MelissaNY

good good ! back to normal foods, and feel great ! go to the Dr today to get my fills back up to what they were !!! :D :D :D :D

Hi everybody ! So after reading a article on web md about the amounts of lead and arsinic in muscle milk, ( i really dont believe it to be that bad at all)but it did get me going on the idea of maknig my own. I have to say i am lazy when it comes to making shakes so i know this has to be real easy or ill be right back to my 100 cal easy easy's. I also usually dont eat my bf shake till noon or so, so i need to change my eating time around to make this fit in to a am thing. but here is what ive created ! 1 cup low fat soy milk, any flavor i use vanilla 1 bananna 3 strawberries ice cubes CVS brand why protien packet either choc or vanilla magic bullet this is about 365 cal and 30 protien i did add a chobani champion honey nanna yogurt ( child size) to it a few times for some more protien, it bumped my calories up a bit but it was really good, and filing I use myfitnesspal and it is also on there! Just wanted to share! =) MelissaNY

mine is NOT stitched, i thought it was untill i asked my Dr, he says nope !

i take 2 GNC - Solotron Chewable Multivitamins with dinner and Bariactric advantage calcium citrate with vit d times a day

NO WAY, u are not wrong at all !! First of all i think ur daughter is being selfish, she should be supporting you and say u are right mom !!

i buy mine at Bj's, the have a box of 18 , and they are the 100 cal light ones !

i pee the bed everytime i have surgery, i pee b4i go in and i still pee the bed, i laugh about it all the time

me tooo !! thanks for Sharing =)

yeah mine isnt, i just found that out i thought it was the whole time

myfitnesspal is great !! i have a iphone and use that and my band fill

Wow same here Bell, my stomach had prolapsed also, i agree it was the worst few hours of my life, i went right to hospital had surgery the next am. So sorry you had to deal with it for days, awww i do know the pain. So u never got stuck, it just happened? and do you have fills now? Im almost back to new, gave me a 4cc fill and i fill fine, i will admit im scared to eat,but my dr said that i had no problems b4 , and he is right. Do you know if your surgeon stiched your tummy over your band to keep it in place?

my advice would be to get another xray, u should not be heaving, what does your Dr think?

oh your welcome ! i could not wait to get on here at tell everybody !!! i also found out that my Dr does not stick the stomach over to the espohogus, some drs will take a piece of the stomach and pull it over the band and stick it to the bottom of your esopogus, I aksed mr dr and they do not do that, this whole time i thought they all did that, but nope !! the ipone app is great, i keep looking at my little hole lol , and man i was at 7.5cc no wonder why i got stuck

Glad to hear you are ok !!! next time, if ther is one, lets hope not =) but i would def call my Dr or the after hours number, i had my first stuck, and threw up one to many times and slipped my band, and had to have emergency surgery to repair it, throwing up is very dangerous, u may need a slight unfill, after fills u cant always eat things u could b4. Glad u are ok !!! keep up the good work and chew chew chew chew, try to remember ur stoma is like a funnel, and the hole at the end of your funnel is the size of your pinky, thats the room u have for things to pass through~ Melissa

it hit me like a ton of bricks, how the size of out little passthrough hole, or the Band itself, the siz of the inside !!!!! Glad you took something from it !!! And ur right the more we know about our bodies the better !!

