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bandster_1007

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  1. bandster_1007

    Depressed breasts

    oh my lord...mud flaps......that is the funniest description. age contributing to the depression (of the girls)...well, i'm 25. so, wth am i going to look like when i'm 60. i'll need to wrap up in saran wrap and duct tape every day.
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    Trying Not To Get Discouraged

    i'm good. i've been wondering how you were doing after your last fill. the restriction that i did feel is gone. i ate an entire crispy chicken sandwich kids meal the other day for lunch. yesterday i ate the sandwich but not the fries. i'm finding all of a sudden this week that i am beginning to lose interest in food. it's kind of cool. used to i would have my lunch planned out for the day as soon as i got to work..i knew what type of junk i was going to cram in my face that day. now, i'm like..i don't know..i don't really care, i'll just get some chicken...maybe i will go shopping first. ha...spending more money now, because i'm shopping more. it seems my impulsiveness has gone toward the shopping side instead of food. that's bad, but this is the perfect spending for it. i have to get control over it though, because dh wants to buy some lake land, or mountain land soon. i went to get my hair cut last night. i have hair that falls about 5/6 inches below my bra strap. i have real fine hair, but i have a lot of it. well, i went to a new hairdresser so i'm not putting a lot of stock into it, as my hair has always been on the thinner side, but with it being long, it doesn't look thin. anyways, she said she could tell i was losing hair around my crown. GREAT!!! i haven't been eating much Protein though, i will admit that. so tomorrow, i'm going to start logging foods again. i have noticed some loss on my coat, in the shower, etc. my hair has been my greatest asset for so long, i don't want to lose it. my 2nd fill is wednesday. i'm surprised that they said you are on your own after your 3rd fill. if they do that to me, i'll probably call the next day to schedule a fill and then cancel if i don't need it...haha. i don't know if dr. wellborn spent two hours talking to you at your consult or not, but he said journaling is the best way to tell if you are restricted. his rule of thumb is that you should not be able to eat more than half a sandwich, with bread. when he was talking to us, he was talking about subway. which, to me, before surgery, a 6 inch sub was pretty filling. i think he meant half of a 6 inch...not sure. but he does say that about 10 bites and you should be full. i'm sure this is only ture if you eat real dense foods and eat your protein first. like, if i eat Cereal or something, i'll be able to eat more than 10 bites, but if i start with chicken or fish, i get full faster. if you are losing though, i wouldn't worry about it too much. i admire you for what you have done so far. i am still maintaining, i thought i had lost, but i was wrong, it was just fluctuations in Water weight...so 2nd fill here i come!!
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    Trying Not To Get Discouraged

    well, that's funny, apparantly someone at my doc's office doesn't know what they are talking about. because they said, i have the apl band and that it holds 10 cc. and i joked that i must have a large stomach to need a large band, and they laughed because it doesn't have anything to do with that. also, when i got my first fill of 6.5 cc's, i was worried because i only had 3.5 cc's left, and she told me that it will hold up to 500 cc's before "exploding".
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    Trying Not To Get Discouraged

    have you called wellborn to schedule another fill. suzanne told me that our bands can hold up to 500 cc's before they burst. they are called a 10 cc band. mine is an apl, so maybe that is what he was putting on everyone at that time. remember, although the 3rd fill is the average (as they told us in the meeting) it may not be until the 6th fill or more before you feel the restriction. i think that jamie said it took her like 12. if i were you i would call asap, especially since you told me that sometimes it takes a whole month to get in. i like dr. wellborn and their office, but i think sometimes we have to be very assertive with them, because they are busy and they do let us know.
  5. my doc has the "rule" of taking no longer than 15 minutes to eat period. after that, we are supposed to stop eating and get up from the table. ok, right after my fill, it took me right at 15 minutes but i was eating slow and didn't eat very much. i can see how it would take longer depending on what i was eating. i'll try it, but if i'm still hungry they say i need a fill, but if i have a difficult stoma, i'm sure i will take longer (so far i can eat anything)
  6. oh yeah, i just read your post again, and you, in my opinion are eating AWESOME!! I wish i had a day like that. i mean yeah, sure, the ice cream wasn't a necessity, but i bet it tasted good, and at least you did go with the sf kind. just don't do it every day. i like you, need to work on the veggies, but if you added your calories up, even with the ice cream, you might be surprised at how low they are. for me, i really had to focus on eating 800 calories and getting my Protein. some days, i had room for empty calories like fudgsicles, etc.
  7. i think that what you are going through is completely normal. it is important to stick with your doctor recommended diet, but it is not easy. i felt just like you, i started getting hungry and i would eat things that i shouldn't have. luckily, i didn't get stuck or cause any problems. don't beat yourself up about it, because feeling guilty is likely to start a cycle that will be harder to break. you feel bad so you want to eat more. it is ok, and i'm sure a lot of people have gone through what you are going through. it is hard, very hard. if we could do this on our own, we wouldn't need the band. just try to focus on the fact that this time will pass by pretty quickly and try your best to stick to your diet, and get a lot of Protein so you won't be hungry in the first place. (sugar will make you hungry). it was very hard for me, i found that keeping flavored Water (like crystal light) with me at all times helped, i also kept sugar free icebreaker's sours with me, for when i felt the desire to put something in my mouth. another thing that i found was the sf carnation breakfast was a lot less filling than a nice frothy Protein shake, or some pureed Beans or something like that.
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    Horrible gas pain...STILL!

    this is still happening to me sometimes and i am 7 weeks out. i take phazyme a lot, and i have to make sure to keep my bowels real regular or gas tends to get real bad. so, for some weeks i take milk of magnesia every night. i have found that when i am having the gas real bad, it helps if i don't eat anything solid or anything dairy for a few hours. i have it so bad that my abdomen stays distended and i look pregnant. i didn't look pregnant before, my stomach had fat on it, but it didn't stick out...now it does a lot, it's like a balloon, and i want to pop it.
  9. i don't know if you have problems with your blood sugar or not, but i did the same thing that you are, and my blood sugar was getting too low. when i was about 3 days out, i drove to the grocery store, it was dh's idea to get me "ready" for work. dh and ds were with me and we were supposed to just get milk and some Soup. about 15 minutes later, the store kind of tunnelled on me, and everything started spinning, and i was getting cold sweats, and i honestly almost fainted. i just thought i was too tired, when i got home and sat down it felt better. well the next morning when i got up to get ready for work i could barely focus to get my make up on, my eyes were really blurry. and i was so dizzy that i kept having to sit down for "breaks". so i called my doc and they said i needed a little juice (just a little) for my sugar, and i didn't have the problem anymore (had to have a little juice more often than that one time). just a thought, a lot of times when you are on liquids only there isn't much room for Protein (you probably aren't very hungry) and you are probably cutting a lot of simple carbs that your body is used to having.
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    Poll zodiac sign

    how compatible are virgo and taurus. dh b/d is 9/11 and mine is 5/9. i've read conflicting beliefs. some say that we would do best as a love afair, but yet tend to stay very committed in a relationship.
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    Poll zodiac sign

    taurus here..and i fit the description to a t. i'm stubborn, i'm stalky, i love food, i gain weight with age, my "erogoneous" zone is my neck, and when i get mad...look out. no seriously i was born in the week of the teacher, and by definition, i fit the bill. i'm all taurus and very proud. my son, however, is on the cusp between a capricorn and an aquarious. my ex husband had the same birthday and good lord i hope they don't have the same characteristics. capricorn and aquarious are two opposing signs. i'd imagine you would feel a bit conflicted if being influenced by them both.
  12. i got my first fill last week, it was 6.5 cc's. i could eat anything before. i had good restriction for a few days, but for lunch today i was able to eat an entire wendy's kids meal. ok, i may have made a bad decision to begin with. i wasn't the type to sit down and eat a large meal, it is more or less that i like junk food, and i would be hungry a couple of hours after eating. so, a kid's meal would have always filled me up. i may have eaten something else with it, but i didn't have to. now, today, i'm stuffed after the kids meal. i want nothing (i even ate the entire order of small fries -the first time i have had fries since october). i am actually losing weight with this fill although i'm not really sure how. i hope i get to where i eat less than a kids meal.
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    Freeeezing..what does it mean?

    i think this is totally coincidental, but i have always had a low body temperature too. when i am freezing like that, and i check my temp (because i will get chills and swear i have a fever), my temperature will usually be around 95. I rarely ