Looking for a fun gang to "travel" with!!!! :hai l:

I started a thread on the monthly board for anyone who is scheduled for August 2007. Hope to see some travel companions there!

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Not really sure how this board works but I'm trying. I was banded Aug. 8, 2007. Last week. Really wanting someone to buddy with from the same time or people ahead of me to tell me what to expect. Thanks.

RedFiona, we are going to be band buddies, my surgery is the 20th too! So far I am pretty proud of myself with the pre-op diet of nothing but carnation instant breakfast. I haven't cheated and besides a headache I feel pretty good.

Nuddybuddy, congrats on the band! I hope you are feeling good and you are definitely in the right place for some support!

Nuddy buddy, I was banded on the 7th...feel free to ask me any questions.

Thanks!! I hope I can keep up with this site. All I'm used to doing online is checking my mail & doing Myspace-anyone want to get ahold of me my url is myspace.com/theresagkuhn hope I was allowed to put that on here.

Hi to all, I will be banded on 8/20 also. I'm in Indiana and my doctor is Dr. Clark. I went to school in Russell Springs, Ky.

Why are you having to give up caffine? I asked my doctor if I had to give up coffee, and he said I didn't.

My doctor said I couldn't have caffeine for a few months & would do better if I didn't have any at all. It dehydrates you.

That's good to know. Thanks for the reply. I need all the information I can get. I'm so nervous about this huge step.

Anything else I can help with let me know, but remember I'm still learning too. But then again I am ahead of you so I can answer what I'm going thru or been thru. GOOD LUCK!! It's not too bad.

Thanks-let me know if I can help ya out. I'm just learning but I did have my surgery before yours so that will give me a little more experience than you.

What type of pain med's did you ask for?

Miss Darlene,

I really didn't ask for any. I am allergic to morpheine so that was a def. no. They gave me a pain ball. Never heard of that either. It looks like a min. bowling ball & it had a strap so you could carry it with you or as they told me where it around my neck when I was up going to the bathroom & it had a tube connected to it that went to one of my incisions. (You will have like 4 tiny incisions & then your big 1 for your port if you are having it done laprosopic) & I asked for the ball to be removed when I left the hospital because I didn't want to full with it. Then they gave me liquid ibuprofen & some nasal spray called stadol ns.

The nasal spray really makes you sleepy. Then I also had to fill some fragmin. That's shots I have to give myself for 10 days so I won't get blood clots. He says that's just routine. (Expensive is what that is) But I only took my pain meds for like 3 days because they say that they constipate you & I didn't want that. Also, don't bother taking your own nightgown, you won't feel like using it, or at least I didn't. I wore some pants that were stretchy & wore the same outfit home. Is yours overnight? I had mine on Wed at 9:30 & left the very next morning after I did my barium swollow test. (that yucky milky stuff you have to drink so they can look to make sure your port is where it's supposed to be. Then I pretty much told them I wanted to go home. So I left even before breakfast came. I know that's more then you asked for but,hope this helps.TTYL.

Miss Darlene---my dr. said caffine is an appiate stimulante. I do not need that, but I cannot give up my coffee.

Hi all, I am being banded by Dr. Galvani in Chicago on August 22nd and it can't get here soon enough. I have been on a liquid only pre-op for the past nine days (and I haven't cheated once). Good luck to all of you.

Pam in MI,

Don't let your weight keep you from yoga -it's so good for your body and mind. It's going to be uncomfortable at first, but after a month of regular yoga, you will be amazed at how good your body feels. Plus, its time spent on just you, and that is super important with all the change you will experience physically and mentally with this surgery. You can use the time spent in yoga to mentally and physically prepare yoursef.

The yoga class I am in has a good mix of bodyshapes...maybe you can be an inspiration to someone else who feels like they don't belong in yoga because of their size, or didn't think it was physically possible.

Good Luck! I have my first consultation with Dr. Johnell in Colorado next Wed. I'm so excited I don't know what to do with myself.

Erenne in CO

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