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After reading this thread it gave me the motivation to clean out my dresser and get rid of all the old things. Going shopping this weekend. Going to get me some matching panites and bra's. After reading JENNA's post thought maybe she had hit on why I have bad days. (need matching)

I went to seminar that Dr. Schmit in Birmingham. His price was 14,000. But I decided to go with Dr. Rumbaut in Mexico. Not because of the price difference but becasue Dr. Rumbaut has so much more experience. Dr. Schmit will do yours with a bmi 0f 36. But I do not believe your insurance will cover it.

Glad you asked this. I have not had a pb or vomiting. I had my first fill 9-21-05. I have 9.75 inamed band. If I understand right it will only hold 4cc. I got 2cc at my fill. I can eat anything, (bread, pasta, rice) haven't tryed steak yet. I only eat about 1/3 of what I would have ate before the band. I don't want to have a pb, but was wondering since I can eat all of this stuff if I should go back and get more of a fill.

Thats so great. I made my first goal yesterday on the scale. I called my husband in to the bathroom so he could read the scale for me, I thought I was seeing things.

Welcome to bandland. I'm in the same boat as you, have been able to loose weight but never could keep it off.

go read this thread.I wish I hadn't told anyone I was getting the band

Chuck Norris

green with flowers, victoria's secret panties, white with blue poka dots bra damn that don't even match at all, but you said not to lye

Welcome to Bandland. It's like Coyotogirl said we all scared that we will fail. I'm 6 weeks out I've lost 29lbs, and everyday I still worry whether I wil succeded at losing all the weight.

Had my first fill yesterday, could not drink or eat anything 4 hours before fill. Have to be on liquids for 2 days mushies for 2 days, then back to regular food.

It's going to be along day tomorrow. Will be flying to Chicago for my first fill. I'm a little nervous.

Hi Parvathi, Comparing lap band to lipo, I would give lap band 1 and lipo 10. I had a lot of brusing from the lipo. It took me about a month to feel better after lipo. The tummy tuck was healed up in about 10 days. I would do the tummy tuck again but I would never go thru the lipo.

I had a tummy tuck and lipo ten years ago, the tummy tuck did not hurt if you compare it to lipo. lipo really hurt bad. My tummy tuck scar is very low, I could wear a bikini. But that was ten years ago and now I've put on 100lbs.

Thanks Zoe, this really helped.

darn you got me to. I thought you had posted the XXX pic. from the vegas bash.

I will be there for sure. Would have been there this year if I could have gotten my band a little earlyer.

Welcome to bandland. It is okay to take gas-x. I started on gas-x the same day of surgery. The gas pains was the worest thing about the surgery. It wil get better everyday.

I had heard that if you smoke you might not heal as fast as you should. But I could not stop smoking so I was scared. I had no problems with healing. I think you will be fine.

Julie just saw your post. Hope everything went well. Please tell me what your expierence was like. I will get my first fill Next wednesday (21). I am scared just like you were.

You girls are having way to much fun, stop now I'm jealous. I will be there next year.

You all look great, Can't wait to see more pic.

If I could back up time I would not tell anyone. I think everyone in my town knows I have the band. I feel so much stress. you would not believe it, seems like everytime I walk out my door someone is asking well how much weight have you lost. The phone rings and its someone wanting to know how much weight I have lost. The worst thing of all is I've lost 25lbs in less than five weeks have no fill yet and they look at me like I haven't lost enough. Because they know so little about the band they think I should be losing like I had the gastric bypass. Please be smart and don't tell anyone.

Hi Donna, Welcome to bandland,

Welcome to bandland. My husband says I'm addicted to this web. sight. lolol

Thanks for all your help. I am very proud of the 25lbs that I have lost. I personaly only told my husband, my two kids and my best friend. But I didn't tell them not to say anything, so they all told someone and that someone told someone else and around the world it went. I do understand some of you that said you don't care who knows and some of you say that you tell everyone. But I do not handle pressure well at all. I do feel like everyone is watching me to see what and how much I eat. I guess what I'm trying to say is when your deciding to tell or not to tell consider whether there going to give you support or pressure and to make sure if you do tell someone that they know whether you want them to keep it a secret or not.