How is weight loss for people over 50? Can we still expect to lose 1 to 2 pounds per week with the band?

I got a fill last Monday. These things are so strange sometimes! With my previous fills, it would take about 2 weeks for me to actually notice it. Not so with the last one. I noticed it right away and am still feeling marvelously restricted!

I asked the nurse whether she took all of it out and then put the rest in. She said no, she just made sure it 'splashed back' (her words) so she would know she was actually in the port. Interesting, no?

Denise, I hope you got at least a tinsy unfill. I had to have .25 cc's taken out once and that little bit made a huge difference!

Hope you are all doing well.

p.s., I've noticed the strangest thing on the forum (so if there's a moderator reading this, I'd love an answer!). I'm subscribed to this forum and I'll get notices for a while that someone has added a new message, then all of a sudden, I'll stop getting those messages. It seems that once I visit the site again, it starts sending the messages again. So what's with that? Anyone else experienced this?

Yep, me too, Crabcake. I have the same technical experiences with this forum as you do.

And Denise822, you must get a defill ASAP. You are in deep waters right now. It sounds like you are suffering from something in the nature of an acid reflux thingy. This is very, very bad. I was good for 8 months, then got an overfill, and now I am very messed up with acid reflux problems - for the first time in my life!!! - which are taking forever to calm down. I am now defilled but really miss having my band filled and reminding me not to overeat. My G.I. tract still isn't back to normal and I am not going to risk a fill until I feel normal.

Please get a defill now. Do not end up with my problems; they really are a pain in the anatomy, grrl.

Yep, me too, Crabcake. I have the same technical experiences with this forum as you do.

It sounds like you are suffering from something in the nature of an acid reflux thingy. This is very, very bad.

Thanks Green, it's good to not be the only one!

As for the acid reflux, I had that prior to the band and I whole heartedly agree, it's NOT good! I would wake up in some serious pain, get up, go to the couch, toss and turn. Think what can I do, get up, try that, go back to the couch...this would go on all night and always with the PAIN! (I'm a big baby when it comes to pain...thus, no children! :paranoid)

Fortunately for me, a little purple pill fixed it all. I hope you're able to get the same help. But you're right not to get a refill until you're feeling better. Sometimes (usually when I'm pb'ing) I think we take the band too much for granted.

Hang tough all.

You will all be happy to hear that I am back from my defill. I am right back to where I started from . I went in to go from 2.5 to 2.75, then somehow all my fill disappeared. He was afraid I had a leak, so he put 3.0 in there, which turned out to be way too much for me. Today he took out the 3.0, so I don't have a leak. He left 2.5 in there, so I am right back where I started, when I couldn't lose weight. But, I did lose 6 lbs in the 3 days I was on liquids only. But it still wasn't worth all the pain that 3.0 caused me.

Makes me want to stay on liquids for a few weeks though :confused:

I went in to go from 2.5 to 2.75 :confused:

Why didn't he give you the 2.75? Is he just trying to give your stomach a rest?

I never know why they do what they do, or why my body reacts as it does. The first fill I had was too much and I had to have some taken out, but since then, I've been ok.

Glad you're feeling better. Did he say when you could go back for another fill?

p.s., I've noticed the strangest thing on the forum (so if there's a moderator reading this, I'd love an answer!). I'm subscribed to this forum and I'll get notices for a while that someone has added a new message, then all of a sudden, I'll stop getting those messages. It seems that once I visit the site again, it starts sending the messages again. So what's with that? Anyone else experienced this?

Crabcake, the emails I get from LBT that notify me of a new message say:

There may also be other replies, but you will not receive any more notifications until you visit the forum again.

I've found that if I don't go into the site and read the new message, then I don't get any more notifications. It's good because sometimes I can't check in for awhile and I'd hate my inbox to be so jammed with every message that is posted. FYI. I hope that answers your question.

It is my official first day on mushies. I am a little worried that I over did it for dinner. This is what I ate today:

Breakfast---oatmeal, 1 cup coffee

lunch---tuna

dinner--salmon pattie and half baked potato.

