Hi have been talking to a new friend I made here and she keeps saying that she is SO excited about our surgeries (we are both Monday)

Excited.. HELL NO.... I am so anxious I want eat my fingernails right off (and their fake, so that is something)

My questions is... those that are close or have already been banded were you excited about the surgery?

I was so excited. It was such a great time. Good luck with your surgery!

Honestly MissSac, I was absolutely petrified out of my gourd the last week! I couldn't stay still--and thinking that it was an "elective" surgery chosen by none other than me, made me even more nervous!

In the hospital operating-waiting room I was with three other women, and I was laughing and joking around with them--but on the inside I was thinking "Come on--get this over with before I run screaming out of here!!"

But I will tell you this, suddenly Monday will be here and zippity-do-dah you will be home and recuperating--and time will absolutely FLY by and soon you'll wonder why you were nervous in the first place.

Good luck to you AND your girlfriend...

People asked me that all the time and I was so surprised! Excitement is never a word I would have used. Excited to go under the knife? Excited to have to totally undo all those bad habits? Excited to get my big behind off the couch and start exercising?

Now...ask me in a year when I can fit into normal clothes I and feel healthy and well...and maybe excited will be the right word.

I was excited-scared. But more so scared of the unknown. Good Luck to you.

I am a whole lot of emotions, excited, anxious, nervous, scared. I just got my approval yesterday, at first I was on cloud 9, "OMG, I got approved, YAY!" Then the more I thought about it, the more fear set in. I'm scared, but at the same time I can't wait to get it done. I still have over a month to go, so I can just imagine what a roller coaster I'm about to go on with my emotions. Luckily I have enough stuff going on the next few weeks to keep my mind off of it.

Good luck with your surgery

I was nervous and excited and scared of the pain. I only had one day after surgery where I was wondering what the hell I had done to myself. Other than that I have been like this is the best present I could ever have given to myself.

I am thrilled and yes it was so hard waiting....and then the PreOp testing wow.....had a scare with someone who did not know how to put on the electrodes for my ekg and it gave them a reading that I had possibly had a heat attack so I had to go through a Thallium study and Stress Test three days before surgery.....LOL But I was proven totally fine and everything was a GO!!

Better safe than sorry I suppose.

Time will pass quickly and you will be wondering why you were so anxious and nervous.

Good Luck!!

Oh hell ya I was excited...could wait to get the band....I also expected post op would be much easier than it was for me but 4 weeks post op now and feelin much much better!!!!! :clap2:

I am excited right now since I just booked my surgery. I am also scared as hell! Scared about going under since I have never had surgery before, scared about the changes I will be making, and scared about the big ass loan I am adding.

But the excitement overshadows everything else right now. I am READY for this journey.

:whoo:

I am sure a few days prior to my surgery I will be a bundle of nerves though. :scared:

I was recently banded on 11/29. I was oddly calm before surgery. I was more nervous about making sure that I ate correctly and kept myself nurished. I have to be honest, it is easier than having a baby. I walked soon after surgery and that REALLY helped. I did not experience any shoulder pain because I was up and walking. When I was not up and walking, I was sleeping. The surgeons that do this are AWESOME. Listen to your doctor and it will go very smoothly.

I have surgery in about 5 or 6 hours. I'm anxious but not nervous. Sort of like I was on my wedding day. I knew I was doing the right thing for my future but I wanted it (the wedding) to just be over with and to start living the good life. KWIM?

Honestly though, the more I look at the clock, the more the anxiousness turns to nerves. TODAY is the DAY! EEEK :faint:

My 1st post and I just joined last night. Anxious and nervous as most of you postees. 2 jan is BAND day...can't believe I won't be eating 2 plates of food per sitting..but everything that is wrong with my body is weight related...cholestrol, bpressure,adema, joints, back, and now type 2 diabetes. I must do this but fear is creeping in. My anorexive wife is against it. no support from the home front.

The good news is I am calmer today then I have been.... I am just SO anxious to get it over with and get the pain under control and just BE DONE! and on the road to recovery and a healthier life! Can I go RIGHT NOW?

I am going right now! Aaaaahh! What am I doing. LOL:omg:

You are going to do great!!!!!!!!! See you on the other side!

I was recently banded on 11/29. I was oddly calm before surgery. I was more nervous about making sure that I ate correctly and kept myself nurished. I have to be honest, it is easier than having a baby. I walked soon after surgery and that REALLY helped. I did not experience any shoulder pain because I was up and walking. When I was not up and walking, I was sleeping. The surgeons that do this are AWESOME. Listen to your doctor and it will go very smoothly.

Funny - you never forget having a baby and compare it to everything else. Back in the 70's when everyone else was on drugs, moms were into "natural" childbirth with no drugs. I always compare everything difficult to that and it makes it easier to bear ('scuse the pun.)