I stumbled upon it today and was shocked, the posters are all folks who believe the band should be taken off the market and that it causes horrible things like LUpis. Anyone know how that came to be?

Ok mads, lets go stir the pot at that site!

Leslie, sorry for that awful experience.

Dolphin, thanks for bringing this to light what is going on over there.

And lastly, Jewels, you are a hoot. Hope the zit gets zapped soon!!

no, dont do that as that would make us as nasty as them.

and no need for that type of thing

some people thrive on being right and know it alls

so leave them to their own

karma's a b*tch

Leslie I think it was your post!!! Good grief there are some miserable people over there.

Yep that was my post. What they didnt see was my husband having to tell me I am ok and that I am not going to fail. He has been a trooper with all of this. He even has slept on the couch next to me all week while I have slept in my chair.

I am so happy to have found this forum. I will be sticking around here lol.

Hi Leslie ~

Well it sounds like you separated fact from fiction here so way to go!!!! I dont think, or would like to think, that the decision to proceed to enter into surgery is not taken lightly and we all strive for better health, hence this journey, so these people that criticize after the fact are simply, selfish bonheads and wanting to beak off!

I am heading off to Toronto from Calgary for my surgery on Feb 14, (Happy Heart day to me!) so I am curious how the post op recovery was? I am having the surgery on Friday morning, we are staying in Toronto till Monday then flying back and I was going to go back to work on Tuesday. Did you feel ok enough to return to regular life type stuff after 4 days???

How many days did any of you stay on the clear broth before you went to the thicker stuff? Many quesitons I know...thanks for answering. I bought a Vitamix to help with the slushy drinks! Hleps to mix up the ugly tasting healthy stuff with the better tasting stuff!!

Well I am 6 days post op today. To tell you the truth I felt horrible until today. I was weak and just sleeping all the time. However, a lot of people do much better than I did. I do not react well to pain meds. They knock me out for days. Also, I had a hernia repair, lapband and plication done at the same time. So I think I just needed a little extra time. Because I had plication with the band my diet is 2 weeks clear, 2 weeks full, 2 weeks mushy, then to try for the more solid foods. I think the regular band diet is one week each stage.

Now this morning, I woke up feeling great and got froggy. I went to a friends house and walked around a store for a few minutes. We went to Olive Garden and got Soup. I ate the clear broth off of one of their Soups. The experience was odd to say the least. I took three sips of my drink and have about 8 spoonfuls of soup and brought the rest home. I think the waitress was a little put off lol. I would say I was out for about 4 hours and promptly fell asleep for the next 4 when I got home. I have read a lot of people feel a lot better than I did sooner after surgery. I am happy to be feeling great now and really just think it is up to each individual body how well they are doing. If you can take at least a week off work, I would.

It's too negative. I stay away.

Wendy