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Hello Chaps, Im also in London - although did mine in France as it was the best option economically and the care was excellent! Just a bit lonely a journey afterwards as I dont know anyone with the band. Upside I am getting a bit thinner finally but its so SLOW. I dont know how to accelerate things a little even! Hope you are all well!

Ah okies - might be worth finding out about for the odd emergency. I am going to see mine tomorrow actually but I have been experiencing a lot of chest pain - it hurts to breathe and getting pain shooting up my shoulder, have you ever experienced this? My doctor said it was due to eating too solid foods but ive been getting it when remaining on liquids!

Crikey, who is your doctor Debs?

Good lord! Just read this! I pay €50 = £30 ish for a fill these days in France and it costs me about 30£ for a ferry - usually just a nice day out. The checkups only cost me €35, or £20! The UK really is a rip off!!!!!!!

Hi Nana, thansk yes you are absolutely right, but I am very serious about losing weight. Im not losing fast enough.... but we never are... still 20lb in 2 months is okay?? In any case I am honestly not loading up on it... I had a slice of wheat bread with some mashed banana literally as all today so far, as i lost most of it... and the previous time... ok i was being bad... i ate some chicken... it was too tough and even well chewed was a stupid idea so I know better for next time! You are very right though, it is definitely a warning and I need to be very very careful in future. My doctor wanted me to be tight enough that all i could eat were liquids and yoghurt for a while longer and I did that for 2 weeks and gradually introduced some softer foods, the bread was a very recent thing I clearly should not be doing. I probably wont be able to get hold of my doc though for a couple more weeks til i see him again but will talk to him as he requires monthly checkups. Thanks so much for the replies... I was getting quite stressed here Anaed and Nana! Hope you are both having a good day - Nana your weight loss is amazing! we are more or less the same... im 217 and going to start exercising with a vengance now also! Sx

Little PS.... any advice would be very gratefully appreciated!

Hi Everyone, I've had little issue with this up til the past two weeks or so. I have pb'ed 3 times... first time ever in 2 months, have been eating very slowly etc but [i know its a bad choice - bread sticks awfully!] In any case, is this a lot to PB, as I am a bit worried about it and moving back to mushy food for a while. I got my first fill as a 5cc in a 9cc band, which at the time seemed like a heck of a lot to me but I can still eat almost regularly albeit much much slower. Any thoughts, or words of advice, other than to not rush? Have I done damage to myself etc???? Worriedly yours, sonriose :hungry:

Hey All... I was banded back in June and went through the liquid/mush phase just fine. I have had a problem though as the last 3 weeks ive had no restriction [seeing doctor tomorrow though] and I have been able to eat more or less Anything! And have... is this common to feel pretty much no restriction? I have lost no weight past the initial 10lb which is not much now being 6 weeks? Does anyone have any thoughts? Thanks, S

I love trampolines but I would be concerned that I might jiggle things about or displace my band? Or loosen things or damage my port by landing on my stomach... what do people think?

Hi Kebabish, Im in england too. Im really sorry to hear you had to go through this. When are they going to fix it? can they just reattach the port? I wish you well in fixing this asap. I hope the doctors cover costs as i know how expensive things are here! (hence me paying in france!) Sxxxx

I also was a self pay, I did mine in france, airfare from USA is quite cheap to Europe, can get flights to Paris for under 800 USD with research. The medical care in europe is considered best in france and belgium. Max surgery costs and all inclusive hospital stay was 3500GBP, so roughly 6000USD. I stayed in a private room in an excellent hospital for 5 nights. I can only highly recommend my surgeon, as he performs this surgery many times a week and has done for a number of years.

Thank you for the encouragement. Right now I am rather hungry at work, and because I am working very long days, it means I tend to want to eat many more times… this is not so good although, in a lot of ways better than being at home. When at home I end up grazing totally in the fridge, like a lost sheep so its in some ways a bonus. The only problem now lies in the fact that I am having difficulty finding enough appealing things to drink as I am stuck with liquids at the moment, and puree when I get home. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> The remainder of the time at work that means, simply the odd juice, and yoghurt and if possible the occasional non-lumpy soup…<o:p></o:p> Rock on solid foods although will definitely need a fill due to feeling like I can eat a small hog. <o:p></o:p> Yikes, but I appreciate greatly the support!<o:p></o:p> Was dreaming about chocolate cake last night… also, cant get the same type of cheese sticks here in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">England</st1:place></st1:country-region>, but I adore real buffalo mozzarella, luscious!<o:p></o:p> Right, back to work for now!

Thanks Seppi, Sometimes its a little hard to maintain the focus and belief that it will happen though, as I have failed before so many times with diets... You've done amazingly in a year... I would be overly delighted with your result!!! Congratulations! I have my fingers and toes crossed now! Sx

Hello! I had laser for face and neck, obesity made much worse my hirsuites as my polycystic ovaries got ever worse... Anyway, long and short of it is laser is great! I had thick black hairs and a mustache i had to wax all the time, no pain, quite expensive here in the Uk but worth it! would definite do it again for other areas! Any questions please mail me! sonriose x