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but I'm getting ready to start exercising but I can't get this off my mind.

I just have an issue(you can laugh a little bit) that if I run that my port and band will be bouncing all around and it can't be a good thing.

If you're done laughing, please talk to me.

Thanks

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Yea I am sure the new flesh has grown over and it will not move what so ever!!! Good luck and congrats on taking that step to exercise!!!

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You'll be fine, I run at least 3x a week and no issues yet. The only thing my doc recommends against is ab work before 3 month post-op.

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Alright my friend, please know that your band and port is not going to move so have fun with your exercises. Congrats on your weight loss.

Hope everything is going well.

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my port and band do not move.. but the tube connecting them can... not enough to hurt anything but i noticed when rocking my daughter it was moving with every rock and it was freaking me out lol. Dr. says not to worry about it but it bugs me to have it moving around... only noticed while rocking so far thankfully

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I am curious what that feels like - I have never felt the band or the tube but can feel the port right under my skin - all the edges of it like a round disc - is not hidden at all - I do not have a lot of abdominal fat so there was nothing to hide it in - that is the only part of the surgery that I am not happy with.

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yeah i can feel my port too. It sort of freaks me out to think about it. I am not sure why but when i think about it or feel it i don't like it at all seems foreign. part of me wants to scream get it out lol. SO i try not to think of it. It is helping me alot. It is hard to describe its almost like what you would imagine a baloon that is half Water and half air feels like. If you held it in your hand and sloshed it around the way the water felt when it hit your hand that is what it was like. happens every time i rock her. very wierd. not necesarily unplesant just wierd.

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i have been told that i have alot of large nerves and it makes me very sensitive to things.. i can feel the band all the time too.. or where it is anyway. especially if i take a big drink of something cold you can feel it hit your stomach like twice once in the pouch and once after it goes though.. also if it is something hard like a pill, it forces its way though sometimes if i take it to early in the day and i can feel where it goes through, painful that one is.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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