brokenwings

Welcome to the banded side Slimjem. I had my surgery Wenesday the 2.

TY susan While i know we are each diffrent and heal diffrent its nice to see how someone else is doing so we know a little what to expect. I bought stuff today to make my mushies with. Refried beans, potatos etc... So that next week i can start on that level. I am really looking forward to a scrambled egg. Today its potato soup and slim fast shakes. I am very bloated and feel 8 mos preg with my stomach out so much. Oh well when it all goes away i will feel much skinner lol.

Actually for 4 days post op i feel pretty good. I am sore but not to bad and have not had enough pain to take any meds since i got home. Had neausa the first 24 hours or so but that has susided. My potato soup my DIL made was great and i did enjoy it but that is the first thing in my mouth i have enjoyed at all and right after i eat it had that air bubble feeling in my chest.

My sweet daughter in law made me some very creamy potatoe soup today and i had a bowl of it. Was very nice to have it even if i wasnt really hungry.

HI i also was banded May 2, I feel very distended with gas, my pain is also on my left side also where i am sorest at. Today i start on creamy liquids but having trouble even feeling like i want to eat or drink anything.

Today is my 3rd day out and i was told i would be ready for thick fluids today such as creamy soups etc.. I been so looking forward to this day since been on clear liquids but now i have no desire for anything. I tried a small shake this morning got it part way down. Now i am trying to do a slim fast 3 2 1 shake and no desire for it. All i can do to sip it and try to get it down. WHen does some desire for food come back. I mean i know if i dont start getting some calories into my body its going to go into starvation mode and i wont lose weight.

I to am very bloated. My stomach feels very tight and swollen. I did make a mistake last night and forgot I shouldnt use a straw to drink and ended up at 2 am feeling like i had a huge bubble of air in my chest. Wont do that again. I will be glad when the gas part passes to.

I cant say i feel great 2 days postop. But i can say i am starting to feel better. Last night the pain of moving i wasnt prepared for. I didnt take anything for pain only one phengren. Also last night i could not stomach anything water gatoraid or popsciles. Today have been doing much better i am moving around I even drove a short distance to take my daughter ot the store and to pick up her some dinner and an lemon berry slushie for myself. I am actually starting to think of how great its going to be to do cream soups tomorrow. My daughter in law is making me some home made potatoe soup and making the potatoes very smushed up so i can have some. It sounds good right now. Last night i wouldnt have took a bite of any food for the life of me. I am glad i did this and i know each day is going to be better and better....

Great job Dhales. I figure that if my breast totally goes away then i will get surgery as well to fix them. I use to joke all the time i was going to have breast surgery anyway so that when i pass away (hopefully as a old woman) they will be pointing stright up to the heavens... lol not sagging.

I am back to feeling neausated and cant seem to get enough fluids down due to feeling sick. I have worked on the same bottle of gatoraid light all day and only got like half of it done. Took some phengren but feel yucky and got a headache. I hope this part of it passes soon

sore... A some gas pains which can be bottersome.. But other then that i am good..I was very neausated for a while but that seems to have passed.

Sue I actually did stay pretty calm. I did say prayers before i went but would done that for any sugery. I am now home. Sore, a little neausated feeling, some pain left shoulder but other then that i am doing good.

If anyeon likes coffee drinks I have fallen in love with the slim fast 3 2 1 capucinco delight

I do have bcbs illinois I had to jump through the hoop of a 6 mos education dietican phone calls from carewise but that was due to my employer not bcbs. They was easy once i did that i got approved in days. I have my surgery tomorrow. Good luck!

Angie The best encouragment i can give you is to think are you happy with the weight you are now? Have you tried mutliple times to shed the pounds only to gain them and more back can you see yourself in 10 years as you contiune to put on weight? I Know i cant stand the thought for myself and this is my way to cure that. Obesity is an illness same as other illnesses. Now if they told you that you had appencitis would you say hmm no i dont want the surgery. Of course not. Thats what this is for me (and almost everyone else on here). I know that if i dont do something for my weight I am going to die. Not tomorrow not next week but way sooner then i should. I also know this weight is causing me not only emotional pain but physical pain. My knees scream at me when i walk up stairs. My back hurts almost all the time. I dont want to miss out on life cause of my weight. I wish i could have had this done 10 years ago. Now smile and prepare cause we are on a journey a journey to better US! and your right along with us for the ride So buckle up and lets all enjoy the scerney. Cause this is just the first step and its going to get better from here.

Ty Anissa, Ty Julz that pic is special as I took it in my car with my cell phone while waiting to go into the seminar that started this whole journey... Funny i was much more scared that day then i am today... Thats what support and information will do for you

My band day is also May 2 just one more day!!! I am so excited and ready to get this done.

