Banded 3-24-2006

[JoAnneCL1 0]

Lori,

I just prepared myself mentally. The whole thing is a life changing process.

I am cooking dinner for my husband and son already and it does not bother me.

I wish you luck on your surgery and I can tell you that I am glad I got mine.

[kaffenoire 0]

Joanne,

It varies from person to person. It also depends on what you do for a living. If you have to lift, push or pull, you might need more time off. I'm a nurse, and I took off longer because I lift, turn and push patients and machines.

Kaffenoire

[lcrampton 0]

90 wafers (2 per day) for $25. But often, they run 25% off sales. I usually purchase 2 jugs when their on sale. It works out to be less than $17 per month if you purchase at full price. And I can really feel the difference. I started taking the liquid form right away, then switched to the wafers just cuz their easier for me to stick in my pocket and eat on the run. But the liquid really wasn't bad.

Lori

[wyldvelia 0]

i was banded last thursday and had hoped that i would be back to work on monday... ha. did this body need recoup time for sure!! i worked one hour on monday, 6 on tuesday, and 5 today (normal 9 hour days). i have been sooo totally tired. no appetite. sipping on Water, taking my pain meds, my daily Vitamin. ive decided i do not like red soups... at all... anymore. me and my heat pad are good friends. today was the worst for the way uppper left shoulder pain. is this the referred pain that ive been hearing about?

[lcrampton 0]

I had the shoulder pain for 2 months. It's horrible. Almost nothing helped. I think most don't have it for quite that long. I believe it is from a nerve that is attched to the muscle in your abdoman that they stitch the port to. That nerve runs up over the shoulder. The only thing that helped me was a heating pad. It will go away at some point. I haven't met anybody who's shoulder pain didn't go away.

Lori

[Myemme 0]

The doctor's will leave it up to you. My company allows 6 weeks off work and I'm taking all of it. I don't want to be at work unil I know how my body handles the foods, especially when I get to the regular food. I have IBS and my first week after surgery I already had a very bad experience with diarrhea. My 2nd week I had diarrhea only 1 time and I still take a nap in the afternoon, I'm not 100% to feeling good. I get tired real easy, especially going up and down stairs. I work in a very busy office and I attend a lot of meetings, the rest rooms are not close to where I sit. I don't want to take any chances. This is my 2nd week and I think I could push my self to go back to work but it would depend on my work enviornment.