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After my first fill I was told it would feel tight for 2-3 days. They were right, it took about a week to subside. I now eat normal food, I am sitting here eating a take-out meal from Dennys. This is the fourth meal from the one (1) serving. It is looking like I may give leftovers to my dogs. I just get full and quit eating.

After banding and after fills you can take sometime to get the feel for what to eat. The more fluid it is the better. As you relearn to chew your food to a paste life gets better.

Had only a couple of PB right after banding. After that when I was still learning to chew, chew, chew PB some more. You get over it.

aint it nice, keep up the small bites

The doctors are ready to handle it, no problem. The US doctors are so test crazy. It the lawyers they are like a knife with two sharp sides (good/bad) easy to blame, most of the time they do not help, but every now and then they save your butt.

You hope nobody ask about your portable Bidet "(bee-dáy) is a personal cleansing method utilizing a stream of water, which is more hygienic and beneficial to the use of toilet paper". I use a garden sprayer from the hardware store. GO AHEAD AND LOL

Walk as much as you can it helps

You can get a Flouroscope exam to "see" the port and drink some barrium to watch how it goes through. The flouro is avaliable in lots of medical offices. Get on the phone in your area.

Sounds like Gas, it wil pass

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I just finished a wounderfull dinner, small but wounderfull. I am full and content. best wishes

Lazy, no-good, pig, yep I got all the name calling etc. Strangers, friends & family they all got their chance. It does not matter, I got banded for me! body pain, mental pain, hard to sleep, can't catch my breath, pre-dibetic, blood pressure going up, so out of shape sex was a chore..... Then I had to fight my family to consider Mexico. If I would have waited to save the money for my local Doctor and Hospital it would have been 2008 before banding I got banded for me, without waiting. I might not have made it till 2008. I sure would not have been feeling so good as I do right now. I would not have been doing for others, others would be doing for me. Sorry if I sound mad but the lack of support is a KILLER.

I remember walking my class down to the nurse school to get free flu shots. It was a week early, they were sticking needles in oranges. When we came back in a week they were fine. But it was big laugh

I have no trouble with steak, but give me scrambled eggs and I choke up. I think that I know that steak must be chewed to mush. Scrambled eggs are soft and I do not chew them enough...anyway its an idea.

The Last Supper ha,ha,ha wait till you are banded and can eat anything you want. There is nothing that I can not eat, just small meals and I am full. Don't worry

Worry worry, what a waste of effort, but we all do it...

I made a mistake waiting, wish I had done it sooner. as for insh coverage ask your agent

The opperation in not hard, a newbie will do a fine job.

I worried about my girl's WLS and she worried about mine. We are both much better off now and much happier. I still worry about her bypass and nutrition. I chose the band as being safer in the long run.

I guess I did a poor job of saying that we all must make up our own minds.

Nobody cares about you as much as you should care about yourself. Remember you are #1, their are few exceptions to this.

It does not matter much how you do it, as long as you do it reasonably. If I had a system that I made money from and it was working I would want everyone in the world on "My System" Remember "Minds are like parachutes, they work better when Open" Do your homework with an open mind, Lap-Band may not be for you. But I do not think anyone on this form telling you to stay fat, unhappy, unhealthy etc. Best wishes, I did my homework for more than five years. First for my girlfriend and then for me. She had the bypass and I have the band. We are both better.

This form may be able to help, good luck. Look around and read.

I took me years to save the money. I did not want to go in debt. Mistake, mistake, mistake the two years I waited were dumb. If you can find a way, any way do it. Do not give up.