Igoback

Among my friends who know I'm banded, it's my pregnancy...something got put in and I got crazy cravings from it it's our code word when we're with mixed company

In your self during your weight loss. I've been getting comments (especially recently!) and they do make me very happy and motivate me. But I don't see it in myself, I think because I have so much to lose

The only one to try to hange my mind was my insurance. I told them that I was 23 and too young to be rerouting entire organ systems. People can fail no matter what. I have a relative who did the bypass and you'd never know it now.

My family knows but very few friends. The ones I have told are very supportive and always ask if ill be able to eat specific stuff or how I'm doing. Others that comment about my weight I just tell them that I'm finally eating right. Which isn't a lie

Are you recently post op? I had bad insomnia for about a week and a half after surgery. Asked my dr and she said it was normal. I started sleeping good when I went to work. I've never heard of the Splenda thing--makes me nervous to try it!

Yeah I think it will help me by not drinking. I haven't been for both meals today and I don't feel hungry yet (probably coincidence since I recently had a fill). There's no worse feeling than being stuck and I thought that drinking would help but it makes it hurt worse and I feel it going around the food.

I felt okay the day after surgery, but it was a couple of days after that that I really felt worse. I'm sure it wasn't bad compared to other surgeries, but I was in pain. I also had trouble sleeping for about 2 weeks which my dr said was normal.

Yeah what kind of job do you have? I am a server and initially took a week off but then took another couple day and requested a lighter schedule because I was still not feeling great. Incisions or stomach wasn't the problem, but the gas in my chest and shoulder was very painful. Good luck!

I'm banded through True Results and was never told not to drink while eating. It's also not on any paper I've read. Who here follows that rule? I think I'm going to start. And hope that it'll help some of my issues.

I appreciated the picture that was posted, especially since I had such a bad stuck episode. It doesn't make you any better that you don't have to do that.

Thanks for all the advice guys. Tried again this morning with a banana, but no go. I'm going to give it a couple of days on liquids and see since I'm sure all the PB'ing and vomiting may have irritated my band.

Did all liquids the first day, mushies yesterday, back to normal today. I had a sandwich at lunch and was fine (removed the crust because that is more difficult to go down). Sat down at dinner with chicken and mixed veggies and some fruit. After about 2 bites of chicken, and a piece of zucchini, I got stuck. It went away so I tried again. And for the first time since being banded, I raced to throw up. And have been doing it since (so about 2.5 hours now). Sometimes it's actually food, but sometimes it is (sorry for the TMI), slime or foam. I thought I was taking small enough bites. Certainly smaller than before since I was earned that this fill was probably going to make me much tighter than before. I've never gotten stuck on chicken, and certainly not on anything to this extent. The chicken was a bit dry but I had BBQ sauce. Is this normal? Am I possibly overfilled? For what it is worth, I'm at 7ccs. My band is larger than most on here, it's between a 12-15 but I don't remember the exact number.

Day 4-5 was worse for me in terms of gas pains. It does take awhile to go away and that pain (which was the worst) could not be helped by anything. It lessens, though I still have it occasionally and I'm 3.5 weeks post-op.

I also had a bad hernia. I read on here that the gas in your chest area can't really be helped by anything. I've tried everything and I'm back at work waitressing so I know I'm walking enough!! It's gotten better though. I'm post 9 days and still have shoulder pain and light pain if I breathe very deeply. It'll get better!