Southern Leo

Hi All, I'm afraid I have ran into the bad end of the deal. I wrote that I passed out day after my band was placed.... apparently I injured my spleen at that time. A couple of weeks later I had high fever and could not get rid of it. So went to er, they took tests and sent me home with an antibiotic, figuring I had an infection. I called my Dr(that placed band) tuesday when I woke up with pain in left side of chest. He had me get a chest x-ray. Later called and said to return to er- I had Fluid in my lung. They drained it and found It was old blood....3 cups. This was from my spleen. Then they did some ct scans and found I had a tear of some kind by band. Apparently a stitch came out too. They did surgery to repair the tear and had to take out the band. They didn't have to remove the spleen, it will absorb the hematoma on it with time. I'm home now but have a tube draining my stomach. I'm so weak and sore from laying in hospital bed for a week! I didn't eat or drink for days, just had the iv saline. But, I'm beginning to lose the extra fluid build up since I'm moving around more. They say I can have the band replaced in a couple of months. Please be careful when you have surgery and drink enough Water so you don''t get dehydrated-we think that's why I passed out.

I had veery good results doing a low carb diet we had to do. I started early and ended up being on it 3 weeks...lost 24 lbs

I came down with a fever of 101.7 yesterday. My eyes were stinging and running, nose runny.....It seems to be going down but I feel awlful. I might have to head to er today. I've been able to eat but some things just don't taste right. I'm drinking water all day. It may be the flu, I hope it's not an infection somewhere.

Yeah, we should have a dictionary for some of the abbreviations! PBing is productive burp, the sliming is pretty much what it sounds like!

I am another who has the glue, I love hot showers and know it can help with healing. I only went over my stomach with my hands lightly with soap. I was wondering when It would come off!!

That's one of the things I'm famous for so I take coumadin to prevent clots. I've had 3 blood clots in my legs at different times. So now I will have to always take it. I'll give them a call to make sure

I use fitday.com-it will tell you how many calories and how much Protein. You can usee their list of foods and you can enter food information to get the precise amount if you can't find it in what they have. I put all my Protein shakes and bars in plus other food that has too much of a different food value than they have on their list. Once you enter it you can save it so it can be used over. good luck!

I have been banded over 2 weeks, since 12/28. About the first 4 days I had such muscle aches on my sidees. That felt better but I could feel twinges afterwards. This morning I woke up with a muscle cramp on the same side my port is on. I don't know if that's why or it's coincidence. Everytime I moved it hurt. I yelled out so much my daughter came in to see why. I came to sit in recliner wondering if sitting up would help. I also took some pain medicine since I had over half left. I had been trying to stretch out my sides everyday. I even have an appt to get a massage this afternoon. I want to help make exercise pain free as soon as I can. Anyone else have this problem? Has anyone gone for a massage after surgery and did it help? I go to a massage school nearby at a reduced cost. Of course I'll let them know I had surgery and see if that presents any problem for them. I may put pillows under head of my mattress to see if it hellps to lift it.

I love the lemon lime propel and peach tea crystal light . In time you will find which ones you want to buy more than others. I also tried different protein bars for that time I could eat them. Then I would have some protein just in case I couldn't eat my meal I would have something. Those depend on what you like as in peanuts or s'mores. The baby bel cheese was good for the all liquid when I got there......check to see when you could add this.

I would think if you will just have a salad you should load up on protein earlier in day to make sure you will get enough that day...and be ready to lhave some later if need be. I love salad too but I can't eat it like I used to and just have that for lunch or dinner. Our days will have to be planned more than before to make sure we eat what we need. Are you keeping track of how much protein you get everyday?

I too dont want to fill up on bread anything. One day I got a plain cheeseburger for lunch....I took half of bun off. Then I ate some but mostely ate "off of" the other half. So I had beef and cheese. A friend of mine knows a couple of people with the band and said having a small bite of bread can help if you feel stuck. I had to try that later and it did work! I won't look to eat bread regularly but will once in a while.