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Call your doctor right away! You are not only putting your band in danger, but you are putting your life in danger. You could asperate (inhale) the vomit and choke to death, or at the very least damage your lungs with acid. Call you doctor. Call your doctor. Call your doctor.

If you weren't getting nervous we'd be worried about you.

There is nothing that says you can't call the office and ask your questions. Just be sure to bring them written down. I don't know that anyone can ease your jitters, since that is part of the normal process. use the search function for specific questions. You will be amazed at what you find.

Why yes Jack, I believe that is definately another NSV!

Toes? Wait, those are the wiggly things at the end of my feet, right? Wait, you can SEE THEM?? I thought they only came out when you sat down, sort of like a weird hinge mechanism.

Anwyn! Do not compaire your pain with others! That is not fair to you. And who's to say that your issues are not as valid as someone else's? Some people are just more sensitive than other people, which is a good thing. I don't think it is dumb at all. Sometimes we cannot recognize what is going on because we are right in the middle of it. Like the analagy of the frog and boiling Water, you might be sitting in that pot of boiling water and not even recognize it. Sometimes it takes someone else to say "hey, did you know you are being boiled" for us to recognize what is happening. I didn't even recognize that I have this hoarding thing until being here for a while. Sure, everyone else knew it, and it runs in my family, but I couldn't recognize it because it wasn't as bad as my mother's, for instance. But I hoard. I'm working on it, but there you go.

Please get a second opionion, talk to your PCP. Keep pushing because his answer is NOT Good Enough. You deserve to be pain free!

I've only read it in the waiting room at my dog's ... maybe they should be called "weighting" rooms at bariatric clinics?... Anyway, it was all RNY stuff, nothing useful for me, as far as I could tell. Oh, there was one article that talked about the psychological impacts of losing weight, but there again, the focus was on the impact of losing really fast.

Hi PinkMary! Not sure what you mean by having a "rocket." Sounds like a terrible PB though. After something like this it is very important to do one to two days of liquids. Not fun. I'm really sorry. I had a terrible PB this week, ended up full on vomiting, terrible. I spent the next day and 1/2 on liquids then a day of mush because it was so bad.

This is amazing and wonderful! I'm so happy for you, and I'm willing to bet you felt like you won a game show! Woot!

Good job! They make walking so much easier!

I've been thinking about this since you posted it Jack. It makes amazing sense. The weight I quickly lost was weight that was "new" as it were. The weight that doesn't want to budge has been with me for about 10 or 12 years or so. I look at my DH's journey. He's yet to crack 400 pounds, but he's been over 400 pounds his entire adult life. He lost his first 200 pounds very quickly, like in the first 18 months of being banded. But those extra 200 pounds were new. He's in the physical process of rearanging his body. I think you are absolutely right. Thank you.

Dunno about that, but that's something I"m not willing to Google...

interesting question. The thing is, for me, I don't know if there would have been a "long term" without the band. Not for me anyway.

Welcome to LBT

I've heard of this thing you call "vacation" but I have very little exerience with sucha a thing... ohhh, have a great time!

Yay! Thanks for being here for us Zoe. Your journey has been important to us.

Excellent work! Excellent! See how powerful NSVs are?

of course it is normal to gain weight when you go from liquid to food.. your colon now has stuff in it if for no other reason. Oh, and I want to stress YOU ARE NOT ON A DIET. YOU HAVE MADE A LIFESTYLE CHANGE. YOU ARE NOT ON A DIET. The first weeks are for healing, not weight loss.

oh dear. I think you will have to kill him with kindness. So sorry.

great NSV!

I think if you only set a goal of weight lost you could be disapointed. I thought I would loose about 100 pounds my first year, but that is not the track I am on. I am one of the slow loosers. I am coming to terms with that. But I am learning to measure my success in NSVs and not just pounds dropped. Also, you might put on muscle mass. Let's hope to the gods that you put on muscle mass. Muscle weighs more than fat, it just takes up less room. So if you only "loose" 50 pounds by scale weight, but put on 25 pounds of muscle how would you feel? (I'm thinking you'd feel pretty terrific physicaly, but the head thing gets in the way.)

What a great NSV, I think Zoe had that some "looking like hooker" one. For some reason that makes me laugh. My DH, while he hasn't lost anything recently, is in the process of redistributing everything.. he looks like the amazing melting fat man. His his sholders and neck are starting too look almost like a normal person (who needs a boob job in a really bad way)... I know that a lot of poeple lose bulk top down. Congrats again, and a good bra can make anyone perky!

I'm so sorry you are in such pain! Please don't be so hard on yourself. I gained weight before my first fill too. Sure I stressed over it, but I on'ly gained 5 pounds and not the 20 pounds I would have gained without the band. You have no fill, hense you have no restriction. So of course you can eat everything under the sun. But you must start to understand why you are sabotaging yourself be eating around the band. If you don't, you will probably eat around your filled band as well. I don't kow if you are seeing anyone for your overeating issues. Being filled will help with some of these because you will be forced to stop by a PB. But I must stress that will not help with the head issues. I know that being thin, I mean, like regular people thin kind of scares the crap out of me. Letting go of my armor of fat scares me. But those are my issues. You have to figure out what your issues are. How do you do that? well, talk to people, like trained counsilors. Read that other people are going through, or have gone through. Journal what you are going through either in a paper book, or on a blog or here. Its important because you are important.

well, depends on what you mean by significant. Kelly (dylan'smom) has done very well, especially considering her special issues. But Capt'n Jack has done very well indeed. Jessybear is so right, chew to goo, but never, ever let yourself get really hungry. That's just asking for trouble.