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Re: Gastric By-Pass surgery
From: Panacea (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:09:00 -0600 (CST)
Well all I can say I guess is good luck; it sounds like you've made up
your mind. Just remember that it is the kind of foods you eat that
impact your weight and not just how much.
At Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Alicia wrote:
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>Hello,
>
>I have been slowly doing research and trying to get through the steps to
>have the surgery approved (Kaiser). I do believe that this will help me
>in a lot a ways. Since it has now been proven that with weight loss,
>PCOS and its multiple symtoms decrease and or even go away, I feel I
>need to take these measures. I have loss my medical benefits
>temporarily because of changing jobs so I have not been on my high level
>birth control pill in over a month and of couse like clockwork... no
>period. I now have more symptoms of PCO than I did years ago, like my
>weight it is progressing. I was diagnosed at 17 and I am now 32. I
>have met other woman that may not have been diagnosed with PCO (because
>they were not looking for it) but they were overweight, had no periods,
>and never got pregnate. They had the surgery, and after losing about
>70-100 lbs; all of the sudden they were mensturating. Soon after that
>they got pregnate and did not even realize it untill the kept having
>morning sickness. All of it happened within 1 year of the surgery.
>
>--
>Alicia
>
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Panacea
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