:biggrin2: Hi, I had my first consult today and getting banded 26th August. I am so excited and so nervous. I am having my surgery in Greenslopes (Brisbane).

Just wondering if anyone else is getting banded in August as we will be around the same stage all the way through our journeys so we can keep in touch with each other.

Good luck to those being banded tomorrow. I am going well now and have started the blended food, glad the liquids are gone. I don't miss them at all. I can't wait for normal food. I am not rushing though, I am not hungry at all I seem to have just the right amount at the moment. I have my first fill on the 11th Sept, and a dietian appoint 26th August. I willkeep you all up to date and I hope you will do the same. Again good luck but it will be worth it I know.

I GOT MY BAND YESTERDAY :biggrin2:I am on my 2 weeks of free fluids now. There's not alot I can eat...well....drink, but I'm not that hungry yet anyway. Its still a little sore but its not that bad really. I went into theatre at 10am and at about 4pm on the ward I was bursting to go to the toilet so I just got up and went. It was less painfull being up and walking about than it was lying in the bed. I am home now and doing fine. Lifting my baby, making his feeds, tidying around the house.

So here goes, day one of being banded, I already weighed myself this morning aand was a kilo heavier than yesterday and all i had yesterday was a few sips of water. I think its all the gas and stuff as my tummy is still bloated from the op.

Hi mumof2,

Yes you would be full of gas I hope you have went out and bought degas. John my husband was so full of gas it was unbelieveable and he was in such a lot of pain from it, so I went out and purchased degas and that cured him.

I have a supply for myself for when I go in taking no chances.

Sam