sharon

Can we start a new one - I need a new incentive as I didn't quite do as well as expected and then lost track of where I started. I'm planning a trip to India in early November and I'd like to be able to fit comfortable in a coach class seat!!!

Three weeks of stuffed and aching ears has put a big crimp in my weight loss plans. Eating all the wrong stuff and no exercise. BUT -I'm off all the drugs the doctors gave me and II'm ready to start hitting curves. My immediate goal -the 220's are evil i dont want to be associated with them anymore, I shall run through then with th grace and speed of a gazelle.

Try Spiegel - wasn't my lapband dr but he's another on on the list for houston

I had a pretty good cough when I first got my band - no slippage but woooh baby those first few days were kind of "interesting". I'd cough, then actually say "ow" then laugh because I said "ow" then I'd say "ow" again because I laughed!

That's absolutely fantastic - congratulations!!!! I so look forward to when I weigh less than my mastiff Goober (he's 210)

Glad to hear everything went well - see it wasn't that bad.

I did pretty good. I went to a friends house the day of the surgery, I still have 2/3 of the pain medication left. I was driving around doing shopping and everything in 4 days. It's the damn gas they give you in the hospital that seems to be the worst thing - it made my shoulders hurt. But it works out. I would suggest picking up some chewable GAS-X gas (mint was best) as it seems most of us also have stomache gas for a few weeks. As for the ticker, I always seem to have to redo it!

I have hypothroidism also - and although it might explain a sluggish metabolism it would not explain bingeing and grazing. I'd say maybe you can blame 10 lbs on that but my other 95 is going to be helped by the band.

Good Luck Corgi! If you see any cute Doctors just give them a pinch (oops sorry, must be the pain killers!)

I'm a same dayer. I went in at 9:00am, Surgery at arond 12:30pm and went home at 4:30pm. They gave me a little happy juice shot at around 3:30pm. When I was leaving they asked if I wanted a wheel chair ride out - I said no thanks and walked out. One friend drove me to another friend house (do not be on your own). But I was getting up and down and in out of bed on my own. The next day I went for a short walk. But ... one case is not like another. I maybe obesely overweight but I am semi-active. Beside a low thyroid and high cholesterol I did not have any medical problems or physical affirmities. I was doing all my yard work, going to Curves, walking my dogs etc. I do not like being waited on and I'm pretty pain tolerant and I for one don't want to ever stay in a hospital longer than I have to (there's a lot of sick people in there).

My port kind of seemed like an "outtie", it doesn't stick out of the skin but for a while it looked very prominent. It will itch in the last stages of healing

I have an English Mastiff and a Rottweiler both are prodigous farters. I would have to say I fart a lot more and burp a lot more but I believe my farting really doesn't smell that much. My mastiff, Goober, can peel wallparper off the wall!!!

I think it's the exception - I've PB'd once so far (OK I've only been banded over a month) but I knew when I swallowed that piece of chicken that it was way too big and I hadn't chewed enough. I had more than enough time to get to the bathroom and I had just started to eat so there wasn't much to come back up. I had a small bowl of chili for lunch today (yummy!) and I was fine, cause I chewed chewed chewed. It may boil down to how sensitve your stomache was before. I use to be able to eat everything, never a sign of heartburn or indigestion (of course maybe if I did I wouldn't have gained so much weight) so the band for me is a restriction, my appetite is much less as is my capacity to eat but so far nothing seems to bother me as long as I chew it to death.

Congratulations to the club - our secret signal is to rub your port three times. Of course we do confuse lapbanders and people with heartburn. Now your only difficult decision will be at restaurants - "If I order this do I want to eat it as leftovers for the next three meals"!!

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