bandster_1007

does drinking hurt my stomach, i mean hurt in the literal sense. i think i may just have gas, but my stomach hurts.

I told my mom about my surgery and she was so excited that, "you are finally going to look like yourself". Huh? Then for Christmas she gave me a Magic Bullet blender and told me, "Don't go blending anything fattening in this". Oh and of course the kicker was the weight loss powder drink mix and the Pig christmas ornament. (pic attached) She giggled as she said, "this is your before". Ha ha

Nothing like a little support from good ol mom right? :rolleyes

omg....from you mother!!!??? i thought it was bad that my mom said, "well it looks like you just wasted $15,000".

thanks.

ok, i was all excited about this fill, and i was loving the fact that i can't eat very much. well, i've had 327 calories so far today, and i feel like CRAP. total Migraine, stomach hurts, feel like my heart is beating out of my chest (blood pressure), tired. sucks going on liquids

thanks fairy. how did you change your name?

Hey bandster, you may want to start a ticker, you're gonna start ticking soon!

had a ticker..pissed me off when it told me i had not updated in 80 days, then i was reminded that it had been 80 days and i had not lost a pound...so ticker is gone.

i will put it back when i start losing though.

bandster1007,

say what banded on 10/07 and have not lost!!! What is happening? does your Doc have any input on this?

i have to say that wasn't a question i expected in this forum...you mean i'm the only one..even in the slow losers?????:think

my doctor's input yesterday was "i'm making you tight, you probably don't even know you have a band"..ya think.. he's great. well, he did, now i feel every drop that passes my lips. sip..ha..i never had to sip, i drank a whole glass of liquid in one setting 4 hours after surgery. NOW I HAVE TO SIP!!:clap2:

i'm scared to eat, but i will. tomorrow i get to move back to mushies..i'm on liquids right now.

my doctor said it is actually quite normal among...get this...smaller people. HA!!! he said, "you are a little girl"...HA!! boy i haven't heard that one in a while, that one put a soft spot in my heart... he said the band is the band and each person is different. the bigger you are, the more you feel the band right after surgery. people on the lower bmi end, tend to feel the band a bit later due to a smaller fat pad around the stomach. i have an aps band, but he said i didnt' have much of a fat pad and everything inside looked real good.

so i dont' know, but i feel my band now..hopefully it will stay this way and not go away and hopefully i start losing weight.

please don't be jealous!! i was crying every time someone asked me about this surgery 2 days ago. actually, i've gained since surgery.

but when i told my doc that i could eat 4 pieces of pizza with crust and some more, after my first fill, and he saw that i gained, he did not hold back. i guess it really benefits to be honest.

i was singing the same tune a couple of days ago. i got my second fill yesterday (yes i know i'm still swollen), and now i can feel every single drop that passes my lips.....i love it..and i'm not hungry. i know this will go down in the next couple of days, but i also know that this is how it is supposed to be.

be patient..it will happen

i haven't lost anything yet, actually gained, but i'm still optimistic, and this last fill made me more so.

my goal for this month is to weigh less than i did prior to surgery. lol..and with this new fill, i just might make it!!!!

thanks you guys...makes me feel better.

he said he was going to make me tight..so he did. lol..

yeah..fairy (did you change your name) i absolutely cannot imagine eating pizza right now. the thought of eating anything solid is scary. (i must say as the day passes though, i'm not so tight..i might try skipping Breakfast tomorrow and just having coffee).

ok, i went to my doc yesterday for my 2nd fill. i had gained 2 lbs since the last visit which put me 2 lbs higher than surgery date. my first fill was 6.5 cc's with 3 cc prime and i was able to eat 4 pieces of pizza and some cheesesticks in one sitting one week after my fill. so..didn't do anything. ok, well, my doc said it was time to tighten me up..and boy did he. he only added a little. i'm now up to 5.2 cc's (not including the 3 cc prime). each time that i drink i feel it. each swallow.

is that normal? i'm still on liquids (for 48 hours post fill). coffee goes down fine..but i'm not used to having to sip. right after surgery i could down a glass of liquid with no problem..couldn't feel a thing. now with each swallow i feel pressure..then it's gone.

just checking if this is normal, or if this is a precursor to being too tight.

SO THAT'S WHAT THE HICCUPS MEAN??? i've wondered why i will hiccup like 2 times when i've eaten too much.

....i burp like crazy. and i have gas problems on the other end of the cycle also. i really think that drinking diet flattened soda (doc says ok) is causing me terrible gas. i burp so much now that my son is always like "mom please..that is so gross", and i'm like "it's because of my surgery"..so now he thinks that i had surgery to burp...(and the other :0)

i just re read what i posted earlier.

sorry about my whole sick post. my point in all of that was that i can eat anything i want right now, too, and i am not losing weight at all, but if restriction feels like it does while i'm sick, then i think we all have hope!!!!

OH GREAT...NOW ..i have my ticker to remind me that i 've been 80 days past surgery and havn't lost a damn thing..

you first fill will probably not do it either.

i have a question..how do you know if your pouch is stretched???? could that be why i am not losing?

I see people talking about how other people will treat them when they are "thin"....how their partners and family will react to it, etc.

I don't really see people commenting on what I believe to be the core of the problem with most everyone...

