Hello everyone, I am getting banded on Nov. 11th. One question that I have been thinking of is what the band feels like once you get it? Do you feel that a foreign object is inside of your body or do you just feel the same and get full quicker? Do any of you have issues with the location of the port?

Also when you start losing all the weight, how can you avoid that gaunt sickly look. Some people just dont look healthy. I want to do this right and I am so scared I will get stuck or something...

A few questions from a Dallas, Texas native.

Thanks

I cant feel it inside me.

I have lost 160 and look sexy not gaunt lol

No port issues for me

I have lost 100 lbs, my face is getting more wrinkles, because when it was fuller, I had less that showed. I don't feel anything but my port. I like the feel of my port, it is reassuring to me! I don't feel anything from the inside. Good luck, Karen

Hello neighbor!! I live in the DFW area. I was banded 7/26/2011 and don't notice anything. During my surgery I had a pretty bad hiatal hernia that he reparied and at the time I thought the pain I was experiencing was from the lap band being too tight but it was actually the hernia repair. The only thing I notice now is the port. Who's doing your surgery if you don't mind my asking?

Hi everyone, Thanks for the responses!!

Dr. Scott Stowers is doing my surgery. I am so excited! I have 100lbs to lose.

I don't feel a thing with the band although I can feel the port under my skin. It's a positive reminder of what I am doing . I don't think I am gaunt and sickly, I feel fantastic minus 100lb!

good luck

I am only 7 weeks out so far but I don't feel like there is any foreign object in my body except the port. It just feels weird but like the above posters said it is a reminder of what you are working towards. I have lost 32 lbs and I don't look wrinkly at all so I am hoping my skin holds up with the 59 lbs I have left to lose. I just keep exercising because that is about all I can do for my skin. I think the vitamins are totally helping my skin too. Good luck!

Hello everyone, I am getting banded on Nov. 11th. One question that I have been thinking of is what the band feels like once you get it? Do you feel that a foreign object is inside of your body or do you just feel the same and get full quicker? Do any of you have issues with the location of the port?

Also when you start losing all the weight, how can you avoid that gaunt sickly look. Some people just dont look healthy. I want to do this right and I am so scared I will get stuck or something...

A few questions from a Dallas, Texas native.

Thanks

You cannot feel the band inside of you. It's not possible. Internal organs can feel pain from disease or injury but they do not have nerve ending with the ability to feel something simply touching it.

I'm 2 yrs out and have lost 104 lbs with about 9 left 2 lose. I can't feel anything inside of me but I know its there cuz I can't eat very much. The more weight I lose the more my port stickss thru my skin. My fiance calls it my contraption. I have a little saggy skin in my belly area but have never looked gaunt. With the band its a slower loss than with bypass - those r the people thazt look gaunt.

Good luck to u in ur surgery. I'm so glad that I did it

Marci

I am so happy for all of you!! I am so excited to be a part of the ls family

I actually just moved from the DFW, Texas area to go to college in D.C. Are you in the actual Dallas or a suburb around?

I don't feel the band at all. The only sensation I ever get from it is feeling full.

As for the port, I can feel it if I press pretty hard on my stomach, but it's not like it protrudes badly or anything.

Avoid that sickly look simply by being healthy. Get the proper nutrition always. That is the best thing you can do to avoid that.

Elizabeth

Hey Elizabeth! I am in lewisville. How do you like D.C.? More expensive? We are having one heck of a windstorm down here in dtown tonight! It's howling outside!

Hey Elizabeth! I am in lewisville. How do you like D.C.? More expensive? We are having one heck of a windstorm down here in dtown tonight! It's howling outside!

I'm from Grapevine! That's scary! Who is doing your lap band?

I love D.C., but it's just me. I find it to be an incredibly beautiful city with so much history. The architecture blows my mind still. It is way more expensive to live, but I hear wages are adjusted accordingly here, so it does not hurt people as much as we might think. A movie ticket is like $11.25 here. I thought that was absolutely ridiculous when I first came up here.

Hello everyone, I am getting banded on Nov. 11th. One question that I have been thinking of is what the band feels like once you get it? Do you feel that a foreign object is inside of your body or do you just feel the same and get full quicker? Do any of you have issues with the location of the port?

Also when you start losing all the weight, how can you avoid that gaunt sickly look. Some people just dont look healthy. I want to do this right and I am so scared I will get stuck or something...

A few questions from a Dallas, Texas native.

Thanks

Hi,there my name is Stacy I had my lapband 10-25-2011, and I have not even noticed it nore felt it. I didn't leave the hositpal with any meds, just stock on liquid tyenlo..also I feel full all the time and I havent had a fill yet, some people say its hard first couple of days to drink Water thats true I take slips every 5-10min. I also drink water before having ck broth or Jello. I do have ALOT of pain in my neck, back, left shoulder and the air pain has been painful and I have used gasx and mallox and its works for 2 hrs , if I am lucky. But no matter what my surgery was worth it, even if the pain is bad,.. and ps- I have lost 20pds already and I do exercise with 15-30mins of walking or treadmil