audreycat123

Mis You are absolutely right. I worded that poorly. I meant when should I stop using the excuse of, I'm healing, to avoid the next sugar free treat. I figure part of this is fighting hunger a little, right? Part of the problem is that I can't really eat much right now that I'm still on liquids I guess. I just feel kinda guilty chomping down on popcycles and jello all day. I think I am going to start on my treadmill today, slowly. I'm gonna aim for just a mile at first. Thanks for the replies guys, it's always nice to feel like I'm part of the group!

I am going to the 12:45 show tomorrow night with my sister. Go team Edward!!! I'm so excited!!! We are both in our thirties but have had a thing for vampires since Louis and Lestat. Whoooo hoooooo! It will be so nice to see Bella with some confidence finally! I'm gonna feel really stupid if I'm the only one............

I'm sorry I didn't mean to worry you. If you have lost fifteen pound I'm sure that you are doing ok placement wise. I think everyone's body reacts differently. I have a very sensitive stomach anyway, so my stomach is responding to the trauma of surgery very sensitively. I know I have watched numerous YouTube videos of people saying that they had no restriction and were quite hungry just after surgery. Honestly I would like to feel a little more normal at this point. Maybe your body is just better at healing and reducing swelling on its own. I wouldn't worry yet. When is your first post op appointment?

Where can one buy this "urjury"?

Where can you buy the chicken noodle protien? I have never been a milk person so the shakes have been wrecking havoc on my stomach. Something salty would be better for me.

I actually know of a product that works wonders on scars. It's called "scar away". It's a sticky silicone striip that you can start putting over the scars after they have fully healed. Like a bandaide. I personally don't think that my band scars will need them, but I had a huge scar on my forehead a couple years ago. Fourteen stitches from a fall while painting a barn. From my eyebrow to almost my hairline. I had planned on getting cosmetic surgery eventually, but after using these while I slept for about six months even the laser treatment center said that they could not improve it much more than it already was. With makeup you can barely see it now. It smoothed out the scar so that I had a flat surface to work with. I ordered them from amazon.

YES! My mother made my favorite Cookies today for my son, and I felt like I was suddenly schizophrenic! One part of me was saying "you. Have not chewed anything for like 14 days, you are starving" and the other part was saying "omg if you eat any part of that cookie your intestine will burst through your incision" Fear definitely won. I had no part of that cookie. Lol It will be good to feel normal again...well normal but thinner. This surgery was harder than I thought it would be. I was expecting something similar to gall bladder surgery...this has been decently worse. Still better than knee surgery though....way better. Worse than my two c sections though, but I think the baby distracts you from the pain.

I am also one of the newbies that looks specifically for your valuable input. Thanks for taking the time out of your day to give it.

I did a little better today too. Around 20 oz. Aren't you surprised at how difficult it is to drink? I just feel like my insides are so full, of what i dont know. i guess just swollen. i know I read people talking about it on here before I got MY band, I gues I thought they were exaggerating. Whew! They were not.

I just want to post some good news for my fellow but pre banded tummy sleepers. I was able to comfortably sleep on my tummy on night six after surgery. I still take a Vicodin and a phenagren at bedtime so I'm sure that helped, but night six was a very good sleeping night on my tummy with no issues. I finally feel rested. I know that I had wondered about this before surgery.

I am six days today and feeling ok. I think I let myself get very dehydrated and Monday I started paying the price for it. Nauseous and very weak. I have been pushing fluids, well actually my mom and sister have been pushing fluids on me, and I am feeling much better ths morning. I finally feel like this was a good decision again. Man yesterday I was regretting the whole thing! I actually joked with my sister that if I died she had to find a way to bury me in the size eight skinny jean I brought before surgery! I will get in to those jeans somehow! Whew, glad I am feeling better this morning. I will never understand why dehydration makes you nauseous, seems so counterproductive.

We were banded on the same day! I felt just awful yesterday , nauseous and weak, figured out that I had only drank about four ounces of water the day before. I started pushing water with a little bit of sf jello and today I am feeling much better. So my advice is to be very aware of your water intake it can really affect how you feel. I have not been super hungry yet. Tomato soup and hot jello water are mostly what I have been eating.i did pick some of the marshmallows out of my sons lucky charms and melt them in my mouth yesterday when I felt like crap. I would be afraid of potato chunks though.maybe if you mushed them with milk till they were thin. My doc said nothing that you cant get through a straw for two weeks. Do you still feel bloated? I sure do.

I was banded Thursday and I am having trouble with food smells making me nauseous. I feel like i am smelling everything and everything smells weird. just like being pregnant. I have two small boys and care for them on my own, fixing their eggs sandwiches yesterday almost made me gag! And I swear I can smell the baloney in the frfridgerator from my couch! Yuk! Is this just from being so close out from surgery? I hope my hunger acuity doesn't per innately transfer to some sort of odor acuity..... I'm telling the boys it's cereal only today.

