What do you think we should call ourselves? We need a cute group name!!! Something sparkley...something inspiring...something WONDERFUL!!!!!

also i still have a lot of gas... how long will that last? is it still from the anesthesia or is it just from having a smaller pouch? i still have a nagging pain in my back under my left shoulder blade that i'm assuming is from the anesthesia. any thoughts??? thanks for any input.

yes, it sounds like gas. i had pain on the top of my left shoulder for a week, and the nurse told me it was from gas

hi all~

Tomorrow @ 9:30am is my first fill! I am excited and ready! I will wake up and have only fluids. I will update you guys after. Wish me luck!

peas

Just wanted to give yall an update.....I did eat crawfish and just chewed the he!! out of them I only ate about 6 of them compared to 6 lbs....I am on week 2 as of today and can eat as long as I chew.....I am however starting 2 b more hungry.....I still have this very painful pulling like pain at my port area......it helps to were support for awhile then its like I just gotta be free for awhile.....Can't wait to b pain free....And hunger controlled....I know we r all wanting this to happen....good luck peeps....And I almost forgot I find the thirsties sneak up on me when I eat.....

Just wanted to give yall an update.....I did eat crawfish and just chewed the he!! out of them I only ate about 6 of them compared to 6 lbs....I am on week 2 as of today and can eat as long as I chew.....I am however starting 2 b more hungry.....I still have this very painful pulling like pain at my port area......it helps to were support for awhile then its like I just gotta be free for awhile.....Can't wait to b pain free....And hunger controlled....I know we r all wanting this to happen....good luck peeps....And I almost forgot I find the thirsties sneak up on me when I eat.....

Pezo - I was thinking about u this morning and wondering if the crawfish got the better of ya.....

Glad to hear that they didn't cause ya any trouble, we are going to a crawfish boil this wkend, but I think I will pass on them all the same.

Hope the port gets less tender soon....take care!

hi all~

Tomorrow @ 9:30am is my first fill! I am excited and ready! I will wake up and have only fluids. I will update you guys after. Wish me luck!

peas

Good Luck Peas.....!!!!!

I just wanted to give everyone an update. I am on day 7 banded on Monday 3/30. I just wanted to post this so if anyone else goes thru what I went thru they will know u will get thru it. The first 5-6 days WERE pure hell for me, I MEAN I HURT bad, but guess what I woke up today and I feel WONDERFUL. SO just remember if you have the surgery and are feeling MISERABLE it will pass keep your head up.....Conetha:thumbup:

I must be some sort of idiot or something! Maybe I'm losing brain cells with the pounds! I JUST figured out where you guys are on here! I joined several days ago and then couldn't find any posts! Sheesh!

Did we ever decide on a name? I like Lucky Losers or March Melters. Anything is fine with me!

I started on pureed food today. I got 1/2 cups of mashed potatoes down and I am extremely FULL. That's a crazy feeling. I love it!

I think i made one of those tickers...now I'm trying to figure out how to get it on my profile. I was a MSN group member for years and find that I am having some trouble switching to the yahoo groups. Never fear...I'm sure I'll catch up with everything eventually.

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I just wanted to give everyone an update. I am on day 7 banded on Monday 3/30. I just wanted to post this so if anyone else goes thru what I went thru they will know u will get thru it. The first 5-6 days WERE pure hell for me, I MEAN I HURT bad, but guess what I woke up today and I feel WONDERFUL. SO just remember if you have the surgery and are feeling MISERABLE it will pass keep your head up.....Conetha:thumbup:

I'm so sorry the first few days were hard on you. I'm happy that the worst is past now, though.

I was lucky to come through the surgery very easily. At my first post op doc visit, they were all amazed at how well I was getting around. I'm not bragging, I'm just trying to say that I think I must have been the exception and what you experienced is probably more common.

I was banded on March 24th.

I just wanted to give everyone an update. I am on day 7 banded on Monday 3/30. I just wanted to post this so if anyone else goes thru what I went thru they will know u will get thru it. The first 5-6 days WERE pure hell for me, I MEAN I HURT bad, but guess what I woke up today and I feel WONDERFUL. SO just remember if you have the surgery and are feeling MISERABLE it will pass keep your head up.....Conetha:thumbup:

same experience here ! i had surgery on a Wednesday. by Monday, i was off the pain meds.

hi all~

Tomorrow @ 9:30am is my first fill! I am excited and ready! I will wake up and have only fluids. I will update you guys after. Wish me luck!

peas

hope all goes well, peas ! give us the scoop tomorrow !

Did we ever decide on a name? I like Lucky Losers or March Melters. Anything is fine with me!

i believe "Lucky Losers" was the winner <see below>

Pezo- I was wondering how you did with the crawfish. I am desperately craving shrimp but I am too scared to try them right now:drool: Were you able to chew the crawfish to mush?

Peas- good luck on your appt. Hopefully it will go smoothly and you will end up with nice restriction:thumbup:

Conetha- I am glad you are feeling better:redface: I felt so much better about this journey once I started to physically feel better.

mdepauw- I did the same thing, I joined and than couldn't find the " Lucky Loosers". I finally did a search for Lucky Loosers and than found where it was at. I am on pureed/soft food and tonight I cooked the heck out of some broccoli, put it in the chopper with some chicken breast and a little velveeta cheese and I am in heaven right now:biggrin: I was so starving before I ate, I knew I waited too long to eat but I had to make my kids dinner first and somehow they seemed hungrier than me.

Well today was the first day that I actually got all my Water in. I dont know why it is so hard, I had no problem before the surgery:confused: I feel like I had a successful day, I ate healthy, drank my water and exercised. I think this was the first day that I feel like I did everything exactly the way I was supposed to:thumbup:

Pezo- I was wondering how you did with the crawfish. I am desperately craving shrimp but I am too scared to try them right now:drool: Were you able to chew the crawfish to mush?

