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I wil be a nervous wreck regardless I am sure but thank you for the re-assurance red and again CONGRATS!!!!!!

AWWW that is so exciting!!! I am or wil be 40 in 2 weeks and am 6 weeks pregnant so that gives me strong hope that I will carry full term and have a healthy baby as well!!! CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No I am not on soul cysters. how do I find it? thanks so much for replying, it really helps keep my spirits up! I am on my 2 week all liquid diet, and its hard, but I know I can do it, with motivation! (getting pregnant):wub:

www.soulcysters.com it's a great site for TTC with PCOS it totally dedicated to women with PCOS you will find a home there promise!!!!! Let me know when you get there!!!!

I have PCOS and after a 110lbs lost I started in on seeing an RE as my age was flying by me. Anyway I did have help with clomid and then injections, with one M/C under my belt I am now in my 5th week of pregnancy still early I know but we saw 2 sacs in there, you may need help with having PCOS but it's possible. I am weighing in at 287 right now and prolly gaining becasue I am so humngry I am resorting to some slider foods so I need to get an unfill I think so I don't dlip my band or something...GOOD LUCK to you. Are you a member on Soul Cysters?

I agree that everyones weight gain is different. One thing I remember from being banded in pregnant is that I was sooo hungry the first trimester that there were times were I felt like if I didn't eat something soon I would eat the bark off of the trees, lol. I also remember going shopping at the grocery store and eating something by the time I was in the car. Early pregnancy gave me a voracious appetite, and then I was fine thereafter.

Good luck everyone with losing those post baby pounds.

OMG this is SOOOOOOOOOOO me right now I feel I can eat everything the desire is always there where as before I got hungry but was satisfied alot faster than I am now I am so worried that I am going to gain alot and I haven't had an unfill yet don't know how I am getting this food down but I am!!! I get stuck sometimes but most I get through but I have been resorting to lots of slider foods I admit that!

The scary part is monday they are checking for multiples!

Embarrassed, Ashamed, or mentally tempted, or what is going on with me but I am going through something that is tormenting me emotionally.

I have been banded for going on 2 years now I slowly have lost the weight maybe not as fast as some but I have have lost consistantly never have gained and was at a stand still for over 6 months after restriction.

But since the weight loss *sorry TMI* I have had my cycles restored and well along with that come the craving of food something I never delt with before, I am blaming it on my cycles and hormones but could that really ring true. I did ask the day before thanksgiving (as a joke) if I could get an unfill to enjoy dinner with the family and the doctor said "sure" and I looked at him like what?!?!? Your giving me permission to get an unfill just to enjoy myself and he said yea and that I could come back for a fill in 2 weeks to get back on track and guess what I did!??!?!? I declined! I was proud of myself but ever since it's been in the back of my mind to just do this this ONE time and get that craving, torment, whatever this is out of my system but I am more scared of losing the restriction and trying to find it again and most of all gaining any and all weight back which is a given if I go back to having no restriction. Please just encourage me not bash me due to this bad mental behavior!!!!

Ok I had this same issue the other day but yet you said you went to the hopsital right well I was going ot tell you I had a horrible pain and it ended up being my gallbladder and exactly 1 1/2 after being banded...women that have gallbladder pains they feel the pain right between thier breast! Ask then to do a sono and see if you may have stones. I tried to blame the pain on something to do with my band too but it was not!

Gosh I am trying to recall if I felt any different while on clomid but I can't. I really want to wish you lots of luck though I just got my BFP yesterday while 30 minutes away form gallbladder surgery obviously it was cancelled :sad: I am just 5 weeks

The surgeon who banded me spent MANY years as a laproscopic surgeon, doing things like Gallbladders, appendix's, etc before becoming a bariatric surgeon several years ago... he STILL does gallbladders, etc... that's they kind of surgeon you need to take out your gallbladder... good luck...

Yes that is why I waited for the infection to clear up got out of the hospital and on the phone to my surgeon had an appointment a week later!

