GeezerSue

Hi, Alysha...welcome. You're in Dr. Billy's neighborhood, are you being banded by him? From what I've heard, he's wonderful. So look. PB (an altogether wrong term which once was supposed to stand for "productive burp" and I think should be a BB, meaning "bandster barf" is a reference to a type of vomiting that occurs when food cannot, for one of several reasons, make the passage from the esophagus into the stomach. It is the chewed food being regurgitated...there is no stomach acid involved, so it's probably not like any barfing you've engaged in the past.) "Sliming" is the body's response to what it thinks is a blockage in the passagewasy from the esophagus into the stomach...which is what makes the band work. The brain sends down a BUNCH of thick, mucous-y saliva to help lubricate the food on down the esophagus. If that doesn't work, the PB is often next. Sue

Sometimes, I think they, too, see what they want to see. Before I was banded, my internist weighed me himself and his comment was, "Holy shit, woman! How did THAT happen?" I had been weighed by his staff at every visit...I guess he didn't pay attention until HE weighed me.

LMAO I USED to belong to that club...gimme some coffee I can STAND a spoon in. But I discovered that post-op I usually get turned off to coffee for a while. And then with the DS surgery, I have had trouble reuniting with my black coffee. I miss it. I seem to like the taste better when it's all fru-fru-ed up. But, when I can drink again (in my case, a year post-op), I'm planning on a cup of coffee with a shot of Bailey's in it...the best of several worlds!!

Your first fill, right? a lot of doctors don't try to max out the restriction, because a lot of patients get swollen and can't even swallow Water. So, don't panic if your first fill doesn't "take you there." Then, (and I get slammed every time I say this, but I won't stop) a lot of the "weight" that people THINK they have "lost forever" in the first few weeks post-op is nothing more than post-op dehydration. And then when they don't "lose" more or if they "gain," they panic. It was never lost and it wasn't regained...it was temporarily lowered due to dehydration and it later was recovered. If you lost a lot of weight in the immediate post-op time, you may have been dehydrated. Now you can get in more fluids and so you have "regained" that "weight" at the same time you have been losing fat due to decreased food consumption. That may show up as a zero on the scale, and it's perfectly normal. AND, you are exercising and turning some lightweight fat into heavyweight muscle. WLS or not, most people who start exercising show a small weight gain at first, because of the fat-to-muscle thing AND because your body tends to "retain fluids" to "pad" the joints that have recently been stressed by the exercise. I think...you should go by how your clothes fit and not the scale right now...and that there is not enough Protein in most cereals to make it a great choice for your limited stomach space...and that my doctors said that yogurt was simply a high calorie drink. Good luck, Sue

I'm pretty sure you can find excellent...and crappy...doctors/cooks/auto mechanics/etc. on either side of any geopolitical boundary.

Yup, I just went to my huband's physical because SOMEONE had to say those five magic syllables...and neither he nor his PCP had previously mentioned it. The prep is just the pits. But the procedure is a NON-event. At least it was for me, and I had mine done at a place not known for spoiling patients...a VA hospital. But I said, "Ooo." And they said, "Buh-bye." I think it was Roofies, because I don't remember a thing after the "Buh-bye" until the "Hello!"

I think that if everyone...or even MOST everyone...actually "learned" that ever-so-difficult to master lesson about eating...that the band would be a temporary fix and everyone could have it removed after a year or two or three. You know? Like..."wear this for three years and at the end of that time, you will have LEARNED something that will THEN make you eat the way you need to eat for the rest of your life." There must be reason it isn't marketed that way. (Which is why your problems are not yours alone!)

Lisa...my DS surgeon has an office on GV Pkwy. Here's a link: http://dssurgery.com/contact/index.php

Lisa, my pre-op BMI was right about 48-49 both times--although it had been higher. Right now, it's JUST UNDER 35. But I look for-shit in a do-rag, so I'm jealous of you. My guy has an office on Green Valley Parkway...lemme know when you get rich!!

Not for a band... Is you friend old enough (50+) that there should be one in her file anyway? I'd think manometry was a better choice. But I never took a real science class. Maybe Dr. Pleatman would let us know.

I could not eat ANY of those things...with the exception of heavily buttered crispy bread crusts...which seemed at odds with the whole program. However, I popped into top let you know that in DENMARK, a "danish" is called "Vienna Bread." Except that they say it in Danish, of course.

