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I will be having my 5 year lap band anniversary Next Month. I do still experience tightness during times of dehydration

I have regained 20 pounds primarily due to developing a love for sweets. Smooth things go down far too easily... if its not meat or bread or something incredibly dry the lap band goes unnoticed. I am currently very interested in getting a new fill its been about 4 1/2 years

me in pink at 255 on august 10th 2006

me at 190, august 2007 (surgery day was sept 5th, 06)

hey all, i got that "youve been gone too long email" from lapbandtalk. and although im not to my final weight right now, i thought id share that i went from 255 above, to 190. I only have one fill, but the first 30lbs of weight loss really took the pressure off of my ankles and allowed me to move again (I have rheumatoid arthritis).. i went from a size 20 to a size 14, and i can shop and etc for a long time.

i am thinking about getting a third fill (have a 4cc filled to 2.0 or 2.5 - yes doc was very aggressive) so that i can have assistance to the last resistant 25 lbs. I only feel resistance when im very dehydrated, but some times i can still eat 3 pieces of pizza, and anything i want. which is bad. i would say that happens most times.

hi guys, I am just now adjusting to my second fill. I really am having a hard time with learning to chew my darn food.

It seems like Im getting that burning uncomfortable feeling with EVERY MEAL.

i dont know if that means im too tight, because it eventually does pass through - but then if thats the case, what is FULL?

example.. it seems like if i do chew things up, i can eat as much as i want because its going through... if i dont chew things well, then i get the burning action and feel like i should stop eating.

this is so bizarre. I dont think ive ever felt my top pouch feel full, but i do get that that golf ball! I can still eat WAY too much.. however, still am capable of getting golf balls.. BIZARRE

last night, i was starving and decided to eat a piece of deli turkey, it got stuck, and i kept spitting and spitting and spitting, and it was so uncomfortable. this was lasting for an hour. I had to make myself PB..

it doesnt happen naturally for me, i can just be uncomfortable for hours.

so then, i kinda gagged and got a bit of froth to come up, still it doesnt go down.

so then... i drank some Water and it finally went down.. whew, so then later.. my esophogas felt soo swollen. i mean aggitated.

im really trying to figure out.. what is NORMAL.

does the band work like this: you have to chew chew chew so you dont get pain, and then you just tired of chewing and stop eating because eating is not pleasurable?

or does it work like this: you chew well, and eventually get a full feeling and then stop no golfballs.

im 21 i was banded on september 5th, 2006

I had my second fill today, i wish i would have asked how much he put in there

the first fill was 1.9, so if I were to guess maybe he gave me 2.5 or 2.75

ugh, the taste of my many crushed pills make me yack

you guys are so awesome for the tips, I will try to increase my Protein count and stop eating so much and start thinking sensibly. I just realized, I CANT COOK! I also scheduled myself for a fill after reading your responses.

jachut, I wish I could say that it was easy to have this self control that you speak of. People wouldnt be here if they had this self control you speak of.

I understand that self control is the goal for the long run, but I dont expect many bandsters to be able to have self control for the first year or two that they have the band. If staying away from pizzas and bigmacs were that easy, none of us would have the band in the first place.

weight watchers and adkins told me to stay away from pizza.. shit, that didnt work :-P

its not possible. I lose 2-5 pounds a month with the band because I am trying, and the band is helping but I have not come anywhere close to revolutionizing my diet. I have not been able to stay away from pizza and big macs. To be truthful I cave in about a few times a week. Im not as tight as I need to be, but I know in my heart that this is a long fight, I was born with the compulsive eating disorder, and I will die with it.

The fight is just to not let it kill me

i would be skinny by now if i ate salads and grilled chicken with no Compusive impulses plauging me

i also force myself to eat one salad a day, when you guys say fruits and vegetables I am so disappointed that Iw ill have to choke down TWO salads a day. what do you do for variation?