I am worried I over ate at dinner. I had dinner at 6 p.m. I was very full. It is 10:30 p.m. and still full. Should I be feeling like this, or is it because I overate at dinner. :angry

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dinner--salmon pattie and half baked potato.

I am worried I over ate at dinner. I had dinner at 6 p.m. I was very full. It is 10:30 p.m. and still full. Should I be feeling like this, or is it because I overate at dinner. :angry

I wouldn't worry about it too much. Just try to pay attention when you eat

if you hick up or feel tight like it's not going down right. It's not going to

matter right now until you get a fill. When you do, you shouldn't be able

to eat that much. Food will get stuck and back up into your esophagus.

Why didn't he give you the 2.75? Is he just trying to give your stomach a rest?

Did he say when you could go back for another fill?

I don't have a clue. I asked him to let me go back to 2.75 which was what

I was supposed to get in the first place, and he said that normally

he would have completely unfilled someone with that bad of reflux.

I have an appointment in about 4 weeks which was 6 weeks from when

I originally got a fill that was supposed to be the 2.75.

I'll see how I am doing by then.

As for the acid reflux, I had that prior to the band and I whole heartedly agree, it's NOT good! I would wake up in some serious pain, get up, go to the couch, toss and turn. Think what can I do, get up, try that, go back to the couch...this would go on all night and always with the PAIN! (I'm a big baby when it comes to pain...thus, no children! :paranoid)

Fortunately for me, a little purple pill fixed it all. I hope you're able to get the same help. But you're right not to get a refill until you're feeling better. Sometimes (usually when I'm pb'ing) I think we take the band too much for granted.

Hang tough all.

Haha I'm a real sissy, too, when it comes to pain, and I don't have any kids, either. I used to tell people that I would have be on morphine from the point of childbirth until they were, like, 20 or something....

My doc has got me taking Losec and I am defilled until everything calms down. I feel pretty good but I do have the creepy little cough and my voice is hoarse. Ugh! :tired

Yep, I've noticed the same thing. Maybe it's a way to get back to the board. I do find, that when I go check in at the site, I find more interesting messages.

Sue

" I'm subscribed to this forum and I'll get notices for a while that someone has added a new message, then all of a sudden, I'll stop getting those messages. It seems that once I visit the site again, it starts sending the messages again. So what's with that? Anyone else experienced this?

I too notice the same thing when I have a little more than what I usually eat. Especially if it's potatoes. I just started pureed on Friday, so am still learning what makes me feel ok and what doesn't. My doctor told me that there could still be swelling in the pouch and it does take time for that to go down. Also, you do want to be careful not to overeat at this time so as not to make the band slip. I've found, if I eat too much, I have a stomach ache for about 2 hours.

Keep in mind, this is all a learning experience right now. Follow your guidelines for food and fluid intake.

Sue

what is pb'ing?

Sue

what is pb'ing?

Sue

Productive burp - when your last bite comes back up when you burp- it's really not like throwing up - but a little up chuck in your burp and mine wasn't really vounltary - i knew i had over eaten and had the golf ball in the chest with a tad of slime and all of a sudden it came right out - with some slime... didn't hurt and wasn't the same feeling as throwing up - i think for everyone it's a tad different

Well I got some not so good news today---I didn't pass the psych eval. I can't believe it. So I am now on a 60 day hold until I see a shrink, keep track of all the food I eat and get on a different anti-depressant as she thinks the one I'm on isn't working. I don't even feel depressed anymore. Until today anyway. Has this happened to anyone else. I think its weird. Of course I have food issues or I wouldn't need a lap-band for obvious reasons. I'm so crabby about this I could scream. And then when I go for another psch. eval. in 60 days and another $300 there is still no guarantee I'll pass that one and if I do my insurance will probably turn me down anyway. I'm over it but I'm not giving up. I just will have to do what they tell me I guess.