaided that time. I was forced to leave school the summer before my Junior cert and my class had moved on in the system but I was slowly integrated back into it. I started it in September 2003 in third yr and did my junior at 18 in a class of 15 yr olds. I have to say that the entire school were very helpful and understanding with me. I stayed on at school after it. In the meantime I joined Canteen Ireland after spotting it while doing a random “cancer” search on the internet. But I didn’t go to any meetings because I was on a lot of medication at the time and wanted to forget my past. But when I went to my first meeting in “Carlingford” in 2005 I realised that this wasn’t just a club for “sick” people but a family. A family I was being welcomed into with open arms. It was 1 of the best things I ever did. I love all the meetings and weekends away and we are all a really close nit group/family (even if there is the odd joke about my horrible horrible accent and my Pidgin English nothing is meant by it. I stayed at school for the leaving cert in which I got one of the highest marks in the year. I graduated in May 2006 and won the “Student of the Year Award”. This brought my story to the attention of the Local Media and some National Newspapers. I postponed my Mechanical Engineering place in DKIT and did Engineering PLC. In the meantime I was nominated and subsequently won the “Co. Louth Person of the Year 2006”. I started college in 2007. Initially I enjoyed it and was top of my class but the stress of the 12 hour days of Honours Physics, Chemistry and Maths and other personal problems meant that my grades began to slip. I decided to leave in December 2007. At present I am doing Employer Based Training for Clerical work, it suits my skills and means I can work my way up. Life has never been better. I am off all medication have a clean bill of health, have a wonderful loving family and close circle of friends (who help me so much). I am at my optimum and going to America on a trip of a lifetime in August. I look upon my cancer experience as a positive one, although it caused family and friends great pain, personally I think it was good for me. Life not about the destination it’s the journey. I’m a lucky man and I see that now, although it has taken me 7 years and almost two years in hospital to realise and come to terms with this. It has made me appreciate and respect family, friends and the little things in life more. If we didn’t have the hard times we wouldn’t appreciate the good times as much. Surviving cancer is great once you have the right attitude. I don’t know hat life has in store for me but it will be fun finding out. I have really grown up and matured as a result. I’d like to say thank you to everyone who gave their help and support to both me and my family over the years. Life’s for a good time not a long time………..so enjoy it! Paudy. www.bebo.com/dalegendthatis
What is the quickest way to lose fat fast? Hello everybody, I am 47 years old, 5'10' and was severly injured on the job which led to being sedantary, I was 175 back before my multiple surgeries and I balloned to 232 LBS. because of my severe spinal injuries, the only exercise I can do without compromising my spine is, walk and swim. my mom made a special soup which is designed to make you lose and in 2 months I am now 200lbs, but I'm stuck no matter what I do being 200lbs. Anybody have any advice on how to drop another 20lbs fast? It's to go on vaction to impress somebody, so I realize when I get back I need to form a healthy balanced diet to remain at whatever lowest weight I loss, I do 4 miles X6/week on a threadmill along with my cabbage soup diet, however I cant get over the 200lbs obstacle regardless of being on this strict diet. Do those "hydrocut" pills work? or are they just a diuretic? Anybody feel free to tell me whatever you know works..thank you, regards boulonman1
How much does it cost to have excess skin removed after weight loss surgery? I am extremely interested in having Lap-Band surgery, however, I do not have a lot of money and I dont want to go through with it if I can't follow it through to the end, which will result in me having to have my excess skin removed. Does anyone know the type of cost for something like this? And can it be done for cheaper/ free if the skin is donated for skin grafting on burn victims? Pleaseee help!
losing weight? HELP!!!!!!!!! i have tried going on a diet and that failed. i excersice but i dont loose weight. i eat right and i dont loose weight. do you have any ideas on how i can loose some weight. without using weight loss pills or having surgery. the other thing is if i went on a diet again what do you think i should eat or just give me a website.the website has to be free though if i join. thanks in advance!
weight loss surgery? a friend of mine and i have been talking about weight loss surg, shes going to get hers soon, and i have been doing a lot of research today. have you had surg? if so what type? would you recomend it? did you have a bad experience?im worried about all the loose skin after, but shes not. please on serious responses only! feel free to email me if you have any advise.