TheDude84023

I'm still holding out on the fill until I get a better feel for things. I can take down Soups, burritos, and meat well but pudding, yogurt, fruit gives me trouble. I'm still losing weight so I'm not going to rush things

Too many judgmental people at my job. So it'll be a secret. I'm also afraid that if word gets out I may be passed over for any fire details thinking that the band may hinder my performance.

I'm waiting for the first of the year. Im heading out of town in a little over week and I'm still having issues with tightness. First of the year for me

Thank you guys,s o much, for your feedback. I feel a lot better today. Partially because I slept A LOT last night (apparently I needed it!). I just had this weird reality check yesterday. No one tells you that food still looks good and smells good. I mean, early post-op days you don't want to eat anything so it kind of surprised me. It has made me want to avoid cooking dinner for the family because I am used to tasting as I go, etc. And initially I was like, "holidays - phfft - it's all good! I'm not going to want to eat anyway!" and yesterday it hit me that I won't be eating Thanksgiving dinner with my family. It is only the 4 of us so it wasn't going to be a big shebang, but still.

I can't remember if it was you @@gowalking or if it was you @@JustWatchMe but one of you said in an older post that you had to reach a point where you grieved the fact that you couldn't turn to food anymore. That really resonated with me when I read it, and I haven't even hit *that* place yet. But I am trying to be self-aware enough to know that this is going to be as much of a grieving process as a healing one. And today I am okay with that!!! :-)

I hear ya! It was interesting eating from a small plate at a thanksgiving feast. My 2 small plates for lunch and dinner was less food than anyone's first plate at lunch LOL

Felt oh so weird

About 8 days and i was able to sleep in any position. I guess I was lucky.

Don't look at the short term "prize" that is in front of you. Keep your eyes locked at the reward at the end of the journey

Sounds like gas may be giving you fits. It may be a few days on the bowels. I didn't have anything happen until day 6.

It will get better

My port is close to the top of my stomach, off to the right a lil and about a few inches below my bra. I have 5 total incisions total. None are in my belly button.

Same here and mine are healing up nicely

I will be cooking all of it and will purée what I can haha

However I doubt I'll be able to resist turkey. I'll have to at least try one piece.

It was easier for me when I would say to myself "I'm not just doing this for myself but I'm doing this for my surgeon" when temptation would try to creep in. After my surgery the first question I asked the doctor was if my liver had shrunk enough and he smiled and said it was perfect. That really made me feel good.

I am in the same boat but as soon as I'd be getting a fill I would be leaving the state for about a month...... So I'm scared to get my first fill and run in case it causes issues. Given my recovery has been more on the rough side I figured I'll wait till I get back from my holiday travels.

Dimples that sounds closer to my experience and I got a lot better 7 days out. Have you thought about going back to a liquid diet? That may help

The dude

How are you doing now???

Its been a pretty rough ride but I will give a quick rundown on the turn of events.(note that I am feeling much better now)

Days 1 - 5:

I was unable to take down more than 8 oz of fluids per day. Had to even be put on a feeding tube to try to force some down. I was extremely tight(inflamed). During this time whatever I consumed would come out in my sleep. Another issue I had was hypersalivation which prevented me from sleeping at all and extreme dehydration.

Day 6: At this point band rejection had me very scared but all of the sudden in the mid after noon of day 6 it felt like a bathtub cork was pulled in my stomach and all of my fluids drained into the intestines. So what I am thinking is the anesthesia still partly had my stomach shut down where it would not pump the contents of my stomach into my intestines. Magically my stomach started working with fluids and my inflammation around the band started going down dramatically. A few hours later my stomach started to get really tight as I was heading to town. Again I started thinking "great now it'll quit working" but after I made it over the mountain pass 8,600ft or so the tension eased. Interesting thing is when this happened I was starving! So I had my first bit of solid food(jello). Since that point I've been working broth and yogurt. I've had my ups and downs but I feel 100 times better than I did the first few days. The only issue I've really had sense was I am having issues with night coughing.

Overall its been a 1 day at a time recovery. I've lost more weight than I wanted to just short of time out of post op but I'll live.

After a rough night and sketchy morning I was finally able to take Fluid without a tube. No sips though. GulpeS or else I will toss them up.

I have a bad feeling this will go to and intolerance. I guess Monday I'll need to go back to the Dr.

Nope I'm feeding from home. It's pretty straight forward.

Well inflammation is the reason I can't stomache things for the meanwhile I will be on a feeding tube

I am heading there today. I've been in contact with both the banded RN and the doc. *Fingers crossed*

So I had surgery yesterday and was able to handle crushed ice and liquid. Today I am unable to hold liquids no more than 2 sips in a 45 min period or else I'll puke. I've tried gatorade broth and Water with very little luck. If I try taking meds then that kills me as well. I've thrown up several times today.

Anyone else have these struggles at post op?

Well I'm back homeland everything went well

Yep the roads were rough until 1pm today and parts of the interstate that I'd be taking In closed as well for a short while. Hopefully that will be it for a few days

My banding is Wednesday and it looks like snowy weather is floating around. Thank god I only have a 4 hour commute to the dr and cross 8800 feet once : (

OMG, all the commercials on TV are about food, McDonald's, Burger King, Italian food, everything is about food. It looks so good, going on day five of the liquid diet.

You can do it

Just a few more days

I'm November 4! I can't believe it's less than a month away.

I'll be doing my final pre op dr appointment on the 4th and I will keep you in my thoughts