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I have been through surgery with Dr. Geiss. My surgery was 12/3 and I when I woke up I found out I did not get banded. Although disappointed, it was Dr. Geiss who put his ego aside and realized the situation he faced with my scar tissue was something he could not overcome. A lesser skilled surgeon or bigger ego surgeon would have possibly kept on and could have severly injured or worse yet killed me in the process. I would recommed Dr. Geiss to absolutely anyone based on the fact, he knew enough to stop the surgery after diligently trying for over 45 mins to place the band. His experience is invaluable....I wish you much success on the journey.

FINALLY!!!!! My pain went away. Saturday 12/8 I woke up and felt so much better. I had surgery on the previous Monday, it took a full week to get rid of the gas....The new problem is my insides feel really sore today. I wonder if I did too much bending yesterday...I feel like I was punched really hard on my left side. It hurts when I take a big breath of air....hope this is not more gas forming....LOL HEAVY - congrats to you on the 30 pounds...that's awesome!!! you should be proud of yourself.....

Everyone is doing great!!! Let's keep it going....

I had surgery 12/3 and still my shoulder is unbearable...it is at its worst in the evening when I go to lay down and sleep..brings me to tears....

Good luck Tomecia!!!!

Heavy - I have been having tremendous shoulder pain. My husband has been constantly rubbing it for me..It really does help because it breaks up the gas bubbles. I've also been taking Gas-x I think that's helping also. The shoulder pain gets worse at night for me. Right before going to bed it really flares up....Have your wife take the palm of her hand and basically punch your back where you feel the pain...it may help...

Danna and Ruth - thanks for the support, but I haven't really done anything yet, but will hopefully do the right thing and start my new weightloss plan. Danna - I have the same problem that you are having. I sleep fine, but it hurts when I bend to the left and sit on a chair. The middle of my tummy really is still sore...I'm still taking extra strenght tylenol and let my DH wait on me constantly...love it!!

DANNA - today I"m physically doing better, but emotionally very bruised...Last night all the emotion came to the surface and the realization that I did all this work and had surgery for nothing...I know all the rhetoric BS of this too shall make me stronger and it happened for a reason, but all I wanted to do was cry and cry I did.... Today I slept in late and woke up thinking..There's a book in this whole story. If I can drop 100pounds in a year I think there's an inspirtational story to be told...Oprah loves that stuff, so why not make my next goal to get on the Oprah show with my story....So, emotionally I'm better today trying to sort out how I feel about the journey I took and the journey ahead of me now. I'm still doing liquids, just because I can't wrap myself around starting real food yet. If I do I'm afraid I will resort to old behaviors....Plus I have 6 big canisters of unjury I purchased. and how are you doing?

FABULOUS!!! I'm sorry you're up 6lbs, but I'm so happy to hear this....I'm pretty much trying to follow my bandster diet minus the band, but it totally freaked me out when I got on the scale this morning. I've been trying to drink as much Water as possible to flush out my system, but it doesn't seem to be working...but I'll keep trying......How you feeling today???? Getting better one day at a time???

baby - thanks, it was actually the scar tissue underneath that you can't see and don't even know is there that developed into a wall the surgeon couldn't and didn't want to try to get through.

Thanks Steph...I guess I'm waiting for it to go back down..I need to gain some patience. I had surgery yesterday and I'm thinking the scale should have been back down this morning.

Chris - I'm so glad all went well for you....Keep taking the Tylenol in your system it really helps, also keep an ice pack on all the incisions, it will definitely help with any soreness you may feel. Both of these things have been helping me alot...I'm still trying to find an answer to - do you gain weight when you have surgery? I'm up 5pounds.