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Since we are on the same plan, I know you should be on full liquids. Also includes yogurt, applesauce, cottage cheese, ricotta cheese, pureed fruits and veggies, sugar free pudding and gelatin. Our guide also says to work your way from 3 to 5 ounces in one sitting. Hope this helps. Congratulations on your surgery!

I had the same thing. Mine was so bad that I was actually calling it my second belly button. I am about 4.5 months post surgery now and mine has returned to normal with no more indent.

Thank you.

Hi folks, I am in the Ocoee, Winter Garden area but I’m just in the research phase, really. I’m registered for that seminar with ORMC Bariatric this coming Thursday, but I haven’t received anything saying where the seminar is held. Could you tell me where that is? ORMC is huge! I’m interested in the sleeve surgery. Thanks.

I hope everyone has had a great summer and i hope you go into this holiday season from a better place than the year before. This last week was my 30th wedding anniversary and i am happy to think that i will have many more to come. In the not so distant past i was not so sure i would live to see this one and 35 or 40 was beyond my expectations. Anything could still happen but at least i have stopped digging in my effort to get of the hole i found myself in. I have made 3 life changing decisions in the last few decades. 1. asking my wife to marry me - being a child of divorced parents colors your expectations about getting and staying married. 2. saying yes when my wife asked if i wanted children - This was a lie at the time. having a child was THE most terrifying thing i could think of. Today there is nothing i would not do for my daughter and i feel a love i did not know could exist inside a person. 3. accepting that i could not control my weight by myself and getting this surgery to save my own life. Putting myself first as a way to be there for them is not a concept that I lived by before. If you ever wonder is it worth it yes it is cause i was worth it and they are worth it. Never give up folks Whatever you are working towards you have the rest of your life to get there.

The "Hair loss" is called Telogen Effluvium https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/hair-loss/effluviums#1 It's not really "Hair loss" it's just a larger % of your hair follicles going into rest at once, so when they reactivate they shed the hair they were holding and that gives the appearance of "hair loss". Fear is normal, NSAIDs are not the only pain relief out there, there are options. Pretty much everything you've listed is normal fears, and pretty much, all of those fears, you'll laugh at down the road. I was 370 at my largest. I'm 210 now, I have some extra saggy skin, but it's really not THAT bad and it's totally hidden under even decently tight clothing. Just remember, staying overweight *WILL* kill you. If something was to happen during your surgery, the best place for that to happen, is in a hospital. No one but you can tell you if what you are going to do is right for you. You have to make that call. Weigh out all the pros and cons, and make your decision based on that, no one is going to look down on you for making the best decision for your life that you can.

Yes I would like a refund for my lapband now that it is no longer working, the money would be useful to help pay for my revision

As Fluffy said, differences for different programs - and also for different individual needs. I never worried about carb or fat counts as those don't bother me, just calorie count as that is what ultimately drives the weight loss. There is too much good nutrition associated with foods that are nominally carbohydrates for it to make sense to place arbitrary limits on them; on junk food (high calorie/low nutrition stuff) yes, but not solely on the basis of something being high carb or fat - the calories are an adequate limitation. With your bypass, however, and the prospect of dumping or reactive hypoglycemia, a reasonable carb restriction can be in order, particularly for simple carbs and/or sugars, at least until one figures out ones' individual tolerances.

I had surgery on 2/9 and I had a dent. It worried me when I first saw it. But it has gone away already.

I can't tell you how much my wounds worried me. One of them looked like a bit of skin was made as a flap to cover up the hole. It was gross the first few days in the hospital, then thankfully it got better but it took ages. Didn't help that it got infected slightly as well. There wasn't pain, it was more just annoying. I'm 2 months out of surgery and only now am I happy with the healing. I will scar but so what? The fact that the lumpy wound is gone and the one between my boobs which was open for ages because of its position and how I move a lot in my sleep. It really did feel like I would always have a gaping hole between my boobs and a dent on my stomach wound. They will heal! Please be assured.