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Judi M!! YUMMM ravioli!!! recipie puhleaze??? and I couldn't help laffing when I read that to think you used to be able to sit down and eat 12 of them... YUP!! been there.. I came to work today and co-worker had delish homemade butter cookies!! so i took one and chewed and chewd and chewed till mush.. and then another little bite w/ the same. adn couldn't even finish 1/2 the cookie!! so to think I used to down 15 at a time.... Now i KNOW it's not the right thing to eat. But since it's in the head. and now i KNOW i can have some.. i'll be doing a LOT better.. so now i'm eating a fat free yogurt... cuz had my cookie (or 1/4 of it...)

Hi all, Ok I need input here. Im really NOT feeling well. oh the ways.. My huge issue is this searing pain i had posted ab. a few days ago.. It is still searing and i feell like my muscle is ripping. i know the dr. said som'g ab. cutting some nerve endings. but it is totally limiting and immobilizing me and i'm NOT happy... the pain is shooting to my back now... i dont' know.. Then, Whenver I drink I right away get a tightness in my chest area.. just by 1 or 2 sips of Water... I continue because that is it but the pain is still there... and stays... (oh get a load of this.. everytime I eat my husband pats my back and i very nicely burp.. and i'm HOW old???) I am constipated. NOT a happy place to be in... this morning steristrips came of one of my wounds and I noticed it has pus coming out of it ... ??? other ones are itching like crazy which is supposed to be a good sign.. Now i lifted up another steristrip slightly and I do NOT like the way it looks.. I guess i have to call the dr. Monday morning and till than i happen to hae bactroban ointment and i'll put gauze.. OH then the WIERDEST thing. I got my period ab. 3 weeks ago.. I'm totally irregular and took medication (provera) to bring it on.. I go to bathroom tody and BOOM i'm bleeding again. Wierd.. I never have this problem after i take provera... and also the color is different.. (sorry for the tmi.. i'm just so wierded out) any thoughts on this??? :help::help::help: Thanks,

So I went to Dr. this week .. and here is the scoop.. I had esophogram and it was cool! BUT the drink was literally trickling in.. Not like twas supposed too... So nurse said "Oh, u must have some fill in your band!".. and she took out 2 cc's of fluid!! So b/w that and my stomach being still swollen.... GONE went the chest pains. So, that cured one problem. Nerve pain will be there for a while. Don't wanna take pain meds.. cuz constipated enough.. but i'm learning ot live w/ it and some parts have gotten a little better. Cuts that I thought were infected.. ha haha. ALLERGIC reaction ot the steristrips made them all puffy.. and hot and nasty looking. Since she took them off I'm fine.. The 2 w/ puss cleared up in 2 days! Constipation is the name of hte game now.. lol. But i'm on mushies and eating a LOT more than I should be.. So i'm hoping that will help things move. Along w/ the stool softeners and laxatives and milk of mag... and fibercom.. not helping yet. but one day on it. so i hope i hope i hope.. cuz it's agony.. lol.. Never udnertsood when pple complained ab. it.. So that is me in a nutshell now.. feeling better now that 2 cc's taken out! forsure!! thanks for all your responses! Pemy

claramae, good luck tommorow! I know you're nervous! It's normal but it will all get better. It's tough in the beginning but it does get better. Trust me, I thought it never would. Pemy

I WAS BORN IN: Los Angeles,CA AND GREW UP IN: Los Angeles, CA I MOVED AWAY FROM HOME WHEN/BECAUSE: Got married.... SINCE THEN I'VE LIVED: .. WHAT a change! Brookly, Ny I TRAVEL AS OFTEN: not as often as I used to... WE used to go every couple of months to little inns and B&B's in quaint villages in CT, RI, MA.. What a life! FARTHEST I'VE EVER BEEN FROM HOME IS: Israel (beautiful) BEST VACATION EVER, THAT I'D REPEAT IN A HEARTBEAT: Bahamas, Paradise Island, The ATLANTIS!! That was our best most relaxing, fun vacation! We talk about it all the time!! WORST VACATION EVER, THAT WILL HAUNT ME TIL I DIE: None and i Hope Never. DREAM VACATION IF TIME AND MONEY WERE NO OBJECT: Back to Bahamas!! SPECIAL PLACE I NEVER GET TIRED OF GOING BACK TO: Montauk, NY. We go for 2 weeks every summer but haven't gone for the last 2 summers... I hope to get up there for Labor Day weekend but of course we decided last minute... So wherever I get reservations.

