MaryD

Your weight loss is amazing, Grammylou! I hope I will do as well as you have. Today is the day after my banding, and I am back doing housework and feeling great with just a little sting in my incision - which turned out to be 1 1/2 inches long, not 2 1/2 as I said yesterday. I'm on the way!

Karen, he used a newer model called the AP Large. He said he uses them now with all his patients. I haven't been hospitized for a long time, and I was amazed at the new technology. I had a hospital gown that self-heated or cooled, and instead of compression hose I had a velco wrap- around that slowly inflated and moved up and down my calves like a massage.

My doctor was Christopher Edwards at Regional Surgical Specialists in Asheville. I could not be happier that I chose him.

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MY SURGERY WAS GREAT! I had my banding TODAY and I am sitting here AT HOME feeling good with just a little cramping, better than PMS. My surgeon in Asheville, NC is awesome. I have one small puncture and one 2 1/2 inch incision for the port. THAT IS ALL! This is some thing new, I think. I came home 7 hours after arriving at St. Joseph's Hospital, and then had a 2 hour ride which I spent napping. (My husband was driving!) I am looking forward to a speedy recovery and a whole new life!

:thumbup:MY SURGERY WAS GREAT! I had my banding TODAY and I am sitting here AT HOME feeling good with just a little cramping, better than PMS. My surgeon in Asheville, NC is awesome. I have one small puncture and one 2 1/2 inch incision for the port. THAT IS ALL! This is some thing new, I think. I came home 7 hours after arriving at St. Joseph's Hospital, and then had a 2 hour ride which I spent napping. (My husband was driving!) I am looking forward to a speedy recovery and a whole new life!

:thumbup:MY SURGERY WAS GREAT! I had my banding TODAY and I am sitting here AT HOME feeling good with just a little cramping, better than PMS. My surgeon in Asheville, NC is awesome. I have one small puncture and one 2 1/2 inch incision for the port. THAT IS ALL! This is some thing new, I think. I came home 7 hours after arriving at St. Joseph's Hospital, and then had a 2 hour ride which I spent napping. (My husband was driving!) I am looking forward to a speedy recovery and a whole new life!

:thumbup:MY SURGERY WAS GREAT! I had my banding TODAY and I am sitting here AT HOME feeling good with just a little cramping, better than PMS. My surgeon in Asheville, NC is awesome. I have one small puncture and one 2 1/2 inch incision for the port. THAT IS ALL! This is some thing new, I think. I came home 7 hours after arriving at St. Joseph's Hospital, and then had a 2 hour ride which I spent napping. (My husband was driving!) I am looking forward to a speedy recovery and a whole new life!

:thumbup:MY SURGERY WAS GREAT! I had my banding TODAY and I am sitting here AT HOME feeling good with just a little cramping, better than PMS. My surgeon in Asheville, NC is awesome. I have one small puncture and one 2 1/2 inch incision for the port. THAT IS ALL! This is some thing new, I think. I came home 7 hours after arriving at St. Joseph's Hospital, and then had a 2 hour ride which I spent napping. (My husband was driving!) I am looking forward to a speedy recovery and a whole new life!

MY SURGERY WAS GREAT! I had my banding TODAY and I am sitting here AT HOME feeling good with just a little cramping, better than PMS. My surgeon in Asheville, NC is awesome. I have one small puncture and one 2 1/2 inch incision for the port. THAT IS ALL! This is some thing new, I think. I came home 7 hours after arriving at St. Joseph's Hospital, and then had a 2 hour ride which I spent napping. (My husband was driving!) I am looking forward to a speedy recovery and a whole new life!

Hey how ya doing

im getting banded on the 7th August and begin Optifast for 1 month next Tuesday It would be good to share our stories I have a blog

beenabeena.blogspot.com

It will be great to hear from you

Cheers

I am being banded this morning. I have been on all liquids (Optifast, etc.) for two weeks, and will continue to be on fluids for about 4 more weeks after surgery. It isn't easy, but it is do-able. My doctor told me that I had to be on fluids before before surgery to shrink my fatty liver in order for him to get behind the liver for the lap band surgery. I'll do whatever it takes!

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Well, my big day is finally here! Wish me luck! I am anxious to here from the other August 6th banders who are going through this with me today.

Wow! This is a busy week! I am also part of the August 6th sisterhood!

Let's keep in touch and help each other along.

