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Hi there , i just also got my third fill this past monday. I defenetly feel more restriciton. I have a total of 7cc in my band ! i also feel the liquid sit in my pouch, and when I eat thicker substances, they just sit there then i feel it go down. I do not have any vomitting what so ever. I started solids today and the same thing,i have to eat very, very slow. which i find very annoying, but its part of the band. Chewing a lot and eating slow! wth this fill i am finding it dififcult to eat 1000 calories as i dont feel hungry and my fullness lasts over 4-5 hrs. I hope this lasts !! i defenetly dont think that vomitting is a good sign, as that can lead to band slippage. it's a really good thing that you made an appt with you doc immidietly. keep us posted , how did your doc appt go ?

so...this is my very first blog, ever ! i don't really know what a blog consists of, but i had this terrible urge to create one and write... i guess mainly because i fell off the bandwagon. when i started this journey i was full of hope, dreams and determination. That was 5 months ago. i remember how i keept saying to myself that i had failed at every other diet, excercise promgram and i was not going to fail at this. but here i'am once again admitting that i have failed, that i am a filure! i can say this time its different. Because i am taking responsibility. in the past it was always the ''pill'' i was taking's fault, or the excercise regime was too hard, or i dint have time to exersice. but this time i take full responsability of not losing any weight. if ther is a plus that does make me feel a little good is that i have not gained any weight. since my surgey in 8/11 i have lost 20lbs. I know thats great, and i felt sooo good, it was empowering to fit back into my closthes and be able to bend down and cross my legs without holding my knee !!! but i know in my ♥ i could have done so much better. I realize as i am typing that there is a deeper reason to why i cant stop eating bread and rice and fried foods and exercise regulary. ( i did undulge in those foods, but not in excess ) I am scared of the road to success, becuase it implies the posibilities of failure and quiting. i face it , its happened evertime. thats why i droped out of every activity in my life. I am scared of not succeceeding so i dont try very hard and i dont give it my all. There i said it !! how liberating. That is the truth, in my mind i keep telling myself "' why try if your going to fail in the end?" why go thru all this trouble if sooner or later your going to go back to your old ways. I am scared of giving my all, every ounce of sweat, strenght and feelings if in the end i will feel like worst of a failure. A failure for giving all that I am and still failing. Vs not giving it all and at the end i can say to myself " well atleast you didnt pour everything into this !", makes the feeling of failing less hurtful. i dont know if others out there can relate. I can say that today is another day and that I am going to try again, and again. This time i am going to give it more and try to change my mentality that its going to fail. i am going to have a little more faith in me and my abilities to succeed. I am going to be positive for a change. My husband says i am a negative person, i answer by say i am realistic of the posibility or realistic of all that can go wrong. for once in my life i am going to be realistic of all that can go right and of the positives.

so...this is my very first blog, ever ! i don't really know what a blog consists of, but i had this terrible urge to create one and write... i guess mainly because i fell off the bandwagon. when i started this journey i was full of hope, dreams and determination. That was 5 months ago. i remember how i keept saying to myself that i had failed at every other diet, excercise promgram and i was not going to fail at this. but here i'am once again admitting that i have failed, that i am a filure! i can say this time its different. Because i am taking responsibility. in the past it was always the ''pill'' i was taking's fault, or the excercise regime was too hard, or i dint have time to exersice. but this time i take full responsability of not losing any weight. if ther is a plus that does make me feel a little good is that i have not gained any weight. since my surgey in 8/11 i have lost 20lbs. I know thats great, and i felt sooo good, it was empowering to fit back into my closthes and be able to bend down and cross my legs without holding my knee !!! but i know in my ♥ i could have done so much better. I realize as i am typing that there is a deeper reason to why i cant stop eating bread and rice and fried foods and exercise regulary. ( i did undulge in those foods, but not in excess ) I am scared of the road to success, becuase it implies the posibilities of failure and quiting. i face it , its happened evertime. thats why i droped out of every activity in my life. I am scared of not succeceeding so i dont try very hard and i dont give it my all. There i said it !! how liberating. That is the truth, in my mind i keep telling myself "' why try if your going to fail in the end?" why go thru all this trouble if sooner or later your going to go back to your old ways. I am scared of giving my all, every ounce of sweat, strenght and feelings if in the end i will feel like worst of a failure. A failure for giving all that I am and still failing. Vs not giving it all and at the end i can say to myself " well atleast you didnt pour everything into this !", makes the feeling of failing less hurtful. i dont know if others out there can relate. I can say that today is another day and that I am going to try again, and again. This time i am going to give it more and try to change my mentality that its going to fail. i am going to have a little more faith in me and my abilities to succeed. I am going to be positive for a change. My husband says i am a negative person, i answer by say i am realistic of the posibility or realistic of all that can go wrong. for once in my life i am going to be realistic of all that can go right and of the positives.

