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khrissy

By khrissy, in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums

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khrissy    0

khrissy
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:help:I WILL BE BANDED THIS THURSDAY, AND I HAVE A QUESTION. I AM GOING ON A CRUISE ON JANUARY 14TH FOR MY NEPHEWS WEDDING , DO YOU THINK I SHOULD GET MY 1ST FILL BEFORE I GO OR AFTER I COME BACK. I HAVE TO TRAVEL TO TORONTO AND ITS 6HRS, BUT THAT IS ALSO WHERE IM FLYING OUT OF AND BACK TO...PLEASE I WOULD LIKE YOUR OPINION ON THIS,,,THANKS SO MUCH AND TALK TO YOU SOON!:peace:

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jahair    0

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:help:I WILL BE BANDED THIS THURSDAY, AND I HAVE A QUESTION. I AM GOING ON A CRUISE ON JANUARY 14TH FOR MY NEPHEWS WEDDING , DO YOU THINK I SHOULD GET MY 1ST FILL BEFORE I GO OR AFTER I COME BACK. I HAVE TO TRAVEL TO TORONTO AND ITS 6HRS, BUT THAT IS ALSO WHERE IM FLYING OUT OF AND BACK TO...PLEASE I WOULD LIKE YOUR OPINION ON THIS,,,THANKS SO MUCH AND TALK TO YOU SOON!:peace:

Congratulations on your band date. I know how excited you must be!

My suggestion is to go on the cruise and on the way back home get your first fill. Everyone reacts differently to the fill process and when they feel restriction; some say over a week for them. So if it were me, I would not like to be out in the middle of the ocean potentially being overfilled or having golfballs and/or PBing.

Best wishes,

Jo Ann

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DEFINITELY after....on the way back. You don't want to get your first fill (or any fill for that matter!) and then go away.....if you experience difficulty, you will be out of luck!!

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Telly    4

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I'd have to say after as well, though for me, I'd have it before.

I say "after" only b/c it will be highly embarrassing to have your first fill and have a burping, gas/pb episode in front of your family and friends. They may or may not know what is going on with you and it would be something to try to explain. Also, who wants Soup the entire cruise right?

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argon    3

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The best reason for doing it after, and I'm sure what the rest of us are thinking, is that if for some reason you're the odd person who has crazy restriction after their first fill, you don't want to NOT be able to eat, (even worse, not drink) for the whole trip, and/or have to have some stranger in some foreign country stickin' a needle in your belly, hoping they know what they're doing.

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Boo Boo Kitty    3

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Please absolutely DO NOT get a fill before you go! Take my advice. I did it the day before a trip and my trip was hell because of it. I hated every moment of it all. Please do not do it. Trust me!

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green    6

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:help:I WILL BE BANDED THIS THURSDAY, AND I HAVE A QUESTION. I AM GOING ON A CRUISE ON JANUARY 14TH FOR MY NEPHEWS WEDDING , DO YOU THINK I SHOULD GET MY 1ST FILL BEFORE I GO OR AFTER I COME BACK. I HAVE TO TRAVEL TO TORONTO AND ITS 6HRS, BUT THAT IS ALSO WHERE IM FLYING OUT OF AND BACK TO...PLEASE I WOULD LIKE YOUR OPINION ON THIS,,,THANKS SO MUCH AND TALK TO YOU SOON!:peace:

Do not get a fill until you come back from this trip!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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