rananwar

Please dont get me wrong this is a success story but i need someone to help me out. So i had the band almost 3 years ago and everything was fine until i loosend the band before goin on a long vacation, i still love and enjoy food:) When i got back i tightened the band again, but its still not the same. I eat awful alot. I even sometimes feel that my band has mood swings. I am not sure why some days i can eat as much as a large combo from Mcdonalds and other days i'm simply blocked why is that any one knows? Also i cough alot and i get reflux when i sleep even if i eat early. Why is that. I really need to tighten a bit since i gained 3kg. What do you think. Shall i do that even though i reflux and cough all night ? Thanks for your help in advance

I am not sure is it possible to change doctors post the operation? I mean the doctor needs to maintain the band right? Can you tell me a bit more.

What happens if its true that I slipped. Does that mean that the operation is damaged? Is eatting too much a sign that it slipped?

I don't think I am too tight since I eat a lot. Well my doctor is good but he didn't really give me any restrictions on food except not to eat sugary stuff, chips and nuts. Yes, playing around with my band was not a good decission, but the reason was that I really couldn' t wat much. Not an excuse though!

I hope that someone can help me I am facin the same problem. I eat a lot and I am gainin weight. I have reflux and I cough all night. I wake up all night with vomit in my mouth. My throat hurts. I hope someone can help

Dear all, Well let me tell you my story. I am currently a 30 years old woman who is happily married to a man I love. If you ask me what is the reasom behind all this, well it is simple. I took a decision to have a life or at least die trying. Three years ago I decided to do the lap band surgery operation. I was always over weight , i was obsesed by being fat. I would sit on the toilet and with a marker mark where my belly is on my thighs. I would crash diet for weeks and lose up to 12KG and then gain them back in a blink of an eye. I used to go shopping for clothes and nothing would fit me, not even boots. I had an emotional eating disorder. I would eat when i am happy and when i am sad. I would even sometimes eat and binge and then start crying cause i am not in control. I finally did the operation. I lost almost 20KG. I didn't follow any of the rules, i eat everything, but the ring was like my own personal guide. It would stop me, punieh me if i overeat. If i eat slowly, i would be fine. If i eat too quickly it would punish me. I am fond of my relationship with my ring/band. Yes there are times when i would wake up at night running to the bathroom vomiting with no reason or suddenly can not swollow things i used to eat, but thats alright. That is part of the package. I would never give up my band. It saved my life. I forgot to tell you why i decided to do lap band surgery and not any other weight loss surgery. I was sitting at my tailor's place because at the time i was too fat to buy clothes so i had to make them. A very elegant woman came in and sat beside me. She looked at me and said "you are too pretty to be that fat, you know my daughter was as fat and she did an operation" and she told me all about it and gave me the sugeons phone number. I contacted the surgeon and made the operation and boom! My life changed! To be honest, i didn't tell anyone that i made the operation except my mom and dad and best friend. It took me two years to be comfortable about telling everyone. Why? Simple . I was not ready to be judged. I myself feel guilty sometimes when i puke when i know that there are alot of people who are very poor that they eat from the garbage cans because they are poor. I started telling people on need to know basis. I was trying to pay it forward. What the elegant lady did with me. So everytime i would see someone who is really over weight i would share my succes story. I actually managed to help 5 people. Now i joke with my surgeon that he should put me on commission:)

Dear Ivy, Let me answer all your questions first. First of all, you are assuming that i didn't go to councelling for my emotional eatting disorder. Indeed i've been to a therapist who helped me alot since I was 15. My only problem as i mentioned before is that i loose weight and i gain it back again. Until i was 27 years old i was obese. Do you know how it feels to be obese? To see men flirting with other women and not considering you as one, as if you are a third sex. Being too fat to do sports, too fat to wear a bathing suit, too fat to do stuff people your age enjoy. Do you know how it feel to sit on a chair that can not hold you?To have two sets of boobs instead of one? I had an epiphany if you will, would i choose to keep trying for another 27years to have a life or just admit that i am facing a problem and need help and start living? To tell you the truth i believe that the lap band surgery saved my life. Its a life support. Do you think that the elegant lady is the first one who mentioned surgery to me? At the age of 24 i wanted to do it. After a long discussion with my dad we agreed that i should be more diligent and give it one more try. Well, call it what you want lack of will or otherwise but i just couldn't. I would lose the weight and just gain it again. It was a nightmare. You are right. I totally agree with you if someone comes upto me and talks down to me and make me feel inferior because i am fat i would kick his or her ass. But that was not the case. When someones intention is to help you. You simply feel it. You relate to the words. Maybe i didn't describe the discussion in the right words. On one hand there is the puking. Well, it happens every now and then and to be honest, if that's the only sacrafice. I am willing. Lets look at the other hand if i am obese i am indanger to heart problems, high cholestrol, diabetese and more. All i would expect from anyone who doesn't understand to be less judgemental and more understanding. Ivy i've had the ring for the past 3 years and i'm fine. I am not checking my belly anymore, i am not obsessed anymore. I have a normal life. I don't binge anymore. I can say that i substituted all this by just being happy and too busy living my life rather than spending it trying to lose weight. Ivy, i was in a vicious cycle and i simply broke it