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Jor-el, just because someone posts BS from a website on the internet does not make it a fact. Just as what FoxNews or CNN or NBC posts on their sites or TV programs, we really don't know yet,(maybe your crystal ball is clearer than mine?)do we? Relying on obamacarefacts.com as a clear reference source would be like relying on scientology as the only source for spiritual guidance.

I can't give you personal experience since I didn't really experience a lot of pain. But I see posts like yours weekly and they all come back within a few weeks with a "Phew, glad that's behind me". It does get better and if you're still taking pain meds, they only exacerbate the emotional roller coaster. Hang in there!

I had a mild umbilical hernia that seems to have worsened. Already had it repaired 12 years ago and may have to go back in. It's a lump too and sometimes if I eat and drink too much it seems to increase in size.

The primary cause of Barrett's esophagus is GERD. The post you referenced was for a lady who had GERD/Barrett's Esophagus and pre-cancerous cells but never developed into full blown cancer. Again, we're all very sorry for your loss but to come here asserting the band did it without any evidence is not right. Especially when she died from a PE. Many of us have turned our lives around with this surgery. Many lives have been saved in fact. Naturally many of us are defensive when someone posts as you have. There are risks to any procedure but getting cancer as you stated could have been developing for years before she was banded.

I'm sorry for your loss but how could a lapband cause cancer?

My point was, your facts come from a pro Obama, pro Affordable Care Act website and can't be trusted to present the "facts". This is a political football and until the program is rolled out in it's entirety, no one knows what is true and what is not true.

Taken directly off the Obamacare site so take it all with a grain of salt. This is no better than taking the opposing facts and myths taken from the Rush Limbaugh site. It's on the internet so it must be true?

A Dr visit and a Nutritionist consult could do wonders to kick start the new you.

10-12 lbs is a lot of weight to lose in just a few weeks. Your band won't do it's magic till it gets enough fills to give you enough restriction/satiety to stop being hungry. That may be 0-8 fills. For me, it was 3 fills. What you're experiencing is normal and happened to most all of us. Till there's restriction, it's just another diet. tmf

My personal advice is for you to weigh yourself morning and night. See what foods cause you to gain weight. Weight gain or stagnation isn't always caused by increasing body fat. Some foods heavy in sodium or carbs can cause you to retain fluids but your scale can't tell the diff between Fluid gains and body fat increases. For me, knowing what affects my body is important, so tracking daily is important. For others, it's too complicated or too emotional to track.

FYI-There are 4 sealed sections, each containing 6 eggs. So, you can open a section at a time and the "Best by" date is usually about 30 days out. Make sure to check the "Best by" or Expiration date.

You might want to lower your expectations? 1-2 lbs average per week is normal. 10 lbs is above average imo.

They're great for deviled eggs cuz I hate boiling, peeling eggs.

Costco sells hard boiled eggs by the double dozen. They usually last 4 weeks and are a good to go Bfast food.

Most stuck episodes will pass within 60 minutes. Food stuck in your pouch are exposed to stomach acids so they break down and are digested. Some items like potato skins might take a little longer.

I had a 7 oz 4% grilled hamburger with a roasted green chili(and cheese) on it for dinner. You can have many salads with olive oil and a splash of balsamic vinaigrette. Roasted chicken from the grocery store(Costco's is great). Steak, ham, pork chops, salmon, halibut, tuna fish salad. Bacon, turkey sausage, omelets, shrimp. Google low carb recipes and you'll find 34 million results. Eating low carb is super easy and it really works. tmf

As I've posted before(and with links) Nsaids cause the lining in our stomach to breakdown, making ulcers easier to develop. This is caused by the drug being absorbed into our blood stream. So, pills or liquids are both just as dangerous. tmf

620 made a good point. Something I've done in the past and I've seen others here do it too, is to increase your caloric intake maybe up to 1400 calories a day for a weekend so that your metabolism increases, and then go back to maybe 1000 a day? Keep your body guessing with a varied diet and a varied exercise routine. Still, your current routine will work too, it just may not seem to kick in as quickly? tmf

Are your clothes fitting looser? If you've amped up your exercise program you could be adding muscle and still losing fat. One month is not much of a plateau once you get down to that last 25 lbs. If you burn off 500 calories a day more than you consume you could lose 4 lbs in one month. But that's 4 lbs of fat. If you're building/replacing that fat with muscle, the scale won't know the difference and will not show it. It's this way for most of us. Those last lbs are incredibly difficult to shed and requires a lot of focus and intense control over how many calories we eat. Be satisfied with 2 lbs a month if you can get there?

I weigh every morning, every night. If you understand how food, exercise, fluids affect your body you won't go mental over a few lbs here and there. If you don't weigh but once a week and you're up 5 lbs at the end of the week, how do you know which foods affected your weight gain? Quick gains of 1-3 lbs are often just the body retaining water from exercise, sodium or too many carbs and can be easily shed by changing our sodium or carb intake.

You may be too tight and could use a small unfill. I'd discuss this with your doctor.

Ditto to Missy except #3. I never really felt too tight till my 6th fill.

Ditto. Once you get banded the reality sinks in(for most of us)and we start to pay closer attention to what we eat, how much we eat, how we eat. Before being banded I was a slob up to the day before surgery.

Yeah, symptoms for me are: Slime(flegm, saliva) discharge, nausea, hard to speak, feels like a golf ball is stuck under my sternum, no drinking or eating till it passes. Takes 15-60 minutes to pass depending on how dry it is, how solid it is or how much I tried to shove down my piehole. tmf

Rice can be difficult for many bandsters to eat. Sometimes it gathers at the stoma and Fluid causes it to swell and rice can be very sticky too. Drinking fluids or eating more food only causes the pouch to stretch since they can't pass the blockage of rice and tuna and the rice absorbs the fluid making it bigger. This is a stuck episode imo which can be very painful or uncomfortable. Tuna is dry and dry foods are also very difficult for many of us. Sounds like the fluoroscope might be the thing you need to get a proper fill. Just be aware of foods that can cause you problems. tmf