Erin18

haha its awesome :blushing:. yeah i guess it doesnt. i know you'll do great (: i want to know what it feels like to be a healthy person too. haha yeah totally. i know right? it sounds scary lol try practicing chewing and when you get the surgery, you'll be pro when you get to regular foods :biggrin: atleast 30 times ahh lol. its weird cause some of my classes you can miss 25 days and then in others you can only miss 13 its dumb lol. i really dont want to be missing any, but i dont feel well enough to go, yeah it does suck blahh. i wish the same too ): and i dont think a fill would help right now, it might make things worse O.o nope, my nausea pills kinda dont even work so heh, and i guess im not supposed to have peptobismol, well lol thats not good, i have birthcontrol too but i have depo i get a shot every 3 months and i dont have to swallow a pill ahh haha, yeah the stories are interesting i wish they really were lol . thats cool, i dont like appartments that dont allow pets , awh sweet :biggrin: lol ohh that stinks, i live in a sort of a buisy town lol

I'm very upset it's not working for me too, it just sucks, my brother lost it the old way and has kept it off for 9 years, his girlfriend said she'll help me out. Thanks (:

i'm seeing my surgeron on september 30th. I'm going to ask him to get my band removed, and hopefully during my November break. why you ask? i've been sick for almost a month, hearing, seeing, thinking, eating food makes me want to vomit. water even makes me want to vomit. on monday september 14th i found out i had a very bad bladder infection, so i have to take antibiotics twice a day till monday september 21st, thinking and looking at the pill makes me want to vomit right there and after i take it i feel worse. luckily i havent puked but it feels like its there all day, where my band is, kind of hurts. and i barely walk far and i feel like im out of breath. everytime i swallow my spit it digusting, and everytime i swallow i feel like i gotta vomit ahh. i missed a week of school cause of this, i just couldnt handle it at school, i had to lay down cause if i stood up id feel really sick. i prevent myself from throwing up by clamping down on my teeth and putting my hand up by my mouth, i dont want to live like that, im sick of being sick to my stomach and feeling nauseated all the time, i only felt good weeks 2 and 3 post op and thats all the rest i was very nauseated and i dry heaved a few days. i havent felt like myself AT ALL since being banded...i dont want anyone to talk me out of it. i want it out and cant be nauseated all the time, before being banded i felt really great and i miss feeling like that, i was so happy, dont get me wrong or anything, I'm under 200 pounds now and im so happy about it, but i havent been able to really eat anything because of being so nauseated, i didnt plan on losing it that way really, i thought i was gonna be feeling great and going out more, alot of the times when i walk for too long i feel really sick after and i feel winded.. anyways, when i get it out i plan on sticking to the rules. and i WILL stick to the rules.. chew food really well, take time eating, no drinking anything for 30 mins, take 20-30 mins to eat, exercise an hour to and hour and a half everyday and hopefully ill beable to go out more with my friends, i would now but i cant go anywhere without feeling sick so i have no enjoyment out of it at all :blushing: i want to feel happy again, and feel like myself but 10-times healthier i still will succeed im just letting you guys know how im feeling, and i want to talk to somebody =/

