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I was supposed to get my first fill today however it didn't happen... I posted the whole story on my blog at http://2010snewlife4me.blogspot.com/ Please go check it out and follow me for future escapades on my new life!!!

I was supposed to get my first fill today however it didn't happen... I posted the whole story on my blog at http://2010snewlife4me.blogspot.com/ Please go check it out and follow me for future escapades on my new life!!!

My surgeon told me where mine was but I knew he wanted to put it above my belly button and that is where it is. I knew it was there but didn't "feel" it till the surgeon told me to at my post op appt! I have my first fill on Monday 2/22 and am getting a little nervous. yet excited!!!:thumbdown:

That is wonderful news... I am starting to see the "baggy" in my Lane Bryant jeans so I can't wait to be able to go down a size ...or 2? LOL!

Hi All, I have to ask some questions... I am scheduled for my first fill on 2/22. My band is 4 weeks old now and I know I need this fill more than anything right now. Even tho I am not able to eat as much as I did before surgery I still know in my heart that I am able to eat way more than I should right now! I want my fill but am so very nervous about it! I hear that some get numbing medication for their fills and some do not. At this point I really don't even know if my surgeon does or does not offer anything to numb. My port is right above my belly button. Anyone else got that? I also, am getting nervous about having the gas pains after eating again. I seem to have developed a major burping and farting syndrome since getting my band. Ok youcan tell me to shut the heck up... just get the fill and don't worry so much. But could you please tell me some of your experiences too! Do you or don't you get numb? Help?! I'm starting to worry

Hi All, I have to ask some questions... I am scheduled for my first fill on 2/22. My band is 4 weeks old now and I know I need this fill more than anything right now. Even tho I am not able to eat as much as I did before surgery I still know in my heart that I am able to eat way more than I should right now! I want my fill but am so very nervous about it! I hear that some get numbing medication for their fills and some do not. At this point I really don't even know if my surgeon does or does not offer anything to numb. My port is right above my belly button. Anyone else got that? I also, am getting nervous about having the gas pains after eating again. I seem to have developed a major burping and farting syndrome since getting my band. Ok youcan tell me to shut the heck up... just get the fill and don't worry so much. But could you please tell me some of your experiences too! Do you or don't you get numb? Help?! I'm starting to worry

I told my husband and 3 close friends up until the surgery was scheduled then I told my boss and 1 co-worker. then the day of surgery I HAD to tell my brother because my dad was in the same hospital having Angioplasty! (What were the chances of THAT happening!) I will tell no one else just because it is none of thier business. I did this for me. It is a tool for me to do something that I have not been able to do all of my adult life! Be Healthy! Your storys here just reinforce my decision. :rolleyes2:

I too would love to be part of a Facebook group! I am on there all the time however, I have only told 5 people in my life about my band... NOT a single family member knows and I want to keep it that way so if you all will "pinky band swear" that you won't post anything at all about it, I will add you as soon as I get home from work tonight!!! I can't risk some of my friends (and I have almost 300) knowing about this surgery.

Yes, My Band is 17 days old today! I need to tellyou that I will be posting strictly LB stuff on here because of my decision to keep my band a secret from like everyone in the world! But once I get the hang of it there will be more posts on my other new blog: visit me there at: http://2010snewlife4me.blogspot.com/ Now, yesterday I had my first post op appointment with my surgeon... I thought he was going to kiss me! He is so happy with my progress and 26 pound loss that he said ok... Lets give it a few more weeks and then we will start your fills. Yahoo! This is a man of very few words. and yesterday I think he said more to me than he has said in 6 months of consultations. My DH said it was because he wasn't there! Yeah ok, you keep thinking that DH!!! I think this is a good thing that I will be starting my fills on 2/22/10, because I feel like I have been eating more the last 2 days than I should... Altho, today I had very little for lunch and I am very very full. I cannot stress how glad I am that I made this decision and stuck with it. I know I will be a better person in no time.

Yes, My Band is 17 days old today! I need to tellyou that I will be posting strictly LB stuff on here because of my decision to keep my band a secret from like everyone in the world! But once I get the hang of it there will be more posts on my other new blog: visit me there at: http://2010snewlife4me.blogspot.com/ Now, yesterday I had my first post op appointment with my surgeon... I thought he was going to kiss me! He is so happy with my progress and 26 pound loss that he said ok... Lets give it a few more weeks and then we will start your fills. Yahoo! This is a man of very few words. and yesterday I think he said more to me than he has said in 6 months of consultations. My DH said it was because he wasn't there! Yeah ok, you keep thinking that DH!!! I think this is a good thing that I will be starting my fills on 2/22/10, because I feel like I have been eating more the last 2 days than I should... Altho, today I had very little for lunch and I am very very full. I cannot stress how glad I am that I made this decision and stuck with it. I know I will be a better person in no time.

