Helen

Hi did anyone watch that thing on telly last week with the 29yr old mum how was 64 stone and she had a by pass and died, it was awlful. made me cry.:cry

you are not alone:). I had to wait a while for my 1st fill due to me being on hoilday and then my surgeon and then when I did have my 1st fill NOTHING!!! I could eat anything and I would. Anyway I phone my hospital and booked for my 2nd fill only 3 weeks after my 1st.:rolleyes My surgeon was honest and said did I want the band to lose it for me, he said you have to work with it!! :embarassed: I felt like shouting yes I do want it to lose it for me it cost enough.... but I didnt:speechles Anyway I did joke with him about if he had really put a band in me or just made lines on my stomach for the fun of it and took my money..... So he laid me on the bed and gave me a 2nd fill, he then sat me out side his office with some Water and a little yogurt, my god what a difference,:sick 3mins later I was back in there and he was taking some back out, I have only had the 2 fills and am 4 stone down, when you are tight you will know:nervous go back and have a fill.:eek:

Hello I had mine done with Bupa and it cost £5750 which inc 2 free fills. they have been great even when I have been ill I know I can phone the nurse there and they will always give you some advice ect.

you look great how do I get photos on here???

Thank you. I was shocked too after the op about how well I felt to, I was sore but nothing too bad, I didn't need my pain med I just took it easy and kept moving, I really do think that this help with wind pain because I hardly had any. I can honestley say having my tonsil's out was hell compared to this op. I think anyone waiting to have this op done will always feel scared, but it really will be all ok.

I never did a pre op diet, if any thing I seemed to have last suppers!!!!:heh: My op was a breeze I went in the thursday was out Firday, party Sat and homebase sunday.:whoo: mind you in saying it was a breeze I was scared and if I can do this op anyone can, I have a fear of hospitlas cant touch there doors:eek:, wont sit on there beds:cry, I think everything is dirty and so on!!:sick When I had my tonsil's out 4 yrs ago, they gave me a bottle of beer and some tamazapan, to help me get in bed.:biggrin1: Half an hour b4 I told my husband they can keep the money lets go, He repiled I dont think so, you are going down if I have to drag you. anyway I still cant belive I went through with it and would go back and do it again tomo, if I had to. I have 9lbs to go until I had hit the 4 stone mark which I will do b4 xmas.

Hello Dont panic I had my 1st feel and went back a few weeks later as I couldn't feel anything, and was think "god trust me to be the one this wont work for", I was eating anything and when I say anything I was!!!! I had even put weight on I was gutted. My surgeon had put in my band 5 (ml cc ??what ever it is) (my band is 14) but I could eat any thing, so he topped me up to 8 and made me go and try some yogurt and Water, My god what a different, he had to take me back in to his room to remove half so now I have had 2 fills am 7.5 and now can tell the band is working. I was starting to wonder if he had took my money and just drew a few lines on my belly to make me think he had done the op, but like he said puting in that 8ml cc??? and me feeling how tight it was with just water made me know he had done the job and how the band can work. Ring your hospital up and go back only you know how you feel. Helen x

I keep think about my op coming up 28th June, and if im doing the right thing, I know I am just have to keep telling my self. So I have decided to type what I think the worst things about Fat are even though I do laugh at them, I have to, they are funny or maybe I am just sick. I laugh at every thing. right here it goes:- My legs rubbing together when I wear a skirt, I hate this soooooo much thank good for Evans rubbing shorts, I couldnt have got through my wedding with out these!! Wipeing my butt, my arms are to short to do it from behind, so have to go front ways.:faint: so wrong I know. going on hoilday and pretending to get the table down on the plane, even though it wants to spring back up. pubilc toilets , god there is never any room in them, the tampax box always digs in my leg, and god help me if I have my time of month and need to change anything, there is just no room.:phanvan going to health spa and the dressing gowns not fitting, I went and brought a white one so i was the same as my mates, and didnt have to worry about my boobs being on show :omg: do they not think fat people want a massage too! getting picked up by firends with 2 door car, what is wrong with people :rolleyes:everyone should have 4 door. I hate trying to wedge my butt pass the front seat into the back, at 22 stone this is hard. goin to the doctors, why is everything down to my weight!! parties, having to go and get plate of food, I hate this thinking everyone is watching, I get my husband to go for me, or just eat his lol:clap2: who let the dog out snog. I refuse to dance to this as feel people look at me lol:clap2: If you have any let me know, its sad but funny:D

I had mine done with Bupa, in southampton. £5750 inc 2 fills

I just had my fill last night 1st one and it was fine, my whole journey so far as been great, after the op I had no pain, and having the fill was fine, it took 2 attempts to find, as my stomach muscle are thick but he found it, he did think he would have to do it under xray but it was fine. I get 2 free fills which were inc in my price of £5750, and then after they are £100. I know it only takes mins todo but I think of it as this, If I need 5 to reach my sweet spot then it's £500 split maybe over a yr, and if that means I will be slim and heathly then its worth it. you are going to be fine, stay positive you are doing the right thing.:kiss2:

please dont worry you will be fine. if i can do this you can, i am a big wimp and i was fine. i remember coming round thinking god is that it I dont remember a thing. They give you pain releif so you wont feel a thing, and even after my op i didnt need any thing as i was fine. I think I thought I would be there why they were doing it op and see everything, I know i wouldnt but in my head I was scared of them cutting me as I had never had a op b4 but it was over so quick I was back in my room in bed and I had done it.

good luck hope all goes well, let us know how you get on:)

I dont know what cotton mouth is but I had what I call a furry mouth and my teeth drove me mad, like I had a coating on them. I thought it was just me and maybe the soup was coating my teeth I never brushed them. I had my op 28th June 07 and I can say it goes.

