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Hi! God, I don't know how to explain thi... lol So I've lost quite a bit of weight. I'm only halfway there but it's still something like 60kgs... So anyway, last year I found out to my delight that I could buy pretty large size bras, and that I was a DD or D depending on brand. So I bought lots of sexy bras, simply because they made me feel like a 23/24 year old... Anyway, all but one appeared to have gotten too big so I figured they'd stretched. So I went back to the store. I am now a c cup. Don't get me wrong, I like them, but since I was 12 I had that large size, even when I was lighter, and i learnt to get around the back pain problem. I always said I wouldn't mind smaller but now that I have them smaller.... And worse still, it's IMPOSSIBLE to find a c cup bra in my size. :sad: They're all D and DD and E cups... Has anyone else experianced this? What did your doc say? Did anyone manageto get plastic surgery to restore them? Is it selfish of me to want to put them 'right' again? Can I still breastfeed in the future if I get them? No wonder why my bras aren't supporting them anymore. I'm amazed by how upset this is making me! lol I mean, I always knew there might be a need for skin reconstruction, but boob reconstruction? Shesh!

lol I have the hungry beast too now. And they want me to start the 2 weeks of pureed (2 weeks liqued, 2 weeks pureed, 2 weeks mushy/wet...) but I feel so ready for something heavier already, like scrambled eggs or something. *breathes, tries to stay patient* They won't fill me for about a month. hehe No, that makes sense! Bread and red meat are the hardest to eat! I know that it's unique for everyone but for me, untoasted bread was okay... if it had something like eggs on it... but toasted bread (unless it had egg or something on it) and red meats (except mince) was really really hard to deal with. If I were you, I'd hold off on those two beasts >.> Also, peas and corn were hard for me. Yay that you're healing! Hopefully the gas will go soon :wink:

I might be mistaken, but it seems to me that there's an increase of chemicals in my food and it makes me suspicous, that perhaps the chemicals added to our foods also increases the risk of complications? But how do we fix that problem? Or sometimes it's just how it is, there's no pattern or reason.

They're about half a cup to a cup in portions, ideally. Three times a day only... though I think a lot of docs disagree on that, some go for five small meals. It all depends on the doc. Mine wanted only three meals.

I never started worrying about them The docs stopped worrying when I left the hospital, however.

Well, counselling is also a good idea. IN fact I'd suggest it for anyone who has a lapband anyway. :thumbup: Fat isn't just physical, it's in the mind too, and we've gotta change so much of ourselves... I wouldn't recommend it for you if you can avoid it, but I won't say no either. :wub: But before you head for the operating theatre, try the counseller. You could start to behave as if you already have the band? We have to do things like buy smaller plates/bowls to make the portions smaller, eat reeeaaal slow, no drinking during a meal or for half an hour after. Get smaller meals when you eat out. That sort of thing. Your body would get used to the changes with or without the band, it'd just take a bit longer.

Yay both of you! That's it, just keep moving when you can, and sit upright as much as possible :thumbup: You're past the hardest part now.

It was simple, I didn't know about the gastric sleeve at the time! I don't think it was even being offered yet in Australia. But I would have chosen the lapband first, simply because it was the easiest to reverse. I always knew that if things didn't go well, I could fall back on the more extreme gastric bypass (or now that I know about it, gastric sleeve first) but the lapband was going to mess with teh body the least.

Urgh, don't bring that woman into this debate. Or forum. Or internet. She gives me the willies.

I am really sorry about this, I really am. I WANT it to be pro-choice for me, and I used to be that way, but ...I just have learnt too much about a fetus's devolopment before that cut off 24 weeks. They are aware and functioning, even if their lungs aren't ready, long before that. I can only accept it in extreme cases or if it is very early in the pregnancy, 8 weeks or earlier. :tongue_smilie: After what I know now about the early devolopment of a baby... anything else would be heartbreaking. I mean... we here worry about the pain of surgery, how much would it hurt a fetus 15+ weeks to be cut apart so that the mother gives birth to it easier? arrgh. I also can't agree with the idea of aborting a baby just because it has a disability. (I suppose the fact that I'm in Australia, with public healthcare, makes it easier for me to feel that way... Aussie families who have a disabled child get free healthcare for whatever that child needs, physical or psychological. I imagine that in America it would be a much harder burden without that help.) Some of the most beautiful caring people I've known have had a disability. I grew up with a kid who had spineabifita and now, as we both reach our mid twenties, he's coming to the end of his life. But if you asked his mum if she wished she hadn't had him, hadn't had to be his constant career when her husband left her, change nappies, save and scrape for his wheelchair, have more time for her other kid, she'd say no way. I guess it always depends on the circumstances, though. There are times when the health and safety of the mother, mental or physical, will be most definatly threatened and as a training Naturopath myself I'd never question or object to an abortion under those circumstances with my patients.

That's what I had to do both the first surgery and this time, 2 weeks liquads, 2 weeks pureed, 2 weeks mashed. I'm just about onto the pureed section... Though I must admit, I snuck some blended chickpea dip (just chickpeas, olive oil, garlic and water) because I was so desperate to feel a real food again... and I have been having a few nuts >.> It feels like my body can take it and I haven't been forcing it. It has a harder time trying to handle so much of this stupid Fluid diet! 1.2 lts of Milk a day! Anyway, getting there *wriggle* :tongue_smilie:

Hey! *sends many hugs* :frown: Remember... the nurses and doctors are going to be 100% for you in recovery and till you can walk out the door, you'll not be alone... any problem, any discomfort, nasua, anything.... you tell them and they will help! And the best way to get over the surgery is to get out of the hospital bed and walk as fast as you can. :sad: Even if that walk is just to go to the bathroom... just get up and move yourself, it'll wake your body up fast. Yeah, there's problems, and it's totally natural to be spooked about them... but remember, you are in a hospital with all resources at hand and every special kind of surgeon just down the hall so if anything goes wrong you're in the best place to be helped... and nothing will go wrong! As you're being put out, breathe and tell your body that it'll be okay, every nerve and cell knows your mind... *sendsm ore hugs* I'm almost 2 weeks post op and I was seriously scared like you were- two weeks ago it was the night before the surgery! Keep talking and let us know how the recovery is going, and feel free to complain about anything big or small. Or tell us your stunned amazement as you recover faster than expected!

Milk. lol I have to drink lots of low fat milk.

Well, I had a slipped band and medicare covered the surgery I just had. :scared2: a You've gotta get to a doctor asap and say 'I have a lapband, need to check if it has slipped with a bartric swallow'. Get them to refer you to the nearest hospital with a banding thing for your cover type (private or public) at the same time. Trust me, surgeons will get you on the table as fast as they can. And public does cover fixing it, esspically because it can be life threatening.

Hehe, you'll be banded! :scared2: I suppose this site has become very commercial now... anything to do with American healthcare is very much money directed, isn't it? I still can't comprehend the lack of public healthcare over there. It always seemed fair enough that if I was sick, I'd have help ...which I have needed many times... so why shouldn't I pay an extra tax for others who are sick?