haha, we have things in common :blushing: my body hasnt ever reacted to something before, im guessing my body doesnt want to get along with the foreign object and i have a feeling its not gonna get use to it or else it would have by now. i dont think anything would go wrong for you (: i dont think they change anything, the only different ones i heard was the realize band and the different sizes. but im pretty sure they all work the same way. the kind i have is just called lap band. it is indeed, i thought i was feeling fine today, but i spoke too soon ): PBing is very painful. heres what my book says about Pbing-ingestion of a piece of food that will not pass through the stoma causes great discomfort, creating a thick saliva ("slime" and PBing) which is the need to regurgitate the contents of the stomach. this is not the typical forceful vomitting of the pre-band days, filled with chunks of food, but typically pinkish goo of half digested food plus the offending chunk. that was from Lap-Band For Life The Complete Patient Guid To Success with The Lap-Band by Ariel Ortiz Lagardere MD FACS. so yeah its digusting lol you just have to make sure you chew your food very well and slowly and small bites and you should be fine. hmm idk lol. i know i have a feeling it wont go away, im so tired of it, i felt so sick i missed a week of school, that makes me sad. i still cant believe that i was the one that the band chose to make my life hell >.< i wish i was doing better too, if i was feeling better id be outside doing something, its so beautiful out, ugh but idk. awh, thanks (: i know you'll do fine, no more horror movies for you lol read some success storys, those might help ohh thats awesome, i bet they feel just like a husky, and wolves are cute :biggrin: same here, the eyes are lovely, they're piercing :biggrin: one of my friend has two huskys, the normal black kind, he has blue eyes, and she just got a puppy back in may i think and shes a red husky with green eyes ohh i know where that is kind of lol

I feel like I'm always the odd ball lol. I know there's a band called realize band, some bands are smaller which you get less fills and some bands are bigger and you get more fills if you need them. Yes it was very difficult but I thought it would get better if I touched it out a little longer, and it's been way too long lol I wish I could have taken it out then I told him I wanted it out but he said that since I could keep Water down he said to hang in there, I guess it was too early to get it out, I guess you got to wait 5 weeks before you get it out heh I I'm 7 weeks starting tomorrow holy cow so I've been sick almost for a month that will be on Monday oh my god lol that sucks. Pbing isn't fun sliming either lol, have you read about that yet? I know, I'm very happy with my weight loss so far, but I think it's cause I haven't been able to really eat anything. It's weird cause I was hungry earlier and nauseated at the same time and I didn't eat anything cause just the sound of food makes me wanna vomit lol not good at all. I want to be healthy and happy but being icky doesn't help ): boo stupid icky-ness. Thanks but it's ohkay (: me too Welcome, people did the same to me too and I was still nervous but not as much, they give you stuff to relax you, so that's good (: yeah I think it's normal to be nervous, I'm sure everyone is, but for me it was better when they did the IV and gave me stuff to relax me, the put a nausea patch on(which I didn't think helped at all) the other stuff they gave me for nausea (I didn't have nausea till like midnight and I was banded at 7am and out around I don't even remember god that's sad lol Me too lol Awh :thumbup: palmeranians are cute, I don't think I've ever seen a mini one (: they're cute lap dogs oh I also forgot to say I like minitire pinschers too and I think it'll be awesome to have a husky that looks like a wolf, wolves are so pretty :smile2: I am too haha awesome, are you close to the Adirondack Mountains?

thanks, I sure hope I get better But I really don't think it's made for me. I'll give it a little more thinking to do, but I hope I can get it out in November, by then I can come up with a healthy food plan and a good exercising plan I just don't know why I had to have a crappy time with the band, I thought by now I'd be back to normal, but I'm not and I just can't take it, so I really want it out I'll do what ever it takes to keep losing I'll never get another weight loss surgery, I think it's not for me

thanks (: my mom just bought some of that yogurt yesturday, so i will try that. well for 3 days last week i only had nausea in the morning then friday it came all day, not badly tho, then starting saturday up to now, i have it all day long if nothing gets better by sept. 30th, im going to talk to my surgeron about getting it removed, he said he didn't know what else to do if the nausea doesnt go away besides getting it removed, i know its stupid, butttt what's the point if im going to be sick all the time ya know? i had nausea right from the start. if i do get it removed, i'll follow the rules still and pretend as if i still have it in i made it under 200, i'm 199.5#'s now. ya know, maybe the band isnt right for me, i know, i know, keep positive, i'll do great and stuff, but i wanna FEEL great and i haven't felt great, i dont even remember what it feels like, or even remember what it was like to be happy, i do remember i felt it back on july 30th, day before surgery. i wanted it out since my first week post op, sad i know. i'm just so sick and tired of being sick all the time, i just want it out, maybe i'll be happier, maybe i'll feel like myself again. i dont want anyone to talk me out of it ): i know you all will think im stupid, but i just cant take it anymore!! i'll prob gain some weight, but im not gonna let myself fall back to where i was, you think i'm that crazy?! i'm gonna work my butt off to get to goal, i'm more motivated now than i ever was! if i get it removed, which i want to, i'm gonna keep taking my time eating meals slowly and take 30 mins to eat, drink 30 mins after and exercise for an hour everyday, which i should deffinately be doing now, but i feel pukey right now. i just dont want anybody talking me out of it...

