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Something else to consider is that you have a new stomach now and things are a little different so you feeling full before surgery could be a completely different feeling after. So try not to look for that old feeling of fullness to gauge it but rather monitor your current body to see how you feel before and after and give it a little time to adjust to the new feelings of fullness. You may just not know how the new full feels if that makes sense

That's awesome! You should definitely plan on returning to the pool as a preventative. Sometimes forcing yourself to relax like that is enough to loosen those tight muscles.

Congrats! Happy to hear you are feeling good.. keep us updated!

Happy to hear everything went well and you are recovering nicely! Keep us posted on your progress. I go in the morning for my band to RNY revision so I'll be thinking about your positive experience when I wake up in recovery.. lol

So.. tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 7am I go in for my band to RNY revision. I'm excited/scared/nervous/overall overwhelmed by it. I don't know why. I guess I am worried that I'll have difficulties like I did with the band. I'm trying to think of all the positives though. My hubby is a huge supporter and is 100% on board with helping me... and he is losing weight himself so there wont be any good food/bad food struggles in the house or anything. I guess I'm just afraid of the future. How can someone be happy and afraid at the same time? lol

So.. I'm getting nervous (understandable) and excited to finally have a date. I'm having my Revision from Band to RNY next Thursday June 28th. Wondering what the difference will feel like after the RNY versus when I had the band done. Have felt discouraged for a while now that the lapband did not work out for me but I'm optimistic about the RNY. I'm really looking forward to finally getting the rest of this weight off and looking forward to having baby #3 after hitting my goal. Would love to hear the experience from those who have already had a revision.

My date is June 28th! it's a band to RNY revision. How did your revision go Juniper?

It's hard to truely understand what we go through unless you have ever walked a mile in our shoes (or not been able to for that matter!). All you can really do is hope those people will come around one day and try to see things outside of their own perspective and educate themselves and overall be supportive of their loved ones.

Well.. only a month away! Mine is going to be right around that time too. I'm waiting for my daughter to get out of school and her last day is the 20th of June.. but I don't want the surgery on the 21st because it's a Thursday and Friday/Saturday is the weekend here in Kuwait so I don't really want to have the surgery on a Thursday if my doc is going to be gone the next day.. ya know? So my surgery is either June 21st or June 24th.. depending on if the doc is off that Friday or not. (Most people have off on Fridays here)

Just 1 week away.. how exciting! Keep us updated on how you are doing

I've had them in before and while I'm sure its a little different for a guy.. for me, it didn't hurt. I've had one put in while I was awake even and it was just uncomfortable.. not painful. When they took it out, it was the same.. no pain.. and it was over pretty fast. I've had to walk around with one before to walk to the CT scan machine, that was a little awkward but wasn't painful. I think you will honestly have your mind elsewhere and having one in will be the last thing on your mind. I would definitely not cancel surgery over it. Especially if they end up taking it out before you wake up. It really sounds much worse than it really is

Good luck! Update us with how easy your hospital visit ends up being

Have you tried ground chicken? I use ground chicken in place of ground beef in my house for nearly everything (chili, tacos, etc). I've had problems with regular chicken breast with my lapband but been ok with ground. Hope I don't have issues after my revision to RNY. I don't always trust the ground chicken in the store so I usually pick out nice chicken breasts, take it to the butcher and have them grind it down so I know what I'm getting. Being in Kuwait, I don't always trust the stickers that say boneless/skinless. Labels out here are terribly inaccurate.

Yeah, definitely check to see if your previous appointments count. Aside from that.. congrats on being approved

Happy to hear everything went well! Hope your recovery goes by fast

Awesome . And what great motivation to have a little family time!

Yeah, a doctor call is always best when you get worried. I hope you start feeling better soon!

Oh no, is there an appeal process? You will find a way to make this happen, just don't give up *hug*

That is so awesome! What a wonderful feeling to have, not only to have lost the weight (and continue to lose) but to have validation in your heath by being off your meds. Congrats to you, I cannot wait to hear more about your journey as time passes. Cheers to your health

I love my Keurig. We have the attachement for it so you can buy ground coffee and put it in there instead of having to buy the KCups.. so we buy starbucks coffee and put it in the Keurig. Yum

No meetings here (I'm living in Kuwait at the moment) so that is why I turn to online groups for support. Do youhave a local meeting you go to?

Oh I bet you will feel amazing after that shower! Glad it's getting better

It's tough when you do not have the at home support that you need but know that once you get healthy.. you will have that much more energy to handle all the things that you do and you will, in the long run, have more time to spend with your babies I am in Kuwait and have no family here and not a whole lot of support from the friends that I have here as noone understands really what I am going through. Thankfully my husband is very supportive but he works 60+ hours a week (on a slow week) so he just isn't home for support.. so that is why I came here.. sometimes you have to reach out for support from others who know exactly what you are going through and the great thing about places like this, is they are 24/7 so you can always come here for support and someone will most likely be online at some point

I just joined the site but I care!