Hello all my fellow lapbanders,

Sorry its been a minute since I last posted, but life happens and I'm sure you all understand that! So I'm almost at a month post-op and things are going quite well. The weight loss has slowed down some but I'm still ticking along pretty well. I'm almost to about 40 pounds lost to date! My wife had surgery two weeks after I did and let me tell you it was the exact opposite of what I went through. I'll get into that story in another post!

I hope everyone is doing well. I do have a few questions. Did any of you get filled at your first post-op appointment or did your doctor or nurse tell you that you won't get filled until 6 weeks post-op? I was pretty disappointed when all that happend at my post-op appointment was my steri-strips taken off and told to keep up with the diet.

Also, have any of you had any bleeding from any of your scars? The nurse just ripped my strips off and along with it came the scab that the strips had made form closing my wounds. I had to put other strips back on after the fact to get the hole to close. Amazing stuff! Lastly, how long was it that any of you started to work out again and what activities didn't bother you? Thanks in advance for the guidance, I'll now post my wife's surgery day events in my next post.

V/r,

DeShawn Johnson

Can't answer your questions, just wanted to say Welcome back! WOW 40 LBS, fantastic!

Hello! Welcome back. I can answer a few of your questions. Regarding your question about the incision site - I was almost 4 weeks post op when I suddenly had some fresh bleeding from one of my sites. I noticed it b/c the steri strips were saturated with fresh red blood. I went in to see my surgeon, and they pulled the strips off and said that a scab had come off which prompted the bleeding. They cleaned it and reapplied steri strips. Now, almost 6 weeks post op, the second set of steri strips are off, but I still have quite a scab there that is still healing. I guess it happens. The other incisions look great, but I will definitely have a scar on this one!

My surgeon also does not do fills until patients are at least six weeks post op.

As for activity, I only did slow walking up until this week when I started some light weight training and increased and varied my cardio workout. I was in a lot of discomfort up through about the fourth week. Some people feel great by then, but everyone is different, and for me, it took a bit longer, but I am feeling great now!

Good luck!