bandster_1007

i'm gonna be honest. i think i should have saved $10,000 and seriously just did a half a quarter diet until my stomach adjusted. now, i'm sure i'm allusioned because i do have the band but the last activity was 2 unfills about a year or so ago. and i had lost no weight until 2 months ago. i went from 230-190 in 2 months. and i did it because i don't crave ice cream, sweat tea, sweat treats, sweat anything anymore, and the only reason i don't is because my hormones are finally balanced. if you are a sweet eater at all (even sweet tea 2 x a day) the lap band may be slow for you. but good luck on the journey

hey, i'm tabatha...mary melody knows me, or did. so i see mary that you had your surgery congratulations!!!! i'm so glad to see/hear that you are doing well.. let me know when you are ready to start walking i need to walk too. i finally started losing weight. so, after a year....and......um.....welll....almost 2 years. (oct 07) i have finally lost 46 lbs. so i know weigh 190 lbs. which is awesome for me. but i haven't been losing any weight until i was layed off from my job in january. it is still really slow and steady and i haven't had a fill in over a year....actually unfilled (twice)... really it's been more like 1 1/2 years. best luck to all and i hope you all lose weight better than i. i needed my hormones to be balanced....now they are, the acne is gone and i'm losing weight at a very good slow steady pace. but i will say that i have had SEVERAL doctors tell me that the lap band is the worse thing i could have done for myself. of course, don't take that the wrong way, i'm defensive too...but i was banded, got pregnant, miscarried, long 'natural' infectios miscarriage, had a surgery to fix the miscarriage, had another, and another, had a hysterectomy, lost my job from my health, have full blown fibromyalgia. NOW i'm losing weight...loll....

thanks i will check that out. i still have pain and have had the hematoma since surgery. each time i decide to have sex it drains . ..i thought it was gone, but i decided to have sex last week and i bled all over the place. it is disturbing. i will go to hystersisters soon.

i'm 26. i have only had actual sex 3 times since hysterectomy on 9/22....(i had severe complications)....however, when i am pleasuring myself **blush blush** it does take longer. i take the estrogen shot though, and i have absolutely no drive the first 2 weeks ...then the 3rd week..i'm dieing..i have it done every three weeks (i did not have a drive before either though).

i have a band doctor that does NOT encourage unfills but i had to be unfilled half way for my hysterectomy. i'm still not ready for a fill because i can't eat very much. if i would have had a fill post surgery i would have not been able to keep anything down at all.

..sorry i didn't read the whole thread.. i can't use soap either..i have to use summer's eve. i can't use anything besides summer's eve or baby soap. no regular soap.

i went through the thousands of dollars in tests, and was put on antibiotics, that i had to take every time i wanted to have sex.... the end result...i have an allergy to latex. once i figured this out i started using those polyurethane condoms (really expensive) or lamb skin. no uti's in over 2 years. i was getting them at least twice a month and had to keep cystex and azo in stock. when i have an exam i ask them not to use latex gloves. now the allergy is showing up if someone touches me with latex or if i use a latex bandaid. crazy thing..but if you are using condoms..it is a thought.

...that is too ironic..i'm in a wedding in 3 weeks too...on the 29th..and i'm getting a fill just a couple of days before thanksgiving...the 26th if we all made the right decisions...we wouldn't need the lap band to begin with.

ok, i haven't logged my food yet, but i am going to start trying to do the quote of the day again, so here goes: "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." -Booker T Washington

i'm in.. and let me add to that list.. GGEETT A NNNEEWWW JJJOOOBBBB :laugh:

my husband says he can't feel a diff. but lately i have not been able to orgasm..not even by myself.

...my bladder hurts too.....i hate peeing. that is odd maybe it is just a hyster thing. my lower back is killing me again also...but i had sex after 4 weeks.....i haven't done it again, but i don't know that i didn't hurt anything..it just kind of "happened".

i was actually told about that rumor by a lady at my doctor's office. she said she new it for a fact, because she works in the field, but would not tell me the name of the doctor. she said he has to do the surgeries in a "surgery center" because he is not allowed to work at several hospitals in the area. i found this out after a neighbor of a coworker died for no explained reason just a few months after is lap band.

not 25...but 5...lol... 5 lbs is a big deal for me. when i weighed before i had my hysterectomy i weighed 210...which was not right....i think i had Fluid or something..now i weigh 195. so....i'm losing, but i'm not filled...don't get filled until next week (well..i have a fill but i'm not tight by any means.

ok..so i have a confession...i have never ever broken the rules before, but i had sex.....at 4 weeks. so, i watched the pavlik vs hopkins fight (i'm a boxing fan)..and my husband has a great body..for some reason though, i haven't had that feeling of "omg he's so hot" in years. well...i just got really turned on...by my husband and i didn't say no...the hormones got the best of me. let me just say that it was aaammmmmmaaaaaazzzzzziiiiinnnnnngggggg. i needed no lubricant and actually had an orgasm...actually 3 in about 5 minutes. i know that is a lot of information, but i never ever ever have those..it's always been too painful. there was no pain at all and it was wonderful. i haven't done it anymore though because i had a bloody discharge the next day...don't want to risk causing any problems.