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I only told my husband....because he would wonder why i'm off work for a week, walking like an old lady and sleeping on the couch moaning if i didn't....and one good friend of mine. nobody else knows. you have to do what is right for you. i don't know how long i'll be able to keep it a secret, but when i'm ready, i will share. good luck to you in your journey!

thanks guys for answering and for the encouragement. i am feeling better today, but really sore from the heaving yesterday. i don't think that i was drinking to much liquid or too full because i literally hadn't had liquids in a couple of hours. i had a water bottle with me during the walk and i took a sip or two, but not more than a tablespoon. i really don't know where the nausea came from. maybe it was air, as a big gas bubble did come out. i guess it just really freaked me out and i've been so careful to move slowly and drink slowly because i do not want to do that heaving again.

Hi JanetLynn, welcome to the forums. i stopped by to say hi because I, myself, am from alabama, though i no longer live there. anyway, you will find this website is a great resource. you will find so much info here that will put your mind at ease and help you with making this decision. good luck on your 6 month diet and keep us posted on your progress.

Hey MzNelly, yeah, i've kinda been around, but something happened to my original sign in name, so i haven't been able to log back into it to see or get any messages. so sorry about that. i wasn't ignoring you promise :D I had my surgery done at NYU. I thought they were going to make 5 incisions and they never said they were going to go through my belly button, so i wonder if that is just a decision they made when they were in the room. at any rate, they made only 3 incisions. the one by my sternum is so tiny, it's going to probably heal and disappear. i don't know about the one by my port yet because my steri strip is still attached, and it's still attached at my belly button too, so i don't know how big those are.

believe you me, if your primary doctor has signed off on it, your surgeon isn't going to turn you away. they don't make money by turning people away i know that sounds crass, but at the end of the day, it is the truth. anyway, just put your mind at ease and be honest with the surgeon. do you have to attend a seminar? most surgeon's require that as well as a phych eval. i was more worried about the psych eval than anything, but even then, it was my surgeon's psychologist that i had to see, and they scratch each others backs ,so i wasn't going to get turned down unless i went in saying that i have flown on UFO's and i believe that Mt. Rushmore talks to me at night.... you are going to be just fine.

so, i am about 6 days post op. I haven't had a lot of trouble healing, I haven't had any of the gas pains that people have talked about (which i am grateful for). my incisions seem to be getting better and my insides no longer feel as if they are going to fall out when i walk, another great thing. Also, i am still on my liquid diet, as per doctors orders, and haven't had anything soild at all..... today was going pretty swimmingly until around 6:30pm. i went for a short walk with my hubby, just to get out of the house and off of the couch. we stopped to rest for a bit in the park before we returned home and suddenly, out of nowhere, a wave of nausea came over me. i told him, "we have to go home right now!" and so we did. we walked back home, i took a gas x strip to try and calm things down, then i chewed on a tums.....no sooner did i get the tums down when i had to go to the bathroom and wretch. nothing came out, just what felt like a big bubble of gas which relieved the nauseated feeling right away, but it SCARED ME TO DEATH. now i'm quite sore internally. do you think that i have caused any slippage to the band by heaving so soon after surgery? i am seeing my doctor on wednesday for an appointment that i had made with him last week. i'm not sure what to do. the nausea is gone now and about an hour after the episode, i was able to drink 1/4 cup of broth with no problem. my throat is very sore and so is my abdomen from the wretching. i just don't know where the nausea came from. could it have been the gas? just looking for some advice or someone to put my fears at ease. usually if i am nauseated, it's because i'm sick or i ate something wrong, but with just my fluids that i have been sipping on, i can't have any kind of food poisoning....and nothing but air and some spittle came out, so no stomach contents. i am just a little bit scared.

the pains are directly in the center of my chest. i assume it's because my esophagus is so close to my incision. usually, the pain passes fairly quickly and most of the time it happens when i take a sip of something. it seems to be a bit better today than yesterday. every day i can see that i am getting better at consuming my liquids and better at drinking my protein shakes. usually a burp or just a deep breath makes the pain in my chest go away, so hopefully it is gas. i am seeing the doctor on wednesday for my 7 day post op visit. i will address it then to see if something is wrong. hopefully they will tell me that it is just swelling and that everything is A-OK. fingers crossed.

I was really glad that I had my lip balm and ear plugs. my neighbor in the bed next to me was VERY LOUD and all i wanted to do was sleep. i also had my slippers, so i was good to go.