I now understand why some get discouraged at this stage. I am now three weeks post op and I dont feel very different. I am on full will power at this moment. . I started solids , thank goodness, because I was starving. Its strange but I almost feel like I am more hungry now between meals? is this possible? I feel really discouraged, and fearful. Two weeks after sx and I had lost close to 20 lbs ( this includes my two weeks of liquid preop), now I have gained!! I know that its normal because I am having more calories, and well it is solid food..but ... it sucks! Please someone tell me its normal and once I get a fill I will feel restriction and not be this hungry. Like others have posted.. I feel like Im on a diet!! lol.. Dont get me wrong, I know I have to make health choices, and I am more than willing. But i would like to eat a health meal and it last until my next healty meal. Not get hungry and have to resort to snacking. I know my body, and if I had restriction or the stuck feeling at least once, I know I wouldnt eat those foods again.

Hi guys .. thanks for all your responses. I am currently not working ( not to make excuses) I work two jobs full time and sometimes thats a work out in its own. I also feel sometimes my port pulling? I dont know? maybe still healing. I am really interesting in the information that 54Shirley gave about the fill under fluroscopy. I would really like to just get straight to the point and find my fill line!! I will defenetly talk to my doctor at my first fill appt on the 29th !! I have joined myfitness I love it as it does a lot of the work for me . I really need to focuse and remind myself why I wanted this surgery. Push myself to be better and really give it my all. There was something that some member said, and it was that she was so glad she had not shared her surgery with anyone else because so far she had seen no results. I also opted not tell anyone ( only my hubby and my mom know) for the simple reason of being afraid of failure and of people saying '' I told you so" . now its not about letting those people down , but about letting myself down. Thank your sharing your experiences and your struggles.

My questions is what is PB'ing? This is what happens to me and not sure why, or if its something different: I am about two weeks out since my surgery. My questions is that, I dont have much restrciction, i do feel full but I feel I can eat as much as I did before ( if I allowed myself I could do some damage) Sometimes when i eat, especailly mushy food I find that this flem is stuck in my throat. ( sorry for the TMI) kind of like when u have a cold. well i make it come up and its white/clear and slimmy. What is this and why is it happening? am i eating too much? or too fast? If this has happened to anyone, i would appreciate feedback. Thank you !

Like everyone else: " hang in there".. it will get better. I was banded 8/18 and I felt like my gas pains were the worst.They lasted over a week!! and i went back to work on day 5! and walked at work etc..up until last week I still felt bloated, no gas pain which was ok. My gas pains included severe shoulder pain. I mean I was so scared that the gas pain was never going to go away and I would be stuck with this horrible pain. It was worst after my first meal and at night.I finaly broke down on day 5 and bought extra strenght gas X strips! they were wonderful..within minutes the shoulder pain would go away and I would start to "release" my gas ! lol ...like said you are not alone..the pain will go away!!

Hi Jess527, tomorrow will be two weeks for me! i can tell you that on day 6 i went back to work on Clear Liquids only ( my doc wanted 1 week clear liquids, week 2 full liquids, week 3 introduce mushies and by week 4 introduce solid food) i ended up weak, my bp bottomed and had to go home. I started that same day with full liquids. I felt like my body healed faster, and my stomach was not as swollen and I could handle more food. I did call my docs office to express to them that i could not manage on just clear liquid intake, my body was asking for more. They agreed that i could slowly introduce other liquids. I am now slowly introducing mushy foods. I guess until i get a fill i wont stop feeling hungry in between meals. But until then i also have to think of my body and it needing energy. i must also add that since my surgery i have lost 11lbs, so it's not like m going in the wrong direction. I hope you start to feel better and dont feel ashamed that you did not follow your docs instructions to the tee. we are all different and therefor so are ouf bodies.

HI GUYS.. ANY ADVICE? I WAS BANDED 8/18, EVERYTHING WENT FINE. I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWNG THE CLEAR liquid ONLY DIET MY DOC INSTRUCTED. BUT THE BETTER I AM STARTING TO FEEL THE MORE I AM NOTICING I AM BEGGING TO FEEL HUNGER PAINS IN BETWEEN MY Jello, GATORADE, Water broth ETC.... WHEN I FEEL HUNGRY I DRINK SOMETHING..BUT THE PAIN IS STARTING TO ANNOYE ME. WOULD IT BE RALLY BAD IF I HAD A Protein shake? OR SOME MILK? I DEF DONT WANT TO DO SOLIDS ( CAUSE M SCARED TO DO DAMAGE) BUT MAYBE HAVE A LITTLE OF THE FULL liquids? OR MAYBE IM DOING SOMETHING WRONG. SHOULD I BE HAVING LIQUID MORE OFTEN.. I USUALLY HAVE MY BROTH FOR Breakfast, THEN MID MORNING SOME JELLO ..AND SIPS OF GATORAIDE THRUGHOUT..THEN MORE JELLO THEN IN THE AFTERNOON SOME BROTH AND GATORAID THE REST OF THE DAY WITH SIPS OF WATER HERE AND THERE. I DONT FEEL DEHYDRATED OR ANYTHING. ANY ADVICE, WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IT. I GO BACK TO WORK TOMORROW, SO I KNOW I'LL BE BUSY AND MAY NOT HAVE TIME TO ''READ'' MY TUMMY FOR HUNGER PAINS..BUT WHO KNOWS THANK YOU!!!

