Sue Magoo

Crackedpepper: You've got about ten days until surgery. Please follow all liquids until then. My surgeon said my surgery would be safer if I was on all liquids pre-op because it shrinks your liver and helps them to be able to get behind it for the surgery. You'll need to be having all liquids post-op too. Keep in mind that three to four weeks of all liquids isn't really that long in the grand scheme of things. Think of the pre-op liquids as something you're doing for yourself and for those that love you to lower the risks during surgery. Take care and best wishes for sticking to all liquids. Sue

Tracey: Glad to hear it's going well. Welcome to bandland. Take care and remember, you're healing, need to baby yourself for a few days. Take care. Sue

Thank you KarenG and Sherrirbgr: I continued to look at the lapband site, took a hot shower to relax all of the muscles. Bent and reached for my toes and dislodged something. Lousy night, finally went to sleep around 2 a.m. Feel lots better this morning and am able to keep coffee down. I'll stick to all liquids today. I'm a scale maniac. I weighed myself this morning and I was down 3 pounds from yesterday, I know it's going to come right back when I'm not dehydrated though. I feel like I'm starving today. Yesterday I had cream of wheat for Breakfast, Protein bar for lunch, and two bites of pork chop before I got sick at supper. Thanks again for responding to my distress posting. Sue

Can someone please offer some suggestions? I already got the pineapple juice and don't seem to be able to hold it down. It goes down, but I keep on throwing it up after a few burps. What should I do? I haven't been this kind of stuck before. It's not horribly painful like first time I was stuck. Just keep on burping and then throwing up a little - including my spit/slime. Suggestions....... Thanks. Sue

Andrea: Get the stuff you don't want to eat out of the house. I'm guessing that you probably won't drive to get it. If your other family members want to eat junk tell them to please cut you some slack and refrain from eating it at home for now. Good luck. Sue

Thanks Luluc: You go girl one pound under with three days to go! Sue

JC: I've been banded five months now. Before banding I would eat massive amounts and #2 was every day. Now that I've been banded #2 is only once or twice per week. Another savings, grocery bills down, toilet paper usage down! LOL! Sue

I don't know how to fix the tables, but please update me. S...............Goal....................Current..................ToGo 243 230 230.6 .6 Thanks everyone for the encouragement and for playing the game. Sue

Becky: I think it's a game and we have to play it. I eat too fast too. So, I bought these one minute timers from unclesgames.com. I take a bite and tip it over. I can't take another bite until all of the sand has gone to the other side of the timer. Another trick I play is to keep my food in the other room. Take a bite, turn the timer over, and walk in the other room and read e-mails, etc. Then I go back and as long as the timer's done I can have another bite. I don't get to eat alot of hot food this way because it always turns cold, but I keep from getting that pain this way. Good luck. Sue

Annie: That's great! I was banded 7/26 and I'm down 92.5 pounds (includes pre-surgery weight loss of 38 pounds). I feel so much better - no sore feet, don't get numb in left leg anymore. Keep up the good work everyone. Sue

Wow! Congratulations Dave. I was banded end of July and hope to hit 100 pounds by end of January. I can appreciate how good it must feel to have 100 pounds off because 90 pounds off feels pretty good too. Congratulations. Sue

Have you actually gone to see your doctor? I recommend that you do. Sometimes we don't describe the problem well enough for the doctor to be able to help us. Please go to the doctor if you haven't already. Best wishes for a quick recovery. Sue

Natalie's Mom: Please call an infectious disease specialist right away. You cannot mess with pseudomonas! You said you've read about pseudomonas and you're right it is very scarey. Hope he/she can kick that infection out of your body. Keep us posted. Sue

Crystal: I like the South Beach Diet Protein bars. Best wishes for your upcoming surgery. Sue

Mimin: Sorry that things aren't going so well for you. Please take care of yourself and give us an update when you're feeling better. Take care. Sue

Sweethot143: I plan to share pics when I hit onderland. Although I'm down by 90+ I'm still not comfortable in this skin! I'll probably get to onderland next Spring. I wish I was at 183 like you are. Some day...... Sue

Julie: Congrats on the loss. I was banded at 287, though my high was 324. It is amazing what a difference 90 pounds makes. I have my own before & current pictures. I look at them for inspiration. Reading about your success and others on the site inspires me too. Keep up the good work. Sue

Shawna: Look at the inamed website or google lap band doctors and try to find a lap band doctor or center in the area where you are spending your holidays. Maybe you can get an unfill from one of the doctors in that area. I hope you get better soon. If you can't find someone to do an unfill you should probably go to the e.r. for hydration via i.v. so that you don't get too ill. Hugs to you for getting better. Sue

Hi Shortgal: I have a 10cc Inamed band too. I see what others have for a fill and I'm really surprised. I got 1.0 cc's with my first fill. My second fill I got .5 more, so up to 1.5 cc's. About ten days after .5 was added I had to get it out because I was too tight - pb'd and slimed after two bites and had bad reflux. It's strange how you get the full effect of a fill up to two weeks after a fill. Two weeks after that I got .25, so now I'm at 1.25 and feel pretty good so far, but that was less than a week ago. Hopefully it will be good. I hear about 4 cc's and I can't imagine ever being filled that much - yikes! Hope you find your sweet spot soon, and me too! Sue

Allheart: Sounds like you are going through normal post-surgical uncomfortableness. Hope you feel better soon. Sue

Heather: I have had big issues with nausea too. I found that when I stop taking pain medication the nausea goes away. I swithced to liquid tylenol day 1 after surgery and the nausea went away. Hope you feel better soon because nausea sucks to have to deal with. Sue

Soozan: It's strange how it feels. I know it's very hard to imagine before you are banded. Strange enough though, you eat only a small amount, and you feel full for hours. I could probably wait until noon or later each day to eat, but I know that's not wise. The only time I've actually been really hungry I got kind of a nauseus (spelling?) feeling in my stomach and knew that I needed to eat something small very soon to make the uncomfortable feeling go away. It's only happened a few times. I usually try not to go more than five hours without eating something because it gets to be uncomfortable feeling. I do get "head hunger" at night sometimes when I am bored. I want to eat just because it's night time and I'm bored, not because I'm hungry. I try to have something very low calorie or go to bed early instead. I hope my explanation of how I feel helps. Sue

TXbandit: I was surprised at how exhausted I was every afternoon for a few months. It really was draining to me while I was healing. I was increasing my exercise at the same time as I was recovering from surgery. It took me about three to four months to get my energy back and it's actually increased since then. Best wishes for more energy soon. Sue

Hi everyone. This is so much fun! I have an XL jersey on today with size 20 pants. I started at 3X and 26/28! I can put on my sneakers and tie them without sitting down too! Yippee! Everybody keep up the good work and the nsv's will continue. Sue

Hi: Even though your surgeon is out of work you might want to call his office to line up any of the pretesting, like sleep apnea, nutritionist, psychologist, etc. It may help to keep things moving along while he's not available. Maybe the results could be waiting for him/her when he/she returns from medical leave. You've waited two years already. Congratulations on your persistance and finally getting approved. Sue