Hi all my friends This time tomorrow i will be on the other side joining many of you on the banded side. So started last night reflecting on this journey. I have thought of doing this for a few years and tried at my old job but it was no way they was covering anything. Then something happened to make me change jobs (a change i prayed about) and with in a month and half of my switching jobs i was on my way to being banded and had my seminar. At seminar i was disappointed to learn i had a 6 mos wait and had to use carewise during that 6 mos. This in fact ended up being another good thing. It let me soul search as well as learn alot to the point that i feel prepared. I had been super worried for weeks bout the week preop diet. Again alot of prayers and it has been a breeze. I have not felt hungry and it did not even bother me when my family scoffed down pizza in front of me while i chewed on my carrots. I cant say i never desired anything they had to eat but that desire passed with in mins. Same thing at work. Smelling the food was like mmm then it would pass. I am so ready for this change. People keep asking me "arent you scared" and i tell them no, cause for some reason i am not. Yesterday even had a coworker point out a patient with a colostomy and say "doesnt that frighten you" I told her no cause i am going for lapband not a colostomy. Yes this has been an amazing journey that i relize that i have just really started. I want to thank each of you cause you along the way give me guidence, knowledge, encouragment and most of all support. We are ALL going to make it and we are all going to be better people both health and our emotional beings!!!!

Your going to do great... I am in 48 hours.. This time wenesday i will be banded

Sending Prayers and good vibes your way. Would appricate you do the same for me Wensday as thats when i have my band. I have to be at the hospital at 6 am but driving 2 1/2 hours so will be leaving my home around 3 am.

Wow sorry your husband is being so mean. I think he is bullying you becasue of his own self image He is scared you will lose weight then leave him. And if he is always this way with you he may be right. NO one deserves to be talked to the way he is to you at this time. Tell him if he cant be supportive then to just be quiet. There is risks to anything but much more risks to what your health is going to be if you dont lose weight. Fact is being over weight is damaging to all of our bodies. So do this not for the negitive husband but for yourself!

lol that sounds so much nicer then the weird dream i had last night. I am on day 4 of my preop diet and having surgery wenesday. SO this morning i dreamed i was in a place and they charged you on how much you would eat and they charged me the most expensive meal. It was self serve and i kept adding things i wanted to my tray thinking the whole time how everyone who saw it would think i was a pig but did not have the will power to not get it. Then i saw this chocolate cupcake someone was eating and i had to have one. I looked around only one i saw was part of the table decoration but i took it The icing was mile high and it looked so good.Everyone was watching me and whispering bout what a pig i was, I took a bite and it was awful. Tasted sorta like ice milk but much worse. I couldnt wait to throw it away. Thats when i woke up

I guess in this i am lucky. I have 2 coworkers who did this 2 yrs ago both highly successful. One had slight complications but i asked her even with that would she do it all over again and her answer was a unresounding YES. I do have one coworker who tells me this scares her and worries her. But fact is while any surgery scares me not as much as growing older with this weight and what i know my health in the long run will be.

I had a very bad night sleeping last night. Went to bed with my back and leg hurting and tossed and turned also had on my mind what if something does go wrong during surgery. I have my children grown (youngest is a jr and is 18) but I sure want to be around for a long long time to enjoy them and my grandbabies. So anyway this morning after waking up many times i dozed back to sleep and i had this dream. My daughter and myself went into a resturant that was serve yourself. When we went in they informed us it was based on how much you thought you would eat. When i told them i had no idea they then choose the biggest meal plan for me. I was slightly embarrassed but that didnt stop me from going to the line and start loading up my tray. I wanted everything. I kept thinking how embarrasing it was and that everyone was going to see my tray of food and think of me as a pig. But then i spotted the hugest chocolate cupcake with mile high icing. Somone was eating one and i had to have one to. I looked around and there wasnt any left except one they used for disply. So i took it. I then proceded to take a bite while everyone in the place was watching and whispering bout me being a pig. The first bite and it was awful. It tasted like ice milk only worse. I quickly tossed it away, I was waken up just at that time at what i thought was a car horn only when i looked outside wasnt anyone there. I think this was my msg that I cant contiune this way. That i must take this step to become a new me. To beat this food issue once and for all. I know this was weird and a long story but well i had to share it with someone who might understand how this dream effected me.

Ok its very normal to have fears. A few days ago i was laying in bed and almost went into a pure panic bout the surgery. Thing is I look at it this way. While there are risks for any procedure they are less then the risk of you getting injuried in a car accident. You must put all risks in perpespective. Now i cant tell you what will happen if you have the surgery i can tell you the riks of heart diease, Diabeties complication etc.. are VERY high if you dont have the surgery and lost weight. This is a life changing surgery and I personally think it will change all of our lifes for the good. I want to live a long healthy life. I know now when i walk my knees hurt, my back is hurting as i sit here typing. I Know that the fact that im insulin resistance mean i am one step from diabeties and being a nurse i know what that does to your kidneys heart etc... SO While you must make your own choice please dont let anyone freak you out. Think of these riks in perspective...