HI missnilsa and all, I've been out of this board the last week. Went back to work full time, foster son came home from sleep away camp, and still not feeling great.. nerve pain.... AND the clincher is getting my son off the internet totally so proving to him I'm not on it a lot too. ha hah ha.. I'm just suffering cuz i'm losing out . but i guess that's life.. I went for pre op on Tues. as they were concerned about my pain and everything looked normal. Thank Goodness for that!! The nerve pain is still there and will still be there for a while.. as she must've cut through some. but it is slowly getting better. I was allowed to go onto mushies as of Friday.. and BOY am i going nuts! Can't stop myself. i feel no restriction AT ALL! But i definitely am eating less than I'm used to. I found myself sucking on choc. mints!! I'm horrified!1 and then before I was hungry and grabbed a peanut chew and chewed til it was gross and mushy but had one! WHAT am I doing ot myself?? So, I totally get you .. it's soo normal. It's more that i'm soo excited to after 4 weeks finally be able to eat... I'm definitely going ot have a harder time now that I'm not restircted and find that nothing is bothering me. Of course I'm not eating regular totally but even the little cheating is OK. I WILL NOT BEAT MYSELF UP OVER THIS!! I'm STILL eating less than before, forusre! AND, THIS IS WHY I HAD SURGERY! Cuz, I can't do it on my own. SO, let's hope that the fills will help and then I will know forsure that this was all worth it. Good luck and NO BEATING UP ON YOURSELF!!!

Gosh this is fun! don't know why more pple didn't respond.. was school thaat painful?? I GOT PICKED ON FOR: nothing much.. (i'm ducking.. sorry) Don't remember. MY FAVORITE TEACHER WAS: Mrs. Brumbaugh (6th grade),She taught my sister and my 2 brothers and being I was the only one who had siblings odler than me in my class, i was treated royally by her. No kidding though, she was the first teacher that made everything FUN. Every subject! LOL my BEST memory was when we took a trip to the local bakery and got to see how ev'g was made and got to BUY an'g! Chocloate covered danish! YUMMMM still my favorite till today! And then had to write about the experience and then the experience of eating our danish and the textures and taste of it.. lol... i waannt one now!!! MY WORST TEACHER WAS: A cross between Mrs. K (12th grade) English who picked on me. Mrs. Heyward (12th grade) Accounting who told me to sit down to "get a big load off my feet" :omg: and Mrs. Winthrop (7th grade) English, who was just waay too old for us.. like in her 70's forsure.. or maybe 80's ?? lol.. maybe just 60 and that was old then... MY BEST MEMORY IS: WAAAAAAY to many for me to remember. To me school was fun fun fun!!! I always tell my parents I don't remember what I learned.. so don't know what they paid tuition for (private girls school). MY JUNIOR HIGH EXPERIENCE: Awkward. I was very depressed a lot.. yet full of life so couldn't stay taht way. Suffered from serious serious self esteem issues.. MY FAVORITE TEACHER WAS: Mrs. Teichman, she cared, she was vulnerable, she new how to teach and loved us. MY FIRST CRUSH: I was a late bloomer. 12th grade.. too embarassing to say what I did to catch his attention. MY MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT: oooh golly .. the way my mom dressed me... lol MY BIGGEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: having EVERY girl in my class thinking they were my best friend. From the nerds to the most popular. I believed in being nice to all. THE DUMBEST THING I EVER DID WAS: Told a teacher she was a bitch. LOL... (see Mrs. K from my worst teachers). Put crazy glue on a teachers chair.. DUH it dries like in SECONDS!!! didn't accomplish much other than detention when I was ratted on. LAME, huh? MY HIGH SCHOOL WAS: BY Los Angeles - more awkwardness though found my group... MY BEST SUBJECT: English, Creative Writing, HISTORY!!!!! and spelling. MY WORST SUBJECT: Math, math and math on ANY level! Science, biology, chemistry MY CLIQUE: We were IT!! A group of 4 that was nice to everyone and FUN!!!! I repeat FUN!! Could make a joke out of a tomato!! and crack the school up with it. Everyone wanted to be with us.. eventhough they also wanted to be LIKE the snobs... I was the in between person. And BOY did I get in trouble with that. Being nice to all and listening to both sides of a fight got both sides mad at me one time too many.. It was a good lesson for life. Forsure. MY MUSIC: Milli Vanilli.. Blame it on the Rain!! till they disappointed me and got caught lip synching.. lol. still love it though! EXTRACURRICULARS INCLUDED: School Choir. From age 5-17 when I headed it. It was the "it" thing to do. Any school activities I was the first one cheering and having fun! Volleyball, bike riding, and cutting class.. lol MOST MEMORABLE EVENT: All my friends winning school council my senior year. From grades 9-12! It was great.. I just managed the "elections" and watched the snobs .. fall .. the Cookies crumble!!! Senior YEAR from begining till end was WILD! FOR KICKS WE: - Spend class time in bathroom and had it synchronized taht when anyone walked in; in a second there were only 2 feet under every stall.. but really 4 poeople in one. We practiced. -For 2 weeks in 10th grade we had clas in the school lunchroom, raised our hadn to "go to the bathroom" and the teacher not knowing what we were up to said yes.. and very nicely walked to the "bathroom" door to school kitchen where we ate to our hearts content and didn't get caught. -Played the game "guess who" in middle of class. by pointing to the hair and saying "blonde" and shaking yes or no.. we did it for years... and cracked up the class. -went through 11 english teachers in 12th grade.. no one lasted we were terrors.. lol I STILL CAN’T BELIEVE THAT I: Miss all of it.. w/ all the fun and grief and time... MY GRADUATION MEMORY: Giving one of the speeches and suddenly seeing my mothers hand waving up and down trying to get me to slow down; I was so nervous. TO COLLEGE OR NOT TO COLLEGE: working my way through..lol, for the rest of my life at the rate things are going...

