Hi, I want to thank you guys for your words of encouragement and sharing your experiences with me! I personally know no- one who has done this surgery so my reference points are all from text books. :wub: Today is my daughters graduation and family dinner party and I am very nervous about that. And for once in my life, it's not the eating part that's worrying me! :bored: It's actually being able to sit still for the grad ceremony and have the energy to make it all the way through dinner without having a lot of pain and or uncomfortability. :biggrin: I really hope I can make it through. I have a call into my dr. office to ask about some of the pain and side effects I am having. I hope to hear from them soon. If I get any good feedback...I'll share it here later. Still not hungry at all! Never thought I would say that!!! :drool:

Congrats on not being hungry! I had my surgery on June 4th... and Today is the firsy day i have felt hunger... it's very uncomfortable... It's not the type of hunger I'm used to though, It's like my mind does not want food But my stomach does.. i don't even know if it's hunger what I feel.. But I can't wait to be normal again.. geez

Hi! it is the day after my surgery and I was just wondering if anyone had any insight on this air or gas thats in me! About how long before that starts to feel better? Otherwise I am ok. I am just using ibuprofen to get by on the pain and that seems to be working ok, but this air is so annoying!

hi there, I can tell you that i had my surgery on fri the 5th and the gas is still in me. Walking, Gas X strips and movement helps. But really its about time i think. I also had a hernia that was found during surgery,so my dr fixed that and that may have caused more pain than just a lap band proceedure.

hang in there and lets keep In touch!!

Hi! it is the day after my surgery and I was just wondering if anyone had any insight on this air or gas thats in me! About how long before that starts to feel better? Otherwise I am ok. I am just using ibuprofen to get by on the pain and that seems to be working ok, but this air is so annoying!

Thanks BitterSweet!! Just hearing you say that "I can't wait to be normal again" brings tears to my eyes. You know I don't know that we will ever really feel normal again with the band in us. I don't want to be a negative nelly but having a band placed inside our bodies is pretty drastic. It is something that we can grow accustomed to, and deal with over time.... but for me....I have pretty much said goodbye to the yester years of what i thought normalcy felt like. You'll do fine tho. Give it time. how much wieght do you want to loose? Keep in touch. I am still finding my way around this site and how to do things within it. :wub:

Congrats on not being hungry! I had my surgery on June 4th... and Today is the firsy day i have felt hunger... it's very uncomfortable... It's not the type of hunger I'm used to though, It's like my mind does not want food But my stomach does.. i don't even know if it's hunger what I feel.. But I can't wait to be normal again.. geez