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Hi all!

I'm back! I am glad to here that the ladies who were banded are doing so well!! :clap2: I was banded on Tuesday, the surgery was about an hour and a half - the doctor said it was fairly simple. I stayed overnight at St. Lukes Epsicopal and come home on Wednesday. Thursday is when I had the dreaded gas pain so I walked my block 3 times, took Gas-X strips & sipped warm tea and by the afternoon I was MUCH better. Although I am burping alot today, I feel good. I started my full liquids today and I am not hungry at all. So far so good.

I am so happy that I had all of you ladies for support!

Nina

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To everyone who has been banded-glad you're all doing okay!!!! All the info from all of you is wonderful, keep it coming!!! I can't believe how this board has grown-AWESOME!!!

lo2us-Congrats on the band and hardly no pain-hope mine goes as well.

LauraG-I'm with you. I hope to be driving within a week. I just went for an interview yesterday and they hired me on the spot! Woohoo!!!! I'm in nursing school and got hired at an assisted living/nursing home facility. I'm so excited, new job, new life-what more could a girl ask for?

Season-What time is your surgery? We're on the same day. Mine is at 1:30.

Hi Laura55-With so much activity it's easy to get lost sometimes. Good luck on having your date. Mine is the 11th, I guess I can say Monday now. I can't believe how fast the past 3-4 weeks have gone.

o2bthin-I know your mom would be so proud of you and want you to do this for yourself and your health. We're here for you, girl!!

Toni-I'm very worried about not drinking while eating. I've ALWAYS been a "take a bite, take a drink" person. My dietician did suggest after meals to eat a serving of fruit that is juicy, such as pineapple or mandarin oranges, but just the fruit, not the liquid. I did try that a couple of times and I didn't want anything to drink for a few hours. Any suggestions from anyone else?

I was on preop diet for 2 weeks and lost 15.8 pounds, went to my preop appt with the nursse 4 days later and lost another 7.2 pounds. I'm now on the third day of full liquids and I weighed myself and I lost another 2 pounds!!!! My mom made the comment that why can't I do this on my own since I've lost this much weight already? I said because I wouldn't last forever on this diet. I'd want to cheat. I can only be good for so long, so I need this crutch to help me stay on track. Does anyone else feel this way? :guess

Hi Kland!! Good Luck!!!

Good Luck to all the banders going tomorrow!!! :clap2::):clap2::)

Jackie

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Morning bandies! Day 5 of my diet now, and the scale is moving. Only problem is I'm so hungry through the night that I can't sleep. Well, that and anxiety and excitement and......my son graduates from high school today!

Congrats and good luck to all the new bandies today!

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You go NINA!!! Good for you. Glad to hear you're doing well.:biggrin1:

Jackie

Thanks Jackie!!!

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o2bthin

hope you and your family have a wonderful time at your sons graduation. congratulations to him

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hey nina, how many incisions have you got. how are you feeling

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First off - I wrote a long posting prior to this and somehow it disappeard from my screen, so if for some reason I get posted twice, I apologize!

I got banded on June 1st by Dr Shroder in Richmond VA. I've been enjoying reading through this thread the past couple days and I hoping you won't mind if I join in.

To tell you a bit about my past couple weeks.

I had to be on a pre-op diet for two weeks prior to the surgery. A Protein Shake for Breakfast and for lunch and then a sandwich with 4 oz of lean deli meat and a cup of vegies for dinner. Inbetween Snacks were 10 baby carrots and a Dannon yogurt smoothie. I really didn't have much trouble sticking with this diet.

This is the first surgery I ever had. I waited in pre-op for two hours before the surgery started at 11:00pm. I was out within a minute of them gaving me the "cocktail" and was out until I woke up in the RR. Since then I have begun to remember little things here and there about going into and coming out of the operating room. I was mostly just sleeping in the RR and was feeling ok (but now I do remember a moment after the surgery were I was in pain and the nurse asking me where I hhurt and telling me she would give me some pain medication) but then they started rolling me to have my Upper GI and that's when the nauseau hit! And I was nauseas for the rest of the day. (I did not like this post-op experience at all.) The next couple days I had nausea on and off, but have had it for a couple days now.

I was released the next day at 1:00 pm. I was able to walk about a half mile that night.

I have 5 incisions. Four are about a half inch long and one is an inch and half long, on my left side. I also ended up having a hernia that they fixed so I don't know if that affected the size of the one incision. All the incisions are between my belly button and my bra line. One of the small ones started to get infected, so I put some Neosporin on it and it looks like it's doing ok now. Once the heal up I will start putting some scar cream on them. Yesterday they started itching so I know they are healing!

The first couple days after surgery I was not able to drink anything while sitting, so I had to pace around my apartment while drinking. Everytime I took a sip, I would have to belch twice. I can now drink while sitting and he belching things has subsided alot but is still there.

The shoulder pain started almost immediately for me and it wasn't until a couple days ago that I thought of putting a heating pad on it. Also bought some heat wraps for when I am need to be mobile, so I have had heat on my shoulder almost constantly for the past couple days. It seems to have really helped. Today I haven't had any heat on it and so far no pain!

Everynight I walk between 1 and 2 miles which I hear also helps to dissapate the shoulder gas.

I went back to work the 4th day (Tues) after my surgery for a couple hours and have gone to work for a couple hours everyday since then. Monday I will be back full-time.

Tomorrow I get start my mushy diet and I am soooooooooooooo happy!:clap2: I wasn't as adventureous as some of you in finding differnent flavored Protein Shakes to drink. I stuck to only Slimfast. Prior to the surgery I thought they were pretty good. After the surgery I could barely stomach them! The thought and the smell of them made my stomach turn. Thus I was barely getting any Protein in. So a few days ago I switched to drinking 12 oz of plain skim milk four times a day. Much better for me! Other than that all I have had since my surgery is flavored water. Thus I am really excited about being able to make myself a scrambled egg tomorrow morning!

I didn't get weighed the day of my surgery (had I known that I would have weighed myself) but I believe I am down around 25 pounds from the first time I got weighed by my doctor. Yeah :) !!! I do want to work with my doctor to loose the weight slowly. I want time to tone my body as I loose weight and hopefully avoid the plastic surgery route!

Well I appreciate you letting me share my story with you. I hope to keep up with this site! It's nice to hear from people who are going through the same experience as me!

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I guess I should join you all...............I just got my approval-surgery is set for next Wednesday, June 13th...............I feel soo nervous. I know lots of people get this procedure done, but suddenly I am nervous about dying during the surgery! Anyone else feel this way? Any words of wisdom???

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hi there,

I will be banded on 28 Jun and very nervous about the surgery and the dieting before. I guess the reason I am nervous about the diet before is because I have NO WILLpower. Any one else like this...

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Hi Lynette,

My name is Tina, I'm 36 and I live in florence, Kentucky also. I was banded on May 16th but have not had my first adjustment yet. I hope that it makes me feel less hungry and to not be able to eat as much as I am now. I lost 16 pounds in a month (including the 10 day liquid diet before the surgery) but now I feel like I've hit a wall. Dr. Smith did my surgery but I did not have to go to any classes like you mentioned in your email. I kind of wish I did have a support group though because maybe that would help. I wonder if I'm doing something wrong and thought it would be helpful to talk to others that have had it done or are going to have it done. Hope to hear from you soon.

Thanks for listening,

Tina

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