Thanks guys, I know my eating habits are horrible, and I think the first step is to admit it. I just have felt this thing was so useless. I have been exercising for 30 minutes a day, and I use to be able to eat a whole box of Cookies, or Cereal (along with a half gallon milk) in one sitting. I am having a really difficult time staying away from temptation. Oh its awful, I need some ideas for what I can eat, that will satisfied these binge eating cycles of mine

Hey I was diagonosed with PCOS when I was 12 years old. I am 21 now, and went off of it at 18 when I lost 60 pounds in college) Since I have gotten rheumatism I have gained this weight back. Without metformin, I will not loose a pound. My blood sugar with it is positively normal, its my horomones that arent! If I take it, the one stupid hair that grows on my chinnychinchin doesnt grow. yay!

also, if you get under a 30 BMI you dont really need it anymore

Hi, I have only lost 26 pounds in five months :-(

I have got a 1.9cc fill as my first fill. I am exercising, but just cannot seem to control my intake.

a typical day: Big grilled chicken salad

two pieces of pizza

3 yogurts

poptarts, grits

fruit

(1600 calories)

first fill free, others one hundred dollars a piece. It depends on your quality. Some doctors dont fill under fluro... my doc allowed me to see what was happening. I also got filled by my actual surgeon, not a nurse.

great... thats exactly the video i needed to see the night before I get my first fill -LOL

-Cha from Cincinnati

get rid of that one and get the copper T put in. It has no hormones.. unfortch you will have periods again but id rather have a period than gain weight :-( good luck

its just Water weight...

weird noises creep me out! i am banded and i have heard weird sounds which kind of stopped after all the swelling went down. im really reluctant to get a fill

It sounds like that person, is acknowledging your weight loss but still wanted to take you down a bit. If they werent being malicious; its possible that they dont know shit about size and frame and pounds. dont sweat it

your not eating enough and your exericising TOO MUCH for your size.

I am a scale-addict as well. I weight about one- three times a day. It can put me in a bad mood. I know when NOT to weigh and sometimes i do anyway. (like after I eat a bigmeal, drink a buncha Water, or if I KNOW I am bloated).. then i getpissed and eat junk.

However, it does seem to keep me in check at times. I see that If i have lost a pound I want to do ANYTHING to lose another, and another. its a win/lose.

I find chewing chewing, chewing up the food into a spitty enzymesque paste is quite disgusting.

But since we have to do it, This whole thing must work. Who likes deacidisized vomit??

I never realized how much I use to just wolf my food down

the iud should not have anything to do w/the band. yes the pain is bad, however its not anything like being banded. Its just the eye watering, oh shit for a second pain. then you have hours of cramps. then you will be alright. its worth it.

I never really got a chance to tell any of my details from when I was banded on september fifth. I guess I have just been so over welmed.

I was banded by Dr. elliot fegelman in Cincinnati Ohio at Jewish Hospital. I have medical mutual insurance and the process took from april (collecting everything I needed) to get to my band date of september 5th.

I didnt really get to see the doctor often, which wasnt really what I liked -- but the nurses and staff at jewish hospital are amazing. They even sent me a personalized card. I got a private room (after FIVE HOURS in recovery). and I stayed the night.

I have been in chronic pain forever, so I was up at walking right after I got out of surgery. Pain, doesnt get to me, like it may have gotten to me before I had rheumatoid arthritis.

Not eating has been killer for me. My incisions are really high up. Everyone anatomy is different. My highest incision is around my sternum area between my breasts. the port incision was larger than expected. I can see that I will have a permenant scar (but I am african american).. it looks like the stitching of it, and the length of it may be bigger than usual from what I have seen on LBT.

He had no complications with my liver (even though I did a horrible job on the PreOp diet). But I am younger, and my weight gain is fairly recent I suppose. (gained 70 lbs in two years).

I lost a lot of weight pretty quickly. and right now i am REALLY REALLY struggling with my post op diet. I have done tons of research, including recently viewing the LB procedure on video. I am still having a difficult time. around 1 1/2 weeks post op i had a mushie (not much of a mushie. But yet, a mushie). I was getting literally sick off of my Protein shakes.

I posted about this.

the smell of them make me want to vom, so I am just not drinking them. I have had smoothie brand high Protein chai tea's, and mashed up Beans, and yogurts (which are allowed). pudding, lots of my Vitamins. nothing rough. But I have been ice creaming. its been really difficult to stay over 1000 calories.

this is my first few days getting over 1000 calories in. My hunger factor is in full strength now. But I am very careful eating and drinking. I sleep on my port although its painful.

i cant get my ticker to work, but im at 229 now

Hi Guys, I have only been banded for about nine days, and I cant stand the look, and the SMELL of slim fast, or Protein Powder. I just cant. I almost threw up today. I havent been getting much Protein maybe thirty grams. Any creamy, milky anything is making me just sick. I hate it. I wont even take coffee

I also take medication and its been making it difficult for me crushing up those FOUL medications and then having to take it like that.

any suggestions?

why dont you read my journal it details the stuff i went through for approval