bama_mommy03

Thank you for posting this. I've had this crud all weekend, and have been a nervous wreck because I've been so afraid that I was going to make my band slip. This gives me some peace of mind. Still calling my surgeon in the a.m. tho.

Same thing with me. Only today was my 4th day. I was finally able to eat something today without it bothering me too much, but it was vegetable Soup and pudding. I'm too scared to try anything more solid. I'm so scared I slipped my band.

I'm dealing with this right now. Only I've actually vomitted a couple of times and I dry heaved for a day and a half. Now it feels really tight when I try to eat. I don't know if I slipped my band or if maybe it's just swollen and irritated from all the vomiting, dry heaving, and muscles spasms.....

@LaMonica: First, WOW! so proud of you! 134 is OUTSTANDING!! lol Secondly, I'm so sorry you had all of that on your plate. It had to have been soooo stressful. I'm so scared I'm going to mess my band up. I've already had to have my port replaced less than 3 months after getting banded. I'm afraid to do ab workouts now! I was just asking because I had read some other posts and seen where they'd gone to or called their doctors and they were told it was just acid refulx. So I tried the prilosec for a week and it helped with the belching and the foam. But I still had pain when I ate small amounts and I was sooo scared I was going to cause a slippage or band erosion, so I went in to talk to my doctor about it. I had a small unfill done, and I feel great now. I just have to get back in the routine of working out everyday.... cause when you take a 2 week break b/c you don't have the energy to walk out to the mailbox.... it's hard to get back in to the groove of things. I've gained 4 of the 9 pounds I lost last month

Thanks everyone I went and had .5cc taken out today. I was miserable! I was staying hungry and had hardly any energy (because I could only eat such a very small amount before I would be in such pain I'd have to stop eating. I could only eat 3 or 4 small bites of fish and even less chicken. Even yougurt hurt.) I can't eat until tomorrow, but I hope I can eat a little, feel some restriction, but not be in pain or throw up. Thanks again everyone

Oh I know!! That's the worst! You want to eat, because you're just use to eating when you get bored or when everyone else eats. But, when you get filled, you just can't. But, that's good too

Just wondering if any of you have any setbacks so far, where you are with weight-loss, and how your excercise is coming along? And anything else you'd like to share It's been 5 months since I had my surgery, and I'm down 31lbs. I thought it'd be more at this point, but I had a "setback" in Feburary, and had to have my port replaced. It flipped, and when they went to stitch it back the surgeon seen where 2 of the little hooks never deployed so they just switched it for a whole new port. A couple of weeks ago I got a "catch-up" fill and since then I have noticed the weight starting to come off a little more. Plus I walk/jog on the treadmill for 20 mins 3 times a week, I want to work up to 45 mins 5 times a week.... but baby steps are fine with me I would love to try P90X, but I'm so afraid to do any kind of ab or core workout, I really don't want to flip my port again. My insurance runs out in 4 months and I hope to either have some money saved up, or a job to help pay for the fills. I really don't want to have to stop in the middle of my journey!

Yeah, I'm starting to see the numbers go down, so I really don't want them to take any out. I already feel "behind" b/c I have to have a port revision back in Feburary. I talked to my aunt (who was also banded, just a few months before I was) She said her doc said it was most likely due to her stomach still producing enough acid to digest the volume of food she was eating. She had to take Prilosec for a couple of weeks and it's been fine since then she said. So I think I will try that. My next dr appointment is in 2 weeks, so if it hasn't stopped before then I will deffinitely ask him to tke just a little out. (And I have had sinus drainage too, I live in the south and they have just started plowing the feilds around my house, and all of the honeysuckle, azeleas, and dogwoods are in bloom. I'll deffinitely do the nasal solution, and drink the pineapple juice. I'll have to see my primary care for a refill on my allergy meds. Thanks )

I just got my 3rd "true" fill last week. Since then, whenever I eat I get really bad indegestion (belching and burping) to the point that I vomit. But when I vomit, it's not the food that comes up, but foam. Am I too tight? I have 5cc in my AP Standard LapBand. It's not painful to eat, and I don't throw up my food, just foam. I don't want to cause an erosion, or slippage of my band. But I know at 4cc I felt no restriction. This is the first time I've felt any restriction, so I don't know if this is normal for beginners, or if I'm eating too fast, or if it's acid reflux, or ..... lol I just don't know.

Idk where the Y is around here, or if we even have one... I hadn't thought about it tho, so I will look into that. Thanks I like my excercise time to be without the kids, but that's easier said than done.... I guess I just have to learn how to share my workout time with them.

