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purple hayes
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 Posted: 11/14/02 - 10:52 Post subject: stomach stapling
Article From CNN
| Quote: | | Ohio teenager Courtney Dunham says the risks were worth it...Before her August 2 surgery, she weighed 329 pounds -- at 5-feet-3-inches, nearly 200 pounds overweight. |
| Quote: | | Courtney is now required to eat no more than a cup of food a few times daily, but must avoid sugar, which can cause symptoms including nausea, rapid heartbeat and stomach bleeding after the surgery. |
Couldn't Courtney have avoided risky surgery by just eating no more than a cup of food a few times daily?
I guess the Dr. realized that the surgery would make him more $$$ in the long run than just telling Courtney to eat less. 
PH
I'm not a doctor, but I play one on the internet.
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keltic63
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Posted: 11/14/02 - 11:05 Post subject:
similar discussion going on over at the men's health belly off forum, but about Al Roker's stomach stapling surgery
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Laurie Ellen
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Posted: 11/14/02 - 11:15 Post subject:
I dunno. I hear it with their desperation and all. But the scar, the surgery itself, the complications, the side effects, the loose skin hanging off from too-quick weight loss, and at the end you really haven't changed anything, because you did the easy fix, you took Tylenol instead of fixing the cause.
It takes a lifestyle change to really change. You can lose weight with surgery, but you can also gain it all back; some of those patients burst their stomachs because they continue their old eating habits.
It's tough. It's harder than childbirth or anything else I can think of, by far, to lose a significant amount of weight. And there are bad things about losing it the normal way, too (the danger of falling into a different, but equally hazardous ED, as I did). But I am glad every day that I didn't get that surgery. And for a little girl? Oh, no. No way. It's really too bad.
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shelflifers
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Posted: 11/14/02 - 11:24 Post subject:
I seriously want to hurl when I saw a bit of Roker's 'heroic' act ....of stomach stapling? F that.
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monk25
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Posted: 11/14/02 - 11:41 Post subject:
A distant relative of mine, (whom I don't know very well), had this procedure long before it was in vogue, and it was very successful for her. I don't know all the circumstances leading up to it, but my mother decribed her as at one time being morbidly obese. I saw her about a year ago, and she was a very healthy, slender, attractive woman, in her late 40's.
I don't advocate this kind of thing, but it seemed to help her.
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keltic63
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Posted: 11/14/02 - 11:45 Post subject:
| shelflifers wrote: | | I seriously want to hurl when I saw a bit of Roker's 'heroic' act ....of stomach stapling? F that. |
The underlying statement he makes is: I am weak. I cannot control my actions. I have no discipline, but I do have money. Money can make me thin.
sad really. and he should not be held up as the great example that the network is making him to be.
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cherylpf
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Posted: 11/14/02 - 11:48 Post subject:
And Al Roker's is more dangerous than stomach stapling too, right? Didn't he get "gastric bypass" which basically renders your stomach useless?
in other words, he passes everything.... 
I agree with Keltic....
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Orange Bubble
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Posted: 11/14/02 - 12:45 Post subject:
My step-mother had her stomach stapled an aeon ago (I think her early twenties---she's mid-fifties now) and she still is about 150 lbs. overweight. She never learned how to eat right or exercise regularly, so she's still a very big woman. And she's been in the hospital more than a few times because of infections related to the staples. She is in poor health (had a very, very mild heart attack a year ago Christmas and has been cardioverted twice to get her heart beating normal, but it failed twice) and I have a horrible feeling that she will get worse as time goes on.
I was watching somethign on the Discovery Channel a while back. It was that surgery thing. Anyway, a woman was due to have her stomach stapled because she was so incredibly overweight (she couldbarely walkfrom knee andhip problems) and a week before the surgery the camera crew was at her house. While she was there she prepared a "snack": about 5 peeled and sliced apples. 5 apples? In one sitting? Yes, apples are healthy, but 5 is not.
What's my point? Oh yeah. That most people are ignorant when it comes to healthy portion sizes and food in general.
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Orange Bubble
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Posted: 11/14/02 - 12:49 Post subject:
| Laurie Ellen wrote: | | It's tough. It's harder than childbirth or anything else I can think of, |
phew Well that's good to know... 
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shelflifers
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Posted: 11/14/02 - 12:50 Post subject:
stomach stapling to me is the same as plastic surgery. Speaking of...EGAD!!!
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Orange Bubble
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Posted: 11/14/02 - 12:52 Post subject:
| shelflifers wrote: | stomach stapling to me is the same as plastic surgery. Speaking of...EGAD!!!
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Is that really how his nose looks? Or has it been doctored (as in "Photoshopped")? It looks like he dipped it in acid!
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rolling rock
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Posted: 11/14/02 - 12:59 Post subject:
| keltic63 wrote: | | shelflifers wrote: | | I seriously want to hurl when I saw a bit of Roker's 'heroic' act ....of stomach stapling? F that. |
The underlying statement he makes is: I am weak. I cannot control my actions. I have no discipline, but I do have money. Money can make me thin.
sad really. and he should not be held up as the great example that the network is making him to be. |
big FAT 1 to both of these guys.
Al Roker did have gastric bypass which is even more extreme than stapling. They are making him out to be some hero - kissing his (still) big a$$ cuz he caved in with a last act of desparation.
one huge side effect of his procedure which was NOT eloquently discussed by Al -- you fart all the time. constantly. can't be helped. i dont know why it happens, but it does.
man, can you see his next weather forecast -- "and now PFFFFFTTTT let's look at that PFFFFFFTTTTTT approaching storm front in the PFFFTTTTT midwest 
God, forgive me. really. just funnin' around here--no lightning strikes please.
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runswithscissors
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Posted: 11/14/02 - 12:59 Post subject:
What's wrong with stomache stapling? They have a class on it at Home Depot on Sunday. Think I'll check it out.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 11/14/02 - 13:02 Post subject:
| Orange Bubble wrote: | | Is that really how his nose looks? Or has it been doctored (as in "Photoshopped")? It looks like he dipped it in acid! |
He's got some sort of clear plastic piece on his nose. I forgot which website went into detail about the photo.
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Orange Bubble
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Posted: 11/14/02 - 13:04 Post subject:
I imagine this was the same reaction when Oprah went on that liquid diet. My aunt (my step-mother's sister--also about 200 lbs. overweight) went on the liquid diet and lost a ton of weight. Then gained it all back when she went of of the diet.
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