Just wanted to know is the band always felt to you inside or do you forget you have it? Can you feel that the band is in you (I don't mean can you touch it) or do you remember it only when you eat? Does it seem like you don't have anything placed in you?

Thanks,

Rene

Good question...I'm curious too...one day post op and I'm VERY aware of it. Every sip of liquid gurgles it's way down.

I'm six months post op and sometimes I do forget, especially at night, when I'm tossing and turning. When I was first banded I was so cautious to turn slowly, afraid I would twist something loose, now I rarely think about it, other than reminding myself I AM banded.

I am 6 weeks post-op and I don't think about it much in terms of being aware or physically feeling it. I think about it pretty frequently just in terms of not being hungry all the time or being amazed at how easy it has been to adjust (esp. because I was so so so nervous that I wouldn't be successful!) to life with the band.

I am more aware of my port than I am the band. The port is the sore part post-surgery! But mine healed up nicely (I'm 2 1/2 months post-op) and I like my little port. I don't feel my band, just the effects of it! It's there enough to remind me to slow down and chew well, but I feel like me all day now. It isn't wierd at all.

Hi,

I am new here, but I have had my band for 10 months now. When I first came home from the hospital I truly thought it all was a big hoax. You can't feel it at all, until you have restriction. then you can feel the effects of it, but not the band directly. I eat and live so much like a bandster that it is never far from my thoughts. But when I am being social, at church, etc. I am not thinking about my band. It is only when I go to drink or eat that I remember "oh yeah, I've got to eat this way."

prettyone

hi

Ive been banded for 2 months today and I can physically feel the band mostly in the afternoon.If I sit down,I have to sit up straight or I get a feeling high between my breasts.Must say,as far as I have been able to research, it is just not the norm to feel the band.People actually say they sometimes forget they have the band until they eat to fast.

I am having other physical difficulties with the band as well so that might be related to me "feeling" the band.I've had one fill but lost all restriction when I started TOM and it never did return the way it was before....Am seeing the surgeon tomorrow.....

Right now I'm so new, I'm still obsessed with my band. But I really can't feel it, other than when I eat. I think over time, I'll forget.

I forget.... but am quickly reminded by slime.

I just got banded June 21st...Wow wow wow...what a feeling. The 1st 2 days were a litlle rough, however, I got over them pretty good. Today I actually went on a 1hr bike ride with my wife and child...Wow wow wow.

Like you, I have my band ALWAYS on my mind...for now I guess.

I have already dropped 8 lbs...293, down to 285. I feel great, not to "tired" out from the starvation, and I've gotten the OK to start "mushees". So I ate an egg this morning, had Veal puree for lunch and en Ensure for a snack. Hopefully this feeling keeps up, and my bad stays on my mind.

We'lle see.

MB

I have been banded over a year...never could feel it...only the effects if I eat to much...lol

I forget.... but am quickly reminded

Juat when I think I have no restriction, the band remids me I do, I just ate three bites of a salad and had the slime but no PB, waitied for about 3 minutes for it to pass, took a couple more bites and put it away

Most of the time in the morning s I know myband is here but in the evenings I feel like it is not there but tonight was different..the band is fickle