ThinAli

I feel your frustration. It is hard I have the opposite problem I might have slippage. I don't know about you a part of me wants the band kept in and the other half is worried about constant problems. In a time when everything is changing for the better you then have a new dilemma on your hands. I have to say I waiver back and forth because the band works but I still think about it over and over again. Goo dluck I have no doubt it will get better for you. Have you thought about maybe switching surgeons..are there others in the same office you can go to because your doc should listen to your instinctions.

I possibly have band slippage I am going to have an upper GI within a week or so. I have odd feelings on and off but still the doctor wasn't too concerned. It's liveable. If it isn't slippage then an unfill will be done. However, if I have to have surgery then I am questioning whether or not I should have him take it out and leave it out. I am concerned that if it did slip then how often does it happen again. I have lost weight and I am happy with the band so it is hard to explain exactly why I feel that it should be taken out and left out. I need some advice and if anyone knows of someone that had the band removed because of slippage and left out. I need some advice. I have been thinking about this for the last 2 months when I got my fill and it was too tight.

I belonged to Curves when they first came out and I didn't much like it...didn't see the results. Probably like someone else said the weight resistance doesn't change.

I am actually going back in 2 weeks, the soonest they could get me in! I have given the last fill about 21/2 months for me to adjust to it. I haven't lost anything mainly because I am having to eat slowly throughout the day to get in enough protein which means I am grazing and can't remember what I have eatten. I know I can/should be tracking but I am miserable. If am able to get something down I have to be standing while I eat...not always possible, or I have to add sauce ...not good, or again graze. Last Monday I threw up scrambled eggs that I chewed to the point where I couldn't anymore...kind of hard to chew eggs when they are already in small pieces! So you are not the only one. I wish this one would have worked but I guess it was too much.

Aren't you lucky!!! I would love to loose some of my bulk but it hasn't happened! I have shrunk to a 36 around and I have lost nearly nothing in the actual breast my cup has actually gotten larger.(according to how the bra specialist measure you) I would suggest going somewhere like Victorias secret and get a nice bra as well and they can hook you up with a variety of sizes as well as water bras. They have several different types of padded bras. Until you can have surgery to add some size to them....if you so desire!

If you are still on pain killers then that could be part of the problem. I didn't really experience any nausea but that could be a major part of it.

well depending on where they slice and dice you the seatbelt may sit on the sutures. and one can only imagine how painful it would be if the driver hit the brakes hard!

I didn't walk at all in the hospital. I wouldn't bring your pj's. I don't know how many surgeries you have had or if you have ever been put under but I hadn't until this surgery. My bladder didn't wake up from the drugs so I had to be cathered twice and they have to use sanitizers down there that would have probably stained my clothes. If you are worried about people seeing your bum maybe bring a robe to cover up. I wore a tee shirt and shorts home and a sports bra. My port is about 4 inches below my breasts and with the bandage I was afraid to mess up the bandage. MY big advice is to bring a pillow for the ride home. Put the pillow between you and your seat belt. I slept with the pillow on my tummy as well because i rested my hands on my belly. At home I did the same because I have animals that walk over my belly in the course of the evening...this spared me a lot of pain.

lower belly has always been pouchie sad thing is I have never had kids...just genetic. I would want a tummy tuck, boobs, and inner thighs...again hard to prioritize and I agree even though it will be a fortune I want to do it all at once. Although I always thought i would need a little lipo in my chin and while it isnt where i would like to be it is getting smaller which makes me happy one less thing to fix. My inner thighs hopefully will only need a little lipo although a new thing i have heard of is you are injection in an area with a fluid that freezes the fat and then the frozen fat cells basically disappear within 2 months. And this can be done by a dermatologist its too new for me to say i'd do it but it is a good option!

My understanding is that the only thing stitched is the port...not the band. If the band was stitched and it did slip whether it was through the patients fault or not it would rip the stomach...at least that is what i think.

I have been fat for over 10 years now. Nowhere near what I was when I had surgery almost a year ago. I have been stuck between 45-50 lbs since Jan. I am very frustrated with myself and thinking that maybe this was a mistake. Although I don't think I would have lost this weight without it. It seems that I sabotage myself from being happy. I have a great day of following eating and calories guidelines and then I pig out on candy before I go to bed. (I don't buy the candy I live with my family.) Or I am doing great with working out and then I stop or fade out. I think the real problem is that I have been this way for so long that it is safe and comfortable even though I hate the way I look. It is a security blanket and I don't know what to do in order to get over that feeling and move on with my weight loss. Anyone out there have any advice? I hope I am not the only one that has done this and hopefully you can get me over this hump. Alison

It gets better if you are allowed eat jello it should stay in the pouch longer and make you less hungry. Thin mashed potatoes are great...with a little cheese very little to give a little protein to keep you satisfied longer. I was allowed to eat creamy soups rather thinly made. Or any soup pulverized into a liquid and I always chose a split pea with ham or potato cheese. As long as they are really really ground up you should be fine. I know at some point it felt like you were always eating something sweet. It gets much better once you can start doing the things i wrote about above...you feel normal again. And I will say it was hard to realize what was head hunger and which was food hunger. I still battle with that. Also my port was sore for a while probably severely sore for about 1 week and then gradually better for the next several weeks. I would roll out of bed instead of sitting up in bed and getting out...using your abs I felt made it worse. At the hospital they made me sit up first and then get out of bed.

my doc had me pull off mine at the one week point I had no sutures underneath though because glued that incision. I only had one entry point...the other of course was the port. The bandaging on the port I pulled off, under the nurses advice on like day 3. I was starting to get a rash because of the adhesive.

All I can say is I am in the same position. I do not have great restriction. And I am falling into old habits so I completely understand. I feel all the things you do and question myself about why I do this to myself. Unlike you I have always known that I was addicted to food. I eat when I am not hungry which is frustrating to me! But I am the one that needs to take responsiblity for my actions and get back on the wagon. I plan meals throughout the day and far in advance...I think about what I have at home to eat when I get there. I am a hostage of sorts to my mind I don't know why I do this to myself. I do what you do I work out and they justify eating this or that. If anyone else has advice I would love it because I need to get off my plateau that I have been on!!!!

The one thing you need to remember is that it gets easier. It is very overwhelming to think about taking all the protein through liquids. And also remember you are coming off the morphine and you haven't eatten anything for over 24 hours. Your body is adjusting I remember in the first few days I didn't know how I was even surviving because all I eat was the sugar free popsicles, jello, and protein drinks. I focused on how I felt in those early days and didn't focus so much on how many grams of protein I got. That would of been really hard on top of dealing with everything else going on. Also if you are taking pain killers now that can also make you nauseous. Hang in there it will get better sooner than you think. You never know what to expect until you have the surgery all you can do now is to adapt you'll do great.