EVERYBODY CALLS ME: Pemy, Penina MY PRIMARY RELATIONSHIPS INCLUDE: Husband of almost 14 years, 12 y/o foster son (have him for almost 1 yr), parents, sis that was banded 7/31 and GREAT GREAT friends (who help me keep my sanity for my above relationships) MY NON-HUMAN FAMILY CONSISTS OF: See above (lol) I LIVE IN: Brooklyn, NY (fun...) OCCUPATION(S): Damage Control for Medical Equipment Distribution Co. I've been working there for 13 years..started with them as their first employee. Being that I'm the "oldest" emplyee, I've trained everyone into their jobs.. I now take care of all problems and love the diversity of it. I also do my husbands bookkeeping in the eve. from the house. BUT my real passion is interior design / space planning / organizing which I do on the side as my schedule allows for it. AVOCATIONS: Friends, foster son, My infertility Quest, reading, roller coaster tycoon! (and other games), religion, family, crocheting, interior design, living life to its fullest, swimming (more than 1/2 lap hopfully soon), yapping,talking, chatting.. lol

Please don't beat yourself up!! You're human, normal, just like everyone!! LISTEN .. bottom line. if we didn't have an eating problem/addiction... we wouldn't be here on this forum having had surgery for our "problem". I cannot STOP thinking about food. I read your post about mozarella sticks and the first thing I thought was YUMMMMM i want!!!! WHAT a good idea! AFTER that thought.. i thought about ur post.. lol.... but sorry lady FOOD RULES FIRST!! We are all like that! I think the second i'll be able to eat more before my fill I'll be like you. But the fill takes care of that from what I hear. So hang tough. You're human. You have NOT fallen from the bad wagon. you may have slipped but you can wipe yourself off and get up again and again and again and again and again. Please remember you're human w/ emotions and THIS IS HARD!!! take care Pemy

hi all! I was banded on Monday Aug. 13. I'm really feeling great all in all. even wound up on my stomach last nite sleeping.. ! BUT (there is always a but) i have this SEARING pain on my right side. not where the cut is. but like an inch or 2 over. and the port isn't there (at least that's what Dr. told me). So when i asked her she said she may have cut some nerve endings and pain will be there for a few weeks. (thanks).. The thing is i can sit and canlay with right foot bend. And when i stand if crouch over to the rite side i'm ok.. (just looks a little retarded) and if i lift my rite foot like on a ledge of chair when i stand it's fine.. ANYONE have experience with this???? I feel like my muscle there is RIPING APART.... it scares me.. THanks

OK.. so WHAT did you eat that you chewed well?? lets' hear. I'm desperate! Pemy

HI Kacee Nope, pain is in one place.. feels like my muscle is ripping.. gas is separate.. have that and THAT is moving. man. not happy ab. that.. but i can live w/ it.. it's the searing pain that is totally limiting me.. :help:

JudiM! I'm with you ab. Alexandra! Alexandra! YOU GO GIRL! back to work already! The THOUGHT of going back.. .. although at least i would be busy... but i just can't at this point! Good for you! Keep it up!

