I've been looking at these boards for over a year now and I figured this would be a great time for my first post. I was banded yesterday 8-24-09 by Dr. Nirmul. I had to stay in the hospital overnight (insurance required) but I could have easily gon home the same day. I've had very little pain through everything so far. I didn't even take any pain killers at the hospital thats how good I felt afterwards. I have a little gas pain in my chest today but nothing bad at all. A littler background on me: I am a 27 year old male been overweight my entire life. I'm looking forward to this marathon of weight loss!

Congrats!!!

Hope the Hot Tamale train picks you up! (haha sorry, So You Think You Can Dance fanatic!)

Good luck with your weight loss!

-Jamie

AMAZING !! I am in the decision process on wether to band or not. what did eat before you were banded? How long from time you started lossing and banding

AMAZING !! I am in the decision process on wether to band or not. what did eat before you were banded? How long from time you started lossing and banding

I have kind of an odd story. I started this whole process in August '08 and I had to go through the 6 month supervised diet. I did everything that insurance required and it was submitted for approval in January. I was denied a few times mainly because the surgery center that my doctor uses isn't in network. Then last month they called me and said they got an approval for an in network hospital. My starting weight at the first appt was 391. I lost about 15 lbs during the visits. the other weight that I lost all came in the last 2 weeks from the pre-op diet. I had no issues with the pro-op diet because I could still eat lean meat and have Protein shakes. Good luck to you with your decision just remember this is a complete lifestyle and you have to be 100% commited!