I'm just spewing thoughts that come into my head since i'm still sitting at home recovering from my surgery on Wednesday May 4th.... I was thinking to myself after reading some of the posts in Introductions and Pre-Op questions...... ok, don't be hatin' when i say this, I just think it's interesting, but..... My GOAL weight is the same as most people's START weight. There, i said it. There's nothing wrong with it, but it's kinda funny to me. The thought that one day I *might* be able to weigh 250 pounds seems just some unattainable dream. I would LOVE to weigh 250 pounds. anyone else here feeling that 'twoderville' is reeeeaaaaalllly far away?

I am on like my 5th day post op ( i think. i have been sleeping so much, the days just run together ) i am doing my very best to get all 64oz of my fluids in. i have been writing everything down and i can tell that each day i am able to drink a little more than the first day. i am even starting to get some actual hunger, which sucks because i still have 5 more days of liquids until mushies...but my question is, will i always have this PAIN in my chest every time i take a drink of something? i will drink a table spoon or two of whatever it is, then i have this huge pain, have to wait for it to pass before i can take another sip. it has been very, very irritating. i feels like i am having a heart attack every time i sip something. i feel at this point that i could drink more if it weren't for that stupid pain in my chest. please tell me that it is just swelling and that it will disappear eventually. pretty, pretty please...i hope it's not always going to be like this.

I am still on liquids that can go through a straw. 2 protein shakes per day and 64 oz of other liquids like broth, V8 splash...oh, and popsicles. i know they can't go through a straw, but they melt and i can get them down.

i am kinda having the same problem. when i drink my V8, it feels like it is getting stuck right in the center of my chest and takes a while to go down. I have been freezing my V8 splash and it has helped tremendously. i can eat the frozen things so much easier than the room temperature things. my broth hasn't been a problem, it goes down very easy. i'm still not getting enough down though. i am barely managing to get 32 oz of fluids down when i need 64. i am doing my very best though.

That's great about costco. We are members of Sam's club, so it's been nice to be able to buy stuff in bulk and have it at home. that way i don't have to spend a lot of money getting it in the little neighborhood stores. it is great to have others in the city that are going through the same thing. i hope that maybe in the fall, when most of us have had a chance to start eating again and be off of liquids and mushies, that some of us can get together and talk about our experiences. that would be neat. i went into pretty good detail here about my surgery day if you want to read about it. http://www.lapbandtalk.com/topic/60457-surgery-day-stories/page__view__findpost__p__1609862 i don't have the energy to type all of that out again anyway, by the time you have your surgery i will be on day 2 of my mushies...i would be looking forward to that, but as of now, i still have no interest in food and i am still having trouble getting all the liquids down. i was able to get a little more in yesterday than the day before, and a little more in today than i did yesterday, so slllooooowly but surely, i am getting there. i hope

I had my surgery at NYU with Dr. Fielding. I think i had to wait about a month to get a consult with him, but 3 weeks after my consult, I was in surgery, so it went very fast. anyway, I just had a shower! i almost feel human again. it took all of my energy so i'm heading off for a nap, but wow, a shower. who would have thunk it. the little things in life are so taken for granted. have a great day everyone!

I think it's completely normal. i had to do a 2 week pre-op diet and when i was shopping for all of those Protein shakes and fluids for my first 10 days post op, i had a breakdown in the store. i had to go to the bathroom and compose myself. my surgery was on wednesday, just a couple of days ago. i'm glad that i had to do the pre-op diet, even though i moaned about it, because it prepared me a little bit for what was to come. at this particular moment, i have ZERO interest in food at all. i can barely drink enough liquid, and am coming nowhere near the 64 oz i'm supposed to drink just because it's too much Fluid right now. i am hoping that it will get easier and easier. i too went through the eating everything in sight phase. i felt like i was on death row and i was having lots of last meals. i needed to do that, and i'm glad i did. i don't regret it. hopefully in about 20 more days, i'll be able to have solid food again, but for now, i'm just going to try to do what my doctor has told me to do. get all of my fluids in and try to get better. good luck with whatever you decide to do.

Hey Jonathan, I am muddling along I guess. I don't have a sensation of feeling the band or the port yet. i feel very sore internally in my lower belly, but i think it's because of the incision in my belly button. it just feels like everything is going to fall out when i stand up, but then the feeling passes, so it's only for an instant or two and then it subsides. I have zero appetite so far and it's been a struggle to get all of my fluids in because i just don't want them. i drink them because i know i need them, but i'm not very interested in eating anything or drinking anything at this point. they say that around day 6 or 7, your appetite will come back. i will just have to wait and see. i'm glad that you know someone that you can talk to about the LB. i have some people in the support group at my hospital, but i don't know them very well, and they have already lost most of their weight, so they had the surgery done more than a year ago. i'm kinda by myself in all of this which is why i'm so grateful to have this board. it has been immensely helpful and answered most if not all of my questions. good luck to you and keep us posted on your journey.