HI JUST AN UPDATE FOR YOU GUYS. TODAY WAS A HORRIBLE DAY AT WORK . I ENDED UP LEAVING EARLY AND WAS NOT SURE IF I WAS GOING TO MAKE IT. MY BS DROPPED, MY BP DROPPED WHILE AT WORK ( TK GODNESS I WORK AT A DOCS OFFICE) TURNS OUT I WAS NOT CONSUMMING ENOUGH CALORIES FOR THE AMOUNT OF CALORIES I WAS BURNING. GOT HOME HAD SOME broth CALLED MY SURGEONS OFFICE AND THEY INSTRUCTED ME TO GO AHEAD AND START MUSHIES..SLOWLY...THEY SAID MAYBE I HEALED FASTER AND DIDNT NEED THE FULL 7 DAYS OF CLEAR LIQUIDS... THANK YOU GUYS FOR YOUR FEEDBACK, GLAD I CALLED MY DOCS OFFICE. AFTER HAVING SOME ''REAL'' food I FELT SOO MUCH BETTER. THANK YOU !

HI .. I WAS BANDED 8/18, SO I AM ON DY 3 OF POST OP, FEELING A LOT BETTER TODAY.HAD REALLY BAD GAS PAINS YESTERDAY, THE ONLY THING THAT SEEMED TO HELP WAS THE MEDS. DONT KNOW IF THEY RELAXED MY STOMACH OR WHAT.. BUTY THEY HELPED. I AM 28YRS OLD. PRE-OP WEIGTH 215 AND I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT I WEIGH NOW.. NOT REALLY WORRIED ABOUT THE SCALE, SINCE I CAN ALREADY SEE IT IN MY FACE!!

HI CAIT! I WAS ALSO BANDED YESTERDAY. LIKE YOU I DONT FEEL LIKE DRINKING ANYTHING. I HAVE BEEN SIPPING ON Water, APPLE juice AND GATORAIDE ALL NIGHT AND THIS MORNING. I sleep ON MY STOMACH! SO NEEDLESS TO SAY I WONT BE ABLE TO DO THAT WHO KNOW WHEN? I PUT TWO PILLOW ON MY SIDE LAST NIGHT, SINCE I'VE MOSTLY BEEN IN AND OUT MY BACK IS SORE FROM LAYNG DOWN SO MUCH . HAVE U BEEN WALKING AROUND? THIS MORNING MY GAS PAINS HAVE GOTTEN BETTER.. WELL HANG IN THERE..HOPE TO HEAR BACK FROM U IN A COUPLE DAYS TO SEE HOW U ARE DOING

HI..IM SCHEDULED TO HAVE MY SURGERY TOMORROW!! ( I M GETTING NERVOUSE) I ALSO COULD NOT RESIST NOT EATING ANY REAL food. MY SURGEON PUT ME ON liquids ONLY FOR THE PAST TWO WEEKS. IT WAS REALLY HARD THE FIRST THREE DAYS. THEN IT WENT EASY. I HAVE TO ADMIT I CHEATED A COUPLE TIMES. ( NOT THIS WEEK I HAVE BEEN EXTRA GOOD) BUT THE CHOICES I MADE WERE GOOD. I HAD NO SWEETS, OR CARBS ONLY Protein. I FIGUERED IF I WAS GOING TO CHEAT, I WOULD ATLEAST MAKE A HEALTHY DECISION. OR MAYBE IT MADE ME FEEL LESS BAD ABOUT CHEATING. BUT IT IS REALLY HARD NOT TO HAVE REALY solid food FOR TWO WEEKKS!! I TOTALY UNDERSTAND YOUR PAIN AND FRUSTRATION. I DID LOSE 8LBS... I HAVE READ OF SX THAT ONLY ASK FOR A NO CARB DIET ONLY PROTEIN. I ALSO FIGURED THAT I DIDNT CHEAT THAT OFTEN, AND I STILL LOST WEIGHT... GOOD LUCK!! LET ME KNOW HOW ALL GOES.. AND DONT BEAT URSELF UP!! YOU FELL, NOW GET BACK UP!

