Karen85

Thanks I am glad they have a site like this

Thanks for the response. I am starting to feel that I do need to rethink about having these friends in my life. t

You are not being mean at all. It is sorta jealousy but most of all really really hurt. i feel jealous because we always all 3 of us hang out together and I feel like they are making excuses all of a sudden because everything is about food and 1 of them is on WW and she was saying what i am doing isn't right cause who goes without eating omg she will die. I was doing it for the safety of my surgery and post safety of my surgery. its not like i tried to starve myself for no reason. I told her that and she hasn't spoke to me since and mind you she post this all on facebook so everyone can see.She went to the mall on saturday and made it seem like she went with Jenny my other close friend and she was never with her on saturday. She was with her sister. So I thought that was another messed up thing. She didn't even have the desincy to text me this. and My other close friend that the 3 of us are close friends I was in the middle of talking to her. We were having a convo texting and I told her just cause I can't eat doesn't mean we can get to together for like 2 hrs go window shopping and get coffee and i also told her, so if i was to be on a liquid diet for a whole year, we all wouldn't hang out? and she said ok karen look i am going to sleep gn. That was really hurtful cause I was talking to her telling her how I feel and she just ending the convo when we were still having it. Neither of them called me or text me since saturday.

Sounds like gas to me also. Hope you feel better soon!

My goal right now is to be 199! I am 8lbs away! And my long term goal is to be 140

I was rebanded on March 1, 2013 and i still feel sore and have a bruse there. We are still in the procees of healing so i think it is normal. It hurts when i bend down though.

Tomorrow is my 7th day post op, i have my appt tomorrow. I posted a thread a few days ago about back pain n gas. I still have severe back pain in the middle of my back. I also can not burp! I havent burped once n every time when i swallow my saliva it hurts cause i feel like i need to burp. This pain is driving me crazy! I tried the gas x pill n strips but the gas only comes out sometimes when i use the bathroom and i only do diarrhea. Did anyone have the same trouble i been going through? I am going nuts

Thanks to everyone for your support. I just feel like jeez i am only on liquids that I should have dropped more than 2lbs. does everyone have to be on a 2 wk liquid diet after the surgery? My Dr. told me when I go to my post opt appt maybe he will start me on mushy food.

Today is my 6 day post op. i was 213 the day of my surgery march 1st and when i weighed myself this morning i only lost 2lbs! I am 211 now. I thought i would've dropped at least 2 more lbs! Is this normal? I feel really upset. I am consuming a lot of liquids but i dont like protein shakes so i been drinking , water, coffee, green tea, crystal light, n diet snapple and some skim milk for protein. I mainly drink water. Y only 2lbs??! . Did this ever happen to anyone else?

I had Dr. Kurian when my 1st band was placed on oct 2007. I lost weight gained it back due to steriods. I didnt go bAck to her since 2012 . We found out there was a leak in my band so she put xray dye to see if it will stay since its more thick. I went back didnt work. I made another appt with dr. Kurian to talk about surgery n i wAited over 2 hrs n she said can the nurse practioner see u??? I gotta go get my hair done i am already a half hr late n her hair dresser doesnt like when she is late! I couldnt believe it! She ditched me to get her damn hair done!!!! So i ditched her and a dr i worl for referred me to Dr. Bradley Schwack. Boy did i wish he was in NYU before i let kurian touch me! Dr. Schwack just replaced my bAnd on march 1,2013. He told me he replaced my whole band cause nothing looked righg n dr. KuriAn plAced my band low n thAts probably a big reason why when my band wAs full before the leak i still felt hungry. He is great! He listens to u n answers all your questions and he doesnt try to rush u out of the room to see his next patient. I was so nervous when i was there on the operating table crying cause I was so nervous. N he wAs right there with me telling me everything will be alright. Another main reason about Dr. Kurian that i dont like is... My sis in law (my bros wife) had gastric bypass ln nov. 2007 and she passes away in march cuz they found her intestines were twisted. When I called Dr. KuriAn thAt my sis in law passed away i feel like she didnt really care... So that was the biggest reaSon as to why i was so nervous and crying when Dr. Schwack did it cause i was so upset what happened to my sis in law n i didnt wanna be the same. My niece and 2 nephews lost their mom at such a young age its just so terrible to me till this day.

Hi I am 4 days post op of my lap band being replaced and I haven't been in the mood for anything but water and swiss miss hot chocolate with skim milk. I dont like any protein shakes or powder, they make me throw up! The only shakes I can tolerate are the special K shakes but i have been in pain n so weak all i want is water. This is a bad thing right? I take the chewable multivitamins but thats it

I was banded in Oct 2007 with Dr. Marina kurian. Gained so much weight back cause i had a leak and when I went to go speak to Her about fixing my band she told me the nurse practioner will see me cause she was late to her hair dresser appt and her hair dresser doesn't like when she is late! I waited to see her for almost an hr in the waiting area and over an hr in the room n she just ditched me!??? What the hell kind of Dr. Does that????? I work for surgerons so 1 of my drs. Referred me to Dr. Bradley Schwack and he is so nice! He listens to you answers all your questions and especially doesn't try rush you out of the room to see his next patient. I just got my lap band replaced on March 1, 2013 with Dr. Schwack. He replaced everything because he said the band looked damaged n it wasn't in place right. I feel he is a much more caring, nice, and much more throrough and smart than Dr. Marina Kurian.

