I was banded Jan 19, 2011... a couple of times my band was too tight so had to have a half cc taken out...I just had a fill a week ago and it isn't going too well, I keep regurgitating and some times after I fall to sleep I wake up choking and it's hard to breath, but I get through it, then I'm fine, but I lose sleep over it.

I haven't lost that much in a year which bothers me but Dr. Valentine' assistant Annie said it's better to lose slow...all toll I have lost 44 pounds, but I don't feel any changes in my clothes either...is this normal...how long did it take any of you to lose a considerable amount of weight and how did you do your first year out?

I am eight months out from my lap band,have lost 44 pounds so far. I too have had to have deflates and also I have the choking regurg episodes during the night, I find that if I sleep with my head elevated and eat nothing after 8pm that I don't have that problem. This is a much slower journey than I first thought but well worth the time. It is after all a life style chane.

Finally I am able to get back on...I tired replying and it wouldn't let me for some reason... thank you Karen and Pax for the replies...we had potato salad and I ate some forgetting it had eggs in it, but so far I'm ok..maybe I just can't have omelets, I don't know, but I'm not going to go back to eating them to find out because I don't like the dumping syndrome.

That's great on your 44 pound loss Pax for being just 8 mos out...are you doing any exercises at all?

Thank you for the helpful hint, I do sleep with my head elevated because I had c-spine surgery 10 years ago so I no longer sleep with my head flat, but that's a great idea about nothing to eat after 8pm...I do hope by losing slow I will keep it off longer and have a healthier body.

My eyes are getting bad I guess... I can't read that print..

HAPPY BANDIVERSARRY ! ! ! !

Thank you Shirley...I tried to make the font bigger but not sure what is going on.

Well you did on this post. LOL

I guess I did...still messing around tho trying to figure things out.

Thanks