jen36

Thanks for all your responses at least I am not the only one a little frustrated. I guess we will all be buying new wardrobes soon enough, we should be enjoying not having to shell out a bunch of money already!!!! WE CAN DO THIS!!!!

I also am 4 weeks out and can eat anything except hard boiled eggs!!!! Remember we have no restriction at this time so of course once the swelling goes down we can eat anything!!!! Hang in there a fill is coming soon.

I am a month post op and I am sooooo gassy, both ends its all day long!!!!!!! I don't eat much I am staying around 800 calories a day. I drink a ton of water and exercise but it is always there and I don't know what I can do to get rid of it. Any suggestions?

You are doing great Dave, you have lost alot so far... I too like you need a fill soon, I am hoping at my follow up appt on the 11th they will give me a fill. Keep up the great work and keep me posted on how you are doing.

How are all my fellow May 3rd bandsters doing? Would love to hear updates from all of you and see how you are doing. I am doing well, the weight is finally starting to come off, I am exercising everyday now so that must have been the missing link!!!!! Follow up appt. with the surgeon is June 11th I am hoping to get a fill at that time!!!!

Banded May 3rd!!!!! Everything has been going good, down about 15lbs have been working out at the gym almost everyday now. Clothes feeling alot looser. Still having alot of gas not sure if that is normal or not!!!!! Trying to stay motivated, thought the weight would come off a little faster than it has been.

I would def. like to know this too, mine are about a month out and still healing so would like to do something.

Can anyone tell me what is good when you are constipated? It is so bad I am nauseous and in so much pain, I tried an enema this morning and nothing at all happened? PLEASE HELP, my hubby is going to buy me some prunes to see if that works.

From what I have read on here taking benefiber or something like that should be fine. I would call your dr. just to be sure.

Wow you got a fill already? You are so lucky, I am trying to stay around 800 or 900 calories a day every now and then I am up to 1000. How was the fill? Was it painful? I did find that I had a problem with a hard boiled egg and haven't eaten that again. That is great you are down 14lbs!!! AWESOME... KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!

My best friend of 13yrs has been so unsupportive of me, I was banded 3 1/2 weeks ago and she did not call or text message me for the first 4 days to even see how I was feeling. Now all that comes out of her mouth is you can just watch your calories and lose it and I say yeah we see how well that was working for me. Now I feel as if I don't even want to be around her at all anymore. She is overweight as well so I think it may be a little bit of jealousy that she's I am losing some weight and working out everyday and eating healthy!!!! I feel like I am losing the best friend that I have, is there anyway to over come this?

I would do like 3 egg white for breakfast, I found the best breakfast, Yoplat key lime pie yogurt about 4 tablespoons of that some cut up bananas and I crushed up about a half of a graham cracker IT WAS SOOOOO GOOD

I actually have been going everyday and I did go yesterday and only a little bit though and nothing today. I took the MOM about 2hrs ago and still nothing, so that is prunes, coffee and MOM and still nothing. I hope that maybe by tomorrow there will be some relief for me!!!!!!

Monday will be a month for me since I was banded and this is the first episode of constipation I have had, I ate a little bit more than normal yesterday so I don't know if that caused it but I hope I don't ever have it again.

Can food get stuck even when you haven't had a fill yet? Just curious b/c the other day I ate a hard boiled egg and it almost felt like it was stuck going down and then almost like I was choking and I took a drink and it kind of came up..

Congrats on the clothes fitting looser!!!!! YIPPPPY. I had my surgery May 3rd so I am right behind you, please let me know how your fill goes so scared of that needle. That is a great weight loss I am only down about 12lbs so I haven't lost that much but my clothes are alot looser as well so don't know if I am losing inches, I work out at least 4 or 5 times a week so I am hoping to see some pounds drop!!! GOOD LUCK AGAIN!!!

Oh I am definitely am going to keep going and like I heard some of you say our relationship was alot about food and eating!!!!!!! I have my family's support and all of your support, thanks guys!!!!

Definitely burping is an issue for me, it is constant!!!!! And they are loud burps which is so annoying!!!!! Any ideas of how to get rid of this.

I am only 3 1/2wks post op and day of surgery was taken off my bp med's which I have been on for 8yrs almost and my prescription prilosec for acid reflux!!!!!! It is wonderful.

That is soooo scary to me, is there foods that you just don't even try b/c you heard they don't go down well? I don't think I will ever try rice, pasta or bread I am even scared to do toast!!!!

So what do you guys do when you get stuck after having a fill? I am soooo scared of that happening?

Kind of scary to feel it when your not expecting it!!

Today after I got done at the gym I happened to touch my large incision in the middle of my abdomen and I felt something really hard underneath. I never noticed it before. Is this my band that I feel?

Oh ok so your port is not on the side its in the middle, surprised my dr. never told me where it is located. Thanks guys I was a little taken back when I felt it.

I hate to admit this but I don't know where my port is but the large incision is right above my belly button.