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ZiggyLove    0

ZiggyLove
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ikerry, you are certainly lucky. My experience didn't nearly go as smooth. I was miserable for about 3 weeks after getting banded...couldn't hardly drink Water, let alone Jello, without feeling nauseous and oftentimes retching. I couldn't sleep on the bed for at least 3 weeks either, had to sleep in the recliner.

You are very fortunate. I wish more of us had such a smooth experience as you! I am happy to say that I'm doing better now, can eat and drink just fine, and have been sticking with the diet (down 23 lbs as of this morning). :ohmy:

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cherireinke    0

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Banded March 19th. Was feeling great in the hospital, stayed over til the 20th. Was up walking the first day...used little of my morphine drip.

Got home evening of the 20th. Started feeling not so good. Had mostly shoulder, neck and leg muscle soreness. Started feeling the band and something weird in my stomach. Getting use to "Larry" my Lapband. He is my main squeeze (other than my wonderful hubby).

Had a rough night last night (March 20th). Got up this morning and tried to take my liquid pain medicine and stool softener. Threw up. Ouch!

Having trouble getting my liquids down. Moved from Water back to ice chunks. Love the bullet blender. Having a bit of s.f. hot chocolate. Doc said it would help move my digestive system.

Any ideas how to take the stool softener? I tried the gel pill and it made me throw up.

Looking for another March 19th bandster to talk to!

Cheri

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Mom2six    0

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Banded March 19th. Was feeling great in the hospital, stayed over til the 20th. Was up walking the first day...used little of my morphine drip.

Got home evening of the 20th. Started feeling not so good. Had mostly shoulder, neck and leg muscle soreness. Started feeling the band and something weird in my stomach. Getting use to "Larry" my Lapband. He is my main squeeze (other than my wonderful hubby).

Had a rough night last night (March 20th). Got up this morning and tried to take my liquid pain medicine and stool softener. Threw up. Ouch!

Having trouble getting my liquids down. Moved from Water back to ice chunks. Love the bullet blender. Having a bit of s.f. hot chocolate. Doc said it would help move my digestive system.

Any ideas how to take the stool softener? I tried the gel pill and it made me throw up.

Looking for another March 19th bandster to talk to!

Cheri

Hi Cheri! I am a March 20th bandster. Got home today. I will send you a private message :smile:

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bandofhope    1

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Hi Y'all.. I'm a St. Patrick's Day bander and I am doing great! My diet has progressed to full liquids, cream Soups being the thickest consistency limit for the next 8 days. I've had no surprises except I really didn't expect it to be this smooth after the surgery. I have been sore, but taken my pain meds about 5 times; the port area shows no inflamation/leaking but is quite sore.. that will take time to heal. My husband helps me get in and out of the recliner.. that is a problem and I finally slept on my side last night. I can feel the difference when I eat... there is no tight restriction but I can tell that I am full with much smaller amounts of food. I have had several episodes of dizzyness from the lower calorie intake but expect that to go away as my diet levels out. I hope everything keeps going this well.. I believe this is the best thing I have ever done for myself! Good Luck to everyone!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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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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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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