Hi, im 16, and am thinking about the Band, and I was wondering some things like,

1.) How long it took to go back to school.

2.) Heavy lifting? (okay or not)

3.) Personal Experiences with the Band. (pros and cons)

Please, and Thank you.

I very much appriciate help. =.]

Yea well i hope you do too you will be so happy like since ive got it i lost almost 20 pounds and i feel so good. The tightness isnt really that bad its just pain in the butt haha Do you plan on telling any of your firends when you get it ??

Thanks. Wow, I bet. Yeah I can see how that can be a pain in the butt lol. Ive only told a selected few, and I hope the keep it as a secret thing. But I rather people know I got the band and im not on drugs. My cousin got the band and she lost so much weight she had cops banging on her door, because of reports of her on drugs and selling them so yeah. =./ But I think its gonna be fine. All I know is that im extremely excited, and im ready to start being healthy, and feeling better about myself.

yea ! thats how i was i only told a couple people because my school is just drama central and i could just see it going the wrong way there. i have to say tho the hardest thing about this is the temptation at school and football games. Like tonight for example my bestfriend was eating a pretzel and it smelt soo good but i just was like w.e but i am like really excited my doctor moved me to the next stage so i actually get to eat something with flavor and texture :thumbup: i really hope you get it you will be so happy like i wake up every morining and just think that in a couple months iam going to look so much healthier

Yeah my school is so small, and so boreing, that anything happens at all, and its all over the school in a matter of hours. Lol, my school don't have football, and I don't go to any of the games, but we have pretzels at lunch and nochos and all that stuff so im probably gonna have a craveing, but ima fight my way lol. Congrats on moveing up. Thanks, I hope so too, I can't wait until I can even wake up and think to myself, im a day closer to being healthier.

yea i know. its not that hard to fight off because i just tell myself in the long run i am going to look so much better and feel so much better about my self. do you know when you appt. is for your next step to getting it ?

Yeah, I think thats what im going to keep telling my self, and hope I have the will power lol. Nope, but I should be getting it soon, im thinking between late october to late november, to hopefully get on the way and hopefully get it by christmas break.

Yea i have to say the lapband takes alot of will power. but i think you will make it through it, Aww good i hope they band you over christmas break that would be so good because you will get the extra time to heal. but the most imporant thing to do is walk after surgery because i didnt walk very much the first day and i got the worst pains from the gas they blow you up with ughh ahha but if you walk i am sure you ll be fine i am so excited for you !

Yeah, ive read about that, im hopeing I have enough to push myself through it. Yeah, I think im going to need the extra time.=.] Thanks, I will make sure to remeber to walk. =.] Lol, thanks, im very excited for me too. Eh, december can not come fast enough lol.

yea once you have a set date it will go by soo much faster :frown: once i got my date set it felt like it flew by.

Yeah, thats what ive been told. Im hopeing to get it all through with soon. Hey do you know about pill with the band, like what you can and cannot take?

ummm i was told not to take any pills for a while but my first couple of nights i took a zanex broke in half and i was just fine but i dont think any big pill would go through. I know that for the first couple weeks you have to take liquid vitamens which are nastyyyyy hah i hate it but it could be worse so i think it depends on what you could handle really just check with your doctor becuz every doctor says something different

Oh okay. Im just wondering, I think I was told no Advil, and that sucks cause I like advil. I take some pills for my back, I had an accident so.. Hmm but im deffenetly going to have to ask my doctor. So how are you doing so far with the band? And sickness, or anything?

yea i use to take nighttime advil so i could sleep but i cant take them now. iam doing pretty good i started going back to the gym this week and as for sickness i ve only got it once and it was when i tried this sobe sugar free drink it didnt agree with me at all. So i think i am doing pretty well i am still trying to get over this whole its my head saying i am hungry not my stomach. i cant wait to get my fill i think i will feel so much better cuz right now i am in banster hell and it is hard but like deep down i know what i have to do and what is right

Oh I see, thats good I hope you do great, and feel good. =.] Oh, hmm, im going to make sure to look out for them things. Yeah the mind over stomach hunger sounds pretty hard, but you can do it. It takes alot of will power. Ive read about banster hell, and im a litter nervous, im hopeing im not the 5% that are failures. =./

when is all the pain suppose to go away im just scared when i go back to school on tuesday im going to have all this pain, when im moving around in stuff..