Kelliebelly

I am right there with you. I am going through the exact same thing right now. Go to the Dr and get some meds for it or at least get it checked out. From what I have been told so far untreated reflux can be BAD BAD BAD fr our band. I am on losec and I dont feel the reflux now, but my Dr wont give me a fill even though I dont have any restriction because I have the reflux.

I posted the other night about whether or not I should get a fill as my restriction has just about gone. I never even considered he would say No or tell me the things he said. I have had reflux since about my 5 th fill I think. I have had 9 fills. He gave me medication(losec) for the reflux and it has been fine....now he is saying I have 6 weeks to get rid of the reflux or he is taking all my fill out, if that still doesnt fix it he will take my BAND!!!! I was like OMG WTF!!!!!!!!! How did a friendly visit for a bit of a top up turn into this. This is my worst nightmare, remember my weight gain is inevitable post???? Well was that a coincidence or what. Someone please tell me this is crazy...pleaseeeee. If you cant tell me that can someone let me rest my head on their shoulder and cry while they stroke my head and tell me I am not going to end up a big fat porker again. :think :think :think

Its amazing how putting on a few kgs can affect your whole attitude. Each day I weigh myself the scales have gone up, even if it is only a little bit. 2 weeks and 4 kgs is ALOT. I havent been eating any differently to what I was, only more because the restriction has gone to nearly zilch. My mood is back to that depressive state. I feel fat...so fat. The new clothes I have bought are tight and snug fitting now. I feel yucky and I feel sh*t. Its been 6 months and its never been a problem to him before, why now? Its controlled and I dont even know I have it if I take my meds. For me my prior post is weight gain inevitable...welll right now....yes it is. I cant stop it. The difference in eating little amounts and now eating more normal ppl amounts is making me put weight on in itself. No one here (in real life) understands so please excuse my whining and if you think I need a kick in the butt and told to wake up then please do it. Tell me something...anything just dont tell me that this is the way it has to be...not with a few months left to my dream wedding.

Thanks everyone, I know this is a life long thing but it is so important to me to be at goal or at least close to it for my wedding. It was the major goal I set for myself when I was first banded. I am getting married in September. At this point if I dont lose any more weight I will be happy for my wedding, but if I put it on ... ewwwww... Anyways Paula, that is what I cant understand. My reflux hasnt bothered me since I went on medication. I dont even know I have it until I go off the tablets. I know it may sound like a stupid question but why cant I just keep my fill and stay on the tablets...Would it still be damaging me if the reflux was under control with the tablets? I have never had the wake up coughing in the night thing just reflux which starts when I first eat in the morning and lasts for a cople of hours then same after each meal...which I dont have now because of the meds....*sigh* how confusing.

I havent had a fill for about 6 months or more now. I have been going along well with great restriction losing nice and slowly. Before my TT 7 weeks ago I started to feel my restriction waning but I wanted to have my surgery and heal before I thought about another fill. Well each week that has passed since my TT I have got hungrier and hungrier. In the last 2 weeks I have put on 2kg (5 or so lbs). I know some of it is due to not eating right but I have done this on and off throughout and still been ok. My meals have got bigger and bigger and even though I am not eating an amount near what I used to, it is still going up. I am hungry between meals again, something I havent been in the last 6 months. I am wondering if maybe the loss of 40 or so lbs and a tummy tuck in the last 6 months since my last fill would have made the band looser thus me needing a fill. It worries me that I have bad reflux since 3 or so fills ago which is controlled with medication, if I have another fill will it make it worse?? You think I would know all this by now. I will talk to my Dr about it tomorrow and see what he says, but I hate these scales going up. Another thing is I could put on 10 or more lbs before and not even feel it, since this TT 5lbs feels like 100lbs in my tummy. I am looking hugely pregnant with it and the swelling. Ill quit blabbering now, any insight for me? Hugs

I was always a tummy sleeper, I am 13 months post op and still cant. It gives me a pain in the port area...I have now become a side and back sleeper.

I was in the same boat at 6 months. I had only just started feeling restriction. It took 5 months and 9 fills to finally get restriction. I lost about 30 or so lbs in that time, it is after I finally had some decent restriction that I have lost the rest of the weight.

Heather, I am the same...I have the same thoughts. If i was to lose my band and couldnt have it replaced I would work my hardest to not put the weight back on...but if it did start coming back on I think I would revert to something...anything else. I cannot and REFUSE to go back to that depressed, anti social, self hating and lazy person I once was.

