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Well we normally toast are bread with no problems. He ate the bread untoasted with pb and his chest started hurting and took a bit to pass. He thinks he ate bread before not toasted and had no problems. I myself tried a toasted piece with pb and did fine. I guess people are different

Thats why they say if you mess up dont beat yourself up. Climb back on that train. You are not the first to gain back some weight and wont be the last. Thats why most of us got the band because we had slips and some still do. Dont give up on yourself, you came to far. Good luck were all here for you

Gosh i havent had any problems yet but i dont have a fill yet either. This makes me scared to even try to eat that stuff. Im the type of person when i choked on a piece of bacon i was scared for months to eat large spoon fulls. I will really have to take it easy. Good luck everyone

I'll be truthful with you, if you are 100 percent wanting to change your life and not let anything get in your way you will achieve it. Also do exactly what the dr tells you and not try to cheat because that will only cause you to fail later with the band but if you do, don't beat yourself up but go at it again. I myself have lost my appetite and I feel if your not hungry u won't want all the foods your used to having. Don't let yourself go to long being hungry and stop when your satisfied. When u stop sometimes it hits u in a few minutes and your like feeling really full lol. But if you do everything your dr says and it won't always be easy, you'll do great. There is alot of people that thought they couldn't do it but they did and they have the success stories to show it. Good luck

I was banded on May 9th,2012. Im looking for a band buddy to check in with daily to provide support for each other.

Yes everyone is different. I have only lost 7 pounds and my fiancé lost 17 and we had surgery together. Yes you are healing right now so don't worry if no pounds come off. You actually start when u are on solids again. Good luck

That's great that you got off that. When I got this band I made sure I was going to work with it, it's a good thing to not abuse something that can give us a better life. Thanks for your caring thoughts. It's nice to have others to talk to threw this journey. But when I had my surgery I had that gas pain in the shoulder they talk about. It went away after about 3 days then the day before yesterday I was laying down watching t.v and I felt the pain in my shoulder again and then it kinda went down my arm and made my hand go numb and tingle, so I started researching on here and noticed some had it to even after 7 years. I did come across a few that had it in there hands like me and they said there is a nerve beside your stoma and when u move or eat certain things it can touch that nerve and irritate it. I'm thinking that's what my problem is. I sure hope it goes away for good. They also had a lady that had it so bad she had her band removed, I will never do that because I enjoy what the band is helping me with. I have lost 7 pounds since my surgery 2 weeks ago so I'm doing good that's over 2 pounds a week. I sure can't eat no less than I'm already doing. I only eat around 600 to 800, I'm suppose to be eating 1300 calories a day but it just don't happen because I'm full. If you ever want to talk just private message me

Just banded on May 9th,2012. Everything is good. Nice to meet everyone.