Significant weight loss can trigger gallbladder problems. Happened to me in the late 70s when I lost 100 pounds. Plenty of others on here have had the problem. Never heard how the surgery could affect your band though. It is performed in a similar manner, laprascopically, short duration surgery, quick recovery. I wonder if, perhaps, the surgeon is simply inexperienced when it comes to the band? I would talk to my band surgeon and, if necessary, refer the general surgeon to the band surgeon for further information.

Thanks Parrot however this IS the doctor that works with my Center where I had my lapband surgery, I failed to mention that the doctors (at the hospital) said once they open me with the gall bladder infected the infection will "attack" the forgein object which is the band, the surgeon I have chose followed up with the same info it's something they "have" to advise you but generally eveything will go text book though since I was given antibiotic in the hospital the infection from the stone causing the infection should be cleared up! So I am going in next week to get this out and hoping for a good recovery NO I am PRAYING for a good recovery!

Have any of you had problems AFTER the lapband surgery they say it's common...but I had an attack and well now it nees to come out but with that they say it serves a chance of the band getting infected and have to comeo out too and for that I am so scared I still have 75lbs to lose!

WOW I only looked him up for taking out my gallbladder and YES THE OFFICE STAFF is so mean and rude!!!!!!!! I hung up on her and she called me back at my job!! I guess they have caller ID. I myself for the surgery went to Weight Loss Surgical Center. I love that place it's all right there the office, the OR, everything they are the bestest!!!! they treat you with the utmost one on one care! Sorry about your experience..but I have to add myself to your I DON'T LIKE THAT doctor's office list!!!

O.M.G. I had went into KU over the weekend due to a gall bladder attack! So when I called the WLS Center to ask for a surgeon that can deal withthe Lapband and the gallbladder and experienced they first said this doctor since I was at KU already when I called this morning I got voicemail I got inpatient and called back she answered and I admited to her that I left a voicemail so she could disregard and I explained to her what was going on and who referred me she said that is fine, however we get 100's of calls a day next time you need to wait for me to call you back I SAID ON HELL no I am not going to be talked to like that I hung UP!!!!! Do you know she called me bakc my boss answered and I told her to hang up on that woman I have no time to delaing with ignorance I do now however have an appointment for next monday with a QUALIFIED surgeon and am so glad that I had that experience to let me know this is not a doctor I want to deal with! HIS OFFICE SUCKS AND IS GROSS people to deal with I will find out a way to give him bad points on his office staff watch me!!!!

Poolgirl since your not banded yet I have to tell you as you state "you don't want to push the food through too quickly" I had to laugh because with me haha there is no pushing the food through if "I" were to drink as I eat or accidently take a drink while eating not only does it have NO WHERE to go but it is extremely painful I have to say this no one will ever know what it feels like until they experience it just keep that in mind for when you get your band you will see I used to be like oh that won't happen to me but when you push the limits (and you will we all have) you will see and will come on here to share your experience as well. GOOD luck to you!!!

I drink before myself but it's always right before and that is a problem as liquid takes a minute for me to go down then I go to eat and I am stuck! I have diabetes Insipidus and it's hard not to drink especially when my medicine DOES NOT absorb in my nose and starts to work. The constant dry mouth (hence diabetes) makes me thirsty but with the band you just CAN'T drink during or after I will get sick. I have learned to live like this it's weird to think back I remember when...lol

My doctor has told me 30 minutes before NO DRINKING do I listen no :laugh: but because I am so darn thirsty all the time..darn diabetes! I personally don't see a problem cuz as you stated restless, it goes down it doesn't stay in the pouch!

Does anyone find it interesting that the three girls that remain: Malissa (170), Mandy (180) and Tali (190) are three of the four lightest on the show.

On the first show, they listed all of the girls weight.

All of the comments about how he does not care about the girls weight are garbage. The three remaining girls, while they are by no means thin are very normal weight, and in my opinion have great shapes.

