honeychile

Thanks Alexandra for your response, it really made me feel better. I guess I just needed to hear that I'm still in the beginning stages of this. Even though I've noticed that some days I'm really down, today was good for me and I will stay focussed on making this work.

Hello, i just needed to talk to anyone who may have had my experience. I was banded on 7-10-03. Everything went well. However I had no restriction. I went in for my first fill and after a few pokes, he decided to give me an Xray and it revealed I had a tilted port. I had a small revision due to a flipped port on 8-14-03. Surgery went well and for my one week follow-up appt, I saw my dr's assistant due to my doc being on vacation. I received a fill. However I felt no restriction and my next appt with my reg doc, he noticed that I had no Fluid in my band and called for xray which revealed I had a leak. So on Tuesday, 9-9-03, I went in for a second revision to my port, at that time I was given a fill and today I have a little bit more restriction, unfortunately I will need another fill. I feel so awful and it's hard not to think that this is not going to work for me. At my first consultation I weighed 222, (gained up to 229 before surgery, left hospital at 227. Today the scale said 212. I'm grateful but there's not much to notice different about me and even though I didn't tell a lot of people, I sometimes think that they are looking at me like I'm a failure, too.:cry