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Julie, I am on my seventh week of Nutrisystem. It has been a slow loss but at least I am losing. I have lost 10 pounds so far and love the program. I feel like I am on a vacation from cooking which is good since we are having our kitchen renovated. I would like to lose 17 more pounds. At this rate it will probabaly take me three more months but I didn't gain this over night either. It just feels great to be going in the right direction. Good luck if you decided to go on the program with you sister. Joy

Well, first week down and I actually enjoyed the food. I feel like I am getting a vacation from cooking. I also lost four pounds the first week which is a plus. My husband lost almost five pounds and is having no trouble with hungry since men get to add in extra protein. He is also eating more fruits and vegetables than usual. Joy

We received our food in about 5 days and started the program on Thursday. We both decided to just go with the favorites this first time so that we would be eating the same food. So far we have liked everything and it is so great to not have to give any thought during the day as to what we will have for dinner. We spread everything out on the counter and then filled 7 zip lock bags with the food for each day. We have not been hungry at all. I look forward to our first weigh in which will be on Wednesday. Will keep everyone posted. Joy

Great response! I don't have much to add except that I have been using my flexitouch since July and I love it. It is such a relaxing hour and really helps with the lymphedema, especially in my hand which is my problem area. My insurance paid the full amount since I had already met my total deductible because of a couple of hospital visits. They are a very easy company to work with and were very helpful. When I received my unit someone came to my home to teach me the proper way to use the machine and fitted it for me. Hopefully this helps you. Joy

Does anyone just wear a glove for their hand. Most of my swelling is located at the base of the fingers and on the back of the hand. I just completed my therapy and received my custom glove and sleeve. It seems that the overlapping area of the two garments causes my hand to swell even more. Yesterday I just used the glove (yes my hand was slighty swollen last night) and then I wrapped the hand and arm for the night. While it was not totally gone it was down and soft. I see the therapist again on Monday but she is always interested in what seems to work for different people - so please give me some feed back to take to her. Joy

Over the past three months I have had three types of surgery. I had my knees cleaned up from arthritis and some legiment damage. Next I had reconstruction of my good breast to make it match my other one. Then I had a skin cancer removed from my good arm. About three weeks after the knee surgery my lymphedema returned in my right arm and hand (mainly in the hand). I saw a local therapist for two weeks and she was not able to get anywhere with the wrapping. After a two week delay I was able to get into my regular PT who is located an hour away but works for the cancer center. She tried for two weeks with no luck but started getting concerned about a red area near the top of my three middle fingers. She sent me to the infectious disease doctor who decided it was a staph infection. I had already been on antibotics for 5 weeks straight because of the other surgeries. The doctor sent me for an antibotic infusion and swithed me to a different medicine for the next three weeks. If there is no improvement I will have to go into the hospital for about 5 days of IV treatment. It is the end of week two and I see no change except that my hand keeps getting larger because they can give me no treatment during this time. I am allowed to sleep in my night garment and lightly wrap my hand during the day but this is not helping much.

A lot of complaing I know but I felt you would all understand how low I feel right now. I can get very little done because it is my right hand (or paw as I call it) and it is very swollen and hurts. Poor Me Joy