Well I was banded on the 14th...

I arrived at day surgery at 5:45am..IV by 6:50am...rolled to surgery at 8:40am...was in surgery for over 6 hrs...previous abdominal surgeries caused complications...

Woke up to completely numb arms and hands...kinda scared me.

Not to bad on pain...really was suprised about that.

I too had trouble sleeping the first 3 nights as I've never slept on my back.

Five days in and I can finally feel my arms and hands but still my thumbs feel like their asleep. Dr says its because of the position i was in for so long in surgery.

No pain, only took 3 or 4 pain pills post op. Just a uncomfortable "twinge" at the port site when I lay down or get up out of bed.

Haven't felt hungry and basically force myself to drink one shake a day.

The positive side is that I lost 14.5 lbs during the two week diet before the surgery and have lost another 8.5 lbs since. I check my blood glucose 4 times a day and it hasn't been over 155 since the surgery. It usually was in the 300 range.

So I'm pleased with this so far, and I was a self=pay...$16,000 bucks.

Do want to say "sorry" to the guy who got cancelled because mine went so long...hate that you went through everything and then get sent home and rescheduled.

Thanks to Dr. Cernero in Sherman, Tx. for working so hard...

Weight first Dr. visit = 349

Day of surgery = 334.5

Today = 326

Don't worry everyone, complications this numerous are not common.

Just realized that my post could scare some and I dont want that...

My complications were caused by two previous abdominal surgeries...one for a colon surgery and then another for a hernia from that colon surgery.

I had a lot of scar tissue from what the doctor told me...also because I'd had part of my colon removed everything was as he put it "strecthed out" from my colon being smaller and pulling the stomach down....

My results were not typical and I've never read anything even close here so dont let my experience worry you if your waiting to have yours done.

Even if I knew what was gonna happen i would still do it again...

I'm getting skinny and thats the whole deal...

bill

Pretty nifty about those blood glucose levels. Mine dropped off right away, too -- I never went back on meds to control it.

I hope your recovery is speedy!

Well I was banded on the 14th...

I arrived at day surgery at 5:45am..IV by 6:50am...rolled to surgery at 8:40am...was in surgery for over 6 hrs...previous abdominal surgeries caused complications...

Woke up to completely numb arms and hands...kinda scared me.

Not to bad on pain...really was suprised about that.

I too had trouble sleeping the first 3 nights as I've never slept on my back.

Five days in and I can finally feel my arms and hands but still my thumbs feel like their asleep. Dr says its because of the position i was in for so long in surgery.

No pain, only took 3 or 4 pain pills post op. Just a uncomfortable "twinge" at the port site when I lay down or get up out of bed.

Haven't felt hungry and basically force myself to drink one shake a day.

The positive side is that I lost 14.5 lbs during the two week diet before the surgery and have lost another 8.5 lbs since. I check my blood glucose 4 times a day and it hasn't been over 155 since the surgery. It usually was in the 300 range.

So I'm pleased with this so far, and I was a self=pay...$16,000 bucks.

Do want to say "sorry" to the guy who got cancelled because mine went so long...hate that you went through everything and then get sent home and rescheduled.

Thanks to Dr. Cernero in Sherman, Tx. for working so hard...

Weight first Dr. visit = 349

Day of surgery = 334.5

Today = 326

lol... congrats...... I'm glad to see that u are doing better....look at your progress so far wow...:thumbup::thumbup:

Hey Bill,

Glad to hear that you came out of the surgery ok.

I was the one that got bumped that day, but its ok. Dr. Cernero came in and talked to us (my wife and I) about it and we rescheduled for the following Friday.

I had my surgery that day and everything went great.

Its great to hear from you. Hope you continue doing so good.