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  1. TXangel who is doing your fills here in Texas, im also in Texas ? Are you excersicing ? Also are you charting what your eating ? I had a problem after first being banded of not eating ENOUGH , I was only eating 800 calories a day and was not loosing and was ALWAYS hungry . So i actually had to eat MORE . once i got to about 1000 to 1200 calories a day the weight started to come off. Have you looked at what your eating ? are you eating food with too high of a calorie , carb or fat count ? Do you have a 10cc band by chance ? How much do you have in your band ? Sorry just trying to help you find some answers ? Mindy
  2. That was very well said , Much better than what i could have done ! Mindy
  3. Jenn and everyone else , When I said all of us should go voice our opinions that was just basically to counter act everyone on the boards who were posting ignorant posts with in accurate info . Honestly Its probably not the healthiest place for Jenn , Cassie or anyone else that was on that show to be. Like other said people on forums can be quite vicious. I just wanted to warn Jenn that IF Cassie was going to go on there expecting warm fuzzy messages that that was not what was there and she might want to stay away . We can defends our choices until we are blue in the face but ignorant people will never under stand. I myself was banded in the US ( I am an idiot and did not know this was Dr Ortiz' forum for his patients LOL ) But Dr Ortiz I belive ( again remember the idiot statement LOL ) Trained my doc or some how my doc knows Dr Ortiz . I do not believe that just because I was banded in the US that EVERYONE should be banded ONLY In the US . I belive that there are very good docs in the US and Mexico and overseas. I also think that people who dismiss Mexico need to look REALLY hard at THEIR Docs resume because they were probably TRAINED by a Mexican doc, so they need to stop trashing people before they know what they are talking about or experienced it ! Anyway , I guess my whole point was go to Oprahs message boards at your own risk and if you do go and post stand up for us ! Love Mindy
  4. Jenn, you did an amazing job on the show ! I read the boards last night a little bit , And we ALL Need to go on there. There were about 2 pages of messages on there last night and they were NOT Being Kind !!!! Just an FYI you might want to look at them first before Cassie ! Im afraid they might hurt her feelings ! but she seems to have a thick skin ! She really held her own on the show ! But we all need to get on there and tell people how things really are. There were some very mean and very ignorant comments on the boards when i read them HTH Mindy
  5. Well yes it does help the symptoms but PCOS is symptomatic, meaning if you have the symptoms you have PCOS . There fore once the symtpoms go away you are not longer "Active" PCOS or have PCOS . When i was 140 pds the only issues i had were not having a period and Dark facial hair on my upper lip , and all i had to do for that was bleach it . Since the week after i had surgery i have had a period every month since then . Although because i have chronic migraines that get worse around my TOM I would do with out the periods ! So my doc told me that I should expect to "go back " minimal if any facial hair. As i got heavier my facial hair got MUCH MUCH Worse , each child i had ( I have 2 ) my facial hair and wight got worse ! . My BIGGEST issue was my weight, carrying it around my waist not being able to loose it. So as the weight comes off the symptoms dissipate and you may not longer have PCOS . One of the "Issues" in the seminiar i went to for my lap band that was addressed that the band helps was PCOS If i remember right It may have been a co morbidity if it was not a co morbidity it was a complication of obesity . HTH Mindy
  6. OK Because I just realized the forum is Dr Ortiz forum LMAO If it counts I think Dr Ortiz was my docs Protor or trained him , I know they know each other LMAO Close enough ?? > Mindy
  7. Ok So i just found this forum ... Is this forum only for Dr Ortiz's Patients ? LOL I think im an idiot LOL Mindy
  8. Hi All , im new , my name is Mindy . I found the site from another form that was talking about the Oprah show. I found Cassie and her mother did a great job, all the WLS patients did a good job on the show. I think , this is just my personal opinion that Oprah's tone in general negative towards the WLS kids. Cassie did a great job of standing up for herself. I personally got very aggravated at the end when oprah turned to the teen who had lost weight with out WLS and said " I am very proud of you YOU are a true inspiration" WTF The rest of the kids are not ? I was VERY angry at that comment , i felt it was a dig at the other kids. I felt Dr Oz was uneducated about the Band and Oprah had to have known that going into this show. Over all I did not think it was a BAD show , but I do not think it put a total positive spin on it either. I think it could have been A LOT better for positives as far as the band goes. I too wish more of Dr Ortiz was shown . And when i say the positives I mean on Oprahs part, Cassie, Jenn and the other teens and moms did a great job !! Mindy
  9. Hi Im new just joined today . My name is Mindy , I have had PCOS since as long as i can remember . I am also insulin resistant . I had my surgery in July and I am down 64 pds. I was very scared at first , my thought was " PCOS has kept me from loosing the weight up until now what makes me think this surgery will work " But it has and very well . I also have sleep apnea , which i suspect is nearly gone by now though . I was 140 pds 9 yrs ago and asked my doc if my PCOS symtoms would get better after weight loss. Her response to me was " I dunno were PCOS Symptoms WORSE Or BETTER when you were thin" My response was " Better" She said " Then they will get better i suspect " Which i think she's right. After i thought about it. The heavier i got the worse my symptoms got ! So the surgery does help in my opinoin . HTH Mindy
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