Ok so im going to tell about the six months i have been banded. My band is one of the more difficult ones. Its always suborn and it will not listen when part of my stomach says its hungry my lap band will say NO. And no matter what i try to eat it will not let me. And hates french fry's!!!! Oh i will for never again make this mistake. now excuse me but this is kinda gross but im kinda sure it happens to other but again if you don't like gross then you probably shouldn't read any more or at least skip a few lines. Ok we all know that some foods will expand in the stomach. We all know that they even tell us before and after right. Well this is what i wasn't told lol that its possible for french fry's to kinda do the same. see i havent had a fill since december. ill explain that more later too. back to my story my family and i were at a basketball tourniment and we needed a quick meal before the next game what where better to eat then Mc Donalds lol yeah i know what your thinking DUMB. But trust me when i say this its not easy to tell your child no to a place like that when you dont eat there ever and they really want a happy meal. Sometimes you have to find ways to make things like that work for you. So i got chicken nuggets because they are easiest to eat and ff. i ate the french fry's first and was going back and forth to the bathroom. i thought it was over and dumb me ate another french fry and two chicken nuggets and it started again but the chicken didnt come up just the ff. And sorry to say this but the ff had been expanded i know again gross but i had no clue they would do that. But here is another fact about my band if i bake ff i can eat them no problem but if they are fried i cant. Sometimes its hard to learn all the ends and outs of your band I am still learning and still making mistakes but it only takes once! OK OK it usually only takes once lol. pancakes, bread, white rice are a BIG no and there are lots of things that i just cant eat. I cant eat just chicken grilled, boil, or fried. Dont get me wrong i still eat chicken but its not like a chunk of chicken. I have tryed every kind of way to make it and it just will not go down. There are even some lunch meats that i cant eat like ham it will not go down. And forget about drinking anything with a meal or for about twenty mins after a meal. When my husband and i go out to eat he orders and i pick from his plate. He doesn't mind but if i know i am going out to eat i have to take a snack with me something small or i cant eat anything. Life since lap band is different and im not saying that its bad i love my lap band but sometimes its just hard. I spent a whole night up with a tmmy bug in December. This is what they dont tell you i guess because they dont think about it, Tummy Bugs suck you cant really throw up what happened to me was that I ate dinner but not alot, I laid down about three hours later and it felt like something was stuck my shoulder started to hurt and then my side like my side was going to just explode. I know if you drink something hot it will help what ever is stuck to go down well that didnt help and i would try to throw up but nothing would come up it took me untill the next morning to realize that i was sick and only because i got a fever. But i would try to throw up and all that would come up was this white bubbly stuff or water. It took forever for the gas to finally go away so that i could even sleep. And i have had other things like this happen like heart burn ICK! one night i throw up grease! just plain grease because i ate the wrong kind of hamburger meat. never again will i do that! And the feeling is always the same your stomach feels like it might explode at any time. And there was a while were i didnt go to the bathroom and realized a week later and in a big pain that hey i need to go to the bathroom! Crazy little things like that will drive you CRAZY! but i have figured out that i have to go to the bathroom and if not its my own fault and i cant eat grease and again tummy bugs are the worst so far. Im pretty sure my band will surprise me again but if i can help it i will. But again and just like i have told my dr most of the pain i have had has been my own fault. I wouldn't have it taken out because i like and i like feeling like i am in control of my life even if i need a little tool to help me along the way. any ways i have to get to work ill post a little more later but if i dont get to work soon well we all knows what happens then lol.