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It's been a while. Life has been very crazy and hectic. My first fill was postponed, and I will now be going in for my first fill on November 19th.

40 days after surgery - go in for my first fill in less than a week.

1st Post-op appointment last Tuesday- went well. Approved to begin working out =)

Glad your port is getting better. The redness gone away yet? It's been about a week.

18 days post op- things are still well. Follow-up appointment tomorrow.

10 days post op and feeling pretty great. I've been blogging about my journey, you can read about it under my website url.

I've been having trouble with my water intake as well. I'm almost there though; I'm at about 6 cups a day, gotta get those other 2 in somewhere.

Read about your port incision, is everything ok?

How are things going? I'm feeling pretty good, but last night got bummed. I was making dinner for my family and then looked at my 1/4 cup of yogurt with a protein shake...ugh. Oh well, I'm on pureed/liquid diet, and so far it's going ok. They said it's for a week, so on Saturday I can have mushy food (and I can't wait) lol

Surgery went great. 3 days after surgery, and I'm feeling good =)

Hi JackieWho! I am doing really well. Surgery went great on Thursday, feeling good so far. How are you?

Hi gennie,

I saw question about the inland empire support group; did you find one? I'm in the high desert, I was going to call my doctor's office and see if they host any like once a month or something.

How did you surgery go? I hope all is well.

Things are...ok. I tried to pull the mind over matter, and psych myself out that this would be easy as long as I stayed optimistic, but lately I've just felt hungry. I called in about it, they said I should have more protein, and I'm trying to incorporate it. They told me instead of all liquid I can have one low-cal/high protein meal a day, and everything else liquid, which has helped so much.

Sleep study and endoscopy done. On to the next hurdles.

I have my surgery date of Thursday, September 8th. I go in on Friday for a sleep study, and then Saturday morning my endoscopy.

Hi, we have the same surgery date of September 8th. I'm looking online for more support in combination with my friends and family.

Have you begun any of your pre-surgery requests from your doctor?

Best of luck to you.

We have the same surgery date of September 8th. Have you already started your dieting or other pre-surgery items?

Best of luck to you.

Hi, I'm new to the forum, but will also be using Dr. Salimitari for my lap-band procedure. How has your experience been so far?