Hi, All! I'm getting banded on Aug. 26. My preop workup is Aug. 12, and I have to do a week of Medifast. I look forward to hearing all about the surgery and great weight loss from those who have been banded before me.

MaryD-At my Dr.'s office, your BMI determines how long you have to do the preop diet. Over 40 BMI is 2 weeks, Under 40 is 1 week. This is because the higher the BMI, the greater the chance of a fatty liver. They want to give you enough time on a very low cal diet to make sure your body uses the fat reserves around the liver. I guess the drs who do not require it aren't too worried about dealing with an enlarged liver.

Thanks, Maribelle. That makes perfect sense.:teeth_smile: Maybe if I had known that in advance I would have tried to lose enough weight a few months ago to keep my BMI under 40! It would have certainly been a good motivator. Oh, well, only three more days until banding now, so it has been well worth the effort.

Any idea why some of us poor souls get 2 weeks of all fluids before surgery and others only get one day? I know all doctors are different, but I was just wondering what the reasoning is behind it.

Patti, are you August 6th, too?

If so, I'll be thinking of you as the anesthesia starts!

Good luck to both of us - it's a good thing we are doing for ourselves.

Just my luck! I am on day 10 of my all fluids diet looking forward to my banding on August 6th. Then I get a phone call from the hospital today saying my doctor wants a copy of my last colonoscopy and hemoccult. So I call my gastroendenologist, and his office is closed until August 7th, a day too late. Then I called the hospital where the colonoscopy was done, and had a copy faxed. I picked up a hemocult from my primary physician which calls for a stool sample for three days. As I said, I have been on fluids for ten days. I hope this is do-able!

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Just my luck! I am on day 10 of my all fluids diet looking forward to my banding on August 6th. Then I get a phone call from the hospital today saying my doctor wants a copy of my last colonoscopy and hemoccult. So I call my gastroendenologist, and his office is closed until August 7th, a day too late. Then I called the hospital where the colonoscopy was done, and had a copy faxed. I picked up a hemocult from my primary physician which calls for a stool sample for three days. As I said, I have been on fluids for ten days. I hope this is do-able!

Just my luck! I am on day 10 of my all fluids diet looking forward to my banding on August 6th. Then I get a phone call from the hospital today saying my doctor wants a copy of my last colonoscopy and hemoccult. So I call my gastroendenologist, and his office is closed until August 7th, a day too late. Then I called the hospital where the colonoscopy was done, and had a copy faxed. I picked up a hemocult from my primary physician which calls for a stool sample for three days. As I said, I have been on fluids for ten days. I hope this is do-able!

Just my luck! I am on day 10 of my all fluids diet looking forward to my banding on August 6th. Then I get a phone call from the hospital today saying my doctor wants a copy of my last colonoscopy and hemoccult. So I call my gastroendenologist, and his office is closed until August 7th, a day too late. Then I called the hospital where the colonoscopy was done, and had a copy faxed. I picked up a hemocult from my primary physician which calls for a stool sample for three days. As I said, I have been on fluids for ten days. I hope this is do-able!

I am on day nine of fluids today - I am just behind you with my banding date. And you are right - it is not as bad as I thought. Those shakes really fill me up. I have even been able to go out to dinner with friends and just have my shake while they eat without dying from envy!

Gottaluvme,

I have been on the C-Pap machine for about three years now, and BC/BS did not require me to have another sleep apnea test for my upcoming banding. I guess it all depends on your insurance and/or doctors.

Where will your surgery be? Mine will be in Asheville, NC.

I am so happy for those of you who have surgery tomorrow. I am a week behind you and will be anxious to hear how you are doing. One thing I just don't understand: Why do people think they have to tell you about others they know who were not successful with the band.? Of course some are not successful, especially if they refuse to go for fills or follow the prescribed diet. After all, the band is only a tool. I look to this site for those who are committed and have success stories to tell. That is what keeps my spirits up and makes me sure this is the right path for me.

PLEASE explain to me what the pouch test is. I keep hearing it over and over. Thanks!

Shoot, I have been telling anybody and everybody from the moment I first started this process. I have had nothing but support and good wishes from family, friends, and coworkers. No one has been judgemental at all. I guess they figure that if nothing has worked by the time I am this age, nothing ever will, unless I do something drastic. They are more concerned about my health and well being, as family and friends should be. I am not embarrassed at all.