Hi Guys,

I got my lap band on Sept 15 - I felt great up to now ... however last night I started feeling muscular type pains in my stomach (at the top center incision area) everytime I move - this may have been caused from me moving too quickly. I am wondering if anyone has felt similar type pains.

Has anyone gained some weight back since they got off the liquid diet and started soft foods? I have gained like 4 or 5 lbs back. I dont get it??

Has anyone gained some weight back since they got off the liquid diet and started soft foods? I have gained like 4 or 5 lbs back. I dont get it??

I haven't gained any but I am at a dead stop...... I have been at 193 for a couple weeks now. I am being really good with my eating too and recording it on myfitnesspal every time I eat but still the scale has stopped. I get my first fill on Oct. 25th and I hope that makes a difference but I am still not eating big quantities regardless. I eat about 1/2 C of food each meal and 2-3 Snacks a day, usually yogurt or string cheese. I don't know but it seems to be fairly common at this point. I am just tired of 193 staring me in the face. Yesterday it was 193.0 and I was so mad I hadn't lost .02 because then I could have seem 192, lol. Eventually.

Has anyone gained some weight back since they got off the liquid diet and started soft foods? I have gained like 4 or 5 lbs back. I dont get it??

afraid to get on the scale.......i just know that i've gained with the way i've been eating.

I've stalled and not hungry. I've stuck to the plan and working out. Had a cheat day and gained 5lbs!!! Check my blog it's so insane.

afraid to get on the scale.......i just know that i've gained with the way i've been eating.

I know I'm eating way to much, so I won't step on the scale either. I learned a long time ago, that the scale is not my friend. If it says I've gained weight, well I figure wth, I might as well eat something, so I do. If it shows that I have lost, I think I can reward myself. Either way - the scale is bad. I weigh when I go to the dr. once a month, and that's just going to have to be enough! Maybe when I get more used to this, and start feeling restriction I'll change - but I seem to be able to eat as much of whatever I want at this point in time. My first fill is 10/27, but I want it NOW!!!

I've been experiencing some port area pain like other folks. My port is on my right-front side slightly below where the band of my bra stops but my incision is lower a few inches above my belly button. I had a little scare the other day b/c I noticed that my port incision was a dark pink and there was a colorless whelp shape around the incision. I called my surgeons office and they had me come in the next morning to check it out. Nurse said it's not infected but to keep an eye on it. Has anyone experience a whelp or hive shaped area around their port incision?

Oops forgot to say I was banded 9/19.

I've been experiencing some port area pain like other folks. My port is on my right-front side slightly below where the band of my bra stops but my incision is lower a few inches above my belly button. I had a little scare the other day b/c I noticed that my port incision was a dark pink and there was a colorless whelp shape around the incision. I called my surgeons office and they had me come in the next morning to check it out. Nurse said it's not infected but to keep an eye on it. Has anyone experience a whelp or hive shaped area around their port incision?

I've been experiencing some port area pain like other folks. My port is on my right-front side slightly below where the band of my bra stops but my incision is lower a few inches above my belly button. I had a little scare the other day b/c I noticed that my port incision was a dark pink and there was a colorless whelp shape around the incision. I called my surgeons office and they had me come in the next morning to check it out. Nurse said it's not infected but to keep an eye on it. Has anyone experience a whelp or hive shaped area around their port incision?

I had some rashy type bumps and when I went in for my 2 week post op appt they said it was just irritation to the dermabond. Not sure if you have the dermabond on yours but that was the only random thing I had on mine.

For those of you that aren't changing your eating habits, what are and were your expectations from lapband surgery? For myself I look at this at the chance to lose weight and keep it off once and for all, so I am willing to go through whatever it takes to make it happen. I expect the band to be a tool to help me in the long haul of this journey but do not expect it to do all the work. I am learning to eat healthier and am beginning to enjoy it. I think it just takes some time to adjust to eating healthier. I am not making judgements, please do not think that. I am just curious if you thought the band would do all or most of the work?

For those of you that aren't changing your eating habits, what are and were your expectations from lapband surgery? For myself I look at this at the chance to lose weight and keep it off once and for all, so I am willing to go through whatever it takes to make it happen. I expect the band to be a tool to help me in the long haul of this journey but do not expect it to do all the work. I am learning to eat healthier and am beginning to enjoy it. I think it just takes some time to adjust to eating healthier. I am not making judgements, please do not think that. I am just curious if you thought the band would do all or most of the work?

