GM Lap Banders... I was just banded on 5/18/11 and everything went wonderful... But since around the 3rd day being home I felt back to normal and since have been experiencing REAL HUNGER PAINS!! Also I have been feeling on my stomach and can not seem to feel the port.. If it had not been for the incisions I would not even have thought I had this surgery.... Is this NORMAL????

Yep you're going to be hungry until you can start eating real food again and get an adjustment. I couldnt find my port either, think it's normal not to be able to feel it.

i was banded 2 days after you. not sure why but i was blessed to not feel hunger right after i started my 2 week pre-op liquid diet until the night before my one week bandiversary. i can feel my port and it kinda grosses me out. although i think it perfectly normal not to be able to feel it right off. best wishes on your journey

re: "REAL HUNGER PAINS!" how are these different from "imaginary hunger pains"? No Bandster has ever died from 'hunger pains'. These typically decrease markedly after the first 2 or 3 weeks. Your belly is used to being stretched out maximum full. Now the mechanoreceptors in the stomach wall don't know what to do. This will get better. At least mine did.

re: "feeling port" At first I could only feel a lump by directly palpating into the incision region. As I lost layers of fat, like a snow drift melting away, gradually my port became more obvious. And there is considerable variation in how and where the ports are located. Ask your doc the next visit you make to his office.

cheers in your journey