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i started my liquids

im having it done in the morning

i have lapband surgery in the morning. i'm pretty excited. The band will be placed over my stomach that i previously had the RNY surgery. thanks for sharing you guys experience though. I have to be at the hospital at 11:30 that means i wont get surgery till to hours later. my nerves are on edge.

My insurance has approved my lapband surgery. im on cloud nine. a

What surgery are u guys having?

I started having burping nasting smelling burps that could not be controlled and acid reflux. I went to the dr and had a barium swallow my band had slipped so bad not even an unfill would have fixed it. I'm scheduled to have that band taken out and a new one put in next Tuesday. Oh how I miss my band buddy. I havn't been able to work out for 7 months so I had been bouncing back forth 10 pounds up down back up. Im curently 4 pounds up but e hope with calorie counting I can get back down before surgery. I want to start fresh after surgery and feel like I'm moving forward. U guys hang in there. I hope u go to the dr soon. It is expensive but u really need to know if something is wrong. I have went for awile with a slip not knowing it. It only hurt my progress and so glad it didn't cause any damage. The slip was not caused by me I have followed all the rules it just happens sometimes. Could be from the amount of weight I lost I have no clue and dr has know clue. Could have been from a surgery complication I had in November and have been going through ever since we will never know. But if i hadnt had the test I would have never found out. So please go to the dr and make sure everything is ok. Great job everyone.

I had my surgery in November 2009 but nobody has wrote in our area for awhile so I thought Id join u guys if thats ok. It looks like all of you have done so good just wanted to tell ya congrats on the weightloss. Soon2b2little 149 pounds Omg give yourself a pat on the back from me way to go!!! Lapband gal 111 pounds if i subtrated right may have had a blonde moment and messed up if so I apoligize. You have done so good girl give yourself a hug from one lapband girl to another awsome job! cheryldee 90 ponds that great too! Hey u may have been at a plateau for eleven months but you have been through a lot in time.Maintaing in my book is just as good as lossing. I too have went through a lot in the last year. Had surgery awhile ago and had complications. I had to have surgery again in Jan2 and ever since I've been having homehealth come everyday. I had to wear a wound vacumm machine for five months and still have a open wound that should close within the next week hopfully. I have had maybe 1 to 2cc maybe in my band for one two months in the last year. I am scheduled for a new band to be put in next Tuesday. During one of my surgeries my band slipped so they are taking it out and petting a new one in. I can't wait to get my buddy back oh how i miss him. Its so hard to do this on my own. I was going to zumba everyday and walking 3 -4 miles everyday losing so good. I haven't lost in forever but have only gained 4 pounds in the last year. I say WOOT WOOT!! The four pounds I am determined to have off by my surgery date. So I am going to calorie count starting today. I want that off so when my bands put it I can start a new begining moving forward. i'm hoping that kickstarts my weightloss. So I total understand what u have been going through the last 11 months. dracon creature. COme on girl u can do it! U have all of us to support you while u move forward. Keep your head held high Girly!! Have a nice day guys!!

U said your not at green zone yet . how big is your band and how many cc are in it? Have you had more ccs than u have today before. Thanks for the info

Not sure what happend because I did everthing I was suppost to. It could have been from being to lose after losing alot of weight. He really couldn't tell me since I had done everything that was asked of me. I had Hernia surgery in November of this year then surgery agian in january because I cought staff infection. They had to open me up and cut out were it had eat into me. So I.ve had home health coming for almost six months everyday to clean wound. I was alos put on a wound vacumm for several months from a slow healing wound which happens a lot when u get staff infection. I'm assuming while I was in the hospital the first time with hernia infection i caught it. I had to have four blood transfusions and kidneys tried to shut down which made my immune system really low and when your immune system is that low you can catch stuff like that easier. so by the end of the week I will be all closed and discharged from home health. I'm so missing my Zumba It is the best workout and its not like a worout to me its fun with other zumba freinds. I love my lapband dr he has been great wouldn't trade him or the lapband for anything. I just pray I don't have any complication or get any kind of infection while having the repair. I'm so ready to get out and have some fun with my wounderful hubby and kiddos. Being restricted to the house for 6 months is very depressing and not fun at all. I personaly think it had to do with the heria surgery everything seemed to go wrong after that. But we will never know. I do know I have not had fluid in my band for a month and the last 5 months before that only 1cc. I miss my band working and I'm so ready fro the helpful tool to be fixed. I could alwasy lose weight but never could keep it off. With the band working properley I'm all good. Making good food choices and exercise is something I enjoy. The times i make bad food choices I'm restricted and reminbed when I feel full to stop. Before it tasted so good I kept eating and eating. Thats what i love about the band. I hadnt had a piece of bread or donut, biscuit.. etc.. in two years until my band slipped. Did I miss those things? yes at first. But I learned ways to subutute like with wraps. I was one who really enjoyed my bread I loved sandwiches in the summer. Rolls at dinner so yummy... I know a lot of people who could still eat those things in moderation but I was not one of them. I can eat anything these days which is not good. I hadnt felt stuffed in years but after having band fluid removed Its like it was preband and that scares me cause if I can eat it I will. I don't seem to have the control. With the band I have the control and when ive had enough I know the signals it gives me that i better stop eating. It makes me nauseus when I eat to much you would think that would help me but it don't. I would be right back were I started if I lost my band and that is very scary. I started having major reflux and heartburn even if i hadnt had anything to eat or drink it would just come out of my mouth uncontrolled smelled like the grosses rotten egg or fart u ever smelled. Before I had surgery in november I had 4cc. Hadnt been able to have much over 1cc since surgery so that was a red flag with the added reflux and heartburn. My kids would be like gross mom stop farting u stink. It happend over and over no warning so embarrising when in public. I had never in my life had heartburn or reflux. It was so bad it burned all the way up. So he took out some fluid and said if it continues call me right back and we will send you for a barrium swallow to see if band slipped. Those are number one sins band slipped. How long have you been banded? How big is your band? U have lapband or relize band? How many cc do u have in your? What can you eat and not eat since surgery? are u glad you had it done? Have you had any problems? Welpought id ask you some questions about your experience so far since i just wrote a book.lol! I love hearing others adventure with the lapband. I think this site has been my number one support system since surgery besides my family.TTYL! Thanks for your response kbliss78 any questions id love to answer.