Sugarbear, you SCAREd me till I realized I left one major detail out. Surgeon told me that my stomach muscle was swollen on right side.. (have a rib that snaps out of place constantly) and taht she cut through some nerves... therefore I have the pain and will have it for a few weeks... sighhhhh but if it's not any better by monday... i'm calling cuz this is ridiculous.. thanks for the heads up

Just wanted to tell you to HANG TUFF!! It's sooo hard. I thought i was going to throw in the towel the first few days.. it got easier after ab. 5 days. Once the sugar got out of my system i felt GREAT.. like a different person .. good luck!!! and I know it's tuff.. kee strong. YOU CAN DO IT!!

I'm going STARK RAVING MAD!!!!! weak.. lol.. NOT at all!! i'm going NUTS.. lol.. sob.. lol.. sob... sob.. lol. pull hair... sob.. this is SOOO hard. I cannot STOP thinking ab. food I'm gasy and constipated and ALL i want to do is EAT!!!!!!! and eat!! so drank a strawberry pineapple drink through the day.. had 2 TBsp ckn soup and 2 Tbsp sauce from meat chile.. lol... couldnt' handle the sweet anymore!! I just put up a huge pot of soup. Whole chicken.. and then 2 bottoms.. meat bones w/ meat on it. and onion, potatoes, sweet pot, zuchinni, carrots.. and SALT and will let it cook for MANY hours. it will be thick and Protein rich and it BETTER cure me!! I"m ready for FOOOOOOOOOOD I want fooood.. I think that this is gonna be real hard emotionally!! so don't think ur alone.. you NOT weak .. you just acted 100% NORMAL!!! it's NOT easy. anyone who says this is easy way out... shoot them!! i know ur scared ab. band slippage.. just hang tuff. if u didn't vomit then hopefully its still doing well.. lol g'luck .. i'm here to commmiserate ANY TIME!!!

Glad to hear I'm not the only one post-op and not up and about as soon as others. I was beginning to think I was doing something wrong. Well actually not glad that you feel like me.. :paranoid but felt good to be validated.... I had surgery on Monday. I have gained a lb. since.. Have not had a bowel movement since. Started getting gas pain this morning..stomach is talking.. but from pain.not food. I THINK :omg:.. who knows. I barely eat anything. I have terrible searing pain on my right side most of the time. Only helps when I sit. And certain positions when I walk.. I feel like my muscle is ripping. I'm getting sick of clear broth.. thinned fruit juice... Water... broth.... had maybe 1/8 cup of proteing shake today. but w/ gas and constipation scared to have more cuz then I get pressure in chest. Not sure how much eating.. scuse me. I mean sipping is considered too much... :sick :Banane20: :angry :Banane20: :cry :paranoid :tired :think :speechles :phanvan NOt happy and BORED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOAH!!! congrats on ur weight loss! So happy for you!:clap2:

good luck!!!!

