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Lauracat

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  1. Lauracat commented on Cnewme2012's blog entry in Cnewme2012's Blog
    day 9 here i feel the same way sore at the biggest inciison
  2. Lauracat posted a blog entry in Lauracat's Blog
    I going to start off with a funny story I was standing in line at CVS need to refill on folic acid and get gas ex strips and i started to fell the gas symtoms pain in my stumic that i knew i wanted and need and behide me was a pre-school age child and there parents and well i just had no choice and out came the gas and the child behind me said "mommmy that lady just let out a stinky and it smells" Frist i wanted to hide then i wanted to trun around and say I am sorry i am 8 days past lap bad and it one of the side effects. But i keeped my compuser and let it go I guess you can tell a person who had lap band by why they have in there purse 1. water bottle 2. gas ex strips 3. air fresher 4. body spray 5. protine powder and shaker bottle 7, Crystal light to go I might have over done it by going to the gym yesterday. I love my gym it a great place i joined it over a year ago and still like going from the most amzing staff to my personal trainer they all treated me with such recepct and know what i can do and make me work so hard. I told my self i was just going to walk around the indoor track but the reclining bike called my name and 30 mins latter i was done. I felt it all last nigt to the point i broke out the old pain stuff becuse my stumic hurt so much just to sit up. Still kind of sore I got to rember to pass my self in my bare feet shoes . the cultre back on my UTI she said i am growing so pretty funnky stuff and she wanted to switch my anti botic right away as i was not sentive to the one i was on. The side effect of this one losse stools this should be fun. also yest i think it starting as all over insistion sight is red and crusty and oh so ichy I going to call the nurse and see what i safely put on it So tonight i have to meet with a clint this is the frist time i have to put on real cloths since i had this done i been living in sweets for the last 9 days so i have to see what i have in my wardorbe to wear. I think i have a pair of legging that might woek with a nice jacket and some accessry a little make up and boom i can look good Thats all for today Laura
  3. Beside the still thirsty head ack feeling i had now for the last 8 days i guess i am doing better. I had a massive UTI i could feel it in both of my kidney took 24 hours to get antibiotics since the one i need needs to be pre ordered because of it liquid form so i was very sick from that but starting to feel better. I know i let my self get dehydrated as i was throwing up as on my major symptoms but everyone seems to feel i can play catch up. I was going to go to try and drink more. But since it raining I think i go to the gym and do some walking around the indoor track. How i wish i could do some water aerobics i think that what my body wants but the dr said no way till week four Laura
  4. I was told no gummie i uses Flintstones.
  5. Just started about to sart week to so far i had blended lactose free fat free cottage cheese, some lactose free yogurt that was fat free and protein shakes today i used crystal light lice and unflavored uerjery put put it in a blender and had a frozen lemon aid and lots and lots of water. I am still behind I am about 19 down one week latter
  6. Lauracat commented on a comment on a blog entry in TexasSherri's Blog
    I take Flintstones too there add is 10 million strong and growing. I always joke I am one of the 10 million strong and shrinking Laura
  7. i am one week today the pain gets better each day I have to 2 it hit me all on day 4 at that point i was sure i made a mistake . I did not have alot of gas pain but more stumic pain and bad bad heart burn it felt like a shap pain every time i swallowed right in my chest area getting liquid zantac was a life saver
  8. for post op i was 3 prominent replacement a day all the veggie you want also along as they were not pea and potato and one healthy meal then it 2 weeks full liquids
  9. i have lactose problems so i pay alot of powder i look for sales I like Iopure not cheep also I like urjery again not cheep but lactose free
  10. yup gas not been a huge problem for me i have had some issues but yes i did not think about how much i uses my upper abs i just think they were there and flabby but getting up from laying seat being too low bending down all these things hurt for me anything that too tight I been living in one pair of sweet and baggy Pj bottoms
  11. I was banded 4/24 I j am just starting to feel better I own my own business out of my home and i can do some on the computer so i started that back today I am going to have to do the going somewhere part on Thursday to meet with a client the big this is finding pants that i can were most seem to hurt as i am still pretty sore over my port and big sight
  12. Mine is just post op swelling i keep saying that i feel the band when i drink too fast or burp it almost like a heart burn feeling maybe it just me Laura
  13. first thing i did was chug a Protein shake and up it went and had to move back to Clear Liquids. Then there was the problem were my bladder fell asleep and i could not pee for the life of me they did not know what to do with me so they keeped me i begged to go till they were able to get a urologist in . I am also having alot of problems with post op swelling i get this pain when i sip too fast so i tend to drink very very slowly as i feel stuck. I almost landed back there today as i ate some sugar free Jello and it went though me and i almost landed back i am back on stage two as he wants me off protein for 3 days till the swelling is down some he said the feeling of sharp pain is just that i am very sowllen and could take a few week to get better so i might land up starting stage 4 ( soft food slower) Laura
  14. ew to the forum, and banded monday. just wondering how other newbies are doing, and how everyone is adjusting. i had no fill at the time of surgery & was in a lot of pain up until today. i'm so proud of myself for not taking any pain/ nausea medicine today. however i am feeling hungry, which my surgeon said i probably shouldn't feel. anyone else feel this way? also, about 10 minutes after i drink something, i get a sharp pain in my chest, and it's hard to breathe. is this a stuck feeling? or just that i drank too much? look forward to talking with you all! This is the same thing i am feeling i tried to explain it I was banded on 3.34 they all called me nuts and told me i was crazy and i did my self in well all but Dr Jones he was my surgeon. The other in the team told me i was nuts then i got direeia form the suger free high Protein Jello for this reson i find it very hard to drink the right amount because of the sharp chest stuck feeling i was told it post op swelling and that to poor a shot glass and drink that slowly every 15 min i still very thirsty but it i take it slow and take small sips i am okay. he said in 3 days the swelling should be down from it and i should be fine
  15. so my favorites have to be give me lean cochleae and peanut-butter flavored 25 grams of Protein and only 200 collars Isopure chochlet 20 games of protein also Urjery unflavored mixed with crystal light again 20 grams of protein no lactose . I like isopure the best because it is lactose free and i can't eat dairy talk about giving me i ate some pudding i thoght was suger free lactos free i now going to be paying for that turns out it had dairy hidden in it
  16. I had this the frist time i drank too fast the dr made me go back to crystal light one sip every min till it clear he also side to drink from a dixie cup or get a special cup that you can only take one sip from at a time. He said that some time you get infamtion on the point and to just make sure you take it slow. I was baded on 3/24 I just got home from the hospital yesterday.
  17. Hi I am new here I am getting my band on 4/24 I have been trying for 6 mouths to get this done I have it done 3 sleep study EKG Plumarly function tests and a colonocopy,going int to couling latter here i am. I am 5'6 245 lbs as of to day. My goal would be 140 and mainting it. I already started changing my habbits in order to get this done. i am very nervous about the whole thing I can't wait to start my life transframtion. I am haveing my band put in by Dr Dan Jones at beth Isreal in Boston Ma

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