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How long after surgery till you restarted taking your HBP medication (pills) or was it the next day. I take iibesartan and I also take hydrochlorothiazide both are small enough and I have a pill cutter if needed. TIA

Thanks for the info ladies

Hi I'm Ron and I'm new as of 52 minutes ago. Well my story that led me to be here is that my first diet was as a infant, before 6 months of age I believe from what my mother had to say, she had to put me on a diet because I was consuming more than a couple of quarts of milk a day. The first remembrance of my life was looking up at the stove not my mother, father, or older brother, but the stove, yes it did have sparkling colored cut glass in the Roper insignia but come on! Everything that was good was in the kitchen Family, Love, Togetherness. The living room had some things that I liked; Sky King, Lassie, Mighty Mouse and the rest of saturday morning cartoons but it was the kitchen that I loved and even later as a young teen, Star Trek was on the little TV that was new in the kitchen, as I came home from Basketball practice while in JR. High. That began the time of being my thinest! Junior High till coming out of the Navy and just missing Viet-Nam. Then weight just came on, slowly at first .Nothing to worry about, inch here a couple of pounds there for the next 30 plus years. H#LL I was was married with a wife a couple of kids doing the normal American lifestyle. The last 10 or so of that 30 year period things have gotten out of control and I'm at 271 lbs on a 5'8" frame with an BMI of 41 with weight related health problems, also other health problems not caused by the weight but it ain't helping anything either! I know that we all have a story and I know I'm no different than many of you. Even considering my weight I think that I'm a lucky man for the people that are and have been in my life, I was never meant to be rich but I always considered myself to be lucky in life! Hope I do good with changing my eating habits. Will see were things go from here.

I'm July 8th. I hear a lot of positive talk from people that can't wait till they get the surgery. Well I'm fearful. Not happy to get cut, and fear that I won't be able to make the changes in my eating disorder that will allow me to get rid of the weight. I assume most of us that get banded have been "chubby" our whole lives or like myself- most of my life. Well now at 57 I'm heavier than ever (bmi 41) and love food. But I'm very fearful that I will fail!

I have surgery scheduled on July 8th and I'm not any diet! Is that normal? No nsaid's ten days out, and clear liquids after lunch the day before surgery and then nothing after midnight? I've read that some are on a liquid diet prior?