I went through this, I was sick of Soup and when I got on mushies, I got stick of that I would leave stuff as I couldnt be bothered. Dont worry once you get on solids you will be fine, the food looks better.

dont worry it will come , I went ages and not to sound nasty but when it did come it was fine:cool:, Remeber you are not eating much so its proberly waiting until you have enough!!!!:bounce: I think I went 1 week and then it came........:whoo: And then nothing for a few more days............... and then it came.:whoo: once I started to eat more it was fine. you are fine dont worry it will come. you dont want to give yourselve the runs!!!

The port pain will go, I sleep on my front and have found trying to sleep on my back hard. I sleep on my front now. No pain no gain. I will be honest that when I wake and try to roll on my back on my front I get a little pull but nothing bad, it just lets me know it is there, not painfull at all. I also found lying with a pillow supporting my belly has helped loads, even after my op when I needed to cough, I was so scared I would rip, my sister who is a nurse told me to hold a pillow on my belly stand up, lean over and cough, it was great I could get all the tar off my chest and it didnt hurt at all. with the wind pain, I walked around a lot, I had to take a rest every now and then as I would get light headed but I just pushed on through, I done a 24 hr walk for cancer 9 days after my op so this helped!! ( team of 15 taking it in turns to walk) it will go so dont worry you will be fine.:kiss2:

hi I have not had my fill yet and my surgeon has said to do it when i return for holiday 18th August. I was 1 month post op yesterday and slowly over the last week or so have been starting sold's I can eat anything and for luch can easily eat 2 small rolls, I do feel full after but is this too much? is this right? I am so scared I have streched my stomach. How was everyone else before their fill? I am just scared my whole op and everything was a walk in the park and so far I have lost 2 stone (28lbs) it all seems to easy so far. Am I being stupid?:cry

even though I have been fine since my op, and to be honest I was more ill when I had my tonsil's out 4 yrs ago, this op felt like a walk in the park compared,. The one thing I will say is my port pain was like I had a pulled muscle and someone had attached a brick to it:phanvan, so every time I moved it was a little uncomfortable, but I am really a wimp, if I can do this op anyone can. I think what helped me is, I have been up and down which I think is maybe why my gas was ok:whoo:, I cant sit still really and I am never one to want to be ill I really push myself to move around, my bum had no feeling in it after being on it at hospital and the drive home which was 2 hrs and it took a few days to get the feeling back. If you have any doubts take a b4 naked photo of your self, I could have killed myself then and there when I saw my front, back and side:faint: I was neally running down to the hospital after that, I al,ways thought I was not that bad, but god did I look disgusting:cry, I know I have done the right thing.

I was banded on the 28th June and I feel wicked. i would say I am a wimp but I have been fine and didnt need pain med's or anything. it makes you feel really positive, I now know I am now winning the fight to be slim. I have told everyone and anyone I am so proud of my scar's, I dont care what people think I know there will be some who think I have "Cheated" but I dont care. Good luck lets us know how you get on. Bye:)

Hello I just wanted to say I was banded on the 28th June 2007 and I have been fine, I was a bit sore the 1st few days but I didnt need and pain meds and the wind was not any thing to bad, Before I had my op I read a lot of threads about peoples pain and I was so scared as I class my self as a wimp, hate needles ect but I was fine, my Husband was impressed I never cried once!!!:rolleyes They brought me back after my op and I had to move my self to the bed and then an hour later they got me up to sit in a chair, this was the bad bit as I then went dizzy and felt sick:sick but they gave me some anti sick med's and I was fine:), come 6 am the next morning I had my war paint on ready to go home. When I got home I rested, the next day felt a bit down but went to a party in the evening for a few hours which was fine. the sunday we went out shopping as I wanted to walk, I just took it easy. it's been 10days now had my stiches out yesterday, and never cried, going back to horse riding next week and feel great have lost 21lb so far and am feeling great can't wait for 1st fill, this is the best thing I have done. I hope everyone feels great soon, it really will be worth it, go and look at everyone b4 and after's that always give me a lift. take care:kiss2:

Hi I dont know if I am doing this right??? I am hungry, well think I am! or might be wind. So far today I have had: 50ml Water 50ml sugar free yogurt 50ml water 50ml sugar free yougurt this has been since 4.30am and its now4.22pm is this right? please help me someone?

another that makes me laugh, is my mum and dad are both big and they went to Italy for a week, the hotel they stayed in had a lift for 2 person, so my mum and dad both got in. As the lift was going up it stopped and opened it doors but it was still about 3 foot below the floor.:omg: My parents rung the bell and this little man came and got them out, he then said to them in his funny accent " this 2 people lift, but not you 2 people" my mum said they laughed so much she said it was embrassing but funny. It makes me laugh just thinking of them, no matter where they go something will happen.

go for it just remeber it not cal free.

Hi I think it hurts if it's a comment by someone I dont know, mind you some times family members esp the gran's can always hit you with a hurtful comment, I dont know what it is with being old, and being brought up in thoses days when children were seen and not heard but old people can have mean mouths that they cant seem to keep shut. lol:) I can laugh at my self, because I do find it funny. I think its the best way to deal with being over weight, and I can laugh even more now that I have had my band as I know I am on the track to winning, and yeah all thoses people who judge me for being over weight esp getting bullied as a child can go to hell, because I have always been better looking and a nicer person then them anyway, I think they knew it.

thank you for your reply. I spoke to the hospital and I start my baby food tomo, I feel great at the moment. I think I was down the other day, it was a bit of a shock but I feel great today, made some soup and feel nice and full. Thank you:kiss2: