Becca920

I had an upper GI & barium swallow but I forgot to ask if its ok to take Milk of Magnesia?:smile2: I really need some. :huh2: Can anyone tell me? THANKS :tongue2:

I have had an awful time since Saturday around 6pm. I truly, honestly can not describe how I felt other than it was like someone literally kicked me between the shoulders as hard as they could.:eek: My surgery was December 27th, 2007. I had 2 fills up until all this which the last of was removed today. I have lost 28 pounds so far!:thumbup: I have had horrible indigestion and felt like if I didnt burp I was going to explode. I have been miserable! my husband said he never thought he'd have a 200 pound wife that he had to try burping before. Sunday I went to quik care they really didnt know what to do with me since I have this lapband & their Doctors are not familiar with it. They did an EKG and it was ok, but my chest x-ray showed a huge gas bubble in my upper abdomen. I thought after talking to the nurse there that it could be cardiac and that they may send me to the hospital but the didnt. That night I got worse, I called the hospital line for Dr Richard another was on call he called me back and told me to come to the office first thing Monday morning. I did, They took out half of my band fluid. The pain got a little better. I came back home and slept the rest of the afternoon. I havent had a goodnights sleep since all this started. Today I called my doctors office back and they had me come back to remove the rest of my fluid, all of it. THen they had me go to the hopsital for an upper GI and a Barium swallow. YUM ! NOT ! Then I had to go back to the Dr office and give them the CD. Well Dr Richard had to leave the office between the time I went there and the time I got back with the CD of my test. SO....................I do feel better with all the fluid gone but I am still waiting on the results of the tests. The nurse practioner said that he didnt see anything alarming on the films. he also said that Reflux and heartburn usually get better with the band not worse. :confused:Seems like I have seen the left shoulder pain and heartburn thing on this blog more than once. I think my doctors need to check out these blogs to see whats going on with others. I have to see Dr Richard tomorrow at 10:30 for a follow up since he had left the office to go to the hospital. OH, the nurse practioner also said it could be residual gas left over from my surgery. Saturday afternoon was the first real work out I had, had since my surgery. All the symptoms started right after that.:glare: I am still having severe heartburn and burping but its not stuck in there hurting me like it was the past 3 days. I am taking RX zantac 300mg and phazyme (simethicon) 120mg. :tt2: Anyone else had anything like this? Thanks so much! :smile: becca~bandster

I am still a couple months pre-op and have just started drinking ISOPURE 0 CARB. I have to drink it for 2 weeks prior to pre-op & my nurse said I could go ahead and buy a canister and see how I like it and find things I like to mix with it. Well I have been drinking it 3 days and have extreme gas and have noticed that I am bloated. I feel really full drinking it and am only drinking it at breakfast so far, but want to drink it at dinner but I am afraid I will explode with all the gas.:help: Is this normal with ISOPURE has anyone else used this product?

Serena, Hi I love your icon moon thing. And the ticker. How do I add that I am very new to this. I appreciate so much you answering, and it has been a while since I registered. My Dr's recommend the isopure and I am mixing with skim milk, but am going to try the soy milk next week and water. I also have been adding fruit and peanut butter. I have been better today so it may have just taken me some time to get used to it. Thanks so much for your reply. Rebecca

I am in a fast paced job and considering lap-band. Work has asked me to be a special transition team because we are moving to a brand new high tech state of the art facility. I will be the only clerical person on the team and be repsonsible for re-writing policy and training a lot of new people. This begins the end of May, the only thing is I want to have lap-band before then, but I am going to need to feel great and be ontop of my game at work to keep up the fast pace of the tranisiton team. I don't know if the lifestyle changes and body changes at this point and short notice are something I should post-pone until the end of the year, once the move is complete. I just dont know what to expect post-op. I feel fortunate to have found this site there is a lot of information to take in on here. Thanks