I would love to go to the gym! Just can't afford it right now. I was doing Zumba twice a week, but my oldest just started soccer, and her practices overlap my classes :/

Thanks for the suggestions!

Thanks neveragain.... I've been thinking about P90X .... but I'm so out of shape... idk if I could keep up with it or not

It's gotten somewhat better. Idk if he is talking to her still or not... he deleted that e-mail account. I use to check ohone records... but being military strange numbers show up all the time... so idk. We only see each other twice a month... this last time he camped out with the kids the first night, and the second night he was too tired and his back hurt too bad to be intimate But he's always been either hot or cold when it came to that department. My husband tends to be that typical "chameleon" guy who acts just like the group he's with is acting. And sometimes that worries me... cause he tends to choose the young single guys to hang out with. I told him that I'm uncortable with this... but I'm not about to tell him who he can and can't be friends with. Esp when they have a serious bond from being deployed together. .... It just stinks being apart all the time...

I know women can get pregnant with a band. The doc asks you wait 12-18months post-op. I had a port that flipped, here recently.... and it cause A LOT of pain for a couple of days. That could have happened. I feel it move around some, esp when I run my hand over it, or excerise. I go in next week to have it fixed.. You might want to call ur surgeon tho. Your port is stitched to your abdominal wall... and with your belly about to start stretching out, idk.... Oh, and they may want to take fluid out of your band a little ways into your pregnancy. Best of luck!!

I would LOVE that! Thank you!!

Sorry it's taken a while to get back to everyone. I can still eat a good bit (my Doc put 1.8cc in my band on the 1st fill. My band was left empty after my surgery) For 24 hours after a fill you have to do liquids, after that you can eat... that's what my doc office makes us do. I only had to be on a liquid diet for 10 days after surgery. It wasn't too bad. I just had my "possible" second fill Wednesday and I still feel no restriction (was suppose to be another 1.8cc). He had trouble accessing my port, they think it's flipped (had an x-ray to confirm but haven't heard back from my doc yet) he put the saline in but he's not sure it went into my port or not. I don't think it did, I feel no difference. And I'm upset because I might have to have another surgery to fix my port....

ugh... for some reason it cut off the last part of my post.... Has anyone else had a flipped port??

<FONT color=#000080 size=4 face=Georgia>Sooo... I went in today for my second fill and my Dr. couldn't get anything in. He kept aspirating bloody liquid back, and hitting something hard. It hurt really bad when he missed, and sounded like metal scrapping hard plastic when he'd hit it. I told him that a couple of weeks ago I stood up and got really bad pains. I thought it was just some serious gas pains, but when I rubbed my hand over the port site (b/c that's where it hurt) I could feel something move. He sent me down to get an x-ray, and I should hear back from him tomorrow. I have 3 small kids, I really don't have time to deal with another surgery. Ugh... I know I need to have it done so I can get fills... but it's just so aggravating

YUM! We were banded about the same time. I've only had one fill and I can still eat a pretty good amount, and some things that I'm sure I won't be able to eat after I get to my "sweet spot" or "green zone". I went to a Zumba class tonight and I'm usually not hungry after I work out. I have a baked chicken breast left over for lunch (with basil and half a can of tomatoes)... so I can always munch on that.

I was just banded at the end of November.... just wondering what you eat for dinner. Or recipes for cooking healthy for a family....

I was also banded 11/22. My diet afterwards was so different than everyone else's I read. I was liquids for the the first 7 days. Mushy on the 8th and 9th day and straight to chunky on the 10th day. I've been doing ok. Got my first fill 12/30 and my second is scheduled for 1/26.... I'm thinking about calling Monday and see if I can go in next week because I'm starting to gain back some of what I lost after my first fill. A little discouraging. I'm soooo scared I'm going to stretch out my pouch .... I hope I'm not!!

Is this normal? I'm 7weeks post-op. I got my 2 year old up from his nap was putting some juice in his cup and all of a sudden I got this really sharp pain at my port site. It feels like a knife is stabbing me from the inside trying to come out through my scar... I'm pretty good with pain, I have an unually high tolerance for it... but this is slowing me down. Not sure if I should be concerned or if it's a normal part of the healing process....

My surgeon talked about having a port there. He said that as you thin out so does the skin in that area, making the port more visible the smaller you get. I thought he was going to place it closer to my hips, but nope, it's just a little above and to the right of my belly button. And today I've been having really sharp pains at my port site. I'm only 7weeks post-op, and I'm worried I did something to hurt it.