Tomorrow is the banding day for me and i am so nervous about anesthesia, and so excited about the road ahead!! Any advice for a newbie??? I know the bowel prep was lots of fun!!lol

Any tips would be great!:girl_hug:

I want to wish you the best of luck tomorrow! I will be having my surgery on November 10. I can't wait to hear how you are doing!!!

Sending good wishes your way for tomorrow ~ you will do fine! Make sure to get plenty of rest and don't go back to work too early. Good luck to you on your weighloss journey!

I am not yet banded, but wish you good luck tomorrow. I can't wait for my surgery....

When is your surgery Lopez1978? I can't wait for mine also!!!

Hi Lopez. I am banded and if you follow drs. orders and the band rules you will be just fine. Don't push, pull, or lift. But do walk and move around a lot. The air they put in your abdomen has to brake down and dissapate. Movement does that. So walk, walk, walk. When the air (gas) gets up in your shoulders, chest, neck, ect. it is very uncomforatable. So the more you move the quicker the big bubble of air breaks down to smaller bubbles ect. Your anethesiologist will probably tell you about all that. Good luck and welcome to bandland. Follow the rules, you will do fine.

OOOPS, meant that for XRAIGAL, sorry.

Good luck! It's very exciting! Be sure to wear or take some comfortable "easy on" shoes so you can walk in the hospital. Wear comfy loose clothes TO the hospital so you can wear them home (take extra panties!) Take your ID for the hospital but no cell phones etc. And no makeup, jewelry, or hair products. No deodorant.

Take some lip balm for post op because they give you something to dry up secretions and aside from making your mouth TERRIBLY dry it will probably cause chapped lips.

And remember to breathe deep and walk walk walk!

I had no issues at all with anesthesia or trapped gas and actually the shoulder and neck pain is referred pain from your diaphragm...it subsides quickly.

Have some adults liquid tylenol on hand at home for when the doc's prescription is more than you need!

You will do great! I have a cold now and honestly am worse off than I was post op!

Oh and bras? I MUST wear one I'm miserable without...but I took once that was pretty stretched out around the band area so it wouldn't bind me. Take something that is comfy for you.

oh my goodness, thank you for the advice!!! I am hoping to be off two weeks(i work in a hospital..lots of pushing,lifting,ect) That should be pleny long enough i think... I will let you all know how it went when i am back home!! Thanks again!

xraigal, Good luck tomorrow on your banding. Let us know how it goes. I hope to be joining you on Oct. 1st. Just waiting for ins. approval. I'm excited for you. Maggies:wink_smile:

I was banded 10days ago! You can wear deo! lol, but yes no makeup, jewelry etc. Leave that at home. If you will be there over night, bring comphy jammies, slippers, chap stick, extra undies and comphy clothes to go home in.

You will need for home, Liquid Tynenol, Gas X strips, lots of flavored water. Walk, keep busy and rest too! Get plenty of liquids, helps with healing and hydration. They will probably send you home with an RX for pain. Take that when needed! And good luck! No worries.. you will sleep good while u r getting banded. It was weird, when they wheeled to the surgury room, they gave me something to relax (groovy drugs) and then they lay u on the operating bed, breath in O2 and then I was out, the next thing I know I was waking up what seemed to be like a min later, to being banded! Whoo hoo! You will do fine! :rolleyes2: Take good care of yourself, follow Dr.s order and you will do great! :girl_hug:

nope no deodorant. Husband's an RN. It can react with the anesthesia. Best to just go in bare. :rolleyes2: No fingernail or toenail polish either...they need to be able to 1. put a pulse oximeter on to monitor your oxygen saturation and 2. to check your capillary refill to make sure your circulation is good! :girl_hug:

Good luck! Good luck!! Good luck!!!

~FK

Well I suppose its better to ask the hospital I had finger nail polish on my toes and fingers and had Deo on and I am fine! And if that is the case, which I know many years ago it was, for the O2 reader, they would ask you to remove fake nails, they dont ask that now. O2 reader can read through nail polish. I been to the hospital many times with nail polish on and it read it just fine. Anyway just go by what the hospital says, many have different ways of doing things. With some places its not fine and others it is.. JUST ASK! :rolleyes2:

I don't have a date yet, waiting insurance approval...But as soon as I know I will be shouting it out..