Chele, For me it was 5 days, and then that first one after surgery was like having a freaking baby out my butt. :smile2: You need to remember you are drinking all your "food" right now so it may be awhile. It's ok. :w00t: Get some dulcolax or mylanta. It'll help. I'm on day 16 post op and I think I've only had 3 "movements" since my band was put in place. I was as regular as the clock on the wall before surgery but now??? :tongue: I guess this is what skinny peoples "regular" is like. I am on my way to my surgeons office right now for my first post op visit.:tongue:

In what seems like Bander fashion... I have created a blog that is separate from the blog on here... I have far from finished the creation... however, for now am going to call it my work in progress just like my newly banded body! Join me. oh wait it's called "follow", so Follow me on my new blog at: http://2010snewlife4me.blogspot.com/

In what seems like Bander fashion... I have created a blog that is separate from the blog on here... I have far from finished the creation... however, for now am going to call it my work in progress just like my newly banded body! Join me. oh wait it's called "follow", so Follow me on my new blog at: http://2010snewlife4me.blogspot.com/

I have shoulder pain every afternoon/evening... so much so that one day I thought I was literally having a heart attack. When I asked the nurse about it she said I may just be drinking in to much air when I drink my water... OMG I don't know how to take a smaller sips... Any advise from anyone out there? I don't want to live on or have to take stock in gas ex!

I'm in Elmira too!!! I was banded on 1/12/10... I'm not regretting my decision at all. anyone (MedRN Cathy?? Healthy Grandma?? Karen S?) want to chat, send me a note!!! I love hearing others experiences, and am always willing to share mine! Hope to hear from you!!!

I too am 12 days post op... and am on the mush but told to start carefully reintroducing regular foods like chicken, fish, veggies, etc. Last night I had 3 oz of fish and 1/4 cup macaroni & cheese, technically I was supposed to have 1/4 cup of mashed potato with it but I am glad I didn't. I was SSSOOO full and still today I feel like I ate way to much! I think it may have been the pasta! Night time snacking is my problem too! I need help when the DH comes into the room with a bowl full of popcorn or chips and I know I can't have them! Help! advice please???? :cursing:

Congrats!!! I am also 1 week and 1 day out! I've dropped 12 lbs, but I am cautious that I will either out a pound or two back on or not drop as fast once I fet back into full foods... Good Luck! and again Congrats!!!

Hey folks, Happy MLK Day to those of you who may have had a long weekend as I did! Actually I have been off work since last Tuesday when I was banded but today was a freebie day off. I got on our scale here this morning and I find it so hard to believe that it read 31 lbs lower than when I stepped on it 5 months ago. I am really, really excited to go to my nutritionist app't on Thursday and see if it really is true! Is it really possible to drop this much so quickly? I started eating mush today... yogurt for breakfast, mashed taters and gravy for lunch and will probably have pudding or jello for dinner. I've been very, very "full" all afternoon so I may not eat dinner at all if the full feeling doesn't go away? Tomorrow I head back to work... I am planning my meals now to see what/how I can do this till I get back on regular foods!

Hey folks, Happy MLK Day to those of you who may have had a long weekend as I did! Actually I have been off work since last Tuesday when I was banded but today was a freebie day off. I got on our scale here this morning and I find it so hard to believe that it read 31 lbs lower than when I stepped on it 5 months ago. I am really, really excited to go to my nutritionist app't on Thursday and see if it really is true! Is it really possible to drop this much so quickly? I started eating mush today... yogurt for breakfast, mashed taters and gravy for lunch and will probably have pudding or jello for dinner. I've been very, very "full" all afternoon so I may not eat dinner at all if the full feeling doesn't go away? Tomorrow I head back to work... I am planning my meals now to see what/how I can do this till I get back on regular foods!

OMG, OMG, OMG, I am ROFLMAO! YESTERDAY I had the first "movement" since Surgery 6 days ago! And my DH said to me... "R U ok?", to which I answered OMG, I feel like I just had a baby out my butt! Why is it that the Dr's and all the social workers and nutritionists DON'T tell you about this. And suggest a laxative? Really? I mean seriously? I'm with you on this "tracking"... what do we need to do first?

I was just banded on 1/12 and I have bloat too but as far a vitamins? I have been tolerating my regular ones that I have always taken as long as I take them one at a time and slowly. I like Life Water and Vitamin Water. Protien will come when you get back on "real" food... Cheese, milk, chicken and fish are great sources. There are lots of ppl on here that have lots of great ideas. keep "browsing" and read posts and blogs. It helps It sure has helped me!

