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Leah, The best advice I can give you is get up and walk right away, hopefully the pain will be less and you will feel so much better. :thumbup:Karen

Chinacat, I am only, what 3 days post-opt and I am doing my walking and I occasionally get a slight pain in my right shoulder, I have a pinching in one of my incision areas and it frightened me It feels like my stitches are ripping. They all tell me it OK there is stitches on the inside and outside. and they could be pulling a bit.

Hello all Outrageous Octobers' I took it upon myself to make us a social group. I put a Icon on that says "I am a October Baby" seeing how we are all being reborn in our newselfs. I'm not the great with Icon's an such so if anyone wants to change it your welcome to. But don't forget to join the group it will show on your profile also.:thumbup:

WOW, we have alot of friends here getting banded today. R gran 1 JillinRN Lady bug on a mission :thumbup: Good Luck to everyone, check in and let us know how you all made out, will be praying for you.

:thumbup:Emerald in the sky, good luck tomorrow, will be thinking and praying for you, don't forget to let us all know how you made out.

Well Rose I'm banded and on the other side with you all. My day started being at the hospital at 8:AM and surgery was set for 10:00, the doc. canceled all of his other surgery's for the day and I was the only one, so we were right on time. I was back in my room by 12:30 and up walking at 2:00, I felt great! They told me 16 laps around the floor was a mile so I started out at 2:00 and walked 1/4 mile, at 4:00 I walked 1/2 mile and that is when the pain in my right shoulder set in, it lasted about 1 hour, and then every 2 hours I would walk 1/2 mile and I had no pain. When I left the hospital today I had already walked 4 miles:smile2:. I was proud of myself I fell like a new person and I'm liking that person a whole lot. I'm so glad yours went well Rose I thought about you off and on all day Tuesday, Now I'm on a all liquid diet for 1 week and then I guess I go to soft foods I'll find out for sure on Monday when I have my follow up apt. Good luck to everyone else who is coming up!!!!:thumbup:

:tongue2::frown: gran thanks for all the thoughts, but my day didn't go as planned, I arrived at the hospital at 7:00 am for surgery but the Doctor didn't, He canceled my surgery for yesterday the 4th because he hurt his back and needed a day to rest, it upset me but was also fine by me I don't want the doctor working on me in pain or on pain pills, lol, Anyhow I go tomorrow the 5th, and I guess I will band twins with Rose now, I can't wait to be added on the band list. Hopefully they will let me go home on Wednesday from the hospital and when I do I will sure to check in, Good Luck Rose, see you on the banded side. Hope all went well Charm

Soulsista I hope all things went well thought of you through out the day, Welcome cb nice to have you join us MY TIME IS SET FOR 9:30 MONDAY, I CAN'T WAIT..........

soulsista, don't be nervous about going under. you will be just fine, I was very nervous the first time I went under the only weird part is that your there waiting one minute and then they are waking you up, and you don't even know what happened. that is the weird part:drool:

I totally agree, he is very caring. The first seminar that I went to I felt very comfortable with him, which is something that is a very good quality for a surgery like this. I am about to be banded in 4 days, Oct. 4th, 2010, and I have had nothing but great treatment from Doctor Marley and his whole office staff.

Well tomorrow I stop taking me coumadin medicine which leaves me with 4 more days to go. I AM SO READY NOW!!!!!!!!!!

Charm1123 I will be joining you on the same day, we are all in this together, so let's keep everyone in our thoughts. I just started my second week of pre-opt and I have lost 11 lbs. already, and I really am not hungry on this schedule. 2 shakes and one 350 to 400 cal. meal, I must have 60 gms. of Protein every day. All my friends keep asking aren't you hungry yet, and I not, I really am not. lol

wow! a diet for only 5 days how does that work and what do you have to eat or drink?

Congrats. to you after reading your thread it gave me hope and power that I can do this. I get banded Oct. 4,2010 and I now know that my dreams are possible. Thanks for the cheery thought:smile2:

Becca glad to have you join us. You an I will be going through day by day together. The pre-opt diet is not to bad. I'm drinking a carnation instant breakfast in the AM and lunch time I drink a slim fast, and dinner I have bought WW smart ones so I don't have to figure out my calories.

Well today is day 3 of pre-opt diet, and I went to the doctors and hospital and all my registration is done. all ready for Oct. 4 oh and I lost 8 lbs in 2 days. wow

Being that you are getting banded on the 30th, you are on the pre-opt diet? How are you getting along with it, I have been fine with mine but my sugar kept dropping to low. So I have already had one medication cut back my sugar medication. yipee!!!:rolleyes2:

I am so glad I found this group it won't be so lonesome going thru this alone. I can talk to my hubby but he don't understand. :thumbup: Looking forward to sharing our new lives together.

I sure am glad that I found someone to take this journey with. It will be nice to compare procedures and help each other out, even if we have to be cheerleaders. lol I have done every diet also. and the same thing up and down like a yo-yo. :thumbup:

Hello Leah I would love to be a Outrageous Octobers, I am getting banded Oct. 4, I am on my second day of pre-opt diet. I live in PA. :thumbup:

Islovak that is great, don't be scared, think of it as a new life starting, if you were like me I have been on the large size all my life I go have mine Oct. 4 and can't wait.

Bayareanan I also am scheduled for surgery Oct. 4, I am on my second day of pre-opt diet, how about you.

:thumbup: After 2 years of waiting I'm finally have a date set for surgery... Oct. 4, 2010 I have started today my pre-opt diet. I am so excited and also nervious. But I know this is what I should be doing.