I did not think the band would do everything for me, and I did not expect to wake up from surgery thin. I did think it would make me less hungry, and would cause pain when I ate the wrong foods. I've been successful at not gaining - but I have been starving, and it has been hard. Only once have I felt "full" - and that was while I was still on full liquids. Other than that, I go to bed hungry, wake up hungry, and no matter what I eat in between, the only thing that changes is the degree of hunger that I feel. I'm eating the wrong things, and am eating too much, and I absolutely admit it. It's not the band's fault, it's mine. Right now, the only way I know I even have a band is when I feel pain in the port area, so I'm not getting any "help" from it right now at all.

I'm still hopeful that the band will make it easier some day, and I hope it's sooner rather than later. I know I have the 14cc band, and I have not had my first fill yet, so there is a lot of room in there to "shrink" the stoma and give me the "help" I'm looking for. I'm hoping that I get to the "sweet spot" soon, but I am in this for the long haul and don't intend to give up. If it takes a year to get there, then I'm still ahead of the game as long as I don't let myself gain.

Is there anyone out there that thought the band would do everything? I think it is just difficult when you don't have any restriction in the band yet or very little restriction. I am lucky that I am not hungry very often but I know it isn't because the band but because I got used to eating smaller portions all together from the pre-op diet on. I am at a total stall, the scale hasn't moved in almost 2 weeks but I just keep on plugging along, sticking to the diet, but so far the band isn't helping out till I get a fill. Like Pugs, I also have the 14cc band and my surgeon said it may take a little longer to get to that sweet spot. Bromo do you think it may be a little easier for you since you had the plication as well as the band?

I really did not mean to offend anyone. I was just curious. Different things work for different people and I am always open to hearing opinions other than my own. I hope that I did not offend anyone, as that truly was not my purpose in that post and if I did I apologize.

Dawn, yes, I think the plication probably has a lot to do with my not having much hunger between meals and feeling sated on a cup or less of food. Although since I that is the only experience I have, I base that off other's posts. But I still struggle in learning how to eat right and not giving in to eating things I know that are not good for me right now. I would love to have a juicy hamburger or something else but I know in this stage of my journey it is important for me to not have that if I wish to learn good habits, get healthier and continue to lose weight. I guess what I am saying is I do not want to sabotage myself with what I have going on, but it is not easy even without the gnawing hunger. The head hunger is what got me to this weight in the first place, and my giving into it, so it is something I am still battling each day. I was just curious if some people who were not as fortunate as I was with the wealth of information I got from my surgeon were disappointed when they learned how hard it is in the beginning after getting the band. I was thinking that perhaps they were not informed of the "bandster hell" period and had hopes that more of the work would be done by the band. That is all I was thinking. Perhaps I could have worded it better.

I really did not mean to offend anyone. I was just curious. Different things work for different people and I am always open to hearing opinions other than my own. I hope that I did not offend anyone, as that truly was not my purpose in that post and if I did I apologize.

Dawn, yes, I think the plication probably has a lot to do with my not having much hunger between meals and feeling sated on a cup or less of food. Although since I that is the only experience I have, I base that off other's posts. But I still struggle in learning how to eat right and not giving in to eating things I know that are not good for me right now. I would love to have a juicy hamburger or something else but I know in this stage of my journey it is important for me to not have that if I wish to learn good habits, get healthier and continue to lose weight. I guess what I am saying is I do not want to sabotage myself with what I have going on, but it is not easy even without the gnawing hunger. The head hunger is what got me to this weight in the first place, and my giving into it, so it is something I am still battling each day. I was just curious if some people who were not as fortunate as I was with the wealth of information I got from my surgeon were disappointed when they learned how hard it is in the beginning after getting the band. I was thinking that perhaps they were not informed of the "bandster hell" period and had hopes that more of the work would be done by the band. That is all I was thinking. Perhaps I could have worded it better.

No offense taken. I hear ya about not wanting to sabotage yourself, there are so many things that LOOK so good but it took months to get everything done to get to the surgery point that I am doing good not giving in. It is a hard learning process though for sure. I hope that people's surgeon, nutritionist, etc let them know how much work it is afterwards.

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Ok I barely got any info from my surgeon. Everything I learned was thru my own research and what I've learned here. Never heard the subject of bandster hell or anything like that from my surgery center.

I have been one of the lucky few I guess to not be hungry since being banded. I'm on my 2nd fill now but probably could have done without another one. I'm just stalled. Didn't know that was gonna happen. I've been banded a month and a half. I'm gonna start working out 3x a day and trying to get to 1000 calories a day to see if that helps.