So if you complete your food diary entry the next morning it doesn't show up in the news feed? i think that is what just happened to me. i guess I should make sure I complete my food diary each day before midnight? Does this sound right?

Has anyone actually vomited after surgery? I am five days out from surgery and I just had a massive wave of unexpected nausea. I am scared to death to vomit. I fell like I will rip my stomach apart. Has anyone done it....and survived ; )

Ok guys thanks, I'm gonna try to make it till tomorrow and call my surgeon, I just set out my rubbing alcohol and put a washcloth in the fridge. It was so unexpected? I have only had liquids. I have been feeling so much better today. Then out of the blue it hit me. i ended up going out in the cold and just spitting out like ten mouthfuls of saliva. I wonder what the heck is going on.....

Had surgery on Thursday. My most dreaded pain now Is a stabbing chest pain that I get right after burping.....normal?

Mis73 your posts are always so awesome. I am so glad you are here!

I am audreycat123 on there. I am not very good at figuring apps out but I am working on it! My surgery was on Thursday so I am not eating much yet, but I am sure any accountability will come in handy soon.

Do you think it could be run through that wat AFTER the surgery has happened? Can they change it?

I had my surgery Thursday. Whew! So far a little worse than I was expecting, but getting better. I ended up being self pay after an exclusion had been found in my insurance at the last minute. However I remember the surgeon saying something about repairing a hiatal hernia while he was in there doing the lap band surgery Thursday. I was too loopy to get any details,I haven't even looked up what a hiatal hernia is yet, but I wonder if I can get any part of this run through insurance now? Thoughts?

I do not have any suggestions for you but can validate that I am having the same experience. I haven't slept well since surgery Thursday morning. The gas pressure pain is the worst part. It got better today, I am hoping for even better tomorrow. Peppermint tea made me feel a bit better but I couldn't drink much of it. Hopefully the will improve quickly.i also feel that if I could sleep better that would move things along faster but I have never been a good "sick" sleeper.

I have been on here for a few months. I was told originally, back in July, that my insurance was going to pay for my surgery. After going through all of the classes and nutritionist appointments and psych appointments it was discovered two days before my scheduled surgery, two weeks ago, that my insurance had added an "exclusion" to my policy. There is now no way that insurance will cover any part of my surgery. The surgeon's office has been very sympathetic and has worked out a payment plan for me to self pay with five grand down and 300 a month. Do-able but difficult. We are a barely middle-class family. I cashed out part of a 401K to get the cash and am charging some on my mother's credit card My final pre-op appointment is now on Monday and I will have to turn over all of the cash. I am thinking of all the other things I should spend this money on. Christmas mainly, or a vacation for the kids, paying down some credit, or the second car that could die anyday now. I am thinking of all the people i have known and heard about that have lost significant weight on their own. My sister, whom I am very close to, was never as heavy as I, she looks spectacular, and she never had to spend so much to get there.... maybe 50 bucks on work out tapes. Heck she sure could use this five thousand dollars that I am looking at.What if I spend all of this money and I still fail to lose the weight? I will feel so badly that I didn't use the money for something for the kids. I have a condition that wears my kneecaps away gradually and have been told that I will need kneecap replacement eventually. I have been using that condition as my primary excuse for the surgery. Losing my extra weight is the best thing I could do for my knees. My BMI is 41. I am 35. I have 80 pounds to lose. If I made myself miserable for a year I could probably do it on my own, but I would probably gain it back. I am so tired of thinking about this. I am so tired of trying to decide what is the right thing to do. I am so tired of being overweight and tired. I am also tired of being broke and this money would give us a cushion for the next few months at least..... I think if I had been told back in July that insurance would never cover surgery, I would never have considered it further. But now after immersing myself into the possibility, watching countless youtube videos, buying new size 8 jeans, and reading here, i have gotten excited about the prospect of really succeeding long term. Discovering two days before surgery that I needed to abandon the possibility forced me to figure out a way to self pay that i never would have even considered before. Should I just go back to that mindset and forget about it? Sometimes that seems like the smartest thing to do. Just scrap these last three months and go back to thinking it is not even an option. Goodness, I sound like a rambling idiot. Sorry.

When anthem spoke to the consultant in July she was told it was a covered procedure. When it was submitted for approval the week before surgery they found the exclusion. I would have thought that it was a trick by the surgeons office to trick me into self pay if they had not bent ver backwards to lower the down payment and adjust the payment schedule for me. I really do think that it was a mistake on the part of the first anthem representative. I have spoken to several insurance reps and human resources and they all provide proof that it is excluded from my coverage. It super sucks but I have turned over the cash now. The decision is done...... Now I jus have to make this work. My goal is a water park with my boys next summer!