i would only hope to lose 47 pounds in 3 months.

wow that is absolutely wonderful, what a great accomlishment. Keep up the good work. has your experience been positive so far? i am pre surgery so i love to hear other people's experiences. r u hungry all the time?

Hi,

Congrats!! That is a great accomplishment. What changes did you make that you started losing quicker versus posting in the begining you were losing slowly? I got banded on 9/7 and I am waiting for my 1st fill.

Thanks for the guidance..

PG!

The question is why if you are doing so well your surgeon would do any fills at all? I am 4 1/2 month post-op have lost 85 pounds and my surgeon says why tamper with success?

Michael Pickert

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So I will answer Michael first, in the beginning I wasn't losing weight. I lost 4 lbs right before I started my preop diet. I lost 19 lbs in the 10 day preop diet. So after surgery it took forever to lose any weight.. or so it seemed like it. I went for my first fill back in August and found out my port was flipped, so they thought. The doctor opened me up to find out that it wasn't flipped. Under fluoroscopy it even showed it flipped. So they sewed me back up, told me to come back 2 weeks later. At that appointment it was determined my port was not functioning. In fact it never did function so I was scheduled for surgery to put in a new port. At this point I had lost about 10 lbs..this was from surgery to beginning of september, so I wasn't doing well at all with weight loss..10 lbs in more than 2 months was hardly optimal. Although that 10 lbs with the other made 33. So after the port issue was fixed I got a fill which put me up to 5 since first surgery. So finally I started losing a little more, 6 more lbs..but my husband is having the surgery and so Saturday I started the preop diet again with him for moral support and have since lost 7 more on the preop diet with him. So that made 47.

Okay so has my experience been positive? Well I think for the most part it has been because 47 actually today 48 lbs gone, but the extra surgeries have not been good. I am glad I did it. I am glad I am losing weight and hope to continue to do so. My cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure have all come down and that is worth it.

Angie