sharon2u

When I am stressed it seems that my band rally gets tight, I too can develope a thick mucus substance and I ahve to PB it up and when it comes out it is like a clear bubble of yuck. Also if I exercise too much in my tummy area I will tighten up. I was not sure of this so I did an experiment and suce enough the folowing day I was really tight but it went away a day or so later. I was banded with the lap band 25 months ago. I ost my first 100 pounds really fast and I ahve been at the same weight for over a year now and I am so ready to give it all up. I exercise and this keeps my size down. I can fit into a 10/12 which is great but I would like to see the 150 pound mark someday. I weigh in at 180 pounds. I ahve ben filled adn un filled and I get so depressed over this. I am thinking about asking the Dr. next month for a new band or to submit to my insurance group for the actuall bypass surgery for I have been failing over a year now. No matter what I do I cannot seem to lse any more weight and no one just stops losing weight not for 16 months. I have weighed 180 pounds since May 2008

I am 25 months post op now. I ahve not lost any ral weight in a year now. I lost my first 100 pounds and then nothing more since then. I exercise daily and watch my diet as I call it. I ahve a 10 cc band with only now just over 4 ccs in it. I had 5 1/4 but I had to get an unfil for I swelled up after my lst fill and had to have some removed. It seems everytime I get 5ccs or more I run into problems with vomiting and I tend to swell up after my fill but not right away, sometimes two weeks after the fact and then I run into trouble. I regurtate, reflux in my sleep and I acnnot figure out why this happens all the time. I ahve had numerious upper GI's done and at times it shows me being too tight and then at other times i am not. I just don't get it. I am thinking about asking my surgeon about why I am failing all the time and how about a new band or bypass surgery. can you band become un cooperative after awhile? and needs to be replaced wit6ha new one. Right not my band looks normal, no bulgings, or anything else.

I have had to get unfilled 3 times now and it is getting really old. I had 3 ccs taken out back in January 2009 I now only have 3ccs in me and well needless to say yes I a hungry I feel no restriction at all and now I am gaing some weight back. I was too restricted the last time. What do I ahve to do to get someone to understand at the Dr.s office that I need more to help sustain me. I am so upset and down and I am afraid to put a drop of food in my mouth. I eat under 1500 calories per day if not less and before I was unfilled this was the normal for me and I was dropping pounds right and left and now I am stuck. I have not lose any real weight I go back and forth it has been 11 months since I lost any real weight. I am told my band is fine, he does the swallows and nothing is wrong the band is perfect, it is the fils that are not.

Hi everyone, well I had to get 3 ccs removed about 5-6 weeks ago and I ma now back to 2 1/4 ccs and am I hungry. I was really tight they goofed and gave me more than i was supposed to have. I was told that 6 ccs was removed and the records showed I had 5 1/4 ccs not the 6ccs at all, well I had to have the UGI test and was told my esophagas was dialiated so out came the fill. since then I was given 1 cc wll that means I have under 3 ccs again and I am so hungry. I doubled the protein that does not work so I have to eat many smaller meals to curb the appitite. Tomorrow I get another UGI to see if I am still dialated or not in order to start getting my fills. I am so beside myself, it is like taking candy from a baby. Has anyone had these problmes as I have had.?

I was told that my esppophagas might have gotten stretched out do to being too tight can that be possible? If so how can you tell you ahve this problem? Is there pain heartburn reflux or what, just needing some info.:confused:

Now I gurgle all the time and today while on the phone with my nurse she heard it and said that it should not be normal after all. I was told that I need a UpperGI done and then I have to have some fill taken out becuase this is a part of being over filled which can lead to poor weight loss and other problems and I have had very poor weight loss since May of 2007 I ahve lost 103 pounds but that is it I am currently holding at 175 pounds and I look good too. I am toned and not a lot of excess skin hanging around me. I work out all the time. So now after all of this is done I should begin to lose more weight. I need to be at my goal of 145 pounds but will settle for 150.

I don't know but I can say this. I was told today that my esophagas might have gotten stretched out due to the band being too tight now has anyone heard of this?

Hi, I have ben banded since September 2007 and i had to be un filled twice due to swelling around the band after a fill. I have a 10 cc band a small one so I ahve ben told. I had 5 1/4 cc's fill however I had to lose 1/2 cc today for I was too tight and could not eat nor drink since last Sunday, all i was doing was vomiting and having reflux like symptoms. I was told not to have any solids for another few days and by Monday I should be alright to eat normal food again. This could become very dangerious if you get too tight in tehre and start vomiting you could asperate into your lungs with the bacteria laden vomit and get a seroius infection. So be careful out there. I lost another 9 pounds since this past Sunday, yes all good but I was so sick from not being able to eat nor swallow food or liquid. Gone from 279 to 173 from size 24-26 jeans to a size 10-12 depending on how they are cut and from a size 3x to a size Medium-Large depending on the way that is made. My diabetes and BP is all resolved but my Vit-B12 is very low and in need of a shot and some oral medications for the Vitamin B-5 no shot for that right at the moment.

