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Aww, thanks, hon! Do you have one?

Single ones, anyway. LOL

Sex life is pretty much just as disappointing as it was before!

Don't know how many people from the DFW area there are on here, but a few of my blogger friends and I are having a brunch July 24th at 1:00 pm in the area. Anyone interested just send me a message and I'll give you the information! Should be tons of fun.

Looking for other bandsters in the DFW area around my age (24) who need a workout buddy or just a new friend who understands what they're going through. Male, female, newly banded, already at goal, doesn't matter. I'm 6 months out, 55 lbs down, and looking for new friends.

Seconded. Definitely not normal for a surgeon to just ignore this classic sign of overfill. Hope you feel better!

At my doctor's office they did fasting blood work, went over the procedure in great detail, did a pulmonary test, and an EKG. Sounds like your doctor is pretty hands on if it'll take you that long.

Looks like you need to update your ticker! Great job on the weight loss and definitely the NSV!!

Good luck to you, too!

I'm being banded on the 20th, too! I'm on the South Beach Diet phase i for seven days before surgery, day two is alot better than day one! lol My surgery is at 9:00 am. So ready to get this over with, the waiting is the worst!!

Congrats!! How are you feeling?

My mom was banded in 2007 by Dr. Frank Felts and hasn't gone in for a fill in about a year, but when she went back to True Results AfterCare (since she didn't feel comfortable going to Dr. Felts' new office in The Colony, even though he was her surgeon), they turned her away. For two different reasons: 1.) Dr. Felts isn't practicing at the Surgery Center of Richardson anymore. 2.) No doctors want to assume liability for one of his patients, because of Dr. Felts' high occurrence of post-operative complications. Dr. Felts DOES NOT follow-up OR do his due-diligence by educating his patients. This is something to think about when considering Dr. Felts as an option for a LapBand surgeon. Is someone who isn't backed up by his peers someone you want performing your surgery?

From what he said, it was more, he's heard bad things about WLS, but he was thinking I was getting gastric bypass. Once I told him about lapband that put his mind at easy to where now he's completely supportive. I agree it probably was too much too soon, though. I was thinking I should have approached it in a different way than I did though. Too late to take it back now, though.

It'd be kind of hard to explain why I wouldn't be able to see him for 2 weeks or so. So that's why I chose to, Elfie. Plus, I actually like the guy, having a secret banded life just isn't for everyone, I suppose.

Wow, he sounds like a winner. That's my biggest fear, going out with someone and have them say something negative about weight loss surgery. I actually talked to the guy again tonight after telling him around midmorning... he had talked to a mutual friend and he said that helped to put things in perspective for him. He said he was just kind of blown away by the information. We've only been dating a very short time... it was alot to process for him, I suppose. Not sure if it's going to end up being a good thing or a bad thing, but we made another date for Sunday night. We'll see how it goes.

Thanks, guys. Makes me feel better to have such great supportive people to talk to.

I told him, I think it freaked him out. Maybe I should have waited a few more weeks. Have a feeling I won't be seeing him again. lol

I hear ya! My dad was the same way, I wanted to get my surgery about a year and a half ago but he discouraged me. This time I told him, it's my decision, if you have valid medical concerns we'll discuss them, other than that - I've made up my mind. As for my guy, I don't think he'd begrudge me a couple pounds, because he's a big guy. But there's still the fear of not knowing how he'll react. I might give it another week or two before I say anything, see how it goes.

I know he's attracted to me at my current weight, and I'm sure he definitely wouldn't care one way or another if I lost weight, but it's just getting up the courage to say, "Hey, I'm kind of going through this huge thing... I know we just started hanging out a week ago...but I hope you're behind it!" Just seems like that's the kind of thing that could have the potential to scare him off.

Well, guys, 4 weeks before my surgery, I started dating the nicest guy ever. We met about 9 months ago but finally we both had a schedule that meshed enough to start spending time together, and it's been a blast so far! We've only been out on two dates so far, but I'm hoping to keep seeing him. My question is...since I'm having such a life-changing surgery on the 23rd, SHOULD I tell him about it? Don't I owe it to him since I'll be out of commission for a week or two afterward? I'm so confused, and NERVOUS about telling him. He's pretty laid back but I have no idea how he feels about weight loss surgery... and as I've had a bit of a bad reaction from some of the friends I've told, I'm even more nervous about telling a guy I actually like. Does anyone have any experience with this?!

Good luck at your sleep study! I hope it goes better than mine, I'm a VERY light sleeper so I couldn't sleep at all with all the wires and stuff on me. Good luck with scheduling your surgery! We can do it, ladies!!

For my pre-op diet I have to substitute two meals for Protein shakes (GAG!), and for one meal do an Atkins type diet, no sugar at all basically. Carbs have always been my downfall, too. I'm a bread-aholic. I think that's the only thing I'll miss!! lol Ugh, everyone has an opinion about what we should do for our health. It's like if I had a cancerous tumor that could be removed with very little chance of complication, why would I leave it in? That's just my way of thinking, maybe it's a bit extreme, but I think for most of us, the Lapband is medically necessary. I live in North Texas. Are your parents on-board with your decision?

Hi Jillian, I'm also scheduled for surgery December 23rd! Sounds like we've got alot in common, I'm also 5'6" and also around 270 lbs, and I'm 23. What does your pre-op diet look like, if you have one? Glad to see another young woman on here, I'm pretty nervous getting this being so young, all my friends think I can just do it the "old fashioned way" but believe me, I've tried just like you. Where abouts do you live? Oh, and by the way, welcome to the forum! Everyone on here is very supportive and awesome.

Haven't gotten mine yet, but am going to in less than a month... $9900 for first year of office visits and fills. <3

Oh, I love this idea! I'm definitely gonna have to make one myself.