i know right, i was thinking, maybe the band isnt made for me ya know? ive wanted it out since aug 7th lol it just sucks, if im going to be sick all the time with it, whats the point ya know? some people say "just tough it out" or "hang in there, you're doing fine!" its soooo hard >.< id just rather have it out and feel great, i bet my stomach would be happy haha. yeah hopefully id feel better by then, im sorry for saying this so much but i rather have it out so i wont have to expierence a PB or sliming, ah i dont know why i made this decission, its a good long decission to make, i guess i never planned on having nausea and everything else im having, i planned on having a happy life once i got banded, the main thing i knew i was gonna have was gas pains, and i barely had them. well thats good im not scaring you (: i was nervous too, it was my first major surgery, but its really nothing to worry about, it felt like i was in and out, the only thing i can remember is i was in the operating room and thats all i remember. im pretty sure you'll do just fine (: lol yeah it makes sense, i remember one year for christmas, i was 8 and i got a puppy, i miss him, but i always get them small, i like watching them grow (: maybe, i'll just go out one day and come home with a puppy lol my fav kinds are, dobermans, german shepherds, huskies, black and chocolate labs (: and i just saw that you live in new york, me too (:

okay so it didnt go away that day ahh and i still feel sick, i dont know if i said this but i missed school 3 days this week. monday i went to the dr and found out i had a bad bladder infection, so she gave me some antibiotics for that and it made me feel worse than i did. tuesday i felt okay ish in the morning but i stayed home just in case, and good thing i did cause when i woke up i felt so sick to my stomach. i kinda feel better but when i eat my stomach feels icky, this morning was horrible though, i still feel like i gotta vomit. i saw my surgeron today, and he doesnt know whats causing it, he prescribed me prilosec, if it doesnt work, i'm most likely going to get my band out, cause i deffinately cant live like this (everybody is different, and i dont mean to scare you if i am) if i do end up getting it out, i'm going to pretend i still have it in and follow the rules still. i'm pretty sure you'll do fine, have you ever had surgery before? dont worry about what i said, things happen, everyone is different, everyone tolorates things differently and i guess i just have a weaker stomach..but i want it out lol. my friend likes it (: im excited for you, im happy i got mine started, but i just cant stand the nausea and upset stomach all the time, so ive been talking to my mom about getting it taken out if i dont feel better by september 30th (i see my dr this day and im gonna talk to him about it if it doesnt go away) ahhhh awh i really want a puppy, but since we have some many kitties my mom wont get a puppy, 5 of my cats were born on my book shelf lol i want a puppy so bad though, sometimes i wish they were puppies lol

how could this happen? The new meds I have to take make me sick to my stomach, I have to take them with food and I don't know If I get enough in. I feel like crap for awhile atleast I only have to take 4 more of the phenazopyridine only 3 times a day when I have my meals I have two more to take today and 12 more of the nitrogurantoin mono only twice a day which I only need to take one more time today. The thing about these is that it makes me feel sick to my stomach and when I eat I still feel sick to my stomach I just want to say, I had a better life before the band I miss how happy I was... The food wasn't what made me happy, feeling great made me happy..