Today is Day 4... I didn't try on my jeans because I am still a little bloated from the actual surgery. Today was a busy day and I probably did more than I should have only being 4 days out but my surgeon said, "get up, get out, activities as tolerated". That's the tricky part AS TOLERATED. What you may not know is I sing... I sing alot! I am in a competition barbershop chorus and also a competition barbershop quartet within that chorus. I am also in another concert chorus, and do solos for them often! So drinking water is NOT a problem for me... Anyway today my quartet had a rehearsal, at 10. Dr G. told me to take it easy, no high notes or really low notes but the rest is "as tolerated". Now mind you, ONE of my quartet members knows that I had the surgery the 2 others do not. Rehearsal was ok... we kept the practice easy and shorter than normal because I had a hair and nail appointment. DH is having a blast driving me to practice and then on to the appt's. :thumbup: After the appointments, we went and did a little grocery shopping and then came home... I had had nothing to drink except my milk with all my meds this morning and then water from that point on. When we got home guess what? I was hungry... actually hungry, for the first time since I got banded. SSSOOO, Here is the mistake I made. Dr G. told me I could transition into mushy foods on days 4-5 and then transition into real foods again after my nutritionist appt. on 1/21. OK... Yahoo! Mushy food... I'm hungry and I can have something mushy... What do I want??? KFC mashed potatoes and gravy!!! no drinking for 30 min before we eat, right?... so when I dish out the 2 small teaspoons of potatoes and gravy I am really hungry. So much for making the meal LAST... in 10 minutes, tops, those potatoes were GONE! Then I realized what I had done so I quit! I got OUT of the kitchen, went and laid down and started watching TV. 30 minutes after the potatoes I was sipping my water again but it just wasn't cutting it.... I took a shower and made myself a huge mug of white tea. Right now, I'm pooped. tea is gone and I feel so extreamly overfull I don't care if I eat at all tomorrow. I have one of those "gas" pains in my shoulder, so I know that I didn't tolerate things to much today. Thank God tomorrow is Sunday and the only thing I have to do is get up! I am off for the Holiday on Monday too, then back to work on Tuesday. That will be exactly one week post op. Lets pray that I tolerate work alot better than I did today!

Today is Day 4... I didn't try on my jeans because I am still a little bloated from the actual surgery. Today was a busy day and I probably did more than I should have only being 4 days out but my surgeon said, "get up, get out, activities as tolerated". That's the tricky part AS TOLERATED. What you may not know is I sing... I sing alot! I am in a competition barbershop chorus and also a competition barbershop quartet within that chorus. I am also in another concert chorus, and do solos for them often! So drinking water is NOT a problem for me... Anyway today my quartet had a rehearsal, at 10. Dr G. told me to take it easy, no high notes or really low notes but the rest is "as tolerated". Now mind you, ONE of my quartet members knows that I had the surgery the 2 others do not. Rehearsal was ok... we kept the practice easy and shorter than normal because I had a hair and nail appointment. DH is having a blast driving me to practice and then on to the appt's. After the appointments, we went and did a little grocery shopping and then came home... I had had nothing to drink except my milk with all my meds this morning and then water from that point on. When we got home guess what? I was hungry... actually hungry, for the first time since I got banded. SSSOOO, Here is the mistake I made. Dr G. told me I could transition into mushy foods on days 4-5 and then transition into real foods again after my nutritionist appt. on 1/21. OK... Yahoo! Mushy food... I'm hungry and I can have something mushy... What do I want??? KFC mashed potatoes and gravy!!! no drinking for 30 min before we eat, right?... so when I dish out the 2 small teaspoons of potatoes and gravy I am really hungry. So much for making the meal LAST... in 10 minutes, tops, those potatoes were GONE! Then I realized what I had done so I quit! I got OUT of the kitchen, went and laid down and started watching TV. 30 minutes after the potatoes I was sipping my water again but it just wasn't cutting it.... I took a shower and made myself a huge mug of white tea. Right now, I'm pooped. tea is gone and I feel so extreamly overfull I don't care if I eat at all tomorrow. I have one of those "gas" pains in my shoulder, so I know that I didn't tolerate things to much today. Thank God tomorrow is Sunday and the only thing I have to do is get up! I am off for the Holiday on Monday too, then back to work on Tuesday. That will be exactly one week post op. Lets pray that I tolerate work alot better than I did today!

I am officially on Day 3 of my clear liquids post op. I really have not been hungry. I have wanted in my head to be able to chew on something but have resisted. I have drank more water than I thought possible and P'ing??? Hello... I feel like every 5 minutes I have to go. Honestly FOR ME... it is NOT AS BAD as people on here talked about. I almost backed out because of the stories I read. I am so very glad I did not. I am excited to move on to the next phase and get a fill, which won't be for at least a few weeks, but I can "feel" the weight coming off now, already. My rings are getting looser and when I put on a pair of jeans tomorrow I can not wait to see how differently they fit/feel...

I am officially on Day 3 of my clear liquids post op. I really have not been hungry. I have wanted in my head to be able to chew on something but have resisted. I have drank more water than I thought possible and P'ing??? Hello... I feel like every 5 minutes I have to go. Honestly FOR ME... it is NOT AS BAD as people on here talked about. I almost backed out because of the stories I read. I am so very glad I did not. I am excited to move on to the next phase and get a fill, which won't be for at least a few weeks, but I can "feel" the weight coming off now, already. My rings are getting looser and when I put on a pair of jeans tomorrow I can not wait to see how differently they fit/feel...