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Can you reverse a stretched stomach if you stretched it out over your band?

yes more than likely they will. I always get nervous when I have a fill.

tell them you have a tooth ache and it just feels better to eat mushie food.

that does sound like you are too tight. Try mushies for a day or two and see if the irration goes down. I have heard that meats can be hard to pass for some people.

@ stevegoad - that sounds do-able. My stomach is really bothering me today. Not sure if I ate to much yesterday or if something just irrated it. No bueno!

I don't know. That was what I was wondering myself. I know that my stomach is bothering me today.

you should be fine for the superbowl. I traveled 8 weeks after my surgery. I just ate very little and if I was scared I went for the mushie food options. You will be so amp'd up about the Superbowl that you will probably forget to eat in all honesty. That's how I am when I travel.

I think I would do it again.

I was so happy when I got to leave the plus size section! Yeah for you! Keep up the good work!

I am a year and a 1/2 banded and I felt the same way. Remember you made a major life decision to have WLS and you don't want it to go to waste. That is how I have to think about it. If I want something I eat it in a very small amount. Man what I would give to chug a big ole soda! But it isn't good for us. Being or feeling better is a much better feeling in the long run. I have to keep thinking that I did this for the long haul long term and wanting something now is a very short term satification. Know what I mean!? Hang in there it gets easier once you really start to feel the weight loss and notice the lifestyle change and get the complaiments from others and when the aches and pains go away. Just keep thinking "long term".

knock on wood - I have never had to throw up coz of something I ate

I had this once and they did change all the fluid out and put new fluid back in. After that happened I never look at the fluid. I pick a spot on the ceiling and focus and breath. I hate hate hate getting a fill so much that I will put it off as long as I think I can. I had a bad experience with a person giving me a fill that it gives me alot of axietity (misspelled) and they marked my chart not to have that person do my fill again. My surgeon was nice enough to put my port real deep (not)and they have to use a longer needle and I found that out by someone digging in my belly with a needle too short and that hurt. Then she finally realized maybe she needed a longer needle. I hope that your experiences are going good.

Can anyone tell me what it feels like to have a LapBand? it doesn't feel like anything. Can you feel it? no not at all Do you feel like it's hard to breathe? no never Do you have a hard time swallowing? well I can't eat marshmellows and sometimes canned chicken to tough to get down. What does getting 'stuck' feel like? the pickle thing was a good example What is a 'stuck' episode? lots of sliming but mine has passed in minutes or less Does it get stuck in your esophagus or in the small stomach? not sure Does having a LapBand make you have heartburn? no me Can you still eat spicy foods? yes Can you still guzzle water or will it be sip city forever? i can guzzle water but not sodas. Any permanent damage from it? I sure hope not Do you like it or dislike it? I like having it better than not having it. I don't think I could have lost weight without it. It is a tool that helps hugely.

I used Gas X strips that go on tongue. If you don't want to chew you can suck until they dissolve.

I had alot of hair loss, alot. So much that I had to have a plumber come out and fix the main drain coz it was so clogged. It does not last forever and it does start to grow back.

Well how did the dr. appt turn out? I am curious I have the same pains that you are having but just not lasting as long.

i have the same pain under my left side under my ribs and breast area. I go for testing for gallbladder tomorrow. Yikes! it hurts almost ever time I eat. I thought maybe I stretched out my stomach above the band. DR is starting with gallbladder testing first.

I have similar pain but does not last as long and I am being tested this week for gallbladder. Have them check your gallbladder.

Sometimes lately after I eat I have a pain up under my left breast or right under my breast bone. It makes me think "oh no I ate too much and irrated my band" and I lay down and it will pass after a couple of hours. I am worried that have I stretched my upper stomach? Well today that pain started hours after I ate and it is much worse. I feel it all the way to my back and it feels throbbing. I got on and read about gallbladder problems with banders. I hadn't even thought about that as the problem. Does this sound like a stretched or slipped band or gallbladder pain? I go for a fill in Sept and I am going to tell them about the pain and hope they do an x-ray.

I checked with my lap band office about the advil and they don't have a problem with it. Very small dose. having an ultra sound tomorrow for the gallbladder.

OMG I have upper back pain between the blades too! I even bought a new bed thinking that would help and it hasn't. Ok I am getting this checked out for sure.

OMG I do feel nausea today and my head feels kinda light. I am kinda shaky... I took an advil and it helped with the pain.

honestly I go to straight lettuce and protein and no eating out. I can do this for about two weeks and then it just falls off. What works for me is no sugar and no eating out.

I have the exact same problem. I can lose in the week and come the weekend I gain. I have been the same weight for 2 months. I lose 2 and gain 2. I know what I am doing wrong. I started eating sugar again. Plus I have never gotten stuck or vomited so I feel like I can eat anything. It is a total mental thing with me. It is a vicious cycle I need to get off.

try to eat mushies for awhile and let your stomach calm down. It took me awhile to deal with my first fill. I ended up having to have it taken out but it irriated my stomach for over a month. I find eating bland foods helped too as to not disrupt the lining in the stomach. If I eat things with gravies or sauces forget it I am sick for a day or too. Weird I know!