daisy6962

Right there with ya! you said everything I am feeling. Surgery is dec6!

The class had to be done or I couldn't be scheduled for surgery. Good information in the class.

I started today as well, but it isn't a liquid diet. I drink 3 shakes a day and have choice of salad and protein OR a lean cuisine dinner less than 300 cal and at least 14 g protein and got a few freebies here and there like jell-o , cucumbers, gum, etc. Was told tomorrow I can have chicken or turkey with green beans. Good luck! My surgery is dec 6.

Husband made comment yesterday that he has 2 days left of time off at work and he was joking around, why couldn't I chose suregery on a Monday or Friday, now he wil work a day and be off. So, I am taking this as he is coming with me! That made me happy. But a little worried too, I have never been sick or in hosptial , so unsure how it will go.

Wow! That sounds ok to me. I want mine ot be a breeze too! I am scheduled to have surgery at 11am on 12/6,Tuesday. I am hoping to have surgery and return to my desk job the following Monday, sooner if I feel like it. Don't won't to waste my vacation time. How soon are you able to drive? Got kid at college I am supposed to pick up that weekend.

Thanks!

Yesterday, I went to talk with mom, tried to explain a few things to her and she seemed more supportive. She said she wants me to do what I feel is right for me but she is terrfied of this surgery and the cons. Husband also yesterday was a little more understanding, he just asked that I wait till after Christmas, we don't do anything big or special for Christmas, small family just gets together and eat dinner. He asked me what am I going to say when family is used to seeing me eat plate after plate and then I am only eating soft foods and not much at all. I said I will tell them I am on a diet, they have all heard that before! Or we just won't go, he always gives me a hard time about going to these family dinners, so thought we could skip it and then he says oh, well I got to eat! I said there you go, just thinking of you! Mom and husband still didn't say if either one of them is going to hosptial with me or not. I really think I want my mom to go, I feel my husband is really scared of what may happen to me and has never seen me in pain or sick. I have only had a c-section and endometrios surgery through belly button and he wasn't with me on either time.

I like your comments and needed to hear them all.

I have been on diets, to where I have a support system or it was a contest and I wanted to win or a vacation I wanted to go on and loose 40 pounds, but then I would win the contest, go on vacation and then right back gaining weight, I feel the band will be my lifelong support in helping me to win daily. Does this make sense to any of you? I try to explain this to people that are not overweight and they don't get it.

Thanks for website !! But ain't going to lie, I am scared !! I really am hoping I can make the right choices and hope my surgery is easy like some of the post I have read.

Yes, I have had GERD for awhile now but didn't think it was serious enough to have the H. Pylori bacteria in my stomach. The test is really simple, you breath into a bag and then drink this white stuff , wait 15 mintues and blow again. The hosptial gave me my test results right away. I have to take the meds for 14 days and wait 4 weeks to be re-tested. If Dr were to do the surgery with positive test results then it could lead to having uclers or not being able to do the Lap Band because of the stomach being full of bacteria. So far with the meds all side effect I have had is a bad taste in my mouth and I am already doing pre-treatment to not get a yeast infection, do not want that! It is some strong anitobotics. I had Upper GI and gallbladder ultrasound done yesterday, waiting for test results. I fear that they are going to say ok,so now you have to have gall bladder taken out. Then yesterday my foot has been hurting, so now I have Plantar Fasciitis and now on meds for that. So, I am following apart now!!