I just got banded on Dec.29th and so far it has been a horrible experience. :confused:
I have not lost even one pound. Instead, I’ve actually gained 6 !!! I am sooo disappointed… My Dr did not put any saline in my band during surgery. He asked me to return in 2 weeks to see if it was time for my 1st fill. I did, and he noticed some redness around the incisions, which made him decide to prescribe antibiotics and ask me to return in another 2 weeks. When I did he finally filled my band with one cc…Then 2 weeks later, that was last Thursday 02/12, he applied one more cc, bringing the total up to 2… Last weekend we went to celebrate a friend’s B-Day at a restaurant. I thought I was eating slowly until all of a sudden I started getting the hiccups, and feeling “clogged up”. It was painful, and embarrassing! I had to leave the table, but neither the walking nor drinking a little water helped. It took me at least half an hour to be able to go back inside, and by that time everyone was worried, and I had probably ruined the evening for most
What I’m about to ask may sound disgusting, but I’m going to anyway: How can I make myself throw up when needed???!!!!
A lot of you talk about it being so easy…. Someone says on one of her posts: “Once you get the band, it is INCREDIBLY easy to make yourself vomit. As she put it, even insanely easy...” And someone else wrote: “Having the band has made it sooo sooo easy for me to throw up... I have found myself wanting to eat more than I can handle so I'd go and throw up what I had already eaten just to be able to continue eating more of my food. Or sometimes I will find myself beyond my full point where I have ignored my full signs and taken one more bite only to get that stuck feeling, and then have to go PB to relieve it.”
I don’t ever want to be in that situation again… I wish I had been able to run to the bathroom in the restaurant and quickly gotten rid of whatever it was I had eaten in a hurry, I guess, and not chewed enough…But at this point, today, I feel I have made the worst mistake in my entire life by getting a lap-band.
By the way, are there any reasons/situations where a patient could ask their physician to remove the band after only a few months? Would that be feasible, or am I stuck with this thing for years to come. HELP GUYS!
