Wow what a long day. I went to the doctors office @ 7am. You know they take forever to do things lol but it was okay I was jus happy my day had finally arrived. My surgeon was Dr. Tashjian. He asked me to get on the scale and smh I weighed in at 334 pounds. I can tell he was a little disappointed. He told me that if he goes in and see's a fatty liver he will not operate. He said if you wake up and have 1 patch instead of 5 I wasn't able to do the surgery. When I first woke up in recovery the first thing I felt for was those 5 patches. Lol and they where there. I was so happy but in so much pain, I wanted to cry but I thought it might hurt more if I did. I got dressed and went home. I decided to wait till I got home to put in my prescription for my liquid vicodin, because my surgery was in Beverly Hills, CA. About an hour & 15 Mins from where I live. What a terrible mistake. It was so hard to find a pharmacy that carried it. 8 hours after I left the doctors office I am finally getting my medicine. Jus waiting for it to kick in. The pain was really bad, but im thankful cuz I know it coulda been worse. It hurts when I burp, and when I started throwin up ouch!!!!! To make things worse I started my menstrual. Sheesh wat a friday the 13th. Again im very happy and pleased and today starts my new life. I love all you guys, these forums have been my inspiration for the last yr and a half. Any banders in the inland empire area please feel free to contact me, I would love the support.

Congrats! I can't believe you are still awake this late on the day of your surgery...but you are on the west coast so you are 2 hrs earlier than me. That vicodin will kick in soon and then you will be in la-la land for sure! Take it easy the next few days.

Congrats girlie i asked my doc for my prescption at my preop so that i can have my pain meds on hand on Monday when i get banded glad to hear that you are doing well.

Congratulations on your first day! I also had my meds before the surgery so I just had to go home but I was feeling pretty good afterwards so I went grocery shopping, lol. I am 6 months in and 80 pounds lighter - I was 315.5 going in - you are going to feel sooo much better soon! Have a great weekend! :thumbup:

Congratulations!!! Hope you're feeling better very quickly.

Congrats- I hope thats me sometime next year.

Good luck :thumbup:

Congrats, hope you get to feeling better soon. :thumbup:

congrats! :thumbup: feel better soon!

Congratulations and hope your pain goes away quickly. With my surgeon we spend the first night in the hospital but will ask about getting the pain pills b4 the surgery. My date isn't tille Dec. 1st.

Yay! I wish you a speedy recovery :wink2:

Wow what a long day. I went to the doctors office @ 7am. You know they take forever to do things lol but it was okay I was jus happy my day had finally arrived. My surgeon was Dr. Tashjian. He asked me to get on the scale and smh I weighed in at 334 pounds. I can tell he was a little disappointed. He told me that if he goes in and see's a fatty liver he will not operate. He said if you wake up and have 1 patch instead of 5 I wasn't able to do the surgery. When I first woke up in recovery the first thing I felt for was those 5 Patches. Lol and they where there. I was so happy but in so much pain, I wanted to cry but I thought it might hurt more if I did. I got dressed and went home. I decided to wait till I got home to put in my prescription for my liquid vicodin, because my surgery was in Beverly Hills, CA. About an hour & 15 Mins from where I live. What a terrible mistake. It was so hard to find a pharmacy that carried it. 8 hours after I left the doctors office I am finally getting my medicine. Jus waiting for it to kick in. The pain was really bad, but im thankful cuz I know it coulda been worse. It hurts when I burp, and when I started throwin up ouch!!!!! To make things worse I started my menstrual. Sheesh wat a friday the 13th. Again im very happy and pleased and today starts my new life. I love all you guys, these forums have been my inspiration for the last yr and a half. Any banders in the inland empire area please feel free to contact me, I would love the support.

I am in the inland empire.... I know "Dr T"

Congratulations and welcome aboard the band journey! Hope you make a speedy recovery. x

Thanks every1 for your support. Im doing well. Just gas pains omg. But today is day 4 and im down 12 pounds. Im soo excited. Im not even really hungry. It takes like 30 mins for me to eat a jello. I need to get more calories in though. In my opinion at least. I didn't have a bowel movement until today.(tmi) im sorry! I was getting a lil scared. But I drank a lil apple juice and I think it helped. Im so happy.

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Wow what a long day. I went to the doctors office @ 7am. You know they take forever to do things lol but it was okay I was jus happy my day had finally arrived. My surgeon was Dr. Tashjian. He asked me to get on the scale and smh I weighed in at 334 pounds. I can tell he was a little disappointed. He told me that if he goes in and see's a fatty liver he will not operate. He said if you wake up and have 1 patch instead of 5 I wasn't able to do the surgery. When I first woke up in recovery the first thing I felt for was those 5 patches. Lol and they where there. I was so happy but in so much pain, I wanted to cry but I thought it might hurt more if I did. I got dressed and went home. I decided to wait till I got home to put in my prescription for my liquid vicodin, because my surgery was in Beverly Hills, CA. About an hour & 15 Mins from where I live. What a terrible mistake. It was so hard to find a pharmacy that carried it. 8 hours after I left the doctors office I am finally getting my medicine. Jus waiting for it to kick in. The pain was really bad, but im thankful cuz I know it coulda been worse. It hurts when I burp, and when I started throwin up ouch!!!!! To make things worse I started my menstrual. Sheesh wat a friday the 13th. Again im very happy and pleased and today starts my new life. I love all you guys, these forums have been my inspiration for the last yr and a half. Any banders in the inland empire area please feel free to contact me, I would love the support.

Wow You don't muck around in keeping us up to date do you?

When I have my operation in about a month I will be in hospital 2 nights.hope you are feeling better each day. Did you try the pre op diet or tried and failed?

LoL im so excited I can't help but tell every1. It gets better everyday but I still have some undesirable pains. I think it woulda been nice having a 2 night hospital stay. But anyways I tried the pre-op diet and I failed miserably. I think its my lack of will power. Now having got the lap band already and losing weight I really wish I could have followed the pre-op diet, because I would have been at a higher weight loss number.

First off Congrats! and let me say I am impressed that you were posting the day OF surgery. I was banded on 11/12/09 and I was good for NOTHING the first day. I've been able to manage my pain with only Tylenol-however I still have lots of shoulder pain. I've been walking lots to try and move it around. Best of luck to you :w00t: