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Ever since being banded, I am always cold. Anyone else having the same odd side effect?

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Ever since being banded, I am always cold. Anyone else having the same odd side effect?

Yes, I did--did you get a blood thinner for surgery--I was thnking it is probably a result of it

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Yes - banded 9 weeks ago though - so the Heparin is well out of my system. I thought it was due to the weight loss possibly.

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I was banded on 1/27/10 and have lost 50 lbs and I have the same thing. The first month or so I was freezing all the time! Its not as bad as I was but my body temp is out of whack.I live in NC and its 92 today. Maybe another advantage of the band is that my electric bill will decrease b/c I don't have to keep the AC so low this summer :bored:! Good luck! Loryn

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yep i HAVE HAD MY BAND A YEAR AND HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM I thought it might be from losing weight? Anyway I live in AZ so come summer it not much of a problem and I have learned to carry light sweaters.

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Im 2 years out and have the same issue before lap band winter and summer I froze the husband and kids to death and now Im cold or comfortable and they are burning up.

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I've grown a tail since being banded. :thumbup:

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I've had the same problem. I thought i was the only one. I use to sleep with covers and my hubby was freezing. Now I'm the one under all the covers. Weird.

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It makes sense if you think about the fact that a calorie is a unit of heat!! We are consuming less units of heat now, so we aren't getting our customary fuel!! Hugs!!!

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After my first year, in which I lost probably 60lb, I froze for about 9 months. I was sooooooo cold. DH experienced the same thing.

i was never one of those hot people that sweated all the time, but I never felt the cold like I did once I'd lost significant weight.

It did balance out over time and I no longer feel freezing, but I certainly do feel the cold more than I did at my highest weight.

I also love summer. I can dress in barely anything and not worry about how I look and the heat doesnt bother me at all (and it gets HOT here in Melbourne).

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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