kaylali

I am going in tomorrow to my doctor to find out if I have a slipped band, or find out what is wrong with me??? I had 6 weeks ago a tt and a breast reduction. I have had a very great recovery and have felt great for several weeks. About a week ago I started having extream pain in my cheast (same place I always feel pain if I overeat and bp) and it has only gotten worse and I finally had to realize that somthing really is wrong. I dont know if it is somthing that might have happened due to my plastic surgery or what? I have been feeling so great that I am so close to my goal weight, (I started at 230 and am down to 167, my goal is 150 at 5'6") I have been running and toning up and really feeling good about myself, this will be such a setback. uhgg I am so discouraged:( wish me luck tomorrow.

So I havent posted on here for a really long time, however I am feeling really great about where I am currently at with my weightloss. I do still want to loose another 15-20 pds. but I know that will come off. I have accually develped a love for running ( very hard to get to that point) and that is when the weight melted off. I am 4 weeks post op for getting a TT and breast reduction. And I feel so great! I am so glad that I started this journey, to look back not even a year ago and see where I started is amazing. I started at 230, I am currently at 170 I am 5'6" with a flat belly and super cute boobs:)) I have to say that because it isnt somthing i have been able to say in a long time. good luck everyone.

so, have your docotors explained why exactly they put you back onto a liquid diet after a fill? Just curious. I got a fill of 2.2 in a 10cc band on sat. and I am starving already, so I ate some soft food. do you think that will hurt anything? I am going to be scheduling another fill already for like another week or so because I know that I dont have enough yet.

Hi there may bandsters, so I went in for my first fill today and was so excited for more restriction, and nurvous at the same time. I had heard from everyone that it really wasnt a big deal to get a fill and very little pain. WRONG! after 3 pokes and lots of proding around (about 15 min) I was dying. It was then decided that my port had flipped over while healing. So I am headed back into a little surgery that I was told takes about 15 min to repostition, I do get my fill while doing that. hopfully it is as easy as I was told. yikes, this had to happen to me!

Hi may bandsters, so I have an appointment to get my first fill on monday morning. I am so excited, I am going to ask for an aggressive fill, I need to see some results again. I am frusterated at not seeing the scale move since the first week, which was 13 pds. I have gained and loss 2 of those pds ever since. I have even hit the gym nearly every day. I started with a lower bmi and hear it comes off slower but I need to see somthing. Hopfully the fill will help.

The bping is when you overeat or you eat somthing like bread, or celery, steak and other things that might possibly plug up your stomach ( for everyone the foods that do this are different) and so you will start burping for your stomach to try to break things up. This hasnt happened to me thankgoodness, but I do think that this is one of the reasons why it makes it easier to make the right choices and to not overeat, for the fear of it happening. I guess also for some people it is a painful feeling like there is a golfball stuck in your chest. I do know that alot of people on here talk about it happening several times a week, but my dr told me that if you are pbing alot it could possibly ruin your band and you will have to have it removed if you dont figure out your eating, and how to stop it.

so after I got banded the nutritionist came in my room to talk to me about a few things and then let me see and hold a lapband like the one I now have in me, then she showed me the needle that they do the fills with. umm that looks like a preety big needle and it has me a bit nurvous. However everyone claims that it really doesnt hurt to bad, Is this true????? Im am not much of a wimp, but still it looked simalar to the needle that my epidural was done with:( I am just wondering

Hey MaryumC, as far as I understand the VG is the largest band and thus gives the least restriction without a fill. bummer! I think that it will make it that much harder until the fill stage. I have the 10cc and feel very simalar about being able to eat more than 1 cup at this point, and also I am able to drink lots of fluid at one time. I was accuallly missing being able to drink lots, living in az it is dang hot and I was feeling dehidrated all the time, so I am happy about being able to drink more. It sounds like your calories are right were they need to be so great job!!!! keep up the great work!

So do the fills hurt???? also, do they num the skin with some lanicane or anything? I am a little nurvous. I dont know why, after going through the surgery you would think this would be nothing. My doctor said that if I am not feeling restriction that I can get a fill as soon as 3-4 weeks post op. so I am only about another week away from that! and let me tell you, I NEED it. I have been starving!! I would hate to put back on some of the pds. that I have been loosing. any input on the fills would be greatly appriciated.

Hi I live in Queen Creek, Dr. Valencia in TJ Mexico for the surgery. I had such a great experience down there.

I would say that you would probley be able to do this, you would need somone willing to pick you up. only because you both may be on pain killers which they say not to drive while taking. I stayed in the hospital for 2 days and got so board I felt like I could have done the same things at home as there after day 1. I have heard that men usually have a harder time than women do, maybe because they are more of babies, ha ha! I hear it is because women have menstral cramps, deliver babies and all sorts of different things that give us a little higher pain tolerance. good Luck!

Hi all you may bandsters, I have just hopped on the scale to see if this is starting to do its thing and wow, can I say cool. I have lost 10pds since my surgery 6 days ago. I will really be siked when I loose another 8-10pds only because these are #'s that I have not seen in over 2 yrs. good luck to all of you!