Cynthia Price

Stan, I am new to this site. I am going to my class on the 22nd of this month to start my process. I just wanted you to know that your post was really helpful and made me feel much better about my decision. I wish you much success in the future. hey there! Well, I just got banded 11 days ago, so I can tell you my fresh experience... my doc had me on the two week liquid pre-op diet. I'm glad he did. he said my surgery went very well and he could tell I stuck to the diet by the size and color of my liver, and that's the purpose of that diet... shrink the liver as much as possible to make surgery easier. Also go high on Protein to aid in the healing process. I had surgery on Friday, and my doc requires an overnight stay so I went home Saturday AM. yea, I felt like I got punched in the gut (no duh) but other than that I was OK. back on the full liquid diet. Me personally, I made it a point to get up and walk for at least 10 minutes every hour, then 15 and 20 as I could. By Monday I could shuffle around for 20 minutes every hour. Did a lot of catnapping from Saturday to Wednesday. Felt much better Thursday, cut the lawn Friday, and was back to work Monday. So I was off a week. and just so you can get perspective, I'm 52 years old, 6'5" and weighed 380 going into surgery. hope that helps. any questions, please let me know. stan

How are you doing? Would you recomend it? Would you do it again? I am going to class on the 22 of this month. i was just band by dr. whipple on the 21th of june. i have been banded for almost 3 weeks now