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Aldies with the pain on the lower left side, is this where your port is also?? I have pain below my prt when I drink cokes. Like I have air stuck in there and I have pain and pressure. Sadly enough I keep drinking the cokes on occasion. The pain can be minor blaoting discomfort to full on pain that only gets a little better if I lay on my side. Could it be bloating you are suffering from that is pulling the port and port sutures??

Signs and symptoms result from a functional obstruction of the esophagus: Dysphagia, or difficulty swallowing Regurgitation of undigested food Heartburn Difficulty belching Frequent hiccups Non-cardiac chest pains (NCCP) or spasms, which sometimes increase after eating and may radiate to the back, jaw, neck, and arms Weight loss Coughing, especially at night or when lying down These are signs and symptoms of what they say you have. Is this not what most of us have due to just having the strictness of the lapband? How could the lapband not have something to do with this? I am so sorry that you are going through this. Please keep us up on what is going on. Thanks for your post, I had never heard of this, but have these symptoms on occasion all at once.

Lila, I am so sorry you had to go through that and I don't know what I would would do if I just flat out knew something like that. You will be strong when you decide to be strong and that is that! Susan, your story gives us all hope that regardless of what happens in a relationship there is always something on the other side of it, but it also scares me into the thought that maybe my life won't always be like this and there are many changes ahead for me. I'm not good with changes so that scares me.

Hi everyone, I was hoping to see if anyone had any ideas for me. I had my lap band done 2 years ago exactly. I am down over 70 pounds but still have about 70 more to go. I am very happy I had the lap band surgery and I will jump back on the exercise wagon soon to kick start weight loss all over again. I had another surgery at the end of August this year because I had a tumor on my left ovary the size of a grapefruit. So, if you are following, I am down 1 ovary and up 1 band. Before my ovary surgery I have been on birth control for over 5 years. I got off the birth control before my ovarian surgery since it scared me to death that I might not be able to get pregnant. I wanted to initially wait to get pregnant so I could lose more weight first. I didn't want to be fat AND pregnant, but there is something about the idea of only 1 ovary left that kicked the baby wanting into high gear. So I had 2 normal periods after my surgery, some spotting and now 2 weeks late am having my next period. I know that the more weight I lose the more likely my chances are of getting pregnant. I was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting pregnant overweight and with one ovary and how long it took?? I haven't found much online about this so any info would be helpful!! Thanks!

Congratulations Hon!! My surgeon told me that the Lap Band was originally called the "Fertility Band" and for that reason to get on the birth control before you start losing the weight. Since weight loss not only makes your body healthier it makes your sex life healthier!! Good luck on your first child, this must be such a joy for you!

It's been a while since I posted but I wanted to drop by to say HI to everyone. I am coming up on my 2 year Bandiversary in November and was wondering what I have lost this year. I have lost some since last year but my biggest accomplishment is NOT GAINING! Since my last post which was before the summer I am 2 pounds smaller and have not even been trying. I figure when I feel like trying to start again I will and since I have my band I will not gain all of my weight back in the meantime. I have lost 71 pounds total and still have another 75 to go, but feel so much better and feel like a different person. I will post pics soon, but I just wanted to tell everyone HI!! I have recently had surgery to remove a tumor on my ovary, which also took my ovary. For some reason after that surgery I have been drinking cokes!! It is so bad I had not had them in months when I started back up to 2 or 3 a day for 2 weeks...well, now I am paying for it. I couldn't keep food down over the weekend and now I have heartburn and possibly gurd?? I haven't really had heartburn since my band surgery and now I am waking up in the middle of the night choking on stuff in the back of my throat and burning throat all day. I have now cut out the cokes AGAIN! and I have been eating that Activia yogurt to soothe my digestive tract. I am hoping by staying on soft foods and drinking lots of Water and yogurt for a few days it will all get back in order. If not, I am going to make an appointment to make sure I didn't slip my band from my lack of willpower with the cokes. Anyone else have this choking in the middle of the night problem and heartburn after they have had none with their band for a while?? Had it slipped?? Thanks for any insight and any hellos I can get!!!

anybody anybody?

I am having a surgery to have an ovary removed and will not be able to do it laporscopically, so it's apparently a long surgery. I was wondering if anyone else has had to have surgery post band and if it affected your band in any way? Should I have it deflated? Any tips for this??

It's definately thoughts that have come into my head, especially when you start getting more attention from other people either because you are lookin good or you feel better about yourself and that is showing through. I would never act, but the thoughts were there.

All very interesting. I find it weird that people get in such a tissy over conversation, but I also find it funny about that people that get in a tissy over people getting in a tissy. If Oprah can talk about it calmy on television we can surely express different opinions on a website calmly. My question to add to the scenario is do you think there are less overweight people cheating due to being overweight and having less advances from potential cheaters? Could this be why our poll stats are so different from the others stated in this posting from a bigger piece of the population?

Ya;ll are so funny! !!!

Are they real doubts or would you rather just no t know the truth so you can keep the life and lifestyle that you have. I am asking for personal understanding, If you don't want to answer I completely understand??

Results will obviously be biased since I am on a lapband website. If I was just taking a poll from msnbc it would not be so biased. There are obviously more women on this site than men and to put it plainly (please don't throw your shoe at me) We are all mostly overweight and dealing with those issues. Overweight people ( I FEEL) have less opportunity to cheat because there is less opportunity for for advances as it is than say your regular fit and hot person. That is from my own experince from skinny and hot to fat and ok. The advances and opportunity are way down therefore the opportunity to actually cheat is way down. I know that most will disagree with this statement but it is just my own living through it to see it. Any thoughts??