Humming Bird

Oh MY ! 500-600 LEVEL Wooooeee. you er gettin' yerself a good education girl! What you are lackin' is life experience and maturity. re: "let me educate you." and then quoting yer little text book to teach what you just learned. But I won't hold that against you. It is just one of several "journies" yer on ! Life's journey. yer little classes aren't teachin' u how to treat people very well, but you'll learn after about 20 more years of real life.

I must admit, I had a good chuckle to myself at work today after reading this thread this morning. Oh so many replys came to mind! btrieger, I'm glad you are enjoying it too! I didn't think you added the "other" choice literally for those with dual equipment and such. I figured you were just trying to keep things light-hearted. This morning I was thinking you left out a couple choices. A. Men B. Women C. Boys D. Girls

This is one of the things my surgeon talked about at my consult. He said it is a "full signal." I started paying attention even before my surgery, and yep, sometimes when I was full I had a hiccup. Now post-op, The hiccup comes way too late for it to be my full signal.

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LOL, is someone taking an anatomy class? AP201? oh, now I see, It's a feminist course

lol ... OH, I gotta hear this !

awww, don't give up. Think of these feelings as just a little bump in the road on your way to being thin. In most cases, I think when people post here or reply to threads, they are trying to be helpful and participate. Sometimes we use the wrong words that offend, but that is usually not the intent. You will find what works for you. For me, I hate weighing, counting and measuring. It drives me crazy and I don't do it often. My band measures stuff for me. As far as counting, I don't write anything down. I know I have a hard time getting in Protein, so I just think about it on a daily basis. I know I have not had enough protein today .... looking back on what I've had ..... so I mix up a Protein Drink and sip on it while I'm here looking at LBT. When the sun comes up, it's a new day and I just try to focus on that day and try to stick to the lapband rules the best I can. Some days it works pretty good and some days it doesn't.

It seems to me that you will find out what you have already figured out. There are very few men here, but I hope you stick around. I hope you can put up with how women are and look at it in a positive way.

Your sweet spot is where you can eat 3 tiny meals a day and not feel hungry between those meals .... and are dropping weight. You will hear many different things as far as how large the meals should be. My doc says 1/2 cup. I have heard others say 1 cup. That is where I think everyone is different. I think it depends on where on your stomach the band is located and how big your pouch ends up being. The meals at your sweet spot should consist of solid well chewed food. I think I am a little bit tighter than my sweet spot at this point. There is no way I could ever eat an entire cup of solid food no matter how much I chew it. Sometimes, if the food is real solid, I can't even eat 1/2 cup. I am considering getting a tiny unfil to get to a better sweet spot. I fear my weight loss will stop. I was told that they include some fat under the band. When you lose that fat the band will loosen up some.

Right now I can eat things like yogurt, cottage cheese, Soups, chili, cereals, fruits, vegies, Protein shakes ...... I am considering getting a tiny un-fill, but not sure.

I am close to my 6 month date and have had 2 fills. It really depends on so many things. You can't really go by what others have had. How much your doc puts in at each fill ...... How much of your own stomach tissue is inside the band .....

I had the left shoulder pain for several months. It was also my full signal for a long time. Even though it is a nerve trick and not truly a shoulder thing, I found that equate brand (walmart) pain patches helped quite a bit. In the evening I would just put one on the tip of my shoulder and leave it on all night. They even work well if you cut one in half. They are only about $4 I think and can be found by the ben-gay and icy-hot type creams. I remember someone else saying they used the sports creams.

I didn't have any of these, but I would have jumped through any hoops required. I was so happy that I didn't have to jump thru any. I was selfpay and that, I'm sure had a lot to do with it. I had to do Atkins for 2 weeks pre-op and a phone consult with NUT

well, whether egg mcmuffins are health food or not, I can't eat bread. I can't eat meat. I can't eat eggs. So that leaves me with the slice of cheese. No point in ordering the egg mcmuffin for me !!

I love the tail ! and your hair ! Beautiful

Hello and welcome to LBT. I really like reading and learning here. Sometimes we bansters offend each other, but it is still a great place to get support and talk with others going through the same stuff. It is also a great place to get inspiration and share your own success.

wow. this thread went a little crazy. dowhatitdo, are u there? are u getting all this ?

you may just still have some swelling going on and they may have put a little Fluid in the band at surgery. Did they tell you cold liquids only for the first week? It took me awhile too and I did have discomfort like you. Is your lapband surgeon available for a phone call. If you call the office number they usually have a service who can contact the doc. and he/she can call you back. Emergency rooms usually are not that much help in this case and the bill is sometimes not worth it. If you have insurance that will pay for the ER, I guess it's ok, but I think they know very little about band issues.

I looked up the nutritional info on a couple of sites. The egg mcmuffin is in no way a healthy choice. The numbers were a little different on each site, but niether site gave a "healthy food" rating. 300 calories 12g fat 820 sodium! 260 mg cholesterol ! 30 carbs! by all means, eat what you think is right, and what your Dr. tells you to eat, but please at least re-think the egg mcmuffin thing. Lord knows, I myself am not the queen of nutrition and sometimes do not eat proper. I just can not fathom a NUT or a Dr. telling someone to eat an egg mcmuffin for breakfast.

have you been back to a lapband surgeon lately? If the band is in good condition, could you get a fill to get some restriction and take something to stop the acid reflux? Maybe you developed a hiatial hernia that needs repair?

Cereal is not a slider food for me. It depends on how tight your band is. Cream of wheat is more of a slider, but my band is so tight in the mornings, sometimes I can not even eat that. On my days off when I have time to eat breakfast later in the day, 1/2 portion of oatmeal or 1/2 bowl of cereal keeps me full for hours.

no, all dentists are not periodontists. Many general dentists do try to keep much work in-office due to $$, but a periodontist has a great deal more education than a general dentist and they are specialist in the area you need. If a general dentist has not resolved the problem, he/she should have sent you to a periodontist.

My surgeon included all of those on his full liquid list. When I was at the store the other day I noticed there is one with protein now. I'm going to buy that one next time. I think it was the cream of wheat?

Mine did not require any pre-op testing ...........nothing. I had no blood drawn, no urine tests, no x-rays ...... Of course it may have been different depending on the paperwork I filled out at the consult, but I personally was not required to do any.

hmarko, I did look up the lichen planus. I just wanted to make sure I was thinking of the right condition. I know the patients that we have seen with this condition did get it to go away with the proper Rx. The best person to go see about it would be a periodontist. They do treat periodontal disease, but they are also the experts when it comes to conditions of all oral tissues. You really should go see one and get that to go away.