lizzyann

Wonder if it's too tight? I had a similar session like that about 2 months ago and only got through it with Zantac150 an hour before bed, but I still keep the Gaviscon tablets handy.

Hi, I am 3 years out with the lap band and have just had an unfill due to what my surgeon says is a prolapse!!!! Why after 3 years? Had a major esophageal cramping session this morning and actually was going to go the ER when it suddenly relaxed as fast as it came on. WTH? I did have some reflux issues a couple of months ago but they've been managed so I am really discouraged by this whole chain of events. Really don't want to go through all of this again if I don't have to. My surgeon wants me to come back in 3 weeks for another upper GI to see if it will straighten itself out but he didn't look too sure that it would happen like that. This is so weird. I have no idea what it is supposed to feel like when the band slips. Anyone?

I feel your pain. I have an ice cream addiction that I'm really battling right now. Nice weather comes and that's the first thing I think of. Stressful day at work and it's there again. Try giving yourself a time out. Put your head down and remember why you got this band in the first place. All those years we've spent pacifying ourselves with food landed us in this place and now we have to step up and take our lives back. Call your doctor and see if you can get a fill on a payment plan, but you sound like you definitely need a fill bad. I'll be crossing my fingers for you. Fill yourself up with some Crystal Light and talk a walk. Let me know how it goes. Good Luck:thumbup:

Hi Blues: Stick with it and it will get better. Try some lentil soup and potato soup, even cream of broccoli if you mash up the broccoli really well will help that hungry feeling. I'm really surprised you feel hungry at all. My first week was a real no hunger week for me. I went back to work the second week and even then I ate because I needed fuel. Got too tired if I didn't eat something. The gas is probably here to stay for a while. I felt it was more like listening to everything passing through my stomach rather than actual gas. It has alleviated somewhat but after a year and 2 months I still have days when I'm really grumbly. Hang in there, we'll all be rooting for you:thumbup:

I have eaten nothing today and I'm really floundering as to what I want to have. Cold stuff feels bad, eggs come back up and toast does too. I need some input for breakfast options that will stay with me besides oatmeal. Can anyone give me some good suggestions/recipes.:tt2:

YOU GO!!!!! PREPARE TO BE SORE:eek: PREPARE TO BE THIRSTY AND GROUCHY:cursing: PREPARE TO CHANGE:thumbup:HOPE EVERYTHING GOES WELL!!!!!

Hi and welcome. Hope you find out all you need to know here. You should be aware that some insurances don't cover the surgery unless you are 100lbs.over weight with other co-morbidity issues ie. diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol etc. It certainly is'nt an easy way to go but it sure gets results. I call it my surgically implanted conscience. Good luck.

I went in for a fill on Wednesday and had horrible reflux, no sleep for two nights, coughing up acid, burning etc. called my doc and he had me come in for a slight unfill because he said it was probably too tight. Told me to take some otc pepcid and see how that worked. I too take my meds before bedtime and have started taking them at least an hour before bed. I'm sleeping with a wedge to elevate my upper body and it is helping but I find if I have anything at all in the evening, such as liquids it will come back up. This has freaked me out especially since I've had no reflux for the past year since the surgery and I was prone to it before. Keep up with the acid reducer and try propping your upper body up a little till your band relaxes a little. Hope this helps.

B. 1/2 banana, 1 granola bar S. 6oz light yogurt L. 1c. veg/beef soup, 6 cheesit crackers S. tropical fruit cup D. turkey,bacon & swiss on 1/2 slice ciabatta bread 1/2 c. green beans

Hmmm, I won't miss walking past any reflective surface and trying not to look at myself to see how bad I look. I won't miss my lipitor & blood pressure med's. I won't miss sitting on the sidelines because I was always too tired, sore, self conscious to join in the game. Being treated as though I was invisible to men. Being told, but you have such a pretty face and a bubbly personality. Having to ask for an extension for the seat belt on airplanes and then feeling squeezed into the seat.

Stopping you for 2 hours does seem a little intense just for some stuck chicken and dough. The stress of having a feeling like that is enough to cramp everything up and it takes a while to settle it back down. I can no longer eat eggs in any form without having them come back up, same for most breads, toast or spaghetti. I think it probably is normal for the two to be happening at the same time, just try to relax and take a break from the meal. Hope this helps.

Breakfast is Apple cinnamon oatmeal with a splash of milk 3 hours later snack of yogurt lunch is chunky type of soup or stew 3 hours later snack of cheese or yogurt or cottage cheese dinner is protein i.e. 3oz chicken/beef/fish green veg and some type of starch if I can handle it. It seems like a lot but eating every three hours really helps keep the furnace running. I eat so little of what I do eat that it all works out.