Hi Pam Your will know when your filled properly for you will not even feel hungry or too hungry. I eat just a few bites of food at a time and I can drink about 1/2 cup of soup etc. I still have masshed potatoes however it might be a spoonful or two but that is it.

Just had a fill a week ago only 1/4 cc I have a small 10 cc band and I have a total of 5 1/2 cc's. I was told I had plenty of room to go. Well for the first 3 days I had to revert back to liquids due to the new fill and so I don't develope problems and well I was fine and by Saturday of last week I ate a a few bites of chicken and a vegetable on the side a sppon full or two if that and well all was great I was able to eat it and swallow it and wow no problem, well that was Saturday for on Sunday I developed the problem of not being able to swallow or to eat and just plain vomiting, like from Sunday through last night. I get real slimmy and think mucus. I seen my Dr. yesterday and was told I developed a virus like flu and it caused me to swell up a bit, no unfill and today I feel a lot better and I had two cups of hot tea this morning and it all went down so I will see how the rest of the day goes for me. I was banded in Waco, TX on September 2007 and I am down from a size 24-26 pants and a 3 x top to a size 12 on the way to a size 10 jeans and I size med-large top in misses sizes. I weighed in today at 174 pounds from 279 pounds and I would like to weigh in at 145 pounds. The Dr. said that he moved me to the catagory with his RNY patients for I have lost 65% body weight in a years time and banderes are generally losing about 40% witin a year. Good old dieting and exercising habits for me and I am so tiny for being 174 pounds because I am all muscle no flab and I look like I weigh about 150 pounds. No lying about that.

I have to agree with you on that one. I have been using a product called nectar made my Syntrex and most is not too bad at all. I enjoy both the vanilla bean and the chocolate truffel. Go to www.bestpricenutrician.com and check it out this is where I order mine from.

my subway will make your meal what ever way it takes for them to make a sale and as for the salad they will make you any kind of a salad too> I never had a problem. I but the chicken and have them put a little bit of the sween onion on top and I just eat it without the bread.

I was banded a year ago this past September and I ahve done very well. However earlier in the year I had to get a bit unfilled due to a bulge that developed and then I was refilled but slowly, then in June I had the gallbladder removed and a week or so after that I had to get another unfill, yep broke my heart and I had to get a upper GI before the Dr. would fill me back up. Well he did this in July and all went well with the fill I am only at 5 cc in my 10cc band. I have not had any weightloss since May of this year and I just don't get it. I do watch what I eat and I exercise my butt off. I have weiged between 178-180 pounds for several months and this is getting old real fast and discouraging. I dropped from a size 26 to a misses size 12, yep a huge change and I need to drop another 20 pounds and I will be so happy. I still have restriction becuase I can feel it and sometimes I have to PB but not too often. I guess I need another fill but befopre doing so I want another upper GI to be sure that I am not obstrusted by another pouch, by another pouch developing on its own can cause a person not to lose weight, so I have ben told. So now what do I get a fill or try diet aides?

Hey I did that too from HEB and well I put it in the trash. Again I use one product and it works for me you can mix it with Water or milk like if I chose milk it is fat free. I use Syntrex nectar in the chocolate truffel with fat free milk water is not too bad but the milk it is better and it satisfies me too. I feel like I am cheating when I drink it for to me it tastes like nestle qucik but that is my opion. Youc an get this from the viatimin shoppe, Drug Epporium and on line I order from a place called www.BestPriceNutrition.com and it is a bit cheaper. I don't trust the other Whey products out tehre, they can cost big bucks.

I nver used this I did ask the nurse and she told me not to use this yet to wait until I get more weight off because it could add some weight at first. I still use the Nectar by Syntrex and it has helped me a great deal.

I developed a problem a few months ago. I had to have 1/2 cc takem out due to my stoma swelling up due to an infection so the Dr. took some out and he waitied several weeks to be sure I was out of the woods and gave me back my 1/2 cc to take me back to 5 ccs, then I had the gallbladder taken out in early June and a few days later yep the stoma swelled up around the band to where I could not eat or dirnk anything, yep I lost 12 pounds in 4 days that was great but the suffering was not. I had under gone two seperate upper GI's to be sure that there was nothing wrong and on Friday I got my first fill since May and he gave me 1cc and normally I can feel the band filling up but this time I did not, but I can feel the restriction now and I ahve lost one pound since yesterday. I am a quick loser according to my Dr. He told me that at the stage of fat loss I am now at that he placed me with the regular gastric bypass patients that he has because he told me that a lap bander at one year should only lose the first 40% of their weight and as of June 2008 he told me I have lost 68%.

