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With my line of work I am lucky to get in 2 meals a day. After my first adjustment it seemed that my docotr changed his rules about water. He now wants you to wait 2 hours before and 2 hours after a meal. That is impossible, at least for me. I have a lawn and landscape business in Louisiana and there is no way I am willing to give up water PERIOD! So for breakfast I do protein shake and the same for lunch. For dinner I do a small meal. On the days I have off, which are few and far between this time of the year, I will have a regular breakfast and a regular lunch.

Charlee I went last thursday for my first fill. That was 8 weeks post op. After he stuck my port I asked if everything was normal and he said yes. Then I went on to tell him at 5 weeks post op I had began working out. I was only rep'ing 225 on the bench and did not want to push any more for fear of busting my port loose. anyway I asked if there would be a problem for me to push my weight training back up and he said no problem. I did tell him I had stayed away from my shrug cage and asked him if it was ok to return to doing deadlifts, shrugs and squats since you tend to use a lot of stomach muscles and he said "get after it!!" I am currently 9 weeks post op and shruging 405 pounds and I have no worries. I hope to be in the 600's with in the next 2 months. So I doubt you will cause any problems unless you are a slow healer. I would however discuss it with your doctor before doing extremely heavy wiehgt training if this is indeed what you are after.

I am a couple of days over 3 weeks and am feeling great. I do have sharp burning pain now and then in the port area but other than that i am walking 4 miles a day and have been back to work since the day of my 2 week mark. I was instructed to not pick up any thing heavy for 6 weeks but unfortuneatly for me I have no option. I have a lawn business and have to strap a 40 pound backpack blower on my back at every stop we make to blow when we are done mowing and weedeating. You should be back up to par by week 2. Hang in there!!

Yes you need to use him or your PCP so they can list possible health problems you may have in the future. The plastic surgeon would come across as one who just lists stuff so he can make money. Make sure you send close ups of excess skin and list problems you are currently having because of it. Good luck!! Keep us posted.

Tabbi Did you send pictures and or video like I suggested to you? If you did not you need to resubmit and include those. Let the doctor and his staff know that you are doing this. They should be more than happy to help you resubmit. Like I had told you, a young woman here in Shreveport did just that and it got her her surgery. Do not give up the fight!!

Hello all!! I am in Shreveport. Banded by Merriman on Feb 24th. Good luck!!

Absolutley positive!! Medical is a benifit the company extends to you, period. You need to have a sit down with your accountant. Just an example. Some people have the privilage to work for a company that provides 100% health care (a benifit), that company writes it off as a business expense. My company offers medical to it's employees. The employees happen to be board members of the LLC which are my wife and myself. There for all of our medical is provided from the company we work for.

Also if you are self-employed and you have an LLC or Corp. it is 100% deductable. My LLC pays all expenses. So what ever amount I spend on medical is not looked at as a taxable income.

I have a lawn and landscape business. We really do not do new installs on flower beds, we mainly do maintenance. So in other words I'mah lawn boy:).

I am with Penni. Even though I have never had a strong reaction to meds it is possible sometime down the road I could. I believe for myself I would play the safe card and deflate. If you did happen to be at your "sweet spot" then your doctor will know exactly how much was removed and can eventually work back to that amount.

I see a lot of people eating mushies so soon after surgery I get a little jealous. With that said I decided to stick to my doctors rules. So far I am living on 2 protein shakes a day along with lots of water. I also go to Baskin Robins, buddy of mine owns the one here, and get sugar free fat free vanilla yougart. That stuff is great. I also, at nights as a snack, have sugar free jello with sugar free whip topping. I do add 1/2 banana to my shake everytime I make one, for potasium. I make sure there are no chunks left. Other than that I take vitamens and desicated liver. Once in a while i feel a little lite headed but I seem to have plenty of energy.

WOW your doctor moves you along fast. I was banded on the 24th and this friday is comming up on my 2 week post op. I have liquids first 2 weeks, which I am allowed cream Soup and Protein shakes. Weeks 3 and 4 I get to blend meat cassoroles and fruits, can not be too chunky yet have to be in liquid form. Then weeks 5 and 6 are my mushies, potatos, soggy Cereal, runny oatmeal, fish and eggs. Also any other baby foods I wish to incorporate, yuck. The thursday night starting my week 5 I have big plans, firing up my grill and misqute smoking trout. As far as my intake of Water I can not do just a couple of ounces every 20 minutes or so. Almost 2 weeks out I am able to put down a pint of water pretty fast. Especially when I am either working or excercising. My biggest problem is going to be lunch. I am off to work during the busy season at 6:30 am and run straight through to 3 pm. Because of the 1 hour plus wait to drink water lunch is out for me on work days. I have a lawn and landscape business and am unwilling to give up my water down here in the heat for over an hour. Perhapse I can have a Protein shake or something. i was never a lunch eater anyway.

thank you for the reply. So far so good i did not catch the bug. I wash my hands like 200 times a day and have been spending the night at my mothers. Hopefully I am in the clear.

Yes Wasa is swedish flat bread. When we are over there visitng family we sometimes would use flat bread for sandwhiches. Of course theirs are open face and usually consist of healty meats such as fish or thinly sliced ham etc. along with good cheese and perhapse a slice of tomato. I tend to lose weight everytime we go. I can see it would be a great advantage for me to live there from a health point of view however I couold not take the long cold dark winters lol