oh FYI guys I have a bad infection, I think it's a bladder infection or urinary tract, I have to take these pills 3 times a day for two days and then I have to take these other pills two times a day for 7 days, they're pretty good size and I'm scared to take them but I have to, hopefully it gets better and hopefully this is the answer to why I been having pain, hopefully after this I'll be feeling great (: Thanks guys (:

I feel sick all the time, my stomach has been hurting alot, I only had two good weeks out of 6. I was banded July 31st, bad nausea started that night around 1 in the morning. Had nausea my whole first week it was terrible! I actually had to go to the ER they couldn't do much cause it's not where I got banded. I saw my surgeron twice after surgery the first week I think, gave me better nausea pills made me better for two weeks and then I started getting the nausea back and this really weird feeling in my throat. I dry heaved a lot during my first week and my 3rd week, idk what's causing it but I'm so sick and tired of it! I'm 6 weeks and 3 days post op and when I eat I feel like I got to vomit ever since Friday but lucky me I haven't and thank god cause I'm scared to. I told my mom if this keeps up, I want it out on my November break if possible. But only if it keeps happening, I don't know if I can take that, it upsets me that I have to go through that. I never felt the way I am ever in my life before. I wish I was back to myself with feeling awesome cause I never felt nauseated or sick to my stomach unless I was nervous or actually sick, and it only lasted a day if i was nervous and a couple of days if i was sick but I'm not sick or nervous. Argh!

ohh thanks(: I'm having a downer I've started feeling sick again on Saturday, my stomach hurt so Bad I thought I was gonna barf, I felt like that yesturday and I that today too, right now my stomach just hurts, my left side hurts when I get up, my right side hurts here and there, where my hips are kind of hurts and my lower back hurts. I'm going to the obgyn today at 1 to get checked out I have a question, if you have an infection, could it be why I've been having stomach pain and all the other pain I just listed above? Hmm I don't know, I stayed home today cause I don't feel to well, stinks

nausea is sickening ugh! i still get it at 6 weeks post op and i dont know why, it blows ): i was also prepared for the incission pain and gas pain, i never got the incission pain and the gas pain wasnt bad. i also wasnt prepared for the nausea pain, if i knew id be nauseous like this, i wouldnt have done it i dont think! i feel like i have to live with it, i have no idea if its gonna go away or not =/ im not doing protein shakes cause my nutritionist told me to eat my protein instead of drinking it, and it hasnt helped ahh! thanks (:

yeah you'll need a note (: It's ok I'm not even sure it's a cold cause I feel better ish lol yeah it'll slip if you vomit a lot but I'm pretty sure it won't slip if you have a cold Oh sweet, I started school on the 8th, awesome, I was going to take cosmetology this year but I felt like I couldn't handle it right now like I feel like I was gonna miss a lot, and it's a two year course which we need 500 hours each year soo I decided to get an early dismissal in case I feel sick I won't have to worry about missing cosmetology and take cosmetology next year good enough for me (: my friend did culinary arts when she was in high school and now she's doing it in college That sounds like a good idea, I would deff try to get it on a vacation day Haha awh I want a puppy =D

no problem (: Ohh you'll probably need a note, I think you can't lift anymore than 30 pounds till 6 weeks, I'd still ask your dr. I'm starting to feel sick right now, I think I have a cold, my dr said that some people have nausea for a couple months, the weird thing is, is that I never had nausea as this much in my life, it blows anyways yeah your insurence might be different, same as you my insurence covered it cause I was 100 pounds overweight I hope I reach my goal too thanks (: That's good, I'm glad I found this website too, it is very helpfull Did you start school already? You need to do light lifting till your dr can give you the ok to lift more I didn't lift anything heavy really the first week cause I felt so nauseated so I basically tried to sleep oor relaxed in the recliner but second week all I can remember lifting is my cat, I can't remember lifting anything else lol Well I wish you luck And no problem (:

it's does huh, keeps my mind off of things but sometimes I think about it I really hope it goes too and I'll be even more happy (: and I think not being regular is making my stomach hurt, I can't go do my duty like a normal person I tried Fiber wheat thins, I'm on regular food now, and I tried a stool softener nothing is working, I only took one stool softener pill, should I take two?

