I am new to the boards and just got my date today - August 17! I am so excited! My surgeon is Dr. Allan Geiss in Syosset, NY. Looking forward to talking to everyone.

I'm nervious, excited, and having just the slightest bit of concern about feeling the port. But overall I can't wait to get healthy!!

If your surgery is in August too, come on in!

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Tomorrow is August 31st. WE DID IT!!!!!!!

(Anybody being banded tomorrow-congratulations)

It is the end of August-all of us are doing pretty darn good with some little glitches along the way but I AM SO PROUD OF US.

AUGUST 2006 BANDSTERS ARE THE BEST!

Thank y

Glad all went well happy2bme!!!! Take it one step at a time.

Good luck today!

Lisah25 - Dr. Montgomery, Everett Wa

neenagh - Dr. Mumford, Mississauga Canada

mferra - Dr. Ortiz, Tijuana

PeloRojo - Dr. Ortiz, Tijuana

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Hi everyone,

I was banded yesterday. I didn't really have any complicaions other than I couldn't wake up from the anesthesia. I could only open my eyes for very short periods of time. My Dr. requires you to drink a bottled Water very slowly before you can be released. So, LOL, I would sleep, wake up take a sip then go back to sleep.

I can sleep in the bed if I have a pillow that I can put next to my stomach. Everything is sore but not too sore. All in all I am in less pain than expected.

I read on a few of the posts where a few girls did an enema the night before and it seemed to help with the gas. I did that too, and havent really had any of the gas that you guys have mentioned. I feel a tiny ache in my back (inside my body) on the left side but thats it.

I didn't feel like walking but my mom made me! he he, didn't like it at the time but I am glad she did. My DH made me walk when got home from work too, he he, got everyone looking out for me.

I am pretty hungry though, I think I am MIND hungry and not body hungry. Yesterday after I woke up, I started remembering all of the places that I didn't visit for tons of food before I was banded. LOL. I could also see where someone would give into eating something they shouldn't. I won't but I can definitely understand it.

Thanks everyone for this wonderful section of the forum! everything here helped make my surgery day stress free with a peace of mind. :huggie: to you all. :biggrin1:

Glad all went well Faybie. I know what you mean about thinking about the food you didn't get to eat before banding!!! :hungry:

I was watching TV and a Taco Bell commercial came on and I was like "Oh I wish I had Taco Bell one more time before I got banded!":p

The mental hunger is a tough one. I have to keep reminding myself that I'm not REALLY hungry.

Cheers to all the August Bandsters!!!:clap2: :clap2: :clap2: We've made it through the month!!!

You and I were banded by the same doctor but 28 days apart. Like you I could not wake up after surgery. I kept falling back to sleep in recovery. I looked around the room and everybody else was wide awake including Jessica (Clarityseeker), and I looked like death warmed over because I was so sluggish and sleepy. Maybe ths was a good thing! Best of luck to you.

Hi everyone,

I was banded yesterday. I didn't really have any complicaions other than I couldn't wake up from the anesthesia. I could only open my eyes for very short periods of time. My Dr. requires you to drink a bottled water very slowly before you can be released. So, LOL, I would sleep, wake up take a sip then go back to sleep.

I can sleep in the bed if I have a pillow that I can put next to my stomach. Everything is sore but not too sore. All in all I am in less pain than expected.

I read on a few of the posts where a few girls did an enema the night before and it seemed to help with the gas. I did that too, and havent really had any of the gas that you guys have mentioned. I feel a tiny ache in my back (inside my body) on the left side but thats it.

I didn't feel like walking but my mom made me! he he, didn't like it at the time but I am glad she did. My DH made me walk when got home from work too, he he, got everyone looking out for me.

I am pretty hungry though, I think I am MIND hungry and not body hungry. Yesterday after I woke up, I started remembering all of the places that I didn't visit for tons of food before I was banded. LOL. I could also see where someone would give into eating something they shouldn't. I won't but I can definitely understand it.

Thanks everyone for this wonderful section of the forum! everything here helped make my surgery day stress free with a peace of mind. to you all. :biggrin1:

Glad all went well Faybie. I know what you mean about thinking about the food you didn't get to eat before banding!!! :hungry:

I was watching TV and a Taco Bell commercial came on and I was like "Oh I wish I had Taco Bell one more time before I got banded!":p

The mental hunger is a tough one. I have to keep reminding myself that I'm not REALLY hungry.

Cheers to all the August Bandsters!!!:clap2: :clap2: :clap2: We've made it through the month!!!

I've had taco bell twice in the last week. I had a meximelt with no problem and pinto's and cheese which was really good. I hadn't had that before!

So, started real food (well, pureed real food) on Tuesday and I've managed to gain 2 lbs back. Guess I'll join the rest of you who did that when they switched off the liquid diet. Not fun. Hopefully I'll start losing again soon. But I have to say, I'm thrilled to be having real food now! Who knew tuna fish and egg salad could taste so yummy?

Hi guys,

I'm going in for my surgery in the am....have to be there at 7:30 with surgery at 9. I'm excited but nervous at the same time. Ok, gross question, but I started my period tonight. Has anyone had this happen right before surgery?

Happy2BMe,

I started my period about 8 hours after surgery and wasn't due for almost three weeks (and, i'm on the pill). I had my one week follow up appt. yesterday and asked the doc about it. I was wondering if the surgery made BC pills ineffective, but he said the stress of surgery and sudden shift in diet (pre-op) could cause it. What timing! Like we needed one more thing to deal with! Hope you are feeling well.

And congratulations to all of us! What a month! Hope we're all feeling great in September!

so now that the month is over, will we all keep in touch??? will this forum continue so we can see each other's progress?? I hope so!!

I so excited! I got banded at 8:15am this morning, and feel great for the most part. A little bloated, but thats to be expected I'm sure. Finally, it's taken 34 years but now my life is beginning! Congrats to all of us!

Hi!

I was banded August 24, and I am MISERABLE!! Please let me know if any of you have experienced any of this!!! My surgery was last Thursday, and I did pretty well until Monday. I got really nauseated around 1 in the afternoon, but I didn't vomit. Yesterday and today I wasn't so lucky. It's this horrible "throwing up your toenails" vomiting, but NOTHING comes out. The doc called in a prescription for anti-nausea meds (at a cost of $714.99.........I had to pay only $158), but I still threw up. Has ANYONE out there had this?? I've lost 15 lbs since Thursday, but I feel horrible!

Please be careful with this, are you still peeing??

You could be dehydrated!

:clap2: I think we should keep this thread up.

:clap2: I think we should keep this thread up.

Absolutely!!!! We need to support one another over the next months, years, whatever!!! I'll be sure to keep checking this thread and posting regularly!!!

Cheers to all the August Bandsters!!! We did it!!!!:clap2: :clap2: :clap2:

How is everybody doing on the post-op diet? What were you told that you could eat for the 2 weeks after surgery?