YEP I see your point but then at the same time goes to show he is truely looking out for his interest if he likes them or not, will they be a good wife or not. And weight has nothing to do with it. I guess.

I have seen it and even have it recorded but have not seen the second episode. While I agree with all you ladies that they are blaming not being able to get a man becasue of their weight in most cases are true. Alot of Ooese women are still in the "mode" of not being wanted by SOCIETY, let alone a MAN it was "our" life or at least a couple times it has happened to me. I have lost 75lbs and I can honeslty say that I don't see a difference at all and have actually slipped back into my bad habits!! I am married so it's not becasue of a MAN not wanting me. I don't know I agree they are whinning alot but maybe that is the emotion part of this show to get popularity..I don't know. But i do think several of these women do have low self esteem I know I did/do at times even now.

I actually have 8.7cc in my 9cc realize band and have kept the restriciton for 8 months and just now beginning to lose the restriction or just fell off the wagon ugh! SO I might go get it tweeked!

When I got mine checked I infact DID NOT have the 10cc in there but you say you have been checked so I am very surprised your filled so much and have no restriction....WOW!!

I think getting a fill with or without fluoro depends on your situation. I usually have mine done in the office, but was having a difficult time with my most recent fill. I would sometimes throw up Water and other times I would be able to eat a normal cup of whatever.

Yesterday my surgeon decided for the first time to fill me under fluoro to find out what was really going on. I told him that I felt like I needed .3cc taken out, and of course, I was correct, but being able to see it I could see that liquids even tended to hang around for a bit after most of my pouch emptied. Also, it told me that my pouch hadn't stretched, and it gave me a better visual idea of exactly what percentage of my pouch got filled up by a sip of liquid. It gave me a better framework for eating.

I get where the other posters are going with the "it's nice to have a good surgeon", but I don't want anyone that's less experienced to think that their surgeon isn't good if they want to fill their patients under fluoro. I completely agree that having an experienced doctor that listens to you (since you know your body!) and can quickly guage how much of a fill you need is VERY important, but having a thorough surgeon that double checks his work and isn't above a little help isn't bad either !

I agreed with having a great surgeon not because one can do it WITHOUT fluro but because they use the fluro makes them look like they want you to understand and "see" what exactly you have inside there it does make sense and I enjoy it every time myself I have never had a fill "not under fluro" so I don't know what it's like, the doctor knowing when enough is enough...by using the "blind eye so to say" BUT I SO AGREE WITH YOU!!!!

Gotta love a good surgeon.

EXACTLY!!!! :biggrin:

I just had my first pressure fill. It's only for Realize band and it was an interesting experience. I was still under fluro like usual (I prefer to see it also and I didn't want any surprises as I work about 130 miles from my doctor). Anyway I didn't look down, but they rolled what looked like an IV pole next to me, he attached something to the needle and just like a tire gauge he knew exactly how much pressure was in my band.

He put .3cc in and I feel pretty tight, but since I saw the numbers, and I saw the swallow, it's helping me know that I just needed to get back to my super careful eating like I did post-op.

Yea it makes you at ease much more when you "see" what is going on I know it has helped me alot!!

Ok I didn't go get a fill I could barely eat this weekend so I decided not to get a fill only to get an unfill. So I will wait it out and see. I am going to go and let him look at my band under fluro tommorow jsut tomake sure nothing is wrong I thought that was nice!!!!!

I took the surgery off my taxes last year does that count? LOL!!!!!!

No not a myth, you have fat everywhere including on the outside of your stomach. The doctors dont take the time to peel it all away as it would be risky so as you lose that goes down, also my doctor told me when they put the band on there is a bit of a blind pass around the back and they can also grab some extra fat there... You are doing great!

Thank you! That makes me feel better!!! I am hungry again but I guess after 7 months since my last fill I did kind of good amazing how we "depend" on help from the band!!!