"When I am ______ (insert your word here.....thin, skinny, 130 pounds, etc.) will I finally be HAPPY with and LOVE myself?"

I think that's what this really boils down to. We have all punished ourselves for whatever indiscretions we perceive we have done to ourselves, or have been done to us by others. I don't believe that ONE of us has had a truly healthy relationship with OURSELVES in this self-destructive lifestyle. And NO we won't magically love ourselves at a certain weight. This is a multi-step process. Mind and body, together. You cannot divorce the two. As the metamorphisis takes place in our bodies, we have to turn inwards and REALLY look long and hard at why we got where we got...take those bricks of thinking apart and study them carefully and try to put them back together in a more healthy way...

THAT's the challenge we face....the weight is secondary, like getting rid of the symptom of a disease, if you don't address the underlying cause, the symptoms will return.

very well said, i need to put this on my vanity mirror and read it every day.

Yes, I am scared to death of getting thin. This is another world that I am not familiar with. One thing that I do know, is I start to get attention and it makes me feel uncomfortable. I am not used to getting compliments and when I get 5-10 a day, I get a bit upset and wish that people would just leave me alone. I guess also it would be, hey people I amjust the same person that I have always been just a different shell. I kind of makes me feel like I really wasn't liked because of my appearacne to begin with.

That's my main issue too much positive attention that I really DO NOT want. BLAH!

this is how i feel..i hate attention. i have been raped and sexually abused as a child (rape was when i was 12 and was continuous for a year)..i think this is why i became fat in the first place. so, yes..i am absolutely terrified of being thin. but as my pcp tells me, i have a man that loves and protects me, and i deserve to be healthy, i cannot continue to punish myself for what someone else did to me.

well..although i have not had a fill, i am VERY sick right now. i think i have pneumonia again (i've had i twice before), but i'm not sure because i'm having body aches and a headache that i cannot get rid of. and i'm very tired. and my whole face hurts. anyways, i guess from all of this mucus, i finally feel what i will feel like when i am at my sweet spot. i have no interest in food. i'm not hungry at all, and when i do eat it lasts for hours. i've lost 3 lbs since this morning..i'm not sure how that happened...lol...i took a diuretic, but i've been taking them every day almost.

anywas, i think this thing may actually work when i get the right fill. i like this not being hungry thing.

Hi All! I am SO new here....so bear with me. My best friend is having LB surgery soon. I am interested in this "fiber" talk as someone who has ulcerative proctitis. I haven't heard "Metamucil" mentioned once... I take it every night (and have for 18 years), with an extra glass of Water just before I go to bed. I can't imagine (and I know so little, and am blonde!!!) that from what I have read here, it could be harmful. Metamucil works "lower" (I think) than where the band and stomach are...

Please let me know what you think....

my doc specifically said no metamucil. people on this thread have mentioned benefiber because it is clear and tasteless. i have asked doc yet. but they told me no metamucil and no Fiber one, because it bulks up.

FMLA IS ONLY GOOD FOR 60 WORKING DAYS IN 12 MONTHS TIME. If you have any exteded illness your employer can replace you without a problem. If they lay you off instead of terminating you you may be able to get unemployment but have to be able to look for work (on paper). Managing FMLA is part of my job. Good luck to you.

yeah, i have come NO WHERE NEAR 60 days, i'm not even at 20. ...i think i have actually taken 10. they would have laid me off, not terminated me, but they are keeping me around..soo..

now i have pneumonia again :faint:, but i will only be out today. i have made a significant improvement in the last couple of months.

oh yeah, i should have added that i was not an actual addict..i would have one a day, but it was not diet. i drink crystal light mainly, but lately i've been drinking diet orange soda. and..coke zero's are awesome.

my doctor doesn't care if we drink diet soda. he just wants us to flatten it. i have been...i've been drinking it lately..but i've also been having a lot of gas, so i think i'm going to cut it back out.

Please don't make yourself feel too badly. I had decided to enjoy the holidays, although also trying not to over endulge. Then I will get my second fill on January 2nd. So if I eat a little more than I should with my family who I have not seen in years - I am not going to beat myself up. But actually, I am really looking forward to second fill. Yeaaa.

My band works well even with one fill. I see myself quiting where before I would not have even been close to stopping. Have a good Christmas.

verbatim how i fell..my 2nd fill is even on jan 2nd. i was so frustrated and beating myself up and almost in tears every day, then my doc said..hey don't worry about it...eat...you'll start losing again, and besides this may be the last christmas that you can eat as much.

i know for a fact that i could not eat as much this year as i could've last year, but i still want to eat less...and i will. it will come. i got severly depressed from just thinking about it all the time, and that was only making it worse..i wanted ice cream, etc.

now, i've told myself to relax and wait for the restriction. my next fill is 1/2 and i'm not going to kill myself until i have some help. i'm happy to report the cravings have went away. i'm now craving meat and greens.

i'm there with you. i feel like i am eating too much, and i am hurting.

how did your fill go? is your pouch ok?

my doc says that a cold, etc. is like getting a fill. i had never noticed that until now. i have 6.5cc's but i have no restriction yet HOWEVER....i am getting pneumonia again (i'm becoming an expert at that)..and i started being able to eat less about 3 days ago..today..i can't hardly eat anything. and my band is hurting even though i do not have any food in my belly (could be my chest..band...not sure).