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always make sure you have water from the secod you get up till when you go to bed you need to be takeig in fuild getting re hydrated though iv is not fun just make sure you sip sip sip i had the same senstion even though you have it you still need to sip sip sip

it seems to be the question evey ones asking if i only knew how hard it would be would i do it all over again ?The answer is yes i would I have been strugling with my weight watching it creap up and i felt out of control i did not know what to do. The band is control even with the complations i had i stil do it all over again. Knowintg how much my life would have to change i still do it all over again, Life is about living it hard to live when you spend so much time on the side lines becuse you just can't. I stil need to work out some things like slowing down when i eat or drink I put an egg timmer on for 20 mins thats how long it should take me to eat, I still need to work out copeing ways as now the eating thing that i cused to cope is not going to work. But Yes I would do it all over again even knowing all i know now I do not regreat my getting banded I am very thankful to Dr Jones for doing my band and being my chearleader when i coulld not. I lost about 27 lbs almost 30 in the 5 weeks i have had my band, I work at it evey day thats how i succced I write evey thing down all the info in a speical joual and it makes me set a goal for the next day so i know just what i did an i can be honset with my self. This was not a quick fix it very hard and i would do it all over again

I lost about 27 lbs since i started i was working out with my tainer today and we were doing some things we have not done in along time and they were so much easyer he said you relly changed in the last mouth. He said right before sugery you could not do these things and now look at you. I said yea 25 lbs off my kneese hurt so much less. I said my hip pain is so much less. I used to feel my kneese going up the stairs. I can walk up stairs with out stopping to need to catch my breat. I can go shopping in store other than layne brayntt aloth i still go there. I can do lots of things i never did before. Thats why i must live this life becuse there a life out there that i was not living 27 lbs ago.

so i started to have some syomtoms of another UTI last firday just that i was peeing more my thought we just incress my fuild. Then i started to have a funny feeling by sunday afternoon i supepect maybe i have a UTI sunday night i became missable. I called the dr frist thing in the morning and they said you have a uroliglist apointment on wed do you think i could wait at frist i said okay but when i started to vomit and i was not keeping water down i knew i was in trubbble i called the dr back and said no i not sure i can wait and they said the frist they could get me in was a 3:20 pm with the nurse parcton for my PCP. I am still on antibotics for my last UTI and she relly had no idea what to do, She tryed to get hold of my uroligsts to figger out what to do, she mentoned the hospital and i said no i relly rather not she wanted to send me home and wait till the next day to see my uroligist i was dizzy and i knew i was deharated and she agreed I explaned to her how banded pepole should not get behind on fuilds and i was so nausas and was now at dry heavs as there was nothing left to come up as i had stoped drinking and was thowing up what i did drink. She agreed to give me IV fuilds two litters latter i was not better and still in the worst pain every this made my lap band seem like a peice of cake it hurt so bad. Finely around 7 she said I am sorry i can not send you home with a clear mind you relly should be in the hospital they can give you fuilds iv nusness meds and pain meds i am calling an amblenes, at the hospital they started askiing about my band, They do alot of gastic bi passes not gastic banding at this hosptial. That why i went with the one i knew did the band and did it well. They said with all the vomiting they were woried about a slip and this is why they hate the band and when it comes to this and they started asking about my sugeron and whated to talk to him they said would you be willing to let us do a revison if something is wrong with the band, They even paged the resdent on call for there barartic program to talk to me about a revison, Well the good news is the band is in pace they did a ct san and saw i had kidney stones and worst a major kideny infection and the dr said you know were admitting you right at this point i was under morphine and did not care about much expect that the morphine was making me feel so much better it was the only way we got though the ct scan other wise i would have never made it, They admitted me and gave me ton of fuilds to help me pass the stone and also get rid of my kindey infection that was the start of this whole thing. They asked me to eat i keeped explaning i am banded and i have lactose intalonince and need mushy food to them this ment ice cream cut cup pan cakes cut up muffins ground pasta each meal got worst. I said i can not eat this stuff I have a band in pluse i was so nausus that it did not matter, Finely they called in the barticitic nutrionist and looked at what they were giving me and said she can't eat any of that she has a band pluse offering a banded person ice cream and cake is like giveing an alcoholic a drink she said what she needs is protiine she probely very tired form lack of it and asked me how i felt i said whiped out draned and just blah. she got everything startened out and she went down to the kichen he self and explaned she needs less food more times a day we need to offer her a snacks with protine in it we also need to make sure she has two protine shakes a day to try and make up some of the lost protine that i had not had in the last 3 days and she also need to have access to water at all time and crystal light so she can meet her fuild recments all the sudden things changed. And best of al my dr said good new we know what you have do you want to go home he frist gave me scips for pill and i said do you know if these can be crushed then he said i don't know i explaned my dr has made a big deal that everything has to be crushed or lquid. He said why would you do this to your self? did you think about how your life would change? he said i never understood why pepole do not deit and exsizes I said you want to know exsizes i at the gym before my sugery 6 days a week one hour each time sometimes two I said i worked with a nurtionist on a deit and the most i lost was 4 1/2 lbs over 6 mounths only to get my peridod every mouth and gain 5. I said i did think about how my life would change how i would never eat a pizza again how i never have a handbuger on a bun how i would not be able to eat or drink toghter how my tast buds would change i said i thought alot about and I hate that question I lost 27 lbs in 4 weeks were before the sugery i stuggled to lose 4 1/2 and if that means crushing pills and takeing lquid form then so be it he gave me some persctions and i was on my way problem is no one had these percptions I got one that can be order tommorow and they were able to be change to something else. Then i find out that Cypro lquid form dose not come genric and it 55 dollors for what would be a 3 dollor perction I am not paying 55 dollors for this I going to make some phone calls to my urolgisest and see if it dose come genric mean while i am sitting with an untreated kindeny infection till i get this mess straitgen out

