I have been taking it for about a year. I didn't lose the weight like many people did at first, but I have been very careful about what I eat and now have lost over 50 pounds. I take nothing except the Byetta. I am sure some of you have had the same results I have, with so many meds being put on warning lists. I just got tired, of changing meds all the time, and asked the doc if I could just do the Byetta. It is working fine. My a1c is now at 5.2, the best it has ever been.I have had no problems with my stomach, like I had with some of the other meds. I did well on Glucophage for several years, but it started affecting my stomach. Trying to change from that, was when all of the different warnings came out.I also was very lucky, to not have a day, when I got nausiated. On the Byetta forum, several people, recommend eating a few soda crackers or tums before your injection, to settle you stomach, but I have had no need to try, so can't speak of it first hand. I wish you well in trying it. I think it has been the biggest difference in my health, than any other medication I have ever taken.

Good for you CR!! I had the bypass on 05/03/00 and you can bet your boots I'd do it again! Why I waited until I was 55 yrs old to have it-I'll never know. The best advise I can give you is to have ALL of your ducks in a row. By that I mean for your insurance company. If you have had to go to any type of Dr. for back, feet-whatever ailments that undoubtedly was due to your weight, call them & get a copy of any of your medical records of that visit. When I turned in my required info for the Ins Co-I added a great cover letter to them...explaining how I needed them to allow me to have this 'tool', to help me get my life back. AND..don't get discouraged if they deny you the surgery? There's an appeal board that will guide you & a great percentage that get approved after that! I weighed 325 lbs the day I went into sugery and lost 220 lbs by July of the following year! I had 12 lbs of tummy skin removed and literally got down to 105lbs but my surgeon made me put on 25-30lbs. Imagine that! Today, 8 years later, I weigh 134. I have enclosed a link for you..this is where I did my research, found my surgeon & a zillion other things-even you can see the big list of Insurance Co's that pay for the surgery. This site is a wealth of information as well as before & after pics..message boards, the 'library-full of everything, Q&A's, etc. If you register into the site? (it's free)..you can go to a list of states & you can find my name under Florida (Largo) and read my profile. All the best to you sweetie & I'm here if I can help you in any way. ((CR)) Here is a link that might be useful: Obesity Help

Fily: Products-promoter (air-pump) confuse the issue just to brainwash consumers into buying stuff for compost tea. Below link explains well: http://www.dummies.com/home-garden/green-living/aerobic-versus-anaerobic-composting/ "As long as plenty of air is available, aerobic decomposers work faster and more efficiently than their anaerobic counterparts. However, as organisms deplete the supply of oxygen from the existing spaces and pores between bits of organic matter, the decomposition process slows. Aboveground aerobic decomposers can generate heat as a byproduct of their activity ... when conditions are to the decomposers’ liking, temperatures in your pile heat up sufficiently to kill weed seeds and pathogens. To keep your decomposers working at maximum speed, you may want to incorporate some type of aeration aid during your initial pile construction: Stir organic matter regularly: Use a pitchfork or an aerating tool to stir things up. Anaerobic organisms work without oxygen, so most anaerobic takes place underground in pits or trenches. Basically, you dig a hole, fill it with organic matter, and seal it with a layer of soil. Anaerobic organisms work at slower rates than their aerobic counterparts .. Anaerobic organisms exude smelly gas as a byproduct of their exertions. And because of the colder conditions, weed seeds and plant pathogens aren’t destroyed." *** Does that apply to a wet compost tea? No, it doesn't, because there's plenty of oxygen in water. Plus moisture helps to speed up the decomposition process. "wet food" like chicken-broth or meat have to be VACUUM-SEALED to stop microbes. There's plenty of oxygen in compost tea, even if you put a lid on. The aeration-pump introduces more oxygen to speed up the decomposition. In contrast, folks put a bowl to submerge kimchi UNDER salty water, to prevent it being exposed to air to grow greenish mold. Vaporvac put leaves in plastic bag, plus some soil and water for leaves to decompose faster. The soil is for microbes, and the water is to keep the microbes alive. Same with my leaving brown-yard-waste bags with grass-clippings, fold-shut, in the rain. I want it moist, but not soaking wet & stinky. One year I left grass-clippings out in open rain during winter & spring, and it became a wet sewage swamp, with verticullum wilt fungus that killed my tomatoes. In summer time, grass clipping in open air matted and dry up in the heat into "mummified" grass clippings & dry like cardboard. My neighbor showed me her compost-tumbler. It's a HUGE metallic container with a crank to stir the compost. She opened it, and it's moist and fluffy, zero smell. Composting is faster if you introduce air and moisture. Khalid asked me a question about his putting gypsum in compost, and the maggots went away. Gypsum is acidic, so it will kill maggots temporary, but its acidity helps to speed-up the decomposition by breaking down fibrous matter. When I dig in my rock hard clay, at 2 feet it's impossible to dig further, I simply put gypsum & some water. A month later, that become fluff. The acid in gypsum corroded even rocks, if there's tons of water. Damage to root = fungal diseases or losing all leaves. This July I threw some gypsum around Marie Pavie. It dropped 3/4 of its leaves from the acidity that corroded roots when rain hit. In 2012 I threw gypsum on Evelyn, and it broke out in rust instantly when rain hit. Things rot faster if there's acidic water, such as rain. I killed or stunt countless roses by following Roses Unlimited recipe of 2 cups of alfalfa meal in the planting hole. I did that to Paul Neyron (grafted on Dr. Huey). Knowing that Dr.Huey likes alkaline, I also put 1 cup of lime to balance out 2 cups of alfalfa pellets .. but when rain hit, the afalfa decomposed underground into a sour mess that kill Dr.Huey. Thank God, it's a cheap $3 rose from Menards. Since my soil is rock-hard clay at pH near 8 at the bottom, I got this clever idea of mixing in cracked corn (pH 4) to break up the soil. I did that to a hole in partial shade, in a soaking wet spot with rain-spout nearby. After 3 months, the clay went from compact to fluffy soil. The corn decomposed fast to neutral pH, given shade and water. Tchaikovsky did great. Then I mixed corn in the planting hole of a spot up the hill, in full sun. It's dry, so the corn didn't decompose, even after 3 months. I planted Just Joey ($7 bare-root). It died when tons of rain hit. Chicagoland rain pH is around 4.7, corn has pH 4 and when that decompose, the pH drops further. That's what my neighbor, Ph.D. in botany did: Due to our extreme cold winter, -20 below zero. He dug a large trench, put compost & leaves in, and covered with soil. That decompose faster since it's warmer underground, plus wetter, plus soil microbes help to break down. Leaves don't break down if they matt together (no air in between), but if I layer leaves with soil (introducing air and microbes and moisture), leaves break down very fast. CONCLUSION: Compost tea is wet, plenty of oxygen and moisture in the water, thus stirring is not necessary. I once saw a squirrel drowned in the neighbor's garbage can filled with rain-water. That's stinky regardless if you stir it, or don't stir it. The decay process is faster if you introduce air or moisture. Decaying gives off acid, and things decay faster, or give off more acid, when it's in a wet solution.

I haven't done any stretches in four days and my foot feels 95% better. I think the stretches were making the pain worse, which when I googled, has happened to many people. I've also read that the cortisone shots are short term and the pain can come back even worse when it wears off, so I'm leery about them. I am wearing my Crocs flip flops in the house today (for the first time) and am this/close to buying the ugly things to wear to work as they do make the foot feel better. Thanks for the suggestion. I'm sure I've had the spur for many years, but the pain from the PF is worse than most pains I've ever had. Doesn't help that I watched the evening version of The Price Is Right and the actors from The Neighbors were on, and the one actress was wearing a 'boot' for a bone spur. I'm thinking she may have had hers removed. If my pain gets worse over the course of this week when I'm out of the Torodol (generic version), I'll go back to my GP and ask her to send me to a real foot doctor not a foot clinic. The worst part of that clinic is not just the parking (the parking lot was 100% full so I'm glad my husband drove me, but it was on the 2nd floor at the complete end of the very long hall. Who puts a foot clinic that far from the elevator? :( I'm going to ice it again tonight and massage the muscles in my lower legs and the facia under my foot again tonight and tomorrow. Fingers crossed this helps. I would go to the mall to buy the ugly crocs (they are UGleeeee!), but if they make my feet better, I'll do it, but the malls are just too busy for me right now and the Covid cases in Alberta makes us look like we live in the US. Sorry guys. :( Maybe I'll order them online.