I have really been thinking alot lately due to a very good friend of mine having her fill all removed due to slippage. She now has to have her band removed. In the time since the fill was removed she has put on around 30lbs in about 2 months. I see alot of people struggle with the same problem. What scares me is that we get the band, get to goal or are working on it and then something happens and we lose our band or fill. Is it just inevitable that we are going to put all our weight back on because we cant continue to eat the small amounts we did banded on our own. I know there is no way I could live on the amount I do without my band. I know I am worrying about something that hasnt even happened and may not ever happen, but I like to think through the "what ifs". "What if" you lost your band...I think I would be back up to nearly 300lbs in 6 mths....*sigh* but outloud I say "I will never allow myself to get that big again, I cant"...I just cant go back to that...the thought scares the crap out of me enough to really put a dampener on my day. This post really doesnt require an answer, I am just thinking outloud and sharing my paranoid thoughts. I really think I have come to the conclusion in my mind that i will slip, its just a matter of when. I cant get a grip on the fact that my life will not be led fat and depressed. I have a right to be happy like I am now...I really do, why cant I just accept that? This university course really has me doing some major thinking. :eek:

WOWEEEEE!!! I always look at peoples tickers and sigs as well and I cant believe how far you have come and so quickly. WTG!!!!!! Big HUGSSSS

Oh WOW That is awesome. What an inspiration you are. I cant wait till I can say the same thing. Big supportive and congratulatory HUGSSSSSS to you!!!

I am in Australia and most Drs have now changed over to this band because of reduced risks of slipping and erosion...I dont know how true it is, that is only what my Dr told me. I have the VG band and I thought the same as you when I found out. The process CAN be longer getting to optimal restriction. Mine took 5 momths and 9 fills. I know we all want the weight off yesterday, I was the same. I use to post here saying I was going to be the only one that failed with the lapband because I had no restriction and wasnt losing weight. Here I am 13 months later and 85lbs lighter. It has been a nice slow loss that I am happy with. I still have a bit to go but so far things seem to be cruising along well. Have patience it really will happen, it may just be a little slower with the VG band. Hugs

I was addicted to diet coke and other diet sodas...I very rarely have them now. On the other hand I was never ever an ice cream eater...I just didnt like it, now its a fight each night to not have a bowl. Have always loved chocolate and still do, its a shame I didnt lose that craving :eekB:

Being smaller the weight will come off slower. I have the big band and I didnt start losing weight really seriously until about 5 mths into banding when I finally got some decent restriction. It took 8 or 9 fills and 9.6mls for me. Be patient, something I am not good at, it will happen. Hugs

I wasnt going to post to this, but I cant help myself. I only had to be on liquids for 1 week, mushy for a week then regular. My Dr said if I felt ready in week 2 for regular I could give it a try and see how I go. Every Dr is different and I think it is imperative that we listen to our OWN Drs orders....with that being said....I still think this is a support board for lap banders new and old. OP obviously needs some support as she is struggling through the liquid phase that I so clearly remember like it was yesterday. I felt the same as her and I did a couple of the same wrong things but I was not game enough to post about it for this very reason. Dani, I think you should follow your Drs orders because quite frankly you will slip your band if the stomach has to do too much work before the stitches have healed. Plain and simple...you will lose your band before you really even had it. However, I know how hard it is, trust me I struggled so badly and mine was only for a week or 2. You can take from what all the other posters have said and use it the best way you can, we cant stop you nor can we condone it...but just know are here to support you no matter what happens. We have all been there and done that some of us just take a little longer adjusting. Hugs

*EDITED* I HAVE ADDED PICS IN A LOWER POST PLEASE DONT LOOK FURTHER IF THESE PICS MAY OFFEND YOU. Hi everyone, First off thanks for all the messages and phone calls. Anyway, from the beginning. I arrived at the hospital at 6.30am and was notified that it would be about 9am when I went in. I was taken down and drawn on and my surgeon ended up lipoing the back of my upper arms, my back fat and flanks. I had a breast lift without implants and an extended tummy tuck with aggresive muscle repair. I woke up in the most pain I have ever been in my life. I had a pain pump and was told to use that when needed. I pushed it constantly the first night. It is all pretty much a blur. The next day I asked for the pain pump to be taken off as it was sending me loopy...I hate that feeling...so they took that off and put me on digesics. They got me up out of bed which was like OMG, I actually cried it hurt so much. After getting up I felt so much better and that was the beginning of it. I showered and started walking bit by bit. Day 3 they came and took my drains out, some say it doesnt hurt some say it does. I say OMG I nearly passed out. Good thing is that the pain only lasts for a few seconds then stops...but that few seconds is like agony. Once my drains were out they couldnt keep me down. I stopped taking the pain meds through the day and walked as much as I could. I wanted to be ready when I left hospital and not be so useless. I had and still have alot of sweeling from the lipo and I have a garment covering my arms, then another one that covers from boobs to upper thighs. It is really tight and is uncomfortable at times but when I take it off to shower it feels weird, so at the moment I prefer it on. Since getting out of hospital I have had a run in with the toilet and constipation like you have never heard off, I actually passed out in pain and thought I was going to die. As for my results I am really happy so far. I still have huge swelling so cant see the actual results properly yet, but seeing my boobs on my chest with nipples pointing up and a tummy that doesnt cover my pinny and thighs is an amazing feeling for me. I have never had this in my whole life and it I tell ya is worth everything I have and am going through with the recovery. Pain - I say 9/10 the first day - then 3/10 after that. I dont feel pain my boobs just discomfort actually like when your milk comes in when you breastfeed, that is the exact feeling. I have no pain in the TT insicion just in the upper abs where they did the MR, and that feels like you have done 1000000000 sit ups. I do have pain from the lipo, which has been the worst of it all, so if you have the op done without it I really dont think for me it would have been painful much at all. The lipo feels like I have been kicked and beaten for hours and my body is covered in bruises...which it is. They took 3.8kgs off my belly and 3 kgs in lipo which is about 15lbs. No difference on the scales, infact I am heavier than they day of the op which is to be expected with all the swelling and fluid retention. Anyway thats all for now, I am going to try and work out how to show you the pics as I am feeling paranoid about posting them for the world to see. Ill think of something really soon. Hugs Kel xxxxxxx