Hi all, It's day 3 after surgery, or day 2 depending on how you count it. I am feeling a bit better and I haven't had any of those gas pains in my shoulder or anywhere else, so thank goodness for that. most of my pain is in my lower belly, i suppose from the incision inside my bellybutton. it just feels like when i move everything is going to fall out. i have 3 incisions. one in my bellybutton, one near my breastbone (center of chest, it makes it difficult to breathe) and one on my left side where my port is. I haven't felt like doing much besides laying around, but i have tried to make myself pace around the apartment just to get moving. it gets a little easier every day. the thing that is the most difficult for me is getting enough liquids. i am supposed to have 64 oz of fluids per day for the next 10 days. I probably had plenty in my saline bag while in hospital, but yesterday i may have had about 25 oz of Fluid total. i am drinking things literally a teaspoon at a time. i was trying to make myself drink a teaspoon of liquid every 10 or 15 minutes, but it's very difficult. i was able to get down 1 and 1/2 bottles of a Protein drink, so i at least got some protein in. the chicken broth seems to go down the easiest and of course, i had my popsicle. my sweet husband decided to try an experiment with the V8 splash that i'm drinking. we have ice trays that make tiny pellets of ice, so he froze some of the V8 splash and it went wonderfully. i was able to eat a bowl full of them, probably 4 oz of fluid in just a few minutes. he made some popsicles out of the V8 overnight, so i'm gonna try to eat some of those today since they have more calories than my sugar free ones, and i need the calories right now. anyway, that's kind of where i am at the moment. just struggling with getting enough fluids down and lacking in the energy to do anything. i'm going to take a shower today, believe me i smell like i could use one, and then we are going to try to take a walk to the park at the end of my block a little later. fingers crossed that all goes well. good luck to anyone that has a surgery coming up soon.

Hey guys, I posted about yesterday over in Surgery stories if anyone is interested. http://www.lapbandtalk.com/topic/60457-surgery-day-stories/page__st__720__gopid__1609862#entry1609862 keep in mind that i am currently under the influence of vicoden....

HI all, i just posted this in another thread, but thought i would post it here as a general update. so, this is a copy and paste; Hi all, it's me. My old account wouldn't allow me to log in for some reason, so I'm just going to post under this temporary one until the situation is rectified. I thought I would just give a basic update before I go back to bed. it's just after midnight here and I"m pretty exhausted. So, the short answer is, I'm alive. The longer answer is that I am in pain from one of the incisions. He went through my belly button and it literally didn't start hurting until about 1/2 way home from the hospital. I, so far, haven't had any of the gas pains that people have been talking about. Nothing yet in my shoulder or anywhere else. I can see that my belly is all swollen and I have been burping and burping and that has been a huge relief. Anyway, I just wanted to say a very brief hello. I will post the longer, more interesting bits tomorrow. Thanks guys for all of the information I have gleaned so far from this site. I felt like i was uber prepared for today and that really, really, really, helped a lot with the anxiety of it all. you guys are awesome.

Hi Jonathan. There are quite a few of us here from NYC. I just had my procedure done this morning at NYU. I am kinda loopy right now, but wanted to say hello. You will find TONS of info here that will prepare you for the big day, so make use of it. it really helped me out big time.

Hi all, it's me. My old account wouldn't allow me to log in for some reason, so I'm just going to post under this temporary one until the situation is rectified. I thought I would just give a basic update before I go back to bed. it's just after midnight here and I"m pretty exhausted. So, the short answer is, I'm alive. The longer answer is that I am in pain from one of the incisions. He went through my belly button and it literally didn't start hurting until about 1/2 way home from the hospital. I, so far, haven't had any of the gas pains that people have been talking about. Nothing yet in my shoulder or anywhere else. I can see that my belly is all swollen and I have been burping and burping and that has been a huge relief. Anyway, I just wanted to say a very brief hello. I will post the longer, more interesting bits tomorrow. Thanks guys for all of the information I have gleaned so far from this site. I felt like i was uber prepared for today and that really, really, really, helped a lot with the anxiety of it all. you guys are awesome.