indyhandmade

I have a 25 pound 15 month old toddler who wants to be held. I was told nothing over 10# for 1-2 weeks. I have help for the first week, bit the second is iffy. When did you start picking up your kids and feel comfortable with it? Btw...it's killing me not to hold him.

General anesthesia. Sedation meds go through your IV.

I had both surgeries done at the same time. I do feel like I am experiencing more pain than the average bandster.

Sissy: my belly is like clockwork. Right at that 3-4 hour timeframe, my belly starts grumbling and growling and I know it's time to eat. I did finally take another dose of Lortab this morning because I was so sore. No nausea!

Thank you, wanna! I do think it was the pain meds that made me vomit. I've been using my incentive spirometer religiously since surgery.

Today I woke up sore, but able to move around, slowly. I haven't taken pain meds since yesterday afternoon. I feel like my port site is rock hard. When I drink sips, I can feel it gliding down, and it kinda burns down my back like heartburn. I'm tolerating more fluids so far today. I did have an episode of vomiting yesterday morning. When I breath in, my muscles are sore, like when you are sick and coughing a lot. I feel like a lot of people say they are feeling good by now and I seem to be healing slower. Are these normal sensations for this timeframe? Should I be worried that I threw up that one time? ETA: I'm burping....a lot!

I am on day 3 post op now. The Lortab would knock me out, but then I'd wake up with a crushing headache. To top that off, I know I'm not drinking enough fluids because I'm sleeping so much. I decided not to take any more Lortab and see how it goes. I'm a little sore this morning, but no headache. I think I'll stick to plain Tylenol. Do you crush yours or are you able to swallow them whole?

I'm taking liquid Lortab for pain control. I've had a few nasty headaches today that I can't get rid of. Has anybody else experienced this? I don't want to take any more pain medicine because now it's in a vicious circle. I need help!

My port and largest incision is on the right side. Im only first day post op, but it is painful to lay on that side. I feel a lot of pulling even on the left side. I've been shifting my hips to tilt and put a pillow behind my back for support.

honk: thanks for the idea of adding Mrs Dash! Great idea. What is CIB? christina: I didn't find it. My grocery had DanActive Light bottles. Each has 35 calories, 6g carbs, 3g Protein, and 0 fat.

Those items were suggested to me by my bariatric team. They specify it can be either regular, 98% fat free, or Healthy Request. The drinkable yogurt is Dannon Light n' Fit Carb and Sugar Control. And the sugar-free carnation instant breakfast is used for making "power milk" with dry milk and skim milk. My daily protein goal is 60-80g. Thank you for reminding me of the fiber supplement. That was listed on the next stage.

Going grocery shopping today for the first week of banded life. My surgery is Thursday. I'm putting myself on a liquid diet for the next three days because I've been a bad girl! My MD has me on Clear liquids Wednesday and full liquid diet after surgery for one week, Here's my list so far: broth cream Soups sugar-free popsicles sugar-free Gelatin Protein shakes drinkable yogurt dry milk sugar-free carnation instant Breakfast skim milk chewable Vitamin gas-x strips anything else you folks can think of that I won't be able to live without??

Mine is the 21st and I'm nervous, too. Everybody asks me when my surgery is and if I'm excited. I'm mostly giving them a half-smile and a "yeah" right now I think it is only natural to try and second-guess these things. Stay focused on the positives.

fat.all.my.life 120 in the 4th grade. That's when I went on my first diet, which consisted of a "new" MD supervised prescription pill/ADA diet exchange type diet.This was in '88, I think. Lost 30 pounds over the summer. Thought I was hot **** going into the 5th grade, turns out I was still the fattest kid in the class. *shrug* I've steadily gained weight since then. Never known what it was like to be thinner, especially during those very formative teen/young adult years. My psyche is probably permanently damaged. Funny thing...I like to ride a scooter for fun and transportation. I was out tooling around the neighborhood the other day, and a Mustang pulls up on my tail and starts playing the ice cream truck music super loud. I went home and cried to my husband about it. I totally felt like a 14 year old girl getting picked on.

Congrats! I've never had surgery either, so please let us know how it all went! Best wishes for a speedy recovery

I ordered samples from Chike and tried the banana protein shake this morning. Pretty good! I only have to do a liquid diet for the day prior, but I thought I'd start incorporating a few shakes to get me used to the idea of a liquid diet. 9 days!!!

Hey everybody! I'll be banded 6/21. I need to keep on my current low-fat, low-carb diet until the day before, then Clear liquids. I'll friend each of you on here. Maybe we need a calander of who is being banded when. Let's all try to remember to send positive messages to one another!

Yay!!!

Beat of luck!

Five Guys! don't remind me of these things

Good to hear!

I'm about three weeks away. I had my last order of biscuits and gravy and big juicy cheeseburger (neither one of which I could finish, go figure!) Don't really have much else on my must have list. Maybe a Blizzard

Good luck!

266 as of this morning. Not how I wanted to lose it, though. I had been hovering around 277 then finally dropped to 274 last week. Then yesterday, I became incredibly ill with vomiting and diarrhea. Lost 8 pounds in one day. Just now starting to drink sips again. It was weird to see 260s on the scale.....happy and worried at the same time!

Fantastic post! Your story is exactly what I hope to experience one day.