Peas- good luck on your appt. Hopefully it will go smoothly and you will end up with nice restriction:thumbup:

Conetha- I am glad you are feeling better:redface: I felt so much better about this journey once I started to physically feel better.

mdepauw- I did the same thing, I joined and than couldn't find the " Lucky Loosers". I finally did a search for Lucky Loosers and than found where it was at. I am on pureed/soft food and tonight I cooked the heck out of some broccoli, put it in the chopper with some chicken breast and a little velveeta cheese and I am in heaven right now:biggrin: I was so starving before I ate, I knew I waited too long to eat but I had to make my kids dinner first and somehow they seemed hungrier than me.

Well today was the first day that I actually got all my Water in. I dont know why it is so hard, I had no problem before the surgery:confused: I feel like I had a successful day, I ate healthy, drank my water and exercised. I think this was the first day that I feel like I did everything exactly the way I was supposed to:thumbup:

I forgot 2 mention I ate 3 shrimp also and it was toatlly fine....I didn't chew until it was pulverized but I did chew well....I also had a pair of kitchen sciccors in case I would have needed them...I think it will b fine but I m not a doc.....good luck let us no...

Hey guys~

I have to tell you a funny story. Today I was hanging out in my yard doing some gardening. My tomato plants are really doing well! My 5 year old was playing in his sand box. It was a nice sunny day here in FL and with a cold snap of 40s coming tomorrow I decided to get some sun... so I was walking around in a bathing suit. (I have no modesty and no shame, BTW!) Anyway, this guy pulls up in a pickup truck with a freezer in the back bed. He is selling meat and seafood in bulk (the high quality stuff... like Kobe beef and stuff). I laughed at him trying to sell me 100lbs of meat when I am trying to get rid of 100lb of meat! I realized how rude I was coming across with the laughter and told him I had stomach surgery and had a stomach the size of an egg. He tipped his hat to me and took off speeding down my road! LOL.

I did go in and defrost a rib eye for dinner. My hubby ate most of it.. but I had 2 oz cooked med. rare. I also ate some green Beans and a sweet potato (sm). I had more than I have had in a while.. but tomorrow starts liquids (my doc doesn't want us eating at all the day of the fill)... So I had one more "last supper". I was hungry just a bit ago and had one of those individual fat free cottage cheeses. I still only had 765 cal today.. but 91 g of Protein. I didn't change the ticker or profile thing.. but I am 35 days post op and 24 lbs down. I had a big work out today with the trainer... and those couple extra pounds did shake off a bit. Still one up from the 25 of last Tues.

I will be sure to update tomorrow while I am sipping my liquids and testing my band.

jennibells~ good job today.

pezo~ glad you had your SLURP... crawfish!

Conetha~ glad you are feeling better! : )

mdepauw~ welcome back

thinner/karen~ thanks for the well wishes

I feel the love!

peas out

OK..... I survived! It took way longer than expected. Do you guys remember me complaining about a swelling over my port site? Well it ends up it was a seroma. Seromas are REALLY common after any kind of surgery, especially abdominal, breast and colon. Word of the day: "Seroma is just a gathering of serous Fluid.

Serous fluid is the pale yellow straw colored fluid that is produced by lymph vessels and by the tissues that lie beneath the skin. You'll have seen serous fluid if you've ever had a blister on your hand or foot - the fluid that comes out when you puncture a blister is serous fluid."

The good news is the seroma didn't open to the outside of my skin. Sometimes they can cause the wound to not heal and actually leak and it becomes an "open" wound that has to be packed and is a wound clinic nightmare. The bad news is it will likely return and have to be drained again.

After I was on the exam table... prepped with betadine and a sterile drape placed... my surgeon then palpated the port area. He agreed that my "swelling" wasn't within the normal and decided to see what he would find. (Medical people like to stick needles in things to see what's in it). So, he numbed up the skin first. Then he took a 20cc syringe. Stuck it in and it filled instantly. He asked his nurse for another.. and another and another. He got out 120cc! He said there was probably more but he didn't want to poke too deep. The fluid was clearish yellow (normal) and no sign of infection. Then he went on to find my port. The seroma had actually displaces things a bit. My port ended up being lateral to my belly button a clear 3 inches below my port scar! I got my 3cc and was instructed to be on liquids for 2 days then mush.. then back to normal. I have to return in two weeks for fill #2 and most probably another seroma drainage. It already feels as if it has filled back in some. I will try to post some photos of before and after. He told me very few patients have any restriction with the first fill. 3cc in 10cc realize band. But that they don't do more because of the increase incidence of nausea.

So, I spent my morning feeling like a pin cushion. It really wasn't that bad. After about 10 min. my Dr. said, "you might be one of those rare patients that I have to do under fluoro." This guy has done thousands of bands and bypasses. He teaches surgeons all over how to do them. I honestly think he could do them with his eyes closed.

My gut (no pun intended) instinct was something ain't right. But... he said he wouldn't have drained it earlier anyway... b/c it just increases risk of infection.

I had a shake early this morning (6:30am) made with light soy milk, unjury Protein powder (20g protein per scoop), 1/2 banana and Divinci raspberry flavor. For lunch I had a Muscle Milk Light (pre-mixed), 160 cal, 20 g protein. For afternoon snack I had a Yoplait light Fat free yogurt, 100 cal, 5 g protein. I haven't had any Water. I am hungry. But this too shall pass. I don't have the energy to exercise today. Guess I will give myself a break today.

I'll keep you updated!

peas out!