This prompted me to think about my own situation. I have a 13 yo daughter, she is built exactly like me, looks like me and acts like me. She is about 5 foot 7 already and in a ladys size 11 shoe. I see her struggling already with food portions. She is always hungry just like I was. What do you do about this, I have tried things with her but she has seen me struggle with my weight all her life and now she is. Have I doomed her to a life like mine because she has the same genes? She is 176 lbs at 5 foot 7. I cant stand to sit back and watch her suffer like I did, yet I feel so powerless. There is not alot she can do, she has lost weight several times already and put it all back on and more. A band at her age is too young I think and I dont think she is responsible enough to handle the restrictions that come along with it...I also dont want her to suffer and be depressed for the next 20 yrs or longer before doing something about it. Sorry to hijack the thread but it really struck a nerve with me. Back to the original question I am only a couple of kgs away from my daughters weight and she is so happy for me, but I see her when she thinks I am not watching and I see it in her eyes. When I try on her clothes and they fit me, stuff like that. I really want to help but honestly I dont know how, this is the only thing that has ever worked for me losing weight and with her being a clone of me wouldnt it be the same for her?

My Dr said it was because they had sewn the port to a muscle somewhere in the stomach and until it heals and has scar tissue adhering it more securely you could flip the port or something like that unless you are careful in the first few months. I took it easy for about 3 months, then started doing ab workouts. I am not allowed to do anything ab for 12 months after my TT.

Hahahaha, dont you just love those fitting room mirrors. They give me a complex. Wow with that size breast I think the reduction would be covered, it would have to cause backpain and problems later on.

Just a favour to ask, I would love to have like a thing where all my pics from before to now are side by side or something so I can show my family and put it on my site. Does anyone know how to do that. I have played around in photoshop and I cant work it out, anyone want to let me know how or be a loving kind person and do it for me :bananadoggywow: Thanks again

Thanks everyone, had a little setback. Dr said I could resume exercise now so I went on a 12km bike ride and split my incision open a bit in a spot. Has been leaking alot but is starting to slow down, am on antibiotics just to be sure. I will never learn :bananadoggywow:

Wow Heather!!!! You are looking so amazing and I honestly wouldnt pick you for the weight you say you are. You look so much smaller. You are damn HOT and be proud!!! Big HUGSSSSSSSSSSS

Oh yes lazynana . I can ditch the garment this week. I am going to wean myself off it though, still wear it at night for a few weeks. I totally love the crotchless look though, Paul tells me I have pigs balls from the back and you can see it through my pants etc.

Anything made of chocolate. I am addicted and it is a CONSTANT battle daily to not eat it. I usually end up giving in and having a small bit each day. Alot different to the family block I ate daily pre banding. I used tolove french fries too, but I am so thankful that my band wont let me eat them now, I have tried a few times and each time i end up PBing...so no more for me.

I am 6 weeks post op from my TT and breast lift and just wanted to share the updated pics so you guys know what to expect if you go through it. It really is true that it takes months fro the final results. I had an appointment with my PS on Friday and he said I still had a lot of swelling and to expect more results over the next couple of months. He said I can stop wearing my garment as of this week too, but I am still wearing it because with the swelling it feels better. Anyway these photos contain NUDITY and all that stuff I have mentioned before, and like Jess said, dont look if you dont want to see thunder thighs, stretch marks and yucky bits. 6 weeks PO