wed 2pm ate a vegan meatball ( with my hand, NOT A SMALL FORK ) so took a big bite (7.5 cc in band) got stuck, DUHHHHHH , pain pain pain throw up throw up, rushed to my surgeon's office at 10pm for a unfill and xray, BAND SLIPPED =( Rushed to the hospital for emergency repair surgery...... NOW WHAT I LEARNED TODAY AT THE DR OFFICE!!!! so after i had my staples out, and got my fill 4.00 cc now, and talked to my surgeon for a few minutes about everything i was on my way out, i stopped at the xray tech to ask him if there was any chance of him finding my xray pics from last wed. he said sure!! Lets look, so he found me and i saw my slipped band, OMG it was crazy, i had 2 stomach's !!! and also the band was way down, and u could see that it was at the wrong angle. It was amazing to see that!!! Also he had some pics of people that were "STUCK" and had foos stuck in their pouch, it was such a learning to see such things!! He showed me my normal band when i swallowed the drink stuff and cleary saw the little tiny trail of liquid that is supposed to go through my band, and then when my band had slipped how the path of liquid was across the top of my stomach cuz the band had slipped. AMAZING !!! We started to talk about the band and the pouch, he explained it as a funnel, and just as a funnel can get clogged up , so does our band if we eat to fast, ot dont chew enough. Also he pointed out that when the band is placed you have about the size of your THUMB of a opening for the food to to pass through and go to your stomach, and slowly with fills the opening is about the SIZE OF YOUR PINKY !!! If you thing about it, we learn all about the outside and never the inside, If i had a idea the the size of my pouch hole to go to my tummy was the width if a half of a popcicle stick i never would have taken that bite, It AMAZED me to think about the size of the opening of the hole that our foods passes through, the hole in our funnel per say. I am in complete awwwww knowing this now, i never thought if the size of the actual passthrough of the food, DID ANYBODY ELSE? I mean when we get fills who is thinking about how much smaller the hole is getting and what size it actually is ????? when its in the perspective to the size of your pinky, im sure we would eat a little different, i know i am. I always chew chew chew, but from now on I am chew, stop rest, chew stop rest, I NEVER EVER want to be stuck again, that was the worst pain ever, but im glad of what came out of it !!! There is a APP on my ipone called MY BAND FILL, they reccommend it to me, you can pot in your fill amount and it shows u how big your hole is ! ITS GREAT !!!!! Melissa

mmmmm that sounds great !! where do u get the Starbucks Carmel instant?

i drink a cup everyday 2 equal and CREAM, every day ! I sometimes have 2 cups a day. Mr Dr says that the more coffe u drink u have to make sure have have even more Water to flush it out, coffee is a diuretic so it can make u thirsty. I just had a fix of my lapband and had coffee today, I did wait 5 days though from surgery. Every Dr is different and it is best to go by what your Dr says, but i do have 1-2 cups everyday and i use Cream !

yes, thats almost how i think it felt also, or a cork screw being screwed in to your chest, i had my first stuck, then i threw up over and over, and slipped my band =( had surgery and now am back on my path ! Ask any question anywhere u want ! We are all at different places in our journey and all have good/indifferent advice !!! =)

OMG THIS LOOKS Y U M M Y !!!! I am going to try it !! now im glad im back to mushy again lol thanks for Sharing

Thank you !! I have a apt tomorrow ( tues) with Dr Weiss, i again will tell him how upset i am, AND Truly still are. I am starting all over again, i just went through all of this in March and wham, back to a newbie again =( I do remember right before the repair surgey Dr Weiss confirming the name of the NP i spoke to, so maybe he is on it all ready, i hope so. !! @ Christina theese fourms are so nerve wrecking sometimes, I def recconmed to go slow, sometimes u see thatu can eat a little faster or a little more but overall everytime must be like u just came out of surgery. My last fill was on a thursday, the week b4 i got stuck and i ate the same thing b4 that got me stuck so who knows. just worry about u and what ur Dr tells you !

Thank you so much for the advice ! I really hope it never happens again that bad, the pain omg. What really upset me the most is the 2nd time i called my dr office, hours later , still in pain. she justg said wait it out ! I do understand it was my first stuck, but when i could not even talk i was in so much pain. jeeze ! im confused thought, my dr says do not drink,,but so many say to drink? i guess everybody is different ? and yes i would never go to a ER, id come home with out my band, lol we really need a bariatric Dr for sure. i just am glad i have my band, allthought i have to start over, maybe i will not be so filled this time =) thanks for all the advice everybody melissa

yeah thats how i was, i dry heaved a sip of Water =( for hours

mine just slipped, and i did not know, but i was in such pain and throwing up and throwing up. It started withagetting stuck, then i threw up, and kept throwing up, im sure that is what did it, but i will tell you this , OUCH, pain so bad i could not walk or talk. just had surgery on thurs to repair it !! thank goodness, it may have had to been removed. melissaNY :Banane23: :Dancing_shocked:

Thank you for responding, !! mine was 3 months to the day, im sooooo glad it was fixed :thumbup: :Dancing_chief: :thanks: