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Jodi 620, you are kicking ass!! WTG!!

Welcome, BG. Did your doc sing What's New, Pussycat while he was banding (lame "Tom Jones" joke......I know, I know)?

Does the powdered peanut butter come packaged in a paper straw like a pixie stick?

Be careful to take some deep breaths every now and then, or you risk atelectesis (tiny air sacs in the lungs collapsing / consolidating.....can very easily lead to pneumonia). If it hurts to breathe deep , try doing a few deep breaths after you take a pain pill. In general, you need to try for 2-3 deep breaths every hour or so. Did the office give you an incentive spirometer ( weird looking breathing exerciser thingy)? They help.

I would be a little hesitant to go with an office that has shown total and utter disregard for the details. "Just go to any radiography place" - WTF?!? Like you can easily walk in anywhere and say "Gimme an esophagram and a large diet coke". Find somebody else that actually shows concern for their patients.

PB is not as hard on my system as vomiting, per se. On the very few occasions I vomit, it's terrible on me. The few times I've PB'd, it's more like a cough......and up comes the food. Is it bad for the pouch? I'm sure it can't be great for the pouch, but nowhere near as rough as true vomiting, IMO.

Awesome, Holly!

Welcome to LBT, Emmie...and good luck!

Don't give up, PB.....there are a lot of PCP's that will write that letter for you. I'm still pretty steamed for you that your original doc won't do it (but he will use an anti-depressant off label....sure, that'll take off 100 lbs or so, right?)

Seems like a minor thing upon which to end a friendship, but .....that's her problem, right? BTW, I love your name. Do you pronounce it in the cajun way ( A-bear )? I went to HS with a girl that was named Hebert, and her family had a sandwich shop that was awesome!! Just realized I tend to get a little off-topic. If you want to salvage the friendship with Renee (and to be honest....if she pouts over stuff this petty....I'm not sure I would) just ask her "Why are you mad at me? Have I done something that I didn't realize?". That puts the ball in her court, at least.

One would have to be a bit of a nutter in the first place to even go on Trading Spouses in the first place, IMO.

Whenever I google magic hot tubs, my computer laughs at me...

That's a very powerful image.

Hi MeiQa.....same thing happened to me after my band. I think your stomach is still swollen from the surgical procedure. My appetite began to show again with week two or so. make sure to drink your water (I realize it's an effort right now) so you don't get dehydrated, and enjoy having zero appetite for a little while.

I was almost out of the negative numbers!!

I'd just laugh if I saw somebody wearing this shirt.....and secretly feel superior to them :sad:

I have my MySpace addy in my sig. I'm public, so feel free to snoop around. I actually recently took down a lot of old pics, but there are tons of new ones up (and I have a looooooong way to go before I get to the "after" of before and after).

Hey bux...keep in mind that if you are taking narcotic pain meds, that can "stop you up" as well. I highly recommend taking chewable fiber tabs (but, like somebody else mentioned, check with your doc first).

Fenton, the trashy highlights....ok. Do not, however, take RAS' advice and put on red lipstick and chap shorts!! LOL

Well.....that just sucks, Fanny. At least it turned out to be not so grave, eh? I'm thinking maybe some advanced yoga contortions, and you can unkink that tubing easily!! LOL

Hang in there, dood!

I'm not disagreeing with ATD, and I know the vagus nerve does impact appetite.....but I would question exactly how much the vagal pressure comes into play with the band. I know that the heart is one of the most vagal-sensitive organs on that nerve pathway (from my time as a respiratory therapist, I have seen many times vagal stimulation slow down heart rate considerably). I'd think if the band exerted much pressure on the vagus, we'd be seeing a lot more funky cardiac stuff. However, I'm NOT a doctor, could be dead wrong about this, and am a dumbass 95% of the time. The area of the vagal nerve that affects the stomach could be distal enough to the heart where you wouldn't get much cardiac effect, so......back to where we started. I've wondered myself about this considerably, and just had to throw this opinion out (hey, it's worth what you paid for it....LOL).

sdbeachmom and MyTurn, I pm'd you on where to place the ticker

Yup, the "y'all" gave you away, BII!!

Congradulations on the date!