I thought I was being banded after Oct 16th but the Dr had an OR opening next Friday Sept 22. I am so excited and nervouse at the same time.

I have been waiting for about 3 yrs to have this done and now it is happening.....

I am nervouse....I know according to my DR there is a 15% failure rate due to people being unable to change their eatting habits. I know I can change them it is just the liquid phase I am worried about. Is it harder then I could ever imagin? I wont be starving feeling will I?

I know that I can do this... But after reading the area of this board where people have been debanded or are not loosing weight it makes me sceared that I too could fail.

I could really use so positive thought on the band!!!!!!

I really am excited and feel any weight loss is a sucess.

Next week will be here before I know it.!!!!!

I'm so very happy for you! With your attitude I think you'll do well!

Liquid diet was great for me, High Protien Ensure worked wonders on how I felt. Much less pain, helped in surgery and in recovery. The biggest thing was I lost 19 pounds just doing the liquids! I was on liquids for a month and then we started soft food. I can tell you I'm 42 pounds down from May 5 and I'm doing well. Your going to love it. Your doing this to feel better and get healthy again and thats all you need to keep in mind.

I did not feel hungry nor starving at all. It was so good, I go back to it quite a bit just because it makes me feel so much better. Keep your head in the right place and get your skinny clothes out cause you'll be there sooner than you think! I would suggest not reading the bad news, keep positive... yes you can do it!! :clap2:

Lapbandit1

I am still new to the process however I was just reading a post by a member who's bandiversary is today. I thought it might give you a positive side of the band.

http://lapbandtalk.com/showthread.php?t=23467

And don't worry EVERYONE gets nervous! That's normal.

I am 13 days out and I feel complete restriction still. I can only eat about 4oz. at a time max right now, however I feel full and have no desire for anything else to eat until meal time rolls around. I was only required to stay on liquids for two days. I ended up having liquids for longer because I didn't feel I was ready to move onto mushies.

You can also read through the monthly bandsters threads. Mine was August. It is just a thread where people share their experiences leading up to and after their band surgery.

http://lapbandtalk.com/showthread.php?t=20336

I know I can change them it is just the liquid phase I am worried about. Is it harder then I could ever imagin? I wont be starving feeling will I?

COngrats!

I'm doing my last day of liquids tomorrow, and it's been easier then I expected. I keep telling myself that I'm letting myself heal, and as far as being hungry, I'm not hungry that often, and I'm only restricted by texture, not amount. This has been easier then the pre-op diet was.

I'm finding I like Soups a lot. Tomato, and other types blended up did wonders. And sugar-free popsicles.

Congrats!

hope I get the same call cuz I've got 3 months and 2 days left before my surgery. Good luck!

Congrats I am also being done on 22nd September band twins I am in Australia Where are you? Good luck with the op

That is wonderful news! The waiting game is almost over for you, and much sooner than originally anticipated. You seem to have the right attitude and I think you will do just fine. I have found even when I do make poor choices, my band works so well that I still lose weight by virtue of the fact that I can only eat a minimum amount of those poor choices.

As far as the liquid diet goes, immediately following your surgery, you will be surprised to find that you probably won't be all that hungry. If you make sure to eat liquids with a lot of protein in them, that will help. Have you checked out our food forum? There are stickies on the various stages of eating in them and they have some wonderful suggestions of what to eat there.

Congrats I am also being done on 22nd September band twins I am in Australia Where are you? Good luck with the op

I live in the US and live in Maine which is the state in the upper rt hand corner if you are looking at the map. We kind of stick out more then the other east cost states.

Are you getting unbelivably excited? I am . Tomorrow I go for my Anisthesia pre op appointment and then next week on Thursday I go for my finall History and Physical before surgery on Friday.

I just found out on Tuesday that next week is the day so it took me a until just Wednesday evening to realize the extent of it.

Next year at this time we will both be supper skinny (OK I CAN DREAM).

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5" 7 1/2' tall

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Personal goal Oct 22, 2006 247 lbs

Jan 1, 2007 217 lbs

June 1, 2007 180 lbs

Sept 22, 2007 167 lbs

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Hey Shell....I just posted a reply to you on my running "book" LOL

happy to see they have fit you in early!!!! That's terrific....I'll have you in my thoughts and you should breeze through all this.....and if you are having a tough day....

just remember lotsofkids...first went thru lapband surgery and a week later an acute pericarditis and draining...a couple more weeks then an open chest surgery, pericardial stripping with 9 days of draining chest tubes, a couple of small strokes, then a month later, two brain bypass surgeries......then it all won't seem so bad after that!!!!!!! (Hope I didn't scare you...this is supposed to be taken as humor!)

May you have an easy walk in the park......you'll do good....and don't worry about failing.....you will be a winner! I just have those good feelings.....and if you read my post.....you'll know....those good feelings all came through for me! : )

smiles....diane : )

Oh I also wanted to mention that I know of a girl on the lupus board that is in her twenties with pericarditis and vasculitis and she has also had strokes.

You really should check out the Web MD Lupus Message board. It truly is an eye opening board....

Good luck to you in the up coming weeks and months.

You know I wonder if the banding triggered and immune response with you. Maybe it woke a sleeping beast.....

Your in my thoughts and prayers...

shell....that's what my husband felt..(he's a pediatric cardiologist) and the other docs were thinking also.....especially because of the shortness of time / proximity to the lapband surgery. It seems right around 10 days pericarditis can develop after a surgery of any sort.

And it probably was the result of my surgery....but we can never say for sure.....but in the big picture.....I really can't get upset over having the lapband surgery.....because, if this domino effect of mega health problems didn't start.....then I would have suddenly dropped dead from the moyamoya.

So, in essence.....it saved my life....even if it probably was the catalyst for the Pericarditis. (in my opinion, the moyamoya had been developing in the background for at least 5 yrs...according to the sx's I were complaining about and experiencing)

anyhow.....warm wishes to you.....and I will have you in my thoughts and prayers during your surgery. Are they comfortable with your autoimmune disorder and having the surgery? Well, I am sure they worked you up quite a bit!!!! Now....go and start taking your first skinny steps!

diane : )

Congrats and Good Luck!