thank you (: And I won't tell anyone about it

hey (: I'm Erin 1. Well I got banded over the summer, but I think you could go back in 3 days or a week, or when you feel you can go 2. Heavy lifting not okay till 6 weeks post op, you should ask the surgeron about that too 3. You wouldn't want to know mine but I had nausea the first week, got bad had to go to the ER once, got better nausea meds felt good for two weeks started to get sick again, lasted for two and a half weeks actually started to get better when I started to go back to school, I still get nauseated mainly in the morning but other than that I'm feeling better and I'm starting to feel like myself, I'm 6 weeks post op and I just want you to know, everyone is different with their experience, yours may be awesome. You have to relax, rest, and let yourself have time to heal and you'll do great (: don't let things scare you cause I did and it's not good to do that I'm 18 and a senior in high school, I started this process at 17 back in June last year. I wanted to start it at 16 but my insurence required me to be 18 in order to get it done I'm hoping that by the end of the school year I'll be close to goal But anyways go to seminars, keep searching this site, get yourself educated on this surgery And good luck (:

I'm a senior in high school by the way and the fireworks were last night

Some of you on here all know I've been having a tough time, with feeling sick/nausea. Well when I started school on the 8th I started to feel better and started feeling like myself. One of my teachers I had last year I have again and she's like "why'd you cut your hair?" and I didn't cut my hair lol then she said "you look really different this year" on day two of school. Then yesturday she asked "are you ok?" I said "yeah why?" she said "I don't know you just look really differen you're not upset or angry are you?" " no, but I lost weight" "yeah I know, I didn't want to embarrass you infront of the other kids" then she asked me what I was doing different and I just told her I changed my diet and exercising. Anyways she's the only one that noticed anything different, do you think anyone else notices anything? But on day two for some reason I felt out of breath, maybe I walked too fast. I still feel nauseated in the morning so I take a nausea pill and I feel fine after first period. But going to school and seeing everyone, I think is making me feel happier and making me feel more like myself and I can finally think possitive, I'm liking that. I'm supposed to get a fill on Tuesday but I'm still not ready for it yet. I went to see fireworks cause it was the battle of Plattsburgh (there was a battle on sept 11th a long long long time ago) and I guess there were guys that were looking at me and they weren't bad looking lol anywho I'm just happy and I hope it stays that way... I'm 6 weeks post op as of yesturday (:

awesome, I use a small saucer plate, and a lot of the times I have left over and I take 20-30 mins to eat and small bites (: the 5 bean salad...never liked it lol. I'm positive that exercising will help with the weight pause, andd yes haha I know it really does, it needs to kick into gear better tho. I'd feel like I'd have to go, but when I get to the bathroom I don't anymore, then I go to sit down for a few mins then I gotta again but then I can't grr I took a stool softened too haha bad stool softener! TMI sorry lol

I got one from the hospital when I had to have it done there, I went earlier, I knida feel better, but not all the way. cheese helps? I'm hungry and I can't find anything ugh!

are you sure it's tasteless? I'll try it on the weekend lol I'll be 6 weeks post op on Friday, I haven't weighed myself lately, last I knew I was down 16 pounds since surgery but 36 alltogether. I wish my dr numbed our fills, some people say it takes 2-3 fills to get good restriction Not fair ): wish I was lucky, wish I never get nauseous. Wish I was 100% awesome

i know right? now i dont have to worry about kids looking at me lol i always had that feeling that someone was watching me eat, yeah that sounds like a good idea do you know if they numb the area for you? my doc doesnt and when i went to see him, he was giving someone a fill and she came out and said "that wasn't as bad as i thought" so hmm. i have some restriction too, my band came with a little bit of fluid in it so that could be why, when the day comes you should tell me how it went (: