lcubanita21

I'm starting to have a BIG problem. I had my gallbladder taken out about 6 weeks ago and every since then my whole appetite has changed for the worse. Slowly my weight has started to increase, I gained 5 lbs in the past few weeks. I can eat twice the portion of food and I'm hungry 1 hour after my meals and in between my meals. I was never like that before I had my gallbladder taken out. Before I would eat 3 meals a day and not be hungry and it would be losing 2 lbs a week. Now i'm gaining like 1/2 lbs a day. Honestly, lately for the past two weeks, I've been struggle with eatting hungry and not drinking liquids as I was before. I'm just hungry all the time and not thristy. I haven't really been making the right food choice lately either. I did join a gym 2 weeks ago and I go 2-3 times a week. Does anyone know someone who has Lap Band and had their gallbladder taken out? did they go through this side effect like I am. I can't get another fill because my insurance won't pay for them anymore. I'm 11 months out from having my surgery (surgery date 10/23/07) and I've had 5 fills so far. I'm a 8.5 cc out of 10 cc. The restriction is not there anymore.

That's what I have to do is track what I eatting and get back to eatting the right foods. I tend to eat mushy or soft foods because they go down easy. For example, yesterday I had oatmeal for Breakfast and for lunch I had a bowl of Soup and 1/2 a chicken salad sandwich. For afternoon snack I had 100 calorie pack of lorna done crackers and dinner was rice & chicken and for evening I had two more 100 calorie Snacks. I tend to get very hungry doing the afternoon/evening. I'm drinking through out the day about 3-4 cups of milk, 1 cup of light cranberry juice and 1 bottled Water. I have to get back to drinking alot of water like I used to.

Well...to update you guys. I had my gallbladder taken out July 14th and 3 weeks after that I got my 5th fill which put me from 7.5 cc to 8.5 cc. I've been at 8.5 for 6 weeks already with no restriction and eatting way more than usual and alot more often. So, yesterday I was able to get another fill (self-pay) and he charged me $125.00. So now I'm at 9.0 cc in my 10cc band. I do feel some restriction now and I'm still continuing my exercise as well. Hopefully, I can start losing weight because it's been 2.5 months since I've had any weight loss.

I've thought about saving the money but I can only imagine how much it would cost because he does it in the hospital. I'm imagining close to $1,000 because if it was cheaper than my insurance would have paid for more than two fills. I'm going to call today to get a quote because they are still trying to fight the appeal with 10 other people with the same insurance to get them approved. All insurances are different but unfortunatley mine just recently made those changes. I got banded in the first place to get healthy and I know the band is just a tool and not a weight loss miracle. " you have to work with your band etc etc." I'm the one to blame on the poor eatting habits lately but it's just wierd that it happen now. I'm 11 months out from this surgery and I lost 80 lbs and I was doing fine mainting my band prior to my gallbladder. The same doc who did my lapband done my gallbladder surgery.

I had to sleep in my recliner for about 2 weeks. After that I was able to lay down without having the pain in my lower back but getting up off the time was hard and I need a boost. Slowly after that I was about to sleep on my side with a little discomfort because it didn't feel right. I would say from 5-6 weeks out you should feel yourself and back to your normal routine. I remember telling myself am I ever going to be able to sleep normally and I had such a fear. But trust me, it does go away within a couple of week, just hang in there and sleep on a recliner if you have one or sit up on the sofa. Use lots of pillow and don't forget the pain med if the doc sent them for you.

I'm starting to have a BIG problem. I had my gallbladder taken out about 6 weeks ago and every since then my whole appetite has changed for the worse. Slowly my weight has started to increase, I gained 5 lbs in the past few weeks. I can eat twice the portion of food and I'm hungry 1 hour after my meals and in between my meals. I was never like that before I had my gallbladder taken out. Before I would eat 3 meals a day and not be hungry and it would be losing 2 lbs a week. Now i'm gaining like 1/2 lbs a day. Honestly, lately for the past two weeks, I've been struggle with eatting hungry and not drinking liquids as I was before. I'm just hungry all the time and not thristy. I haven't really been making the right food choice lately either. I did join a gym 2 weeks ago and I go 2-3 times a week. Does anyone know someone who has lapband and had their gallbladder taken out? did they go through this side effect like I am. I can't get another fill because my insurance won't pay for them anymore. I'm 11 months out from having my surgery (surgery date 10/23/07) and I've had 5 fills so far. I'm a 8.5 cc out of 10 cc. The restriction is not there anymore.

I would say eat chocolate and soda all day if possible.

i've had my bad for 10 months so far and I got my 5th fill last week. I have now 8.5 cc out of 10 cc. The wierd part about my situation is that my 3rd fill, I was at 8.5 and way too tight b/c I would vomit all my foods and liquid. So my 4th fill I went down to 7.5 cc. Now I'm back up to 8.5 cc and I'm okay. Prior to getting my fill a week ago, I had my gallbladder taken out almost a month ago. I noticed since that surgery I am so much hunger and I can eat twice as much now. So I'm still waiting to find my sweet spot.

I had my gallbladder taken out 3 weeks ago because I was having severe pains. I ended up having 4 attacks and had to go to the ER each time. That's how bad it was because I can tolerate pain but this was worse than going thru pregnancy contractions. Like someone said before, the greasy food is what sets it off. Mine was hamburgers that did it. I didn't have any problems prior to getting the lapband. I ended up getting gallstones because of my weight loss which I read is common. The problem that I'm having now is that I just had my 5th fill a week ago and every since my gallbladder surgery, I noticed that I'm way much hunger and I can get twice as much than before my surgery. Has that happened to anybody? I also started gaining weight so now I'm trying to hold back on my hunger b/c I get hungry every 2 1/2 hours all day.

I'm having the same problem too. I just had my 5th fill and I'm at 8.5 cc and with this fill I'm eatting twice as more and hunger than I was before. I think in my situation it's because i just had my gallbladder taken out almost a month ago.

My doctor has his patints go in every 6 weeks. My band goes up to 10 cc. Right now I'm at 7.5 cc and I've had 2 fills. So in my next fill he'll give me only .5 cc and then I should be at my sweet spot soon which is somewhere around 7 to 8.5 cc. It depends on the person of course.

I take Centrum chewables once a day and it has 18 mg of Iron.

My port is right above my belly button about 1 in up in the middle .

Hello everyone! I have been trying to get the gastric bypass for the past 5 years and recently I deceided to try again but for the lapband. Finally, I have a surgery date of October 16, 2007. In the past, I have gotten denied twice and approved twice for the surgery. The 1st approval went thru but the day right before my surgery, I had gotten a phone call from the nurse sayign that she had to cancel my surgery b/c my insurance wasn't going to pay for it after they had approved it. needless to say I was extremley devasted. the 2nd time I had gotten approved I couldn't get the surgery b/c I had just found out that I was pregnant. so 9 months later, I decided to try again, (a final time but with a whole different doctor) to get the surgery. so here I am. Wish me luck. The nurse will send all my paperwork to my insurance next week for approval!!!!