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Are you sure you were sleeved? JK! It is good to hear you grabbed that ball and ran!

hello! i am feeling wonderful!!! in fact, today i plan not to use the liquid percocet that i was prescribed and just use the liquid tylenol. remember that everyone's experience is different! i do have some slight discomfort at times and that is mainly from being in the bed too long so i found a comfy chair in my house and was in it most of yesterday. the most pain i feel is around where i think my port must be and some ocassional gas pains...not to gross you out but i have been able to pass gas now since yesterday and it is a wonderful feeling (awww the little things)!! I am so excited for both of you and want you to know that i was also scared out of my mind!!! now that it is over i am so grateful and able to feel excited. i wish you both the best of luck...lets keep in touch:) p.s. i had the strategy of getting all doses of pain meds while i was in the hospital! this kept me pain free...and i wasn't a zombie either...i have a youtube account where i have been making small videos along the way! you can see me in action...im phatkatblue there also!

hip hip hooray!!!! Congratulations!

@ Bert, jitters can be a number of things, but low blood sugar comes to mind first. When you eat protein it takes your body longer to break them down than carbohydrates and your body can use these foods for fuel. If we eat foods that are simple carbohydrates, chips, crackers, popcorn, bread etc our bodies break these down faster and we get hungery again sooner than we should. Even though we have the band to help curb our hunger and reduce our intake we still have to think about what where eating and strive to eat 3 well balanced meals a day and if we do snack we should make the snack a protein not a carbohydrate, nuts, cheese, deli meats, beef jerky, peanut butter, etc. If we can eat these types of snacks in 1oo cals or less they will help keep us from straving and eating the other types of foods. Unfortunately even though the band is a big help, we all still have a lot of bad nutrition behaviors to unlearn, I agree with above statement about tracking what we eat, I track all my intake on myfitnesspal.com. It helps me but don't get caught up in the number of pounds it says you should loss. Use it to make sure you are eating what you should.

Our protocal at work for someone in your situation, after we have confirmed it with flouroscopy, is an unfill and liquids for 2 weeks. Under flouroscopy your pouch would more than likely show a dilation, basicly creating a "stomach on top of your stomach" and have "pissed" your stomach off with constant vomiting and BPing, in non technical terms. Your stomach is retaliating by swelling. By having an unfill and doing liquids you give your stomach a chance to relax and calm down, thus reducing the swelling and decreasing the dilation by not having solids sit in the pouch with nowhere to go. By liquids I am talking about protien drinks, healthy smoothies, soups in a blender, nothing with lumps or bumps. Please don't take this a medical advise, just my opinion as a band fill nurse who see's these complaints on a daily bases.

good for you for taking a step towards being healthy !! im only 6 weeks banded , not diabetic at all, only 80-100 lbs overweight. if you're thinking you should be able to lose weight on your own and feel like a failure if you dont , my question to you is- would you try to fix the problem on your own if you broke your leg or couldnt see well ? you would see a dr for a cast or glasses , right ? those items are tools to be healthy and to live a normal life. nobody would think less of you , so why is the lap band any different ?? im hoping you will think of yourself as worthy of getting healthy and deserving of having a normal future with lots of good experiences. im only down 15 lbs, but it was nice when my pants started falling off and i started getting compliments, im sleeping better and i feel better too. hope you have these things happen to you too soon ! best of luck-YOU ARE SO WORTH IT !!!!