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Honestly, the last few visits haven’t gone well.  I started out with a lovely old Jewish man whose office was about a mile from my house.  He went out of practice (retired), and I got moved to a really nice doctor, just out of school whose wife was still in school, still close to my house.  When she got out of medical school, they moved back to Oklahoma.

I haven’t care for this guy, and one reason is that he has gained weight at a more rapid rate than I have, but he still gets on me for my weight.

Plus they moved, and it takes a good thirty minutes to get to his office.

My first problem is that he keeps duplicating what I do and the other doctors do, and then I have to pay for whatever he wanted out of pocket.  The final straw was a figure prick blood glucose test that his assistant did that I got charged $20.00 for.  Excuse me?  That would pay for a bottle of test strips!

Also, I’m quite sure that my vet’s tech is much more educated than she is.

So now I’m looking and I’m thinking about a office that opened recently near me, back to a few blocks away, and I just stopped in and looked over the staff and office.

I gave been having difficulty breathing and my blood sugar has been running high for the past few days.

I think u have figured out the problem, I went cold turkey on the morning caffeine. 

I do feel better with it on board.

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Though I don’t want to get TOO used to it, hoping I am teaching next year (yes, that is still in question).

I’m getting up, weighing and discovering I have lost more weight (well, there was a day or two of retention there), going to the gym, coming home and doing sweaty work, and then taking a shower.

Spending the rest of the day doing less sweat producing work.

I have two weeks (this and next), and then go back to a regular work week for two.  Also have some odd workshops.

I am slowly recovering from the school year and from having a too tight lap band.

I checked out on Friday, got a few things done in the afternoon (gym, nails etc).  Saturday morning woke up, fed the dogs, and decided I needed to do one of three things:  go to the gym, drink water or go back to sleep.

I went back to sleep.  I used to do that when I was in college.  At the end of the semester just SLEEP.  I woke sometime around 2:00 pm, ate lunch, drank that water, and then went to the gym.

I know I haven’t slept well, and I think that Saturday was my reaction to that as I feel much better.

I’m also losing weight – check out the My Fitness Pal widget on the site.

Right now, I think my biggest issue with the gym is the process of showering there, so I’m going to research what might make that better.  I’m thinking ebags is the place to start.

Actually woke up, wanted to work out and up and doing it

Have lost close to 4 pounds of the weight I gained and things don't hurt as bad.

Have a test to give today and one tomorrow, almost every thing is out of my room.   

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Since the fill, I am steadily losing weight and best of all, I am not consistently and constantly hungery.

The unfill was good and bad.  I am up 20 pounds from my lowest but some of that is robot stress weight.  The unfill taught me why I need the lapband. 

I still need work to deal with what I can eat, how to eat it, and how to deal with deprivation.  My summer project.

So I am not “out of control” hungry any more, and this is an EXCELLENT thing. 

My gastro doctor once again, screwed up my prescription.  Now I have a 60 day supply.  I give up.

Just called and cancelled it, and I am going to call my new fill doctor and have her fill it.

For the last month, I have had no fluid in my band.  I had it all removed because I wasn’t keeping much down and when they did a barium swallow, my esophagus was not working.

It has been hell.  I can’t remember being so hungry in my life.

Went into day, did another barium swallow and everything looks good. 

I now have 5 cc in my band.

This is a good thing.  I hope.

And she is going to stay fired, even if we get this fixed, as she drives me nuts.  I also think that the reflux may be gone.  The hiatal hernia disappeared that Dr. Loeb found (that Loeb).

She sent in the approval paperwork for Delixant correctly, BUT instead of sending in a 90 day script for Delixant, she sent in a script for Protonix.  And we all know that no one in her office could have made that mistake.

Well, Protonix has never worked for me.  Though I am not sure the Delixant is doing anything and well know better this afternoon after 2:00 pm.

I love Medco and the games they play with gastric reflux disease drugs.  I honestly don’t know where the source of the problem is, but I just fired my gastro doctor.

She did all the paper work to get me approval for the drug, but faxed in a 45 day prescription.  I have to pay the same price if it is a 90 day prescription or a 45 day prescription.

I’ve called Medco twice, they haven’t gotten the 90 day.  I’ve called the doctor’s office and faxed them, they claim they faxed it on May 5th, but Medco claims they didn’t get it.  The office has to send a message to the doctor to get me the 90 day prescription either faxed or even if they give me a copy.

Oh, by the way, I faxed her twice about the 90 day prescription myself since May 5th, and she hasn’t responded.

Good news, I’m seeing a lapband doctor this afternoon, and I’ll get the prescription that way.