LOL about the resolution, Amy. (MY moron HAS his own badge and gun...and he's old now. I don't think he'll show up anywhere I am...I hope. But I refuse to let him do what he says he wants to do, which is to see me and to talk to me.) Anyway, I have a funny story that your reminded me of. Our daughter is involved with the entertainment industry. She wrapped on one BIG film and got hired on another by one of the two co-producers...but the OTHER co-producer had promised her job to a nephew. He was abusive and finally gave her a pink slip and couple of weeks' pay as the Christmas party was starting. She was shattered. Two years later, she runs into someone from that film. "You didn't HEAR?" she was asked. Seems the nasty co-producer was driving like he owned the world and when some other driver did not defer to his supremacy, he got pissed and started waving a .45 automatic at the guy. The guy who was in the other car held up HIS .45 automatic...and a badge. As in, "I'll see your weapon, and raise you a legal reason to have it...your move, a$$hole." The nasty co-producer got to go to jail that night. Now when our daughter thinks back to that film, she always radiates a smile.

Hey...my primary contributions to this have been having a hubby with decent insurance and not giving up. The rest was just just to stop being parayzed by fear and, after a couple of years, to move on. But YOU are flying solo and still losing, so YOU have something to be proud about!!! Back is fine, but I'm still on steroids. I hope that result lasts when I stop taking them!!! (I mean I was UNABLE to get up off the toilet...NOT a good place to be stuck.)

Well...how about (pre-op and six months out):

I agree...I think it would--or at least it MIGHT--come across (to me, anyway) as a "personal" attack and be a little more threatening, and from there progress into kind of "attacking" emails and all. So I don't ever send aggressive or argumentative pm's (well, except when I'm arguing with the moderators for slapping my typing fingers) because I would feel like I had kind of slinked off into a really personal thing that takes what I generally perceive as "open debate in a public forum" to a private name-calling thing. Interestingly enough...I don't think I've ever received a hateful pm, either. And if I HAD, I'd have sent it off to a moderator or Alex right away, because I probably have perceived it as coming from a freaky person, who had real life issues.

I agree...I think it would--or at least it MIGHT--come across (to me, anyway) as a "personal" attack and be a little more threatening, and from there progress into kind of "attacking" emails and all. So I don't ever send aggressive or argumentative pm's (well, except when I'm arguing with the moderators for slapping my typing fingers) because I would feel like I had kind of slinked off into a really personal thing that takes what I generally perceive as "open debate in a public forum" to a private name-calling thing. Interestingly enough...I don't think I've ever received a hateful pm, either. And if I HAD, I'd have sent it off to a moderator or Alex right away, because I probably have perceived it as coming from a freaky person, who had real life issues.

I am one of the most inconsistent people on the planet when it comes to "programs." Weight loss, skin care, exercise, nail care, fitday, showing up for work (!)...the day-to-day of it all sends me into a fetal position on the couch. (Perhaps the reason why I HAD to go the wls route.) My sister on the other hand, can get on that pony and RIDE. She lost about 75 pounds--in about a year and a half--with WW and NutriSystem and Curves. (She stalled out last Christmas and she recently mentioned getting back on track...her grandmotherly duties have been distracting her.) But she can do it and she is happier with her progress in that arena that she would be with any wls...

Again, that whole concept doesn't apply to what I get to say in YOUR living room...or what WE get to say here.

Again, that whole concept doesn't apply to what I get to say in YOUR living room...or what WE get to say here.

And I'd like to thank the moderators for their undying support of--and bias in favor of--me. But...uh...everyone else is saying this site is FREE? And when you guys gave me your addresses so I could mail you my check every month...

And I'd like to thank the moderators for their undying support of--and bias in favor of--me. But...uh...everyone else is saying this site is FREE? And when you guys gave me your addresses so I could mail you my check every month...

Because of all the stuff I had trouble eating, I came to appreciate meringue cookies/tarts/whatever. They can be made in advance, filled with anything, and there may even be a sugar free or half-sugar/half-something-else recipe out there. Not that I'd actually MAKE THEM...

Hey, Jack...I'd call the po-lice about this situation, but wanna take a WILD GUESS what this guy did for a living? And, just for shits and giggles, he's kind a "living legend" among his peer group. (And I even have kind-of-family connections into the top levels of the agency involved, but I just don't want to go there...because it's something that should be OVER by now.) For my own protection, I visit a website that HE frequents to see when he plans to attend the reunion luncheons they have in my area. (He has moved away and between THAT and a new wife, it DID cut down on the calls...to, actually, nothing in quite a while now. ) But I visit the website all the time, based on the premise that if you stalk your stalker, you have fewer negative surprises. And I now have call intercept on the phone. And, well, there's the 12-gauge...bird shot, buck shot, bird shot, buck shot...you gotta know your own skill level for stuff like this. ("If you ever find yourself in a fair fight...you didn't prepare.")

fills = ajustes

And...pre-op testing, such as manometry. (This is for dysmotility problems.) Someone who has a weakend "lower esophageal function" pre-op is more likely (or so they think) to have dysmotility issues as a late complication and should probably be directed to a different procedure. Another non-expert chiming-in.