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congratulations!!! thats Great news and a real success and NSV!!! i know thats gotta be a relief!

so is there a thread where we can talk about fills and restriction issues? I thought thats what this was..i must have been mistaken? for what its worth, the surgeon i chose is across the nation from where i live, i got an out of network referral. hes done over 4k bands, and my insurance ( bcbs) covered it completely. Now..is there someplace we can talk about fills and restriction?

Syrah, Ive got a 10cm (4cc) band. Currently ive got 2.5cc in it already!

what was the original question and discussion? I go back in for third fill in Houston tomorrow (i leave here tomorrow, my appt is the 23rd) and ive wondered about proper restriction myself, as i guess most of us have. Im not sure what it means. I do occassionally get stuck. and i definitely cant eat too much dim sum, but i can eat a 12 oz steak (yum) and some baked potato. i often eat around two cups at a sitting. i know its a lot. Its less if i start the day with a shake. I make protien shakes in the mornings that really help. still though, i think its a lot. my nutritionalist says i shouldnt be able to eat a 12 oz steak. can anyone else? how can you tell your restricted right?

hey guys... im going in early for my third fill. My plane arrives on May 23, and ive got 23, 24 and 25 to hang out before i have to fly back. Email me if youd like to get together for an inpromptu mini support meeting :mad:

:::insert big tooth filled grin here:::: i do think its very wise to take posts on this board with a grain of salt, and not believe everyone who claims to be in the medical profession as really that. There is one particular on this board who does bully people about AND as a medical "professional" certainly doesnt behave in coherance with ethical medical practices (like chain smoking and going to fill parties, where you literally fill each other.) I think its dangerous practice altogether and they DO make contradictory statements on different boards. If you are new and read a post that sounds iffy, look at their stats. If someone posts an average of 30 posts per day on here, what else do they have time for all day? no doctor or nurse i know has that kind of time. Just be careful whos advice you take. Best wishes

man...its makin me crazy. im cool and all..its just very different. I really need to go see gyn and get on something to at least try to balance it out. My teeth feel longer and im a bit "hungry" all...and i do mean ALL the time. i keep checking to see if im growing hair on the back of my neck.

Hey Guys.. Im going to be in Houston again very soon for a fill, but afraid i will miss the group meeting with the New Group over at Journeylite. I will be in town May 23, 24, 25 if anyone wants to meet for dinner and a mini support?

hey annie, congrats on the nsv! and thank god im not the only one going through this. I JUST turned 39 and thought i was going through "the change" early too. You know though it DOES make sense to get on the pill to try to control it. Libra, thanks for that idea, ill probably go in and see what i can do. maybe because of the extra estrogen the pill you were taking isnt strong enough anymore? Im definitely going to go in and find out if i can get on them. we only have so many eggs. when they go, they go...and rapid fire shooting isnt doin me any good.

Since being banded... Im ..."fertile"..twice a month now, with all that implies...but even more bizzaar (because im usually a very funny, upbeat person my friends would describe me as happy and gets along with everyone) is that IM NOT THAT NOW. I go from one minute all "oh i love my northern new england town and singing 'life in a northern town' " while walking to "oh my god its fecking cold and i fecking hate everythign about this." and little things which never USED to get to me, get to me BIGTIME. I lost my fecking ipod this morning that i usually take to the gym..and i blew a gasket! Im hold up right now privately so i can get my mood in check before going back to the house and searching for it again where i will be around other people. This morning i was near throwing things because i was out of vanilla slim fast. lol. Now that i read it , its funny ...but at the time it sure wasnt. ANYONE ELSE GOING THROUGH THIS???

hi guys! banded feb 13. very slow loser too. I even went through a phase of gaining back wieght, then losing, then slowly regaining, then losing...My dr says im not filled enough yet. I was scheduled for my third fill to be June 6th, but im wide open again, and can eat things like a 12 oz steak and not feel any restriction. when i go back on liquids, i feel restriction, but my nutritionalist doesnt want me on liquids for too long at a time, and doesnt like that im establishing it as a habit...so i moved my appointment up at her suggestion and im leaving maine to go to houston in about eight days (appointment may 23) for fill number 3! im HOPEFUL. My second fill worked great for a few days, then i slowly got more open. My doctor says there is a sweet spot, and im hoping to hit it this time...

im pro choice.

