....I have something to add! After being banded for nine months now, I eventually have a tiny nugget of information to pass on to you guys! I have felt pretty impotent here without fill info, pain experience to share!

Well - here it is (ta da!)....

Does anyone remember me asking about shoulder pain? I was experiencing a LOT of pretty severe pain for AGES in my shoulder, just above my left breast - It left me pretty winded as it hurt when I breathed in deeply or coughed or even moved my arm... I was getting kinda worried about it and posted here - Donali (the big meanie...) suggested that I was overeating at meal times and the diaphragm was causing the gas-like pain. Ok, I went with that and stopped eating sooner that I had been. No go, still bad pain (Wake up! I'm getting to the good part....!) - ok so picture me in the car, driving down through france, well, hubby is driving, I am having my shoulder pain, moaning and whining away, hubby is completely glazed over pretending to listen.... So I turn to my big pile of gossip magazines, and am reading about poor Brittney having put on 1.5lbs and doing 3000 crunches per day to keep her lovely flat tummy - then I notice it says "Brittney avoids sugar-free gum as this causes build up of gas and can leave her tummy bloated and distended! Whoaaaaa stop the vehicle! What have I in my mouth 90% of the time? Only SUGAR FREE GUM! I constantly chew gum after meals, and well, all day long! I spat the gum out, and haven't had so much as a twinge of shoulder pain since! So there.

Now I am waiting for my tum to go all flat like Brittney's.... must just have been all that gum makin it hang down to my knees....any day now...................

you look FAB !!!

what a fantastic acheivement !

You look great !

aud x