Mommiex6

Nope not on any blood pressure meds! Always had low blood pressure, or good blood pressure. This makes me nervous at times and then i will feel great the next day! I was wondering if i was not eating enuff. i eat the Protein first and usually that all i manage to eat.

I was banded on 2/9/10. Lately i am really really tired, and i get bouts of dizzy spells. I dont know if this is from lack of nutrients? or if it cause i dont get enough to drink?? am i alone?? any input would be great.

I got my first fill today. 4.5cc in my 14cc band. that went uneventful, although im on Clear Liquids today and starving lol!!!

I also hate skim milk but i found this skim milk with added Protein that taste like 2%. it is faboulous!!!!!! Maybe that will make it easier for you. i know it has helped me!!!

I am on two weeks of sugar free clear liquids!! with the exception that tomorrow i get to add 9oz a day of carnation instant Breakfast sugar free of course!! when i go for my post op i get put on pureed. I really cant wait, some oat bran, cream of wheat, anything!!!!!! But hang in there it will be over and we will be thinner and healthier because of it!!!!

I was in surgery for 3 hours, have 7 incisions, and was in recovery for 1.5 hours. i did a bit of dry heaving after i got to my room, so bad i thought my port was gonna rip thru my skin for schnizzle.. i had numerous past surgeries that had left a lot of adhesions and scar tissue for my doc to get thru so he decided to clean it all up for me! Probably a bit more painful now for me but in the long run it for the best!! my doc immediately explained my length in the or, and i didnt even realize the time till it was 5 hours out - so prob just the anesthesia keeping me loopy lol!

so glad to hear i am not alone!!! im just 4 days out, but it feels like the port is pushing thru my skin sometimes. the incisions (i have 7 due to large adhesions from previous surgeries) dont hurt, and i have not taken any pain meds since my first day home. but if i walk alot, or when i am sleeping, it feels like a huge mass just pushing out and it really can be a bit painful. hoping this passes in time. im sure it is cause it is new, and sewn right into a muscle (i didnt know i had any lol).

yeah im 3 days out now and it is definetly getting better. i have not used any pain meds since the first night home, which i really needed after the long bumpy ride home! havent been out of the house at all. so i been walking back and forth kitchen to living room as much as possible and o yeah it helps get that gas out! doing good on the sugar free clear liquid diet for the most part, just wish i could have some cream Soup. but taking it day by day!!!

I was banded 2/9/2010 feel like i got run over by a mack truck. My ribs are KILLING me, my port feels like it coming thru the skin. I took the liquid loratab, but then i slept for like 15 hours. i didnt like that much woke up so queasy and thirsty. so now i just taking it easy sipping my broth and tea and using the heating pad. i know the pain will pass, my doc said it from the liver retractor, and i had a lot of adhesions from past surgeries that he removed. just taking it one day at a time. Looking forward to valentines day, i get to move up to Carnantion instant breakfast!!!!!!

the hospital called this evening. they moved my surgery up so now i have to be there at 5:30, which means we pull out about 4:30am. wow it only a few hours away now. It seemed like this day would never get here and now here we are. Im so excited i doubt i will really sleep. good luck all my fellow banders - cant wait to hear how everyone doing!!!! just think we finally made it!!!!!:cursing:

preop diet wasnt too bad. the magnesium citrate i had to drink today - omg!!!!!!

well the last day of liquid pre-op. tomorrow is the big day! im so excited. this pre-op wasnt that bad. i aint even hungry andymore. thank god. cause i have had to cook for my family still, and if i was hungry that ould of killed me. thanks for explaining to me the whole liver thing. i was wondering why they did this!!!

wow they allow food? actual food? i have to drink three meal replacement shakes a day and then just Water and sugar free drinks the rest of day!!!! i read on here some people do this for weeks? mine is only five days so thank god for that! it was bad first two days but now i getting ok with it.

My surgery is on tuesday as well. I have to be at Hospital at 6:45am, surgery scheduled for 8:45am. The hospital is about a hours drive. im sooooooo excited, scared, impatient. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

Wow you have to be on Optifast for how long? My doctor has me doing the Atkins Advantage shakes for 5 days post op. i am on day 4 right now. glad it is getting easier!!!

#1. Surgery date?Feb9 2010

#2. State you live in? New York

#3. Doctor/Surgery Center? Dr DiBenedtto

#4. Insurance or self pay? Insurance

#5. Age and height 41/ 5 7

#6. Current weight and goal weight? 229 goal 160

#7. What was your deciding factor for having this surgery?Unable to keep up with my kids and grandkids ,

#7. Do you have the support of family and friends?yes

#8. Concerns and questions? not so much myspef, my husband is scared it will change our relationship.