I smoked for 23 years. for the last 19 of those i was at three packs a day. I smoked at work, i smoked at home. My sons are very close to me, and like other smokers, i thought i had "rights". In dec of 2004, my then 15 year old son suffered a stroke. He was in good health and had no other risk factors. He lost use of everything below the T3 area. To this day he is still in physical rehab, and goes periodicly for phenal blocks in various muscle groups to try to get things responding. He cannot walk without a full leg brace on his left leg. His control of his bladder and bowels, as well as the use of any reproductive organs is gone. He had not yet gone through puberty when this happened. he uses a straight catheter to urinate. Im glad hes alive. He is too. This happened in dec 2004. I spent a month with him in the hospital in Bangor. No smokes, i didnt even think about it, i was so into what was happening in front of me with him and wondering what hapened. Each doctor that we talked to verified that he had NO other risk factors other than second hand smoke.. Then they flew him out to a hospital that specializes in spinal cord damage and recoverey (craig in inglewood colorado) and i went home to be with my other sons. It came back fiercely. I quit everyday until Feb 2005 (two months later) before I was able to finally walk away from the last one. I put it out midway. I quit everyday. i would fail at different times of the day, very expensively too, because i would throw away all packs then go buy another, throw it away, then the next day buy another. The losenges were the biggest help for me. I went through two vials of those a day for the first SIX months as well as patches (yeah i know your not supposed to, but i was doing anything i needed to do to not go get that new pack of smokes). First id go a day, then a week, then a week and a half, then a month..then two..then finally a year. then two years. thanks for asking. Its why i cant be nuetral.

Yeah, a full breathing, living whatever you once called me..where will you be?

If you smoke, you wont be happy in maine anyway. We dont like that kind.

yeah but in three MORE years, ill be thin...and the smoker will be...???

I appreciate the attempt at posing a nuetral stance, but i just dont see in your last analogies how they are anything close to tobacco smoke. I do think it should be illegal, and i think possession should carry a harsh sentence. I dont CARE if it "makes people seek illegal sources", GOOD. And i hopes its horribly expensive and that smokers get arrested, then should be fined, prosecuted, convicted and stripped of the rest of their rights for putting that crap in the air. Its not an inconvienience. it kills people. You dont like what i have to say about it thats fine, i wouldnt have liked it three years ago either..but all i have to do is go clean out my sons portable urinal again, or move his shower chair out of the way and i get angry all over again. all because of second hand smoke, so no, i dont see ever being nuetral on the stance. I vote, I will always vote, and im vocal about my opinion not only here, but whenever i can be. Vote against me...and keep smoking..there will be less and less of you to do so.

vapors...i was told something very similar by my dr, that the band will sometimes absorb some of your fill.

Right on.

stinky smelly smokey people.

LMAO... All i know..is that when i moved to a state where its banned, i was finally able to quit, and my life got better. Oh...and god bless those losenges (commit) LOVE Those and i accredit them COMPLETELY with being able to have finally quit. I found myself addicted to them after cigarettes, then little birthday cakes after those (every thursday...if i made it another thursday, id go get another. did that for a few months). I hated the gum, welbutrin just put me to sleep. I will always vote in favor of banning it in any way (cigarrettes and smoking). Im sorry if it offends, you guys know i love yer smokey stinkin bottoms. You'll just have to extinguish your smokes at the border, and i'll even wash your clothes.... :scales: we can still be friends.

Bjlang, nope you are right...a ten cm band holds four ccs. I ran into the same thing. For the first month i thought i had a ten cc band, because i misheard, and only when i was having a conversation with my surgeon during this last fill did he correct me. I found im actually half way full when i thought we had lots and lots of ways to go.

I think smoking cigarettes should be illegal. i think possession should carry the same penalty as possessing other illegal drugs. and yep i think you should spank those d@mn unruly kids too.

Suzanne, Hi. I have noticed mood SWINGS and my cycles have increased to two a month. I was going to say though, that sometimes when we go through a high energy or something that takes 100 percent, like WLS or for me as well, an art exhibition for an artist...there is at first a HIGH...then a leveling out...then a low...I go through this every time i show. I went through it a bit on this too, the lapband surgery process. When i got home i definitely fell into a funky low. Maybe its that? I dont know.

Tracy, i just saw your new signature! You are doing SO great! You are looking fantastic girl!