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I'm 4 weeks post-op, so not getting my fill too much earlier than you. However, I could have had it as early as 3 weeks post-op. I wanted to get it that soon, but figured I should take into account the 4-5 days I was so ill after surgery and not count that has proper healing time. Have fun on your cruise! Be 100% sure you're comfortable with the new restriction before climbing aboard!

No hell here. Even though my surgeon is pretty slack with the post-op diet, I started out this whole ordeal sick in the hospital for days, so I didn't really feel like eating too much for a long time after that. Then, a few weeks after surgery, I ate too fast, and probably too much, and my stomach hurt for like 24 hours. I don't ever want that to happen again, so I've been eating small portions, very slowly. I had my first fill two days ago, so now I'm being even more cautious. It'll probably be a while until I know if I have restriction, that's how iffy I'm being with food. However, count me in with the club who's holding off on exercise and/or using their fill date as a starting date. Since banding, I've exercised maybe 5 or 6 times only.

Wow! Excellent!

Mine is about halfway between my belly button and bra, and slightly off to my left side. Slightly.

Yes. But I was under the impression it could pick up on it since I was, and still am, convinced it saw my Lap-Band or the port. More on my suspicions. I've been patted down at TSA a couple times. Once because I had bought my ticket that day, and it caused me to do special screening (pat downs, swabbing my luggage) and once because I didn't take off my hoodie. The first time, I was pat down everywhere. The hoodie incident, they did all areas of my hoodie. This is the first time I've ever been patted down on just my chest and upper belly.

Well, I just looked and it seems you're right. Weird. Despite all the hard evidence against it that I'm reading, I still think that machine somehow knew. I couldn't of caused them any reason to just check that part of my body. I was even wearing a cotton only sports bra and a shirt. No jewelry or anything. Just me and cotton.

They didn't say anything, lol. No, I don't think she felt anything out of place, I'm only a month post-op and still rather fluffy, lol. Nobody else got patted down after their fancy screening, just me, and just in that area of my body. She didn't pat me down anywhere else.

I'm feeling okay, Brenda. Thanks for asking!

I had my first fill today, too. 4 something CCs. My doctor made me sit up with the big syringe sticking out of my belly. It was like that scene in Pulp Fiction - not cool.

I hope you're doing better today.

Exercise. Stupid exercise. I have only gone for a walk once, and just did my elliptical for 20 minutes, since being banded. What have you been doing (pre or post op)? My plan, as of now, is to walk or elliptical for 20 minutes each day.

Congratulations and welcome, Megan! I didn't have any gas pains, so I have no advice. I hope it goes away for you soon!

It could be falling out for many different reasons. You should see your doctor and get blood work done to check your thyroids, hormones and such. Also, should this not be a temporary issue (and most likely it is), and your blood work came back fine, you can get your scalp biopsied and find out if its hereditary, or some other issues to which I forget at the moment. A dermatologist would probably be the best kind of doctor to help you find the root cause of your hair loss.

I was in the hospital for 3 days after getting my Lapband, due to post operative nausea. This is the second time this has happened to me after a surgery. I once spent 5 days in the hospital, sick after gallbladder surgery. I was fine after surgery for a few hours. Just long enough to leave the hospital and get settled in at my hotel room, that is. I did a LOT of dry heaving - for some reason, even though I would take some sips of Water, I could not actually throw up. I only took one swig of my pain medicine before I had gotten sick, and stopped taking it after that, just in case it was the narcotic. I know that I have gotten sick from I.V. morphine and some other narcotic, after having c-sections. I also ripped off the anti-nausea thing from behind my ear, in case it was that, too, because it was once hypothesized that the anti-nausea stuff was actually making me sick when I had the gallbladder surgery. It also just so happened that once I stopped the anti-nausea stuff, I got better and went home. My doctor told me that out of his 800+ surgeries, I was only the second person to get sick like that. He also ordered an upper GI and everything was still where it was supposed to be. I was still sick at the time, and did two more days of heaving afterward, but I think everything is fine still. I go in for my first fill on Tuesday, so I guess that's the time I'll find out .