TODAY IS ONLY DAY TWO OF MY liquid DIET AND I HAVE A HEADACHE AND I HAVE REALLY BAD HUNGER PAINS!! I DONT KNOW IF IM GOING TO B ABLE TO MAKE IT THESE NEXT TWO WEEK! TODAY AT WORK I CHEATED...NOT TOO BAD.. I WAS AT A MEETING AND THEY HAD A BOWL FULL OF Snacks. I POPED MY GUN JUST LIKE THEY TOLD ME AT THE DRS OFFICE. ( TO TRICK THE BRAIN) BUT AFTER AN HOUR I WAS STILL HUNGRY.. SO I REACHED IN TO THE BOWL....AND GRABED A MIX T RAIL BAR. (OK, IM NOT THAT MAD AT MYSELF BECAUSE IF THIS HAD BEEN LAST WEEK I WOULD HAVE GONE FOR THE BAG OF chips OR OREO Cookies ) BUT INSTEAD I CHOSE SOMETHING HEALTHY!. M SCARED THAT IF I CHEAT ONCE IN A WHILE MY LIVER WILL NOT SRHINK AND I MAY NOT GET MY SX ON THE 18TH.. WHAT SHOULD I DO TO HELP WITH THE HUNGER. THE shakes ARE NOT BAD, THEY TASTE GOOD. THEY JUST DONT FILL ME UP! OR WILL MY LIVER SHRINK AS LONG AS I DONT EAT FATTY FOODS?

OMY!! M STARTING TO GET REALLY NERVOUSE..NOT SURE IF I CAN DO THE shake DIET. MY SX IS SET FOR 8/18..AND I HAVE TO DO A TWO WEEK SHAKE /JELLO /SUG FREE DIET!! I TOO DON'T KNOW IF I CAN HANDLE NOT EATING FOOD!! IKNOW THAT ITS FOR THE BEST.. BUT FOR YOU GUYS THAT ARE OUT THERE..TELL ME ITS DO ABLE..WHAT IF I RELAPSE AND CHEAT? WHAT THEN? I CAN HANDLE AFTER THE SX SINCE I HOPE TO NOT BE FEELING WELL AND TOO SCARED TO EAT! AND FEEL SOME RESTRICTION..BU PRIOR TO THAT.. M GOING TO TRY MY BEST.. ANY OTHER GOOD TIPS FOR THOSE OF US JUST STARTING THIS JOURNEY?

hi blondelou.. i know it sounds stupid..but think about how long you've walking around with the extra weight. I felt like you a couple weeks a go. fortunately my ins is a tad bit more linient than yours it sounds. i also dont have a pcp but do go when im sick..about every 3 yrs. so i do have proof that for the last 5 i have been ow. i 'm not on any meds..so i was thinking today when i went to my consultation with my sx that it would be atleast 6 months before i could get my approval for sx. But lucky to say that all i need is my psych eval and my sx date is already set for 8/18!! i was planning on waiting and going thru with whatever the sx asked me to do. That is pretty scary what she told you. And i pray to god that i can be parrt of the 55%!! i would hate to fail..once again!! hand in there..and hope to hear that your going to stick with some sort of weight loss!

HI..I AM REALLY NERVOUSE I AS I HAVE MY INITIAL CONSULT WITH THE SURGEION TOMORROW MORNING. I HAVE REALLY DONE MY RESEARCH. THIS SITE HAS HELPED ME A LOT . NOT ONLY GETTING READING OTHERS POST, SUCCESS STORIES, BUT A LOT OF OTHERS HAVE HAD THE SAME QUESTIONS I'VE HAD, BUT MORE GUTS TO POST AND ASK THEM I AM REALLY NERVOUSE, AS I WOULD HATE TO GO TO MORROW AND NOT QUIALIFY OR HAVE MY INS CO GIVE ME B.S ABOUT NOT AUTHORIZING MY SURGERY. I HAVE UNITED HEALTHCARE, I DON'T HAVE A PCP. ALTHOUGH A REFERRAL IS NOT REQUIRED. DOES ANYONE KNOW IF I WILL HAVE TO DO A 3-6 MONTH DIET REGIMEN OR WILL BEING OVERWEIGHT FOR ALL MY LIFE BE ENOUGH? HAVING DEPRESSION, PCO AND PRE-DIABETES ENOUGH? I ALSO HAVE MY PSYCH EVAL FOR TUESDAY..WHAT IS HE GOING TO ASK ME? ARE THERE ANY WRONG ANSWERS? ANYTHING I SHOULD AVOID MENTIONING...? I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY FEEDBACK, THANK YOU!

Hi heather its been some months since this post. I guess you had your baby.. how r u doing? would love to hear from you !