nina874

LOL, I remember the cravings, I was ready to eat my own feet I was that desperate to chew something by the time I came off soft foods. It will be over soon, and then you will just have to get used to slowing down your eating and remembering to not drink with your meal.

Best of luck to both of you

Sorry I cant help I am in the UK, I am sure there will be someone along who can assist you soon.

I am with the other posters, I slept in a normal bed - I had forgotten about the sleeping on your non port side

You probably havent hit your sweet spot yet. saying which you will still feel hungry when you have a band - you just wont be able to eat as much and you will feel full for longer. Dont forget that actual 'god I am starving' hunger and "nom nom that cake sure looks tasty" hunger are two entirely different things. Learning to distinguish between the two is as much of a learning curve as learning to eat with your band. I call the latter one head hunger..... that one is trickier! Wait a couple of weeks and if you can eat way to much in each portion and you are still feeling hungry then get a top up.

Hope that it all settles down for you and that your band moves back to the right place. I have periods when my band is waaay tighter for no apparent reason, but it does tend to line up with my monthly cycle so I always wondered if it was hormone related. Stress can be a killer too, when I have got a hectic schedule at work it tends to play up more. I cant really offer much help but I do hope that it sorts itself out.

Hardcore bandster posting on the day of the op! Welcome to the other side, you will be racking up those pounds lost in no time.

I am so sorry that your dad died hon (((hug))) I hope that your surgery is fast and painless and that you can start your journey in as easy a way as possible.

Ooops, sorry. I would make my displeasure very very noticeable and be talking about a full refund based on your services received thus far. Do they have a robust follow up service with free fills and dieticians? If so it may just be that they screwed up the appointments and once you are in the system so to speak you get a much better service.

Way to go on the weight loss so far hon! You will notice the difference immediately when you have your fill, are you having it with an xray/barium? Cheezits and other crisps are the devils foodstuff, they will just slide down even when you have good restriction lol

This is similar to another thread only the opposite lol. I was having a moan about the fact that my much loved girls died a death during the last 10lbs of weightloss and I ended up getting them restored. It would have worked out a lot cheaper if they had just gone down proportionately I am happy for you ladies that your puppies are now more managable!

Hmmm I dont know what a lifestyle lift is, I assuming you are talking about a neck/lower facelift. I am actually all for surgery to sort out anything that cannot be sorted by exercise, I dont know how your looks or how unhappy it makes you. If it makes you unhappy after doing all this hard work I would say get it fixed

If that is how they treat you before they have your money it is not a good advert for how they will treat you afterwards...... Is it self pay or funded? If it is selfpay I would say screw that and go and see a couple of others.

I am sorry that I cant give you medical advice, but someone said something to me about the Vagal nerves (?) that run around that area and can cause the kind off issues you are talking about. Could they not see where you band was on the CT? Can you get a copy of that picture to take to your band doctor. I would ay get back into your band doc and get that egd and barium done. I hope that you feel better soon hon ((hug))

I would say not to worry about stretching your pouch if you are only eating a cup full of food. Do you feel full after that cup full? Drinking with your meals kind of defeats the object of the band as you just kind of swill the food down the plughole IYKWIM. That could be why you have plateaued as you can always eat more if you have a drink at the same time. Everyone has months where it seems no matter what they do they stay the same weight, my advice would be at a cupful you arent going to be stretching the pouch and start some exercise to kick up your metabolism, it absolutely made the difference to my weight loss and overall body shape. Well that and a very good plastic surgeon......

Sounds like a very similar experience to the one that I had when I had my band fitted, I was also self pay as at the time in the Uk they would only consider patient with a BMI of over 50 for surgery - which my surgeon at the time pointed out was a nightmare for the surgeons involved! I didnt get much info and luckily didnt have to go on a pre op because of my BMI. I did have access to a post op team of nutritionists - will your doctor be providing any post op back up? As for the surgery itself, please dont worry, it is over so quickly (well obviously because you are alseep, but you know what I mean) and then you have the first couple of weeks post op and after that it is just getting used to a new way of eating, some basic rules, and getting the right fill so that you reach your sweet spot. I found the help that I got on here invaluable when I had my band fitted, they were a fantastic bunch of women, and although I havent been on in a long time, it see,s that the people on here now are just as friendly and welcoming. Dont be afraid to ask questions - I came on here a few years ago when I has the worst overfill ever and someone in the chat rooms managed to find me a hospital in Cornwall UK that could unfill me on a sunday from their bedroom in America!

I am really happy for you that you are thrilled with the job that your PS did, its the best feeling ever isnt it

Take painkillers and dont try to bluster through it. Avoid shaking the duvet out and things like that for a good couple of weeks and remember you have had surgery, dont be too hard on yourself. The burping is probably a combo of the gas pain from the keyhole and your tummy getting used to its new situation, and dont forget they move things out of the way to get to your stomach when they do the surgery, a little bit of bruising on your diaphragm is not uncommon. Hope you feel better soon and start to enjoy the benefits that your new best friend will bring to you

Mine came off fairly evenly to start with but the last 14lb seemed to come straight off my boobs! I went from a 38g to a 34C and let me tell you it was not pretty, it was like the ultimate trade off. After coping with shovelling the sad little sack of beagles ears type skin into my bras for 2 years and having the trauma of rolling over at night and trapping my own nipple under my arm and waking myself up - yes really - I treated myself to a brand new set. I viewed it more as a restoration project than an augmentation Did exactly the same thing when I had to fold my tummy into my trousers, best decisions I made in a long time, I have a better body in my 40's than I had in my 20's and it is all thanks to my band (and a couple of very skilled plastic surgeons lol)

I think if you eat too much of anything you can get fat - except maybe celery, it would be pretty hard to get fat off celery - but it is a lot easier to get fat eating a smaller amount of bad food than it is to get fat eating huge amounts of good food. There are loads of things that I love that arent necessarily bad when taken individually but when you add a cream sauce they become calorific, steak au poivre with asparagus, sweet potatoes and sauted baby carrots springs to mind....... I have to say as well that my step sister is a vegetarian and her love of cheese definitly, as she will admit, is reflected in her butt size

I am so glad that I didnt have to do the pre op diet, the post op one drove me mental, I was fit for eating my own feet by the end of it I was that desperate to chew on something. Keep your chin up hon, it will be worth it!

Are you eating slider foods? I notice that you say that you are eating food that you shouldnt, if you are eating crisps and biscuits that type of thing then getting a fill wont make any difference, you just need to get your head back into the game. If you can eat more normal dry type food than you could before then it is time for another fill.

I cant feel my band but I can really see my port now! I was sore when I woke up, but only sore not in real pain and the day or so after I was fine. Now she is just part of me, I call it my choke chain, it just hangs around in there unless I start to pull my eating too far , and then it yanks me back. Its a sharp learning curve about how to eat - hint , very slowly with each fork full lovingly prepared and cut down to tiny bitesized pieces ( I always was a perfect mouthful girl so its no hardship for me) - but you soon get the message. Getting to the sweet spot can be tricky and overfills are no fun at all, but I have never ever resented my band, I just learned by my mistakes and altered what I was doing. i do feel physically different, I just ran 3 miles and did my yoga, I can wear lycra and look pretty damn fine if I say so myself, I am bursting with confidence and look 10 years younger than I did 10 years ago!

Good luck! This is the first step on the journey to the new you See you on the other side.