Hi y'all well well. sitting by computer since sitting is the most comfy position. All went well thank god and I'm soo happy to be home! got banded at ab. 10 am.. was up ab. 11:15 and I just remember in recovery waking up.. coughing.. still had tube down my throat.. :girl_hug:. so they took out right away. and all i said was "paiinnn" "paiinnnn" they asked me how much 1-10 i told them a 6 1/2.. got some morphine.. a little while later i said "paiinnn" so they gave me some more.. lol.. at 12:30 i was up in my room already! Got up right away to go to bathroom and put on my pj's.. adn then I slept till around 2 ish.. (funny side note. my sis was banded 2 weeks ago.. when i was telling her my "paaainnn" story in recovery she BURST out laffing. she said that were the first words out of her mouth.. "paiinnn" painnn".. lol - i guess when we're tired we conserve our energy for the impt. stuff) walked around again w/ my hubby... and had this EXCRUCIATING pain on my right side, next to inscision area.. like a 1inch by 1 inch area taht was burning and stabbing me to my back.. coudln't stand straight. Otherwise everywhere else felt find. Thankfully I really did not have any gas pains.. I've had it from previous surgeries so I am soooo thankful that I didn't have that. So back to this pain. I didn't know what hit me. had a massive anxiety attack. (lovely) husband called nurse and they couldn't figure out why i was having pain in that spot. no'g there. It hurt when the fabric of my t-shirt was rubbing against it!! They gave me Toradol IV.. and that dulled it.. I was able to sleep some About 1-2 hours later Dr. Ren came and said I had some swelling on my right side of muscle when she did surgery.. ( I did have pain on myright side from a rib that kept on going out of place.. went to chiropracter twice and then figured what the heck.not gonna keep on going once a week to snap back into place. so lived with the discomfort and mild pain)so it seems she cut through some nerves there. and the pain that im' having is nerve endings that were cut. and that pain / discomfort will be there for a few weeks (GEE THANKS! :faint:).. Other than that and feeling like I had a truck run over my stomach.. which is bearable. i'm really doing well. i'm sorta hungry. but more in my head.. cuz i can't really drink much.. get full and a little nauseous and start burping :whoo: lol.. life is soo much fun the nerve pain kills when I walk.. it hurts to lay on couch.. but sitting in a chair is ok. problem is my butt KILLS already..:heh: from all the sitting. Vicodan does NOT work for me. never has.. and advil that i took ab. 2 hours after 2 vicodan also hasn't worked. called dr. and nothing can do. cuz can't call in a narcotic to pharmacy.. so i'll have to wait until tommorow. great. there goes another night of sleep. helllo late night TV once again! i wandered the hospital all night. Met some great pple who had the surgery too and it was therapeutic for all of us to talk and share experiences. still constipated but PETRIFIED to push.. lol. sorry for TMI... have aches under breasts. probably the little gas I have.. and incision sites are ok. a little painful.. i'm coughing up stuff. but taht is probably from tube. which is why my throat is killing me too... nervous ab. the cough but I put a pillow on my stomach. cuz i don't want incisions to bleed/pop.. (sis had that by gall bladder surgery and ended up in hospital all infected) all in all this is something I would do again if the results happen. which their is no reason it shouldn't!! I hope all of you are doing ok!! MissNilsa.. how u feeling? any better than this morning???? Did u get some sleep?? will keep u posted! Pemy

MisNilsa!! I guess we may meet up!! Though I have to be in NYU at 7am! and I'm using dr. ren.. I hear all us post-fatties, are on one floor.. so i'll be looking at for a misnilsa in the eve. lol... Good luck to all! I'm soo excited.. not as nervous as i thought i would be.. yet... my anxiety will start a little before i get into the operating room.. i guess that would put me in the "normal" category?? lol.. I have so many wonderful friends callign me today wishing me luck, it's heartwarming. I chose to tell people because i HATE those that do the surgery and then tell people "oh u know just diet and exercise..." uh-huh.. whatever, g'luck to everyone this week!!! and tomm! let's all say a little prayer for each other! pemy

I just wanted to wish this week crazy aters a BIG GOOD LUCK and speedy recovery! My thoughts are with you . (especially after I read your posts about being anxious... ) Keep calm (yeah rite. look who's talking I had a full blown anxiety attack this morn and had to take klonipin that I keep for flying.... )OH right, this is not about me now.. :bounce:lol... back to y'all Do whatever it is you have to do to feel calm. I don't care what the nurses think. Whenever I've gone "under" I hum to myself laying there till I'm out cuz it calms me.. :paranoid take care and once again best of luck!

Good luck Judi M!! You're hopefully in middle or out of surgery by now, my thoughts are with you! Let us know how ur doing! Pemy

Valzie! I'm on for Monday the 13th! Which Dr. u doing with?

Hi guysers! Thanks for all your updates. It helps calm me for my Monday surgery. My sister had it 2 weeks ago and is doing great so that helps too. Today she got to start on MUSHY!!! I"m soo jealous.. I must say that this 2nd week of liquids has been MUCH easier. I feel great.. Must be the sugar out of my system and the fact that my period finally stopped after 1 week of almost hemmhoraging.. Talk about bad timing. Thanks goodness this week has been easier. I don't know if I would've survived otherwise.... Looking forward to hearing all of ur positive recovery stories adn the main thing LOSING WEIGHT!! Pemy