After 7 Years, I Join The Slipped Band Club

[giveyouthemoon 4]

Hi Adriana - How very, very scary!! I'm so glad that everything worked out well and your band is back in place. Isn't it crazy how hungry you get with no fill in the band? Soooo crazy. Once you get the fill you'll feel right again and that little bit of weight will come back off.

I have to wait six weeks before I can get a fill. That's going to be a super long six weeks.

Today has been a bit tough, a bit of a setback day, I guess. The pain has been pretty tough. Tomorrow is one week since my surgery. How time flies!!

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Edited to say: I've already lost four pounds, hooray!!!

[Birdie1973 23]

Yes, it's crazy. I feel like such a gluton. I mean, it's actually a nice feeling to have a full stomach and endulge in foods that were previously painful to eat ! I'm glad i can share my feelings on this blog. Nobody at works know I have a lap band. Only my mother and my boyfriend know. But seriously, I can't wait to get my band filled. It's like I've totally lost control over what i eat !!! And in reality the 5 pounds that I've gained aren't even that bad , but it feels like the end of the world !

[Birdie1973 23]

I'm sorry to hear that you had a set back. Did your shoulder pain go awau at least ? Are you on a liquid diet and soft foods for the next 6 weeks ?When did you get your initial lap band surgery?

[Birdie1973 23]

The last big thing I learned is kind of funny. I always drank with meals if I felt like it and it never seemed to make any difference in staying full...but the one time I ate two oreo Cookies (reasonable, right?) and then had some gatorade...I got very sick/stuck! I finally realized that those bready things puff up when wet and they puffed up on me...I never did that again and havent thrown up since.

[Birdie1973 23]

Hi Xavier, I've learned from my mistakes (sometines). That happened to me too a while ago. I ate a piece of a French bagette and I thought for a minute that I would have to go to the ER. I literally had to gag myself to get rid of the piece of bread that was stuck in my esophagus. Once I had rid of it I was in such much pain that I was hurting for at least 2 days straight. Bread scares my band. But at this moment my band is unfilled and I have been eating bready stuff. I gained 5 pounds. I'm going to the doctor's office on Friday for a fill. I need my restriction back !!!!

[giveyouthemoon 4]

I'm sorry to hear that you had a set back. Did your shoulder pain go awau at least ? Are you on a liquid diet and soft foods for the next 6 weeks ?When did you get your initial lap band surgery?

Nope, the shoulder pain is still really bad. It makes me cry sometimes it's so bad!

And yeah, I'm on liquids for another week, then mushies. I can hardly wait to have mushies!!

My first lapband was done in June 2005 so I've been a bandster for a long time. This new band feels like the beginning, though. I'm relearning all the things I need to do to be a better bandster this time.

[andrea0121 28]

Karen, I'm bummed to hear you're still having gas pain. If I remember correctly, mine lasted a couple weeks. It was like all of a sudden, I woke up and it had subsided. I hope yours does soon as well!!! That was the worst part of the whole surgery for me!

[xavier 153]

The thing is they tell you not to drink with meals because it will wash food through and since that never happened to me (I can get overfull on water!) I never gave it too much thought. But those puffed up oreos were my 'aha!' moment ...I am careful now because I really never want to have to yak..I did plenty of it as I was learning and testing my band but now I never get sick and I never eat to overfull...I know the warning signs!

[Vicki Osbourne 5]

i also had surgery for a slipped band on 6 Jan 2012. I had really bad reflux and had 'drowning' episodes at night which gave me constant lung infections and breathlesness. Since surgery i have been so much better. Apart from really bad trapped gas. by the end of the day i am like a balloon round the top of my stomach and feel like i need to stick a pin in. Has anyone else suffered from this?

[giveyouthemoon 4]

Karen, I'm bummed to hear you're still having gas pain. If I remember correctly, mine lasted a couple weeks. It was like all of a sudden, I woke up and it had subsided. I hope yours does soon as well!!! That was the worst part of the whole surgery for me!

A couple weeks! Yikes! I agree, this pain is way, way worse than anything going on with my stomach! Soooo bad.

[giveyouthemoon 4]

i also had surgery for a slipped band on 6 Jan 2012. I had really bad reflux and had 'drowning' episodes at night which gave me constant lung infections and breathlesness. Since surgery i have been so much better. Apart from really bad trapped gas. by the end of the day i am like a balloon round the top of my stomach and feel like i need to stick a pin in. Has anyone else suffered from this?

Hi Vicki - Thanks for chiming in to let me know about your experience. I'm always so glad to talk to other bandsters who had a slip and to hear about their revision surgery.

I also had issues with my lungs and that drowning feeling prior to surgery. It's so great to be able to sleep with out waking up in a pool of my own saliva!

I'm having that puffed up feeling you describe, but I'm only a week out of revision surgery, so I don't know if it's just healing stage or will go on for a while.

[giveyouthemoon 4]

The thing is they tell you not to drink with meals because it will wash food through

I think that's only part of it. I think also that if you drink with meals, it sort of pushes all the food to the stoma and if it can't get through it gets stuck. And also, like you said, it can puff up certain things and make them so hard to get through. Ugh!

[Cocoabean 430]

I think that's only part of it. I think also that if you drink with meals, it sort of pushes all the food to the stoma and if it can't get through it gets stuck. And also, like you said, it can puff up certain things and make them so hard to get through. Ugh!

I have had liquids upset the balance of my meal and cause a stuck! Before I reached a certain level of restriction I could drink with meals and noticed no difference. But now, if I drink while eating, it is almost a sure-fire method to get stuck.

So, I almost always have a glass of Water at the table, I just cannot seem to break the habit, but I never touch it. Aversion therapy does, indeed, work.

[giveyouthemoon 4]

Hi Cocoabean! I must be hardheaded, because I keep going back to drinking liquid with food. Ridiculous, lol!!