Hey kiddo this sounds pretty normal, heck my stomach still gurgles after I get a fill I just tell everyone that the band is talking to me. I felt pretty good after my band was put in and still do and it will be a year on September 10, I had a few bumps in the road, like two gallbladder attacks that sent me to the ER both times so that had to come out in June 2008 and then I ahd to have some of the fills taken out because my band developed something called a buldge and well having the bbudge could give me a sence of false appitite and well it did and you can actually gain weight if you do not have it takencare of. I had two upper GI's done before the Dr. would give me another fill. I had 5 ccs and then he took out 1/2 cc's but on Friday he gave me the all clear and I got a full cc and I can feel it. Give yourself sometime for we all heal diffeently. Drink your protein I ahve been using Nectar by Syntrex and youc an get that at Vitamin Shoppe or go online and type in www.BestPriceNutrition.com and you can order it a bit cheaper. I use the fuzzy navel and the chocolate truffle and the chocolate is very good with fat fee milk. Give it time it will be ahrd at first due to all the new restrictions but if you hang in there you will see some great results. I am down110 pounds and eating alone did not get tme tehre a lot of walking and hard exercise and I have about 25 more to lose and well I am done. I have gone froma size 24-26 jeans to a size 12 misses and I am now a size 14 or 16 in my blouses I was a size 2 to a 3 X and I weighed in at 279 and I am down 169 so you go girl and don't ever say I acn't do this because I am almost 55 years old and if I can do it so can you. Good luck and keep in touch.

I went from 279 to 185 in 9 months and other than being tired all the time my self esteem is up for the first time in years. I wear a size 12 from a 24 so there is a heck of a big hype there I would think. No it has not been easy from the exercise to vomiting on occassion. I have 5 ccs in my 10 cc band I am no longer hungry and I feel the restriction all the time, this is good. I do eat but it is only a few bites but then that is how I was told it would be. Look into your mirror I am sure there is something there that you see that makes you proud and happy that you lost 50 pounds.

Hi I just seen this so I better reply to it. Yep gallbladder coming out on June 9, and my surgen that did the band is going to do it for me. I seen another surgeon and well he just scared me to death so once again my Dr. in waco is coming to the rescue. My weight loss is coming right along. I have lost my 100 pound goal and well I still would like to lose another 40 pounds so I made it and all within 8 months being post op. The other Dr. wanted to unfill the band and possibly remove due to it being in his way, well Dr. Sims said no such thing he said it would be no problem. I was so glad to hear that one so word of warning ask questions before any surgery is done because you might end up with out your band. Thanks for the kind thoughts. Sharon

Hey everyone I am over the hump....The Dr. told me yesterday that I have lost 50% of my body weight and i flipped out, you cannot imagine how that feels unless you made it or are in the process of making it happen. I can now wear a size 12 in pants and I wear a size medium in tops. Tomorrow will be my 8th month banding anniversary. However there is a downside to this, I was admitted to the ER the oher morning and I have a inflamed gallbladder with the stones and all. My surgeon said it has to come out the Dr. in the ER said the same thing but my Dr. said it is too early, go figure. I wish the gallbladder would have been removed during the banding but for some reason it was not.

Why did you did you have the band un filled?

I was banded on Sept 10, is that an OK date? I started my weight loss at 279 pounds to date I now weigh 181 pounds. I wore a size 24 today I am a size 12 thanks to the band, diet and losts of exercise. I am 55 years old well I will be in Sept. and it is not easy having to exercise day in and day out but I do what ever it takes. I have a 10 cc band and I have 4 1/2 cc's filled so far. I feel the restriction and I eat less but good stuff, I stop eating before I get full otherwise I will ahve to vomit and well we don't want that, been there and done it a lot now I am OK. I drink a lot of water and I take the Nectar Protein and they came out with it in a chocolate flavor so I was told to try milkso I bought fat free milk and put a scoop of the powder in it and well it is like cheating but not, it tastes so good and I am more satisfied. The powder has 23 protein grams ( I think) and the milk has another 9 grams so I am getting two glasses per day. One before breakfast and one before my lunch. I am supposed to have 64 grams of protein per day. I drink the required amount of water per day, no soda no white products at all. My diabetes has been reversed and so has my blood pressure and I am now medication free. I need to lose another 9% of body fat before I will be considered a healthy weight which I was told for me will be 140-145.

Michelle, you are aware that your not supposed to have any bread products and no carbonated drinks with the lap band, this could be your problem see all of that bread can form into a ball and not pass through like in the good old days and for the soda the air in the carbon could be getting to your belly and causing the pain. When I get my fill I am not to have any solids for the first 2 days or so due to swelling after the fill and then about a week later I can feel my restriction causing me some pain if I try to over eat and well with my past history of having PB's too frequently I have just told myself to watch it. I have lost 86 pounds since since September 2007 and I cannot wait for the 100 pounds to be gone and then after that another 25 and I will be back to my old self. I am enjoying buying new clothes in smaller sizes it is a good feeling not to have to buy plus sizes anymore but for the heck of it I do browse around just looking back and remembering where I came from and the changes I ahve made, just to be sure I will not go back to that old size of me. Sharon