My lapband slipped about a month ago. Since my stomach is trapped in it letting the fluid out did not help. I am scheduled for a new labpband to be put in next week. I was wondering for those of you who have had something similer to this happen what to expect before and after surgery. I'm so lucky that my insurance is paying for this because this is not the same insurance I had when i got the lapband. The dr wanted to put a bigger lapband in this time for some reason so I'm very lucky they have approved that as well. I think he said that most bands that slip will do it agian so instead of just fixing it he recommended a new band. The reason for the larger band I really have no clue. Unless they think its cause they can fill the band more. So how long did your 2nd surgery go? My first was 30 minuts surgery time. But this time they will be taking the lapband out and placing a new one. Did you have to do a special diet the week before like I did the first I had the lapband placed? I can't remember how long I was on restriction for the first time around. How long will I have to wait to start doing zumba agian? I know I should have asked these questions when I was in his office but I dindt want to get excited if my insurance wouldn't pay for it. I have called the office to ask but am waiting to here back from them so I thought id ask some of you who have done it before. The port will not be touched just the band. I'm sure i will have to do one or two weeks of liquid then mushys then solids like I did the last time. Thanks guys for all who respond have a great day!

Had my upper gi today and found out I need to have revision surgery. He wants to put the lapband 14cc band in this time. I didn't even think to so why.does anyone know why.for this of you with slipped band how does it ork after fixed? Does having a new one help. We have to see if my insurance will cover a new one. If not I just want to fix it.

My insurance don't give requirements its different then most. You have to send in any information you have and they will send to another Dr they have and they decide whether it's medically needed. They sent in pictures too of rash and without. I should find out in a week he did they would call me plus send out a letter to my Dr if denied or not. I will just appeal appeal if I have to. My Dr said my rash was OK since you can't get to do right away when you get it. I had took pictures of my rash to Dr said we wouldn't need those. Thanks for your advice guys

Waiting on reconstruction of mons/ pani approval. So my information was sent to insurance company a month ago and they keep asking for more information and we send it in. Last of it sent off today. Called they have recived it and sending it for another dr to decide if its medically needed. Finally made it to the next step. My insurance was different then most. They tell you nothing about how to qualify. You just have to send in pictures and drs recomendation and they decide with that. I did send in a list of meds that I had used over the counter. I had been to one dr dermotoligst but betime he seen me rash was almost gone. He called me in something. Then my plastics wrote a letter saying why it was medically needed. I have had bladder problems in the past he feels that were from all the extra skin in both areas. I didn't send any other information in guess I will do that if they decline it. So what have some of you went through to get a pani approved? Shew this wait process is no fun at all. We get all excited and don't know what the outcome will be until they send us a letter approved or dennied. Im still going to have it if they don't pay but will have to wait awhile longer if thats the case. Thanks for listening and any advice would be appreciated.

Loved reading about what all of you are doing to get past the tight feeling in your band. I too went fo a tiny unfill last week. I was having major heartburn so bad even when i didn't eat i was burping nasty smelling stuff up non stop. he told me if I still did that I need to call office and they would schedule me for an upper gi with barrium. It's so weird I have had 5cc in my band before and just felt tight. But I only have 2 1/2 cc in my band some days its super tight some days I can eat anything. I'm still burping from time to time not as much but enough to know somethings wrong. He said my band may have slipped thats one of the signs. OMG I sure hope not. If so I hope they can unfill me all the way and it fix its self. So im waiting on dr to call and schedule that in two weeks. I know sometimes its hard with the band but I need it. I could always lose the weight. It was keeping it off that was my problem. With the band as my tool it always reminds me I need to stop. Without backup from it sheww scary thought. Have any of you had that problem?