Marissa424

Not To Say That Anyone Here Is Old But I Am 21 And I Dont Find That Many People Here My Age - Does This Say That I Am Giving Up To Early? Anyone Here In The 20's Or Younger? Being Banded On Feb. 7th 2007

My Band to Bulimia without the weight loss. I was banded in 2007 with a Lapband and lost 75lbs in months and feeling like a person again. Then my band slipped. In 3 months time while I was waiting for the insurance to go through for the removal and replacement Realize band, I gained about 50lbs of that back. I was rebanded in 2009 and to date have been the same exact weight I was the day I was rebanded. I have had adjustments, fills, unfills and all that Jazz..... nothing has changed, I throw up or PB every meal I eat, I have terrible indigestion and have developed ulcers. UGHHH. I cant keep down a meal and I have not even lost a pound. Sometimes I feel like i wouldnt mind throwing up from time to time if I was loosing weight. My boyfriend who has been my biggest supporter is now looking down on my situation as I am always leaving him at the dinner table to join my friend "The Toilet". I have even switched Physicians. The band is in the right spot and under fluro every thing looks good. I know this Realize band takes getting use too but Im going on year 3 here. WTF?!?!? I say band to bulimia because as people with this terrible disease sometimes you dont loose weight but infact you can get an enlarges heart which I am terrified over due to not eating. Am I alone here? I now weight 220 and my insurance wont pay for a different procedure. I am so depressed I avoid people and social situations.

I Think I May Be The First To Ask But Its A Must - How Long Did You Have To Wait To Be Intimate With Your Lover After Surgery?

Dont mean to be ignorant but what is the terrible PBING and Slimmg? Thanks WIll be banded 2-7-07

I definatley have restriction, but i dont know if its too much restriction, like i've mentioned I can only eat about 2 bites of food... is that how its supposed to be? I guess my main question to those with good restriction and consistant weight loss is... How much can you eat????

well then so maybe im not too restricted, if anything maybe a slight unfill of like .25 will be perfect then, but as for now everytime i take a bite of food i start sliming

Yes! ANything from McDonalds! ewww you just taste the nastyness (is thats even a word, if not they should make it for Mcdonalds!), once you chew it up that much it just taste like fat in your mouth

Cirque de Soleil!!!!!!!! I heard it was amazing!!!! and i agree with terri anyone can do whatever they want but shopping? ehhh... Can I do anything to help yall out?

Oh i know but i dont drink that much.... Its no every weekend, and I actually havent drank for a month now... been to busy hehe... but thats definatley not the problem i already ruled that out..... thanks for the concern though... and btw on the thread when i said i was an alchololi right next to it i said i was joking... but since your on this thread, and we are on the topic.. what (portion size) are you usually able to eat, a palm full... or so on?

Well if thats how it supposed to be im definatley too tight,. i cant enjoy any food let alone ones that i like! Thanks for the input... anymore thoughts on what good restiction is? come on bandsters... how much can you eaT?

Personally I am an alcoholic!!!!!!!!!!!! Just kidding, but i do still drink plenty on weekends i mean i am only 22

I wanna go... that will be my one year mar kand what a better way to celebrate!!!!!!!

Firstly- I cant eat more than a bit of food (not related to the question beloew because the problem i am having has been occuring before I got my lastest fill), and I am not really loosing weight with eating so little - I just made an aapointment to get my band loosened - anyone else? :help: Secondly and more importantly - I have horrible shoulder pain (left) that comes and goes with no warnings - its not like i am hungry or too full and its not gas like the pain I had after surgery. The scariest thinig is that the only trigger I noticed was when my back is against something it starts to hurt and when I push down on my stomach the pain releaves slightly ------ What do you guys think is going on? My Doc seems to have turned into an idiot and just tells me its things I know its NOT so I was hopeing my fellow bandsters had some insight!!!

I had the bad gas/shoulder pain after surgery but this is surely not the same thing!

DO you think its something as serious as a slip? or erosion? I am starting to think this because i can only eat a bite or two of food at each sitting

thanks... he says its gas but i know its not

New York Holla!!!!!!!!!!

its really good my restriction maybe to good- i cant eat cramp but i dont really thikn of eating like i used too and thats great about your baby and that you have a non-work out partner!! My knew moto is: I dont live to eat, I eat to Live!! this helps me be okay with the small amounts of food i intake- i just remember the protein! GL All

Hi sorry its been a while - I was banded on 2/7/07 and currently down 46 lbs, not as far as i wanted to be but im trying - i have to say this is all wihtout exercise also!

OMG I thought I was the only one but I dont know if anyone else has noticed this but when I start to get the shoulder pain I push down on my stomach by where my band is and the pain disappears!!!!!! This is what made me think my band was slipping/slipped and I have been so nervous! The weird thing is that I wasnt able to really pinpoint where the pain in my shoudler was coming from and when i pushed down on my stomach I realized that the pain was actually from my stomach and I was just feeling it in my shoulder!

well maybe thats going to be your scaffold, i dont know if its just my doctor but he said i will only loose about 60% of my excess weight, bascially telling me that with the band i will never be 150lbs

I know alot of you may think that this is suposed to be avoided - meaning that diets like this shouldnt be necessary because we got the band. However, I feel that my weight loss has been slow, the scale seems at a stand still and some days I weigh a few pounds more or less than the day before. Therefore, I strted the Nutrasystem today so try to get a kickstart before summer. The food ive tried so far has been okay - tolerable at best but a means to an end hopefully. And Ive tried diets like this before and the small portions have not been enough to fill me up but since i am now banded the small portions are plenty of food to fill me up. I dont know why my weight loss hads been slow i was banded on 2/7/07 and only down 23 pounds. I see other who have been badned the same day or later and they are doing so good. I know 23 pounds is a good amount but most of that weight came off immediatley post op when i was on the horrible diet other than that no extra weight has come off. Comments???

well congrats on ur pregnancy!!!! I had a fill last week and still doing my nurtisystem and now down 31 so far... whoo hoo i just want to be skinny damn it

I dont know why but my doc is being a pr*ck about my fills! He said my weight loss is good- which to me its not- and then he makes me wait 6 weeks in between each fill! Thats fine and dandy but my first fill was 1 cc and I got one yesterday (6 weeks later) and he gives me .5 cc!!!!!!! im never going to get anywhere! <!-- / message --><!-- sig -->

I dont know why but my doc is being a pr*ck about my fills! He said my weight loss is good- which to me its not- and then he makes me wait 6 weeks in between each fill! Thats fine and dandy but my first fill was 1 cc and I got one yesterday (6 weeks later) and he gives me .5 cc!!!!!!! im never going to get anywhere!