I'm down about 22 pounds since pre-op diet. I go in for a fill on the 3rd.

Hello all. I'm going to make this pretty short and get back to it with some more gritty details. You don't need to dwell on my miseries if you're awaiting your band anyway. Plus, please be assured this isn't a common problem. It probably only happened because I was so cocky about how good I am with surgeries. Eh. I had my band put in on Wednesday. Everything went swimmingly. Later that night, while in my hotel room (we're from WI, had banding in CO), I got really sick. I went into the ER Thursday at 5 am and didn't leave until noonish Sunday because of it. I felt better today, about 95% better, and got myself discharged, only to spend an eternity waiting on last minute connecting flights. Of course, I had a bit of a relapse during this, I don't know, 12 hour flying fiasco. I just wanted to check in while I'm feeling half up to it, and tell you all that I'm still alive. My doctor wanted me to assure everybody out there in Lapbandland that I'm his second of 800 patients to have post operative nausea to the extent I did. Please don't get freaked about my bad story. Catch you all in a few days or so. Good luck to all! Take peace in knowing that if there were to be X amount of complications per banding month, I took one of them for the team. Ya'll should be just fine, lol. J

Our surgeon pulled 2ccs out of my band, the day after surgery. He told me it would be empty, but when I was sick, he had Natalie come down to the ER with the needles and such and unfilled me. I forget the reason he said he was going to see if I needed to be unfilled. Maybe he fills it to test it and doesn't always get all the stuff out? That said, I also have been eating mushies a little bit, for the past week. More the last few days and today. My surgeon said as long as you can tolerate it, it's fine. The dates given out are just a rough guideline. I haven't been too crazy with taking in more than liquids until recently. I'm just now discovering I probably can eat anything just fine right now. I'm thankful I'm going in for a fill next week. I need to just forget how well things went down today and continue with the careful, slow eating of liquidy substances.

I totally forgot to mention this. The day after surgery, I went to the ER (ultimately admitted to the hospital and stayed there for a couple days) with post operative nausea. I wrote out my drama HERE. Anyhow, my Lapband doctor came to the ER to see me and had his nurse come down with the needle and all the things needed to do an unfill. He says he installs them empty, but something sometimes happens, yadda, yadda, yadda. I wasn't really listening too hard. So my doctor does it and pulls out 2cc of stuff from it. Moral of this story is that some of us (not me, at least not now) can have a little bit of Fluid in their band already, filled with God knows what, lol. Oh, wanna hear more? Don't be sipping your Protein drink while reading. I'm a pro puker. I get the slightest bit sick feeling and I can just will myself into puking everything up. So I get sick with the band and all I can do is dry heave. Even though I know I should at least have Water in there. It was physically impossible, with the exception of right after my doctor took out that 2cc. But after that one time actually puking, I couldn't do it again, The band took my ability to puke away? I cringe at thinking of ever having the stomach flu.

There are at least two doctors in Colorado that will do it for under 10K. My doctor, Dr. Kirshenbaum of lapbandrockies.com is great. $9950 for everything, done in the USA - hospital, anesthesia, etc. He has done over 800 surgeries and only two slipped bands to date. Also, you get free fills for the first three months, then for a discount thereafter. Lots of information on his website.

There are at least two doctors in Colorado that will do it for under 10K. My doctor, Dr. Kirshenbaum of lapbandrockies.com is great. $9950 for everything, done in the USA - hospital, anesthesia, etc. He has done over 800 surgeries and only two slipped bands to date. Also, you get free fills for the first three months, then for a discount thereafter. Lots of information on his website. Wrong post, lol.

"The one person I should be able to trust is you, and you've blabbed my secret - an embarrassing secret about me to several people now. To top it all off, you had the audacity play stupid about what you have done" Then think of something super humiliating you know about him and make some analogies out of it. I'm sorry he has done that. I hope he can see the error of his ways and apologize. It's not like he can fix the damage he has done, but at least acknowledging it would be a start, right?

Sometimes one should just keep their thoughts to themselves.

Today I drug the family out for a walk. They were confused, lol.

Congratulations you two!