Hi everyone I got my lap band replaced on march 1, 2013 and I been having so much back pain. My dr. said its from all the air that they fill the stomach with when they do the surgery and it is gas and it should subside within a few days. I have been having weird stomach noises and then i go diahrrea. I didn't even go back to work yet. Can anyone help me out. thanks.

Thanks very much everyone! I been using the gas-x pills n they seem to help

hey i wanted to know something. sometimes i eat and drink at the same time? is that a really bad thing that i do that with my band? why do they really tell us not to drink and eat at the same time? i barely do it though but i just have that question. can any1 fill me in? thanks. Karen

:frown: hey everyone i have a question...after i finish eating something i get heart burn and sometimes i get a pain on the right side of my stomach with the heart burn what is that? is that a bad thing? i also burp a lot after i eat. is this all normal?l..please let me know..thanks Karen

hey thanks for letting me know. i appreciate it.

i have a 10cc band and i was banded on oct. 22nd, 2007. my last fill was on march 25th and i have my band filled to 9.4cc's i do have restriction but i have been eating a lot more than what i am supposed to and i have been cheating which is stupid of me. i just don't really have support like i used to have anymore and its all in my head with the hunger. i was doing great till the end of march hit, i lost some1 that was very close to me, my sis in law, my ( my bro's wife) and she had gotten gastric bypass in nov. 2007 and they really dont know why she passed away. we had an autopsy done on her but all they found was that her intestines were twisted and they said that i could have been from getting her tubes tied or from the gastric bypass. we were dieting together and i had all that support from her but like my sis and my bro all they do is make fun of me cuz i have a band around my stomach and it just puts me down. but i have to get back on track.

hey everyone? how r u doing? i need some advice. since the end of march, 2008, i been going down hill with my success from my lap band surgery. i weighed 165lbs in march and ever since then i been like gaining 1-2 lbs hear and there. i cheat almot every single Day!!! i am being all stupid by cheating but i went through and still going through a bad time cuz in the end of march, my sister in law (My bro's wife) passed away and we still don't know what happened to her yet. she had gotten gastric bypass surgery in nov. 2007 and we had the same doctor and i just saw her a day before she passed away. and we were dieting together and ever since she passed away i haven't really paid too much attention to my diet. i need to get back on track with it. i didn't do all this hard work for nothing. I worked so hard and i lost 62lbs all togther since oct. 2007 and i am just going to wind up gaining all the weight back god forbid. can anyone help me get back on track with my diet? can anyone give me so suggestions and advice? please i would really appreciate it a lot! also i have another question. when i am done eating i usually hiccup a lot. does that mean that i am full? and once in a while i eat and drink at the same time. is really bad? cuz i think that it washes down the food. please help me out. thank you

hey every one, thanks for all ur support and advice and thanks mss for everything u told me. i do that all the time. when i cheat 1 day with like ice cream or something and i'm still eating healthy by dinner i'm like ah what the heck i'll cheat for the rest of the day and go back to my diet tomorrow, and i just wind up cheatin day after day which is really bad. i usually cheat with ice cream, or chocolate, or peanut butter lol and they are all no good for me. but i read what u wrote and it does make sense and i should be thinking and asking myself is this food gonna get me at my goal weight? i'm gonna think of that every time i feel the urge to cheat. so thank you.

hi everyone. i have a question...i have a band that holds up to 10cc's..and right now i have my band filled to 8.9cc's. when i had my band filled with less cc's, i was hungry still during meals but i had a regular size portion meal..and now i can eat a lot more than what i can. i can fit a whole 6inch hero from subway in my stomach. and before that i could only eat half. i don't know what is going on. i went to go see my doctor today but she told me that i don't need a fill cause i lost 7 1/2lbs in a month. so she didn't give me a fill, but i told her that i was still hungry but she said that i am doing good and to just hold off for another fill in 3 weeks. i don't think my band slipped but i think it moved like its not on all the way that its not properly on. can this happen? to me it doesn't make any sense that i can eat a lot with 8.9cc's in my 10cc band. is this normal? i feel like calling up my doctor and asking her if i can get an esogram done ..lol i dunno how to spell it... so i can make sure everything is ok with my band. i am really nervous about this. i hope nothing is wrong. did or does anyone have the same problem? please give me some advice. thanks everyone and thanks for taking the time to read my thread. take care.