oksy leave it to me to have a rare and unquine twist to my banding. since my banding i been haveing problems with uti unreated to my band so On sunday night i was not feeling well and sure i had a UTI i had an apointment with my urolgist for wed any way so was hoping to try and hang out to that. By monday moring i was vomiting everything nothing stayed down no crystal light no Water no nothing. I called my PCP and said i need to be seen Too embrassed to call my sugeron and admitt i became deharated I said i know i have a UTI and they said can you wait till wed. My frist thought was okay i try. with in 30 min i knew there was no way as my kideny pain was a 7 out of 10. I called back and demaded to be seen they gave me an apointment with the dr for 3:20. She was worked on me till about 7:00 pm givng me Iv fuilds and terdol and nothing was working i was so nausus at that point she said you need to go to the er. My answer i not going to the hospital i had my band at there just get mad at me. so she sent me to another hospital with a WLS program in the araea only problem they not big fans of the bad and like the full bi pas. In the ER the dr jumped to saying it was the band and all the vomiting i was doing was going to case a slip and had there surgon talk to me about a revison if nessassry. I said if that needs to happen i want the surgon who put my band in to do it or someone in. his paractice. well one CT scan latter it was not the band and that was ruled . It was kIdney Stones i had on 9 mm and one stuck in my utter trying to pass swelling up my right kideny and my left kidney was not happy eather. I also was being treated for a UTI. Well it truns out Kidney stones and WLS go hand and hand about 8% of pepole who had WLS will get kidney stones in the frist year the urogisit told me. The reson is dehydration , up take in are callamum i was taking mine with meals, also when we exsize were maynot be drinking alot useing the Uraic acid to build up and combin in the kidney for stones. The treatment for my stones to have my kideny blasted to brake up the stones 3 days of IV fuilds and iv pain medison around the clock and iv antibotics so they would pass and extra fuilds he said to think of my 2-3 litters as a starting point and for me to ami for more like 5-6 litters a day just to make sure i keep things in there happy. I had never heard of WLS pepole having kidney stones I had heard of galstones. I was also told once you had one kideny stone you are higher chance to get another one. So i now have something to realte pain when they say what leavl I can think this kideny stone became like a 12 at some points I am still a little sore and laying on my back dircetly is out as my kidney do not relly like that. But over all i lost 27 lbs So

