lageniafaye

I can feel mine also. It is 4 weeks today postop and I can feel it and I can see it because there is a bruise around it. Dose anyone esle have a bruise?

Sounds good to me.

Well it is raining here, but thats ok. I am going to cook today for the first time sense being banded. I am going to eat some beans and cornbread. Of course the beans will be blendes into liquid, and i will soak the cornbread in the liquid to mush it up, but it will be a treat. Ya'll have a happy Easter.

Today is my 11th day post op. and I feel fine. I still have a huge bruse on my stomach and the steri strips are still in place. I am sick of protien drinks,(slim fast, equate, atkins and chicken broth makes me gag(yuck). I still have a lump on my stomach, I think it is the band I am feeling. I am not depressed anymore and I am not dreaming of food. I think my withdrawls are over. I don't watch food comercials especially the fast food cometcials on TV and I don't watch the Food Network any more. I am ready to go back to work. So I still feel fine. Thank God.

Well, eight days after being banded and I have had a headache every day. I am a little worried about it, its all in the back of my head and when I move it it hurts. I know I sound like a baby, but I never have headaches. As for my band, like I have said befor everyday is better than before. Wha hoo!

I had my surgery the 28th. Every day my body feels better, but I keep having doubts about being able to loose weight. I am so addicted to food and the act of eating that I worry about over eating. I am also hungry and nothing helps. I keep asking myself if I made the right choice. Does anyone else feel that way and what can I do?

Thank you Kelly, today I feel much better. In fact each day I feel better than the day before. I am on my second week after surgery. I drink my protien shakes, water, pop sickles and every thing I am suppose to drink. But yesterday I was so depresed I ate a piece of toast with my soup broth. I held it in my mouth and chewed it to death befor swallowing. I could only eat a few bites of it. It tasted so good, never before in my life did dry toast taste so good. I know I should not have eaten it, but I did. I feel much better.

Yea, me too. my surgery was the 28 also and everyday I feel better.

I also hade my band put in 3/26/12 at 7 am I was home by 1pm. I have pain in my left shoulder, it feels like a bone is broke. My stomach is soar and they gave me this thing to blow into. (Which I hate) But any way take your gass relief strip and that should help. Aso I took a chewable vitamin and tried to cosentrate on chewing it to smitherine, befor I knew it I had swallowed it, I will have to really pay attention to my swallow reflect. Any way I feel alot better today than yesterday. Good luch.

I too will have my surgery on the 28th. I can have 3 protien shakes and a small salad a day. I have found out that I am allergic to slim fast. So I switched to attkins. It is getting harder and harder to just eat a small salad. They get bigger and bigger, but that is just lettuce, tomatoe, carrots and sweet peppers. Also when I get hungrey is when I start thinking (should I have the surgery, what if I can't control myself and over eat or gain may weight back plus more). It is a day by day struggle for me. Can't wait till I have the surgery.

Hello, I am having surgery on the 28th. I am on the pre-op diet and it is kicking my you know what. One minute I am all for it , the next minute I am thinking about quitting. I can't wait till I can talk to the Dr. again.