Just banded today 6/20/06 yeah!

[SunnyDee 0]

I was banded on the 20th of June as well.....and I did experience a day of depression, but mine was related I think to going thru the surgery alone and going home alone afterward.

I was on liquids for the first day and then onto cream Soups till today. Today my list includes mushies and I bought a couple of these great mashed frozen tater things, that are supposed to be like baked potatoes lol

I got one in sweet potato and I was in heaven. I tried to have some applesauce with it and felt full really quickly.

I got the same gasy grumbly things after surgery but know the diffrence between hunger and that because I am not usually in pain if hungry lol

I'm still swollen though, and I think I look like I swallowed a watermelon. My co-worker who was banded a month before me says I look fine, but then I've always been my own worst critic :confused:

I've walked around my apartment since I got home on Wed of this week, and today ventured for a two block walk to the store and back. I was pretty tired when I got done.

Still having some gas problems and taking the gas X strips for that. Hoping that will end soon.

I do find that when I eat the childrens Vitamins they make me a bit queasy, perhaps the sugar? I don't normally use sugar as I'm diabetic so I haven't' had anything else with sugar, gonna ask my Dr about that on Monday. Anyone else having problems with their Vitamins making them queasy.

I found a great whey protien 24 grams per scoop, and I make a double scoop with milk or Water for Breakfast, and have a 3rd scoop in some cream of wheat for either lunch or dinner. Yay mushies.:clap2:

I don't regret my decision to have this band, I was scared to death to have surgery, as I'd never had sugery in my life before. But I can see how it's affecting me and it's all positive.

Head Hunger - Oh my you betcha, I hate to smell beef searing on the grill cuz I WANT IT NOW lol even when I know I'm not hungry, but I just walk away. The thought of PBing keeps me away from things I shouldn't be having lol

I'm excited that I have a tool to help me beat my last addiction....

Good luck to all the new bandsters and future bandsters :hippie:

[stella 0]

K,

I was banded on 6/20 and have horrible gas pains too. That is from the surgery. They have to blow up your cavity in order to operate. It will go away, you need to walk and if Gasex helps take that. I have not felt depressed but am very hungry and grouchy!

I am still on Clear Liquids and will be able to add yogurt tomorrow! Can't wait. I've lost 13 lbs so far.

Good luck

[vlb11752 0]

For about 3 weeks after my surgery I had really strange sounds coming from my stomach. Loud growling rumbling sounds. My husband would say "Watch it she's gonna blow". It got really funny...so I warned the people at work that I may make funny sounds during meetings. It went away for the most part now 3 months out it only happens occasionally.

The day after going under general anthestsia I always have a crying jag (I have to have a general to do major dental work so I've been under several times.) Anthestsia depresses me, but it goes away in a day or two. Not major depression just a sad down feeling.

You "fresh from surgery" bandsters will be fine before you know it. I haven't regretted this for even one minute.

WELCOME TO THE BAND!!!!

[Woodys 0]

I'm 2-1/2 weeks post-op and still have a hard time determining whether I'm full, gassy, or dreaming....LOL. We will learn to recognize these feelings soon enough. The body is still in the healing stages so we will be feeling all sorts for things.

As for the depression......I left that behind the day before I had surgery. I am so elated about having this surgery that nothing or nobody can bring me down.....There is no time for depression now, that stage of my life is over....I spent enough of my life being depressed over being overweight....no more! I'm so happy I could spit! No way will I spend precious time grieving the very thing that put me in a position to have to have surgery in the first place. I say....good bye and good riddens to all that crap in my past!

Carol

[PattiU 1]

Hi Everyone! I had bootcamp yesterday, it was good. I was gonna have heel spur surgery today and mentioned it to my doctor. He said wait because of any chance of infection. and then I said that I would have to take meds for infection and he said if I had done it and said nothing, I would have bled during the lap band surgery! I Thank God I told him. I was only worried that I wouldn't be able to walk right after surgery! I lost weight since I saw him last and only need to be on liquids 1 day before surgery. Well off to the pool do exercice! Patti

[Dody 0]

Perhaps my surgeon didn't place the band and this is a bad joke he is playing on me I woke up in recovery with pain in the port area and that was it...no nausea, no dry heaves, no gas. I was banded July 18, and have had absolutely no symptoms of any kind. I guess the band is there because I get full quickly and I've lost 6 lbs. without a fill. I never had a bit of gas, never anything but a sense of fullness, never any rumbling sounds. I'm 64-years-old and I should have had the problems :target: but I couldn't be happier. If it wasn't for a bad knee I would feel years and years younger. Perhaps I am an exception, and perhaps, just perhaps, the problems will come after a fill and I will most definitely come here for support, but so far I feel great. My port area stopped hurting just days after surgery and my stitches are dissolving nicely with not a bit of redness. Thank you God for taking this journey with me and good luck to all the rest of you.