Cathrine Ray

I had something sorta like this happen to me many moons ago.... Go with your gut.. It is hard to do. Hang in there. You really know down deep.

Hi thanks for checking... Well it took all of a week for the discomfort to go away.. I had told my Hubby if it wasn't better by today I was off to the doc... But Sat it felt so much better now nothing. Good for you on your fill.. I haven't yet had one. My doc say as long as I can loose at least 10 pounds a month no fill. I see him every month and as long as I keep loosing I go without the fill. He said I have to loose less than 10 a month to get one... I have a lot of restriction. I eat very little and really never hungery........... Yea.. again Thanks...

Good question... Something we need to know..

That is so cool.... I like you don't want to resize and because of that when it got to small I stopped wearing it. That was 10 years ago. Looking forward to putting it back on. I try it on everyday... I can't wait....

My Christmas Goal is to be under 200..... All I want for Christmas is that.....:thumbup:

Every doctor is different.. Mine calls it the dry hour. Nothing 1/2 hour before or nothing 1/2 hour after. It is easy to manage.. I went and bought a key chain timer... and when we go out I'm always finished before everyone else. So I set the timer and get to have tea or something....whil they finish there meal.. But two hours.. Wow.. Haven't hurt that one.

Bingo Pizza to much to fast, and not enough CHEW CHEW CHEW....It was all stupid ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:thumbup:

I was banded 8-1-08.. I got stuck last Friday and it hurt so bad... I'm so sore.. I'm now afraid to eat any solid food... Hope I get hungry soon...:thumbup:

OK this is couples. We have been going out with these different couples for over 30 years...(might need new friends) tee hee Well in the past we would split 50 50 and over the decades it would even out..... But may be it is petty but when the bill comes and it is over 200 and all you had was soup. Well now my husband will have a regular meal, and desert but he doesn't equal two. When I said something they started to pick the bill apart and the whole thing was not pretty. Oh well I guess I'm being petty. I know it is hard enough to watch all the feeding now and how much people eat... OMG I can't believe I ate so much...Maybe the eating out thing is to much for me right now... Time will tell... With our lives right now we attend around 3 to 6 formal dinners every month.. I'll eat at those the are free.....

Hi I also order a whole meal now and enjoy it at home over and over again for a different reason... Have any of you had a problem with eating with friends and you only having soup and they order a whole dinner with drinks and desert and split the bill... I have found that to be the norm.. When I call someone on it they made me fell so petty... Now I keep up and bring it home. Just seems easier. Do any of you have this problem? Let me know how you handled it.

Same thing happened to me... I was so stuck I really started to get scared... After about 10 mins it made it down... It wouldn't come up. Well that was last Friday and I'm still sore. Better but sore.... I will never eat it again. Still on real soft foods.:party:

OMG this looks so good..................:party:

My shoes won't stay on my feet... They are slides and that is what they do . Slide right off. These are shoes that when my feet swelled they hurt. Now I can hardly keep them on... :tt2:

Hi her name is Lilli. She is 8 months old...Great dog...

The first thing I noticed after about 20 lbs. gone is my shoes kept flipping off.. Never had that problem at all.. It is a nice problem. Yes we have fat feet. Not any more:party:

Thank You Thank You I needed to hear that. This forum is wonderful.. I will stay a good girl. It is better and I 'm on the couch taking at easy today.. Catching up on TIVO Tomorrow I will do some walking.. I also might have done an exercise no no also...I got on the elliptical and went crazy.. Just getting use to exercise. I went 40 mins. Might have been to much... It has been a month.. I stay at 30 mins for another month... Again Thanks

Thanks I need all the help I can get.. I have no problem keeping liquids down.. I just feel like I got beat up inside... It is sore. I really don't feel if unless I take a deep breath. It feels like it did right after surgery... No real pain just sore. I know it was the being stuck. It was OK before the piece of killer chicken....:thumbup:

Hi i had my first last Friday. It hurt so much, I was so scared. That was 3 days ago. I'm still sore. Almost like right after surgery. I went back on liquids and squishy stuff. It hurts if I take a deep breath. Not really hurts I just feel everything.. Mine was chicken also. No more chicken for me for sure. It hurt..... I hope we are smart enough to learn from this. Let me know if you get sore.:thumbup:

I can't understand how you can call him a black man. He is also white. He is a wonderful candidate. My maternal grandmother was black. Yet all of her children were born the color of grandfather. So we were thought white... As if she didn't matter. I think it is sad that so many choose the label that suits their cause. I love all my grandparents including my other grandmother who was American Indian and listed on the 1900 census as property. I would love to think we will embrace the right person for the job and not the ethnicity....

I named my port but I thought I was the only one... Port sounded so nautical. I call my port Abby. Port Abby. I know it is silly but more personal.:smile:

Morning. You would have to discuss that with your doctor. I can tell you after I was banded my doctors stopped my diabetes meds and all my cholesterol drugs. My cardiologist is watching my blood pressure to make sure it doesn't drop to low. I always had border line high blood pressure. Everyone is different talk to you doctors.

This sounds like one of those recipes everyone wants to try......:w00t:

Siren , First of all I was banded on Aug 1, 2008 and I just got off soft and mushy food... I am just starting solid foods. I can have moist chicken no breasts unless it is in a sauce.. By the 24th of next month the doctor wants me on all solid foods.. He said the last things I would try would be meat.. Now he wants me on soft meats and chew well. Sea food is good.. So it might be that you are not quite ready for some things... Today I had my first PB. Not fun at all. It started with slime... Slime is a really heavy saliva. Your body produces it to pass the food stuck... This is a really scary thing and very painful. My problem was I did not pay attention to what I was doing and didn't chew my chicken well enough.. Take your time and chew chew chew.....

Thanks all you PBers... I had my first PB and if I had not read all your experiences I would have paniced... It was so scary and painful.. I remembered all I had read and when the slime came I knew what it was. It was not fun. I will chew my chicken until there is nothing left. I eat chicken all the time but I was doing something else and eating and I guess I can't walk and chew gum at the same time... I want to say Thanks....... I really need you guys... I wish this kind of support was around when I had my kids....I'm also glad you are willing to share....

Good for you I have been worried. Don't think I need to. One day at a time.. We will talk soon..