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My surgeon allowed me to have low fat turkey chili during mushies. I like it a lot and I found it at Walmart.

I have not tried any lotions but I did buy a multivitamin that one a day makes that's made just for skin. Supposed to help with elasticity according to the box. They are big pills so i break them in half.

I like the lean body shakes but I really like muscle milk

I have had kidney stones for year anyways so i can't say my band caused any kidney stones but It did probably contribute to me getting gallstones. I have also been told that real lemon juice helps to dissolve kidney stones by my urologist. He told me to make lemonade out of real lemons and drink it often.

I was told to take flinstones chewables after my surgery. I do not like the taste of them but i can manage to get them down.

Made me nauseous but then again all pain meds like that make me nauseous.

Let us know what they say

I just did bloodwork a week before my surgery

I had them during surgery and I even got the shot of heparin before surgery to help prevent clots plus they had those things on my legs that massage and help circulation durin surgery and somehow I still got a clot a week after my surgery

Im not trying to scare you but blood clots are a possibility with any surgery. So the stockings although not required wouldn't be a bad idea. I was an unlucky one who got a blood clot in my leg the week after my lap band surgery. I ended up having to get shots in my stomach twice a day at home for 2 weeks straight. Luckily my husband is in the medical field and was able to give them to me.

I think I had something similar to that for a couple months after surgery. It finally went away. My doctor told me to take over the counter pain meds for it and said its probably scar tissue forming.

I had lap band with plication 3 months ago and I have had just 1 fill of .5cc and that's it and I feel Great. I have been losing weight very consistently and have lost about 36 pounds since surgery.

I have lap band with plication and basically my understanding is the stomach is folded in half in a plication.

My pain was worst when sitting up or laying down or getting up or down from chair. Otherwise it wasn't too bad. I did have some shoulder pain from the gas they use to inflate so they can see. I am very sensitive to medicines and most narcotics make me extremely nauseous so I spent the first few days like that. By day 4 my nausea was gone and I was up being more normal. I recommend getting up and moving around as much as you can tolerate because since I didn't I got a blood clot in my leg.