Toddy

I could drink normally until my third fill. Now I have to take small sips. If I wake up in the middle of the night I am so thirsty I forget to sip, then it hurts! Just get in the habit of not gulping so that when you can't, you won't keep trying to!

The first couple of weeks after I get a fill, I have to learn to eat all over again and find new items that I can no longer eat, which results in frequent PBing for a couple of weeks. I've never actually forcefully vomited since I've been banded, and I know that can damage the band and lead to band slips. I'm just curious if frequent PBing will possibly cause problems and lead to the band slipping also.

I can keep food down fine when I really focus on nothing but my eating. I have a tad of indigestion, but an otc med and I'm fine.

I completely try to hide it and make people think I just have a really small bladder! I'm a closet urper!

My weight loss pretty much stalled in the first couple of weeks after surgery too. It seems to go in spurts. I'll lose three or four pounds and then the scale won't move for a week or so. I only lost two pounds last month because I really needed another fill. Got that fill a week and a half ago and I'm down four more pounds! I know what you mean about eating like a bird, seems the weight would go down faster. My husband tells me I eat like Cindy Lou Who from the Grinch that Stole Christmas!

If it helps, I've seen it explained that PBing is just kind of urping the stuck food up. And vomiting is a forceful expulsion coming from your stomach. That explanation helped me a lot because I've always known that vomiting could cause the band to slip.

I'm a day late but I'm at 178 (it's been YEARS since I've seen that seven)! Down four! Yay!

Over ten pounds in one month is great!!

I had the same concern. I'm a little over four months post-op and my concerns are completely gone. I'm just glad I can't feel anything except the port. I'm kind of squeamish and was afraid the port would gross me out, but it doesn't at all.

Glad it's not just me... assuming they mean stones, but that's as far as I get.

I ate salad fine before my last fill. I tried a salad a couple of days ago and it was a no-go!! I agree with not waiting until you're starving before you eat, that's the time I always get in trouble!

Sitting in a boat in nice calm water would be fine. Speeding across the water in a bumpy boat would be excruciating, I would think.

Strangely, hummus. I thought it would be a slider food but it wasn't! If I didn't have the band I would have thought I was having a heart attack!

I have 6 cc's in a 10 cc band and I hope I'm in the green zone. I'm afraid I might be very, very slightly over into the red, but if I eat really really slow I can keep stuff down. I just feel I'm having some slight heartburn, but no reflux so far. I'm also having just a little bit of coughing at night, but not even enough to disturb my sleep, a sip of water and then I'm fine. My last fill was only .5 and I felt I really, really needed it, so I definitely don't want to have an unfill. Advice from veterans would be appreciated!!

We eat a lot of ground turkey breast. We'll add taco seasoning, and throw on some FF refried Beans, FF cheese, and salsa. We basically use ground turkey instead of ground beef for everything, Soups, burgers on the grill, lasagna, you name it! One great snack is low fat string cheese. I'm not a big cheese eater, unless it's melty and mixed with something, but the string cheese keeps me satisfied between meals and is pretty good on Protein.

the feeling fullness pre-band and the feeling of full/satisfied post-band are very different. I'm more like honk, I just don't have the desire to eat anymore, and if I do, I'll feel a tightness in my chest. Strangely, it seems like if I overeat the least little bit, I will always go into a sneezing fit!

That is exactly the reason I told no one except my mother, husband and children before I had the surgery. After the surgery, more people eventually found out, but because they have seen my weight loss success so far, they have all be very positive.

Wow, doctors' philosophies are soooo different. I was banded on January 31, 2012 and had my third fill which resulted in restriction on March 7. Due to scheduling problems on my end, my post op fills were scheduled a little bit closer together than his average, but not by much. Since the first 90 days of office visits and fills are included in his surgery cost, he believes in getting the band working as quickly as possible. I like a doctor that is not just seeing $$ signs when he sees me!

I understand why you can't take Motrin pre-surgery. But you may want to check with your doctor about post-surgery, too. I was told no more ibuprofen or aspirin EVER! The only thing my doctor approves of is Tylenol, and that's never done a thing for me!! Giving up ibuprofen was tougher than most of the foods I've given up!!

It took me a full week to feel human again. You might want to check your temperature and make sure you're not running a fever though.

Lazy because you hired a personal trainer??? That's like saying you got lap-band so it would do all the work for you!

There is no way on Earth I'd want to recuperate anywhere but my own home, and close to my doctor and surgery center in the event of any problems! As stated above, you only get to do this once. I agree, ask your husband to try to understand and be supportive.

This freaked me out at first, but my doctor makes me sit up, while the needle is still in, and drink water. If it has any trouble going down, he can withdraw some fluid right then. He's not going to let anybody leave his office that can't keep water down!

If you can't keep fluids down you need to call your doctor. Dehydration can come on very quickly and is serious.

Your body will usually let you know when there's something wrong... the important thing is to listen to it!