thelonedaisy

find out if your ins requires a referal from your pcp. i have only been banded 3 weeks and have not had any fills and have lost 17 pounds. my insistions are all healed. i started out at 295 down to 278 goal is 175

my ins also didnt require the 6 month pre op and i had my surgery very quickly. you will be so glad you did it but dont regret til day 15... the first 10 days fome were horrible tired sore and general ick. but once day 10 hit it was awesome!!!!

none whatsoever!!!!!! i feel great my knees no longer hurt i am looking good and i am eating better than i ever have in my life and i am not hungry at all!!!!

hi and welcome. ask ask ask ask questions and make sure you are VERY sure about the diet before and after!

hi heather and welcome!!!! i cant wait to 6 months out and have lost 60 some pounds!!!

i am the youngest of 9 children and only 3 of us and one is me are under 300 pounds and only one is under 250. both my parents are obese.

congratulations fran!!!!!!

very interesting.... i am an 8 was an 8.5 16 pounds ago. so i really hope my feet dont shrink anymore...

have you had your gallbladder out??? the pain you are experiencing is exactly the pain i had before i had my gallbladder out. sorry this is happening to you..

CONGRATULATIONS!!! mimi. hope you can find the answers you are looking for here.

peggy i am in utica too!!!!!!! any chance you would be interested in a new friend???:biggrin2:

i am happy to report that i am doing GREAT no gas that ended a while ago. i am down 15 pounds and doing great. i look forward to my first fill on the 26th. will let you all know how it goes.

i am down 15 pounds with no preop diet. i had surgery on the 28th so i am 16 days out and feel great!!!

thais totally awesome that you only have 18 pounds to goal!!!! yeah you!!! i am just starting out on this journey and am going to get my period in a few days ugh and the need for chocolate is strong in me!! i was able to just suck on a small mini candy bar milkyway i think and it took the urge away. yeah me!!!

i am one whos doc told i could do a liquid diet for a week then full liquids for a few days then transition to mushies. i am 15 days post op and i aould be onto more solid foods but i have kept myself at the soft mushie stage for the very reasons stated above. i have every confidence in my doc. and wouldnt go to anyone else. but when i asked about why i could transition so fast he said if it made me more comfortable i could stay with the liquid longer bit by the time i went to the mushies my stitches would have healed and i wouldnt have a problem. i am still very careful with solids bc even though i wasnt self pay it is to high a price for me to pay to cheat from what the doc told me. we are on this ride to lose weight not be bugged that we cant taste this or that. if we cant control ourselves for that little bit of time then all the work we did pre op and post op are fruitless. i figure hunger is a natural normal feeling so we might as well get used to it! and nothing tastes as good as thin feels!

sweety i dont really have answers for you other than i feel for you... i know how the running right through you feels i have dealt with that since i had my gallbladder out in 2003. i do know even if you drink other things water is a must and you have to drink it make iced tea out of it or add crystal light anything so you can get it down.

i go for my first fill on the 26th and i know the doc only plans on adding 2 cc's to my already 3cc's which is standard i am pretty sure (someone please correct me if i am wrong) when they put the band on. so really you have 4 cc's in your band atm and i will have 5cc's

yes in that case it is totally uncalled for!!!!!! and he had to learn it from somewhere obviously the father.

ok can i just say that you need a new name!!!! everytime i read a post of your i read oreo!!!!! LOL

just in defense of that little child. he/she doesnt know better shame on her mom for NOT telling her that God makes us all different but he/she is a child and doesnt know better. i was almost 300 pounds and my kids have said that about other people not knowing it isnt nice (now keep in mind my kids are about 4-5 when they say something). so i simply tell my kids in plain hearing of the person that it wasnt nice what they said and we dont talk about people unless we can say something nice. and then if that person is looking at me i smile and tell him/her i am sorry.

no more straws with the band, crates pockets of air which in turn will make you sick. at this point i an just drink my water like normal i can gulp or just sip depending on my mood.

hi cammi and welcome!!! i was banded on the 28th of july so i am not more out than you. but i do know that the docs dont really expect you to lose anything before your fills begin if you do they just count that as a plus. however i would be just as frusterated as you!!!! everything you are doing sounds great. the only thing i didnt see was the amount of water you are drinking. are you drinking any?? if so how much?? you should be drinking at least 64 oz of water in a day! i would start with the water and see what happens after that.

when something gets stuck you cant swallow your own spit so it keeps coming up and sliming you... ewe huh

she is at 86.2 kg in pounds that is 189.6 which is still not a whole lot to lose. just wanted to clarify.:cry_smile:

hi dust!!!! you were banded on my bday!!!! you are doing awesome!!! the ticker are www.tickerfactory.com then copy and paste the bb code into your siggy.