oksy leave it to me to have a rare and unquine twist to my banding. since my banding i been haveing problems with uti unreated to my band so On sunday night i was not feeling well and sure i had a UTI i had an apointment with my urolgist for wed any way so was hoping to try and hang out to that. By monday moring i was vomiting everything nothing stayed down no crystal light no Water no nothing. I called my PCP and said i need to be seen Too embrassed to call my sugeron and admitt i became deharated I said i know i have a UTI and they said can you wait till wed. My frist thought was okay i try. with in 30 min i knew there was no way as my kideny pain was a 7 out of 10. I called back and demaded to be seen they gave me an apointment with the dr for 3:20. She was worked on me till about 7:00 pm givng me Iv fuilds and terdol and nothing was working i was so nausus at that point she said you need to go to the er. My answer i not going to the hospital i had my band at there just get mad at me. so she sent me to another hospital with a WLS program in the araea only problem they not big fans of the bad and like the full bi pas. In the ER the dr jumped to saying it was the band and all the vomiting i was doing was going to case a slip and had there surgon talk to me about a revison if nessassry. I said if that needs to happen i want the surgon who put my band in to do it or someone in. his paractice. well one CT scan latter it was not the band and that was ruled . It was kIdney Stones i had on 9 mm and one stuck in my utter trying to pass swelling up my right kideny and my left kidney was not happy eather. I also was being treated for a UTI. Well it truns out Kidney stones and WLS go hand and hand about 8% of pepole who had WLS will get kidney stones in the frist year the urogisit told me. The reson is dehydration , up take in are callamum i was taking mine with meals, also when we exsize were maynot be drinking alot useing the Uraic acid to build up and combin in the kidney for stones. The treatment for my stones to have my kideny blasted to brake up the stones 3 days of IV fuilds and iv pain medison around the clock and iv antibotics so they would pass and extra fuilds he said to think of my 2-3 litters as a starting point and for me to ami for more like 5-6 litters a day just to make sure i keep things in there happy. I had never heard of WLS pepole having kidney stones I had heard of galstones. I was also told once you had one kideny stone you are higher chance to get another one. So i now have something to realte pain when they say what leavl I can think this kideny stone became like a 12 at some points I am still a little sore and laying on my back dircetly is out as my kidney do not relly like that. But over all i lost 27 lbs So

one my dorctor told me okay to other stuff and to "go have fun" i asumed he ment everything i coulld have fun with

Yes every year i look foward to those blended ice drinks frapacoino , strawbery lemonaid aid slusshy i just love them. so I can stil have them just in a diffent way i thought i share some of my cool summer idea to help me with my love of ice blended drinks This one is called Elivis Has Left the building 1/4 a cup of greek youget ( i uses trader joes becuse it has the least suger around and less callors . 1. Table spoon of peanunut butter ( Trader joes make a Ruduced Gilt one that tast like a reecee peanutbutter cup that is on 100 calloris per 2 table spoon when i mentoned it to my nurtionist she said That she hears about this peanutbutter All the time and how every seems to love it) 8 oz of milk ( I uses soy I like earh blance soy the best 0 1/2 a bannna and Ice Blend well sip slowly other of my favorits is Carmel Curch 8 oz of milk ( again i like soy) 1 scoop of vanilla protione powder ( i like Unjury or Iopure ) 1 Table spoon of butter scoch suger free pudding 1 table spoon of carmmel syrupr ( suger free ) I like a little more Ice Other of my favorits is Starbery Cheese cake smoothy 1 soop of vaniila protine powder 1 table spoon of cheese cake suger free pudding 8 oz of milk ( I use soy again 1/2 cup of starberrys Ice blend Craving a Frapaconio Hazlenut Mocchcion 8 0z of soy milk 1 scoop of Cholet protine powder 1 tea spoon of decfae instent cofffee 1 pacakge of splend 1 tea spoon of halznut suger free sypryp Frozen starberry lemonaid 1 cup of crysltal light lemmonid i like the alll teady to go packs i scoop of UNjenery strabbbery sherbert powder Ice Blened well As a kid how meny of you enjoy snow cones. Guess what you can still have them just make them useing suger free sypup I have 13 diffent flavover If any one wants more i have a ton more of these yummmy frozen ice treats I have one each morning

So my order of suger free syrops came and my father was over visting and he draged the box in and he said good god why would you need these how long do you plan to stay on this deit. to my answer the rest of my life you don't go and do a band so i can go back to eating cheese bugers and frise i said i did this becuse it was my last chance i done deits and i can't do them they never work. This is they way i need to live for the rest of my life do you think i would go though sugery to have a band inplanted just so i could go back to doing what i was doing. I said this is not a magic bullit this is my tool it give me some control that i need. To wich my dad repled so you never going to eat five guys again becuse i went in and they have your faviorts the bacon dubble cheese buger and your cherry coke and there firse you know how much you love those firse.. Other freind said this is just one more crazy deit your always doing crazy deits. She said rember the blood type on the Grapefuit one or how about jenny craig or nutrosymtims she said you never succed with crazy deit no way you can succed now This is my life and you have to get mad to want to change it. One of my freinds who was larger like me we used to joke around about food and make jokes about her weight one day she droped dead of a massive heart attack leaving 4 kids she was just 40 years old. I don't want my family to live with out me I vowed to my self at her furnral that i would do something so my family would not be standing there. I keeped that promice and plan to. So yes i do plan to live like this my whole life It make me think about the relationships i have it maybe time to change the ones that are not going to work for me now. I know longer can be made to feel better with food. I know that it will not slove any of my problems. Some pepole in my life need to be cut out of my life becuse they liked me better and want to keep me fat this will not work any more

i was told after sugery every thing needs to be crushed or lquid form i had alot of my pills truned into lquid form becuse sometimes i get stuck on the pill pices when there not ground up well enough

I had to bring my michen too It was only used at night but becuse i have sleep apena it ment the montered me closer made sure i was on oxgen and when i got to the floor i had to were an heart and pule monter at all time. Laura

so after my frist stuck eposed were i ate too big a bit of ground beef from a sloppy joe I was a bit nevous about toccos. This is one of my kids favort they ask for it all the time. I knew i could eat the meat and it was just chewing it well last time i was suck it was becuse i ate with out thinking about it so i gave in and made taccos No way was i eatting it plan so mashed it up in some avoccdo and i chewed it when i thought i had chewed it enought i chew some more and took very very small bits I am happy to report i got down my whole one oz protion and did not have a stuck eposed i was so exicted

yes they much better that way however rember to sip slowly

when your stuck the best thing to do is walk sometimes this happens to me and i start walking laps around my house

same thing seems to be happening to me I had a 22 before sugery and am now a 16 I am about 3 weeks and a 1/2 out and i find that the frist 2 weeks i lost 20lbs but now it relly slowing down i only last a about 1 lbs to 1 1/2

they can tell right away it pretty neat to see your band in action

No the one at my hospital is topic diricted so it was very supportive matter of fact one person who was most supportive was a man who gave me great tips and he had a bi pass we exchanged numbers. I think you might want to look for one thats topic dricted

glad you like it it one of my favorits i find for me it keeps me pretty filled up till lunch time

i am 3 weeks out i went out for mothers day trist of all there is a card that your sugeron can give you that tells them you have to have small portions and order off the kids menu also share with someone else. Or order from the starters. I made it a rule of thub never ever order something ror the frist time out

i am 3 weeks while i do some light weight training nothing over 10- 14 lbs. streth training bring mussle that brings tone musle weigh more than fat but you get leaner more defined looking

For me it was along time before i met my surgeron as you had to go though a proccess before meet with the nurse and the dr in charge and nurtioist then they call you back to tell you the next step for me I started off in Juily and did not get my sugery untill April i was of course on the long end. I assume your in Ma as i am too. The program i went tought was very good i can not say enough wonderful things about the staff.

this one is called Carmal Cruch 8 oz of fat free milk / or soy 1 scoop vianilla protine powder 1 table spoob of toasted wheat gearm 1 table spoon of butter schock suger free instent pudding 1 tea spoon of suger free caramel syrup hand full of ice blend mix SIP slow If you like mint the this the Thin Mint Prointine 8 oz f soy milk 1 scoop of choclet protine powder 1 table sooon of chocleclet fuge suger free 1/2 tea spoons of pepermint abastict hand ful of ice Blend drink slow Frutit smoothi 1/2 of plaion low fat yougert 1/2 of frorsen fruit 1 scoop of Vanilla poetion powder hand full of ice This on is cal Cafe Choclet 1 scoop of protine powder choclet 1 tea spoon of decfa insted coff 1.2 cup of Water 1/2 cup of ice suger free topping optional peanunt butter scoth smoothie 8 oz of plain yougert 1 tablespoon of Peanut Butter smooth 1 table sppon of butter scotch instest suger fee fat fee pudding 1/2 cup of milk - or soy 6 ice cubes If you want more let me know i have a ton

i call this elivis has left the building 1/4 cup of fat free plain greek yougert 8 oz of milk ( i use soy) 1 scoop of vinilla protine powder ( i use Iopure or Urjery ) 1/2 banna 1 table spoon of Tarder Joes Readude Guilt peanutbutter smooth suger free vinlllia sryprp ice Put in blender blend well sip very very slowly I have this evey morning

I have 5 cats and a goldern rechever i must admit that for the frist few days they were imporent the cats just layed by me and the dog became my reson to walk as she needed walks i think she speed up my recovery time. I am 3 weeks today and feel great

i am about 3 weeks and i still feel the prort some days worst then others most of the time at the end of the day I asked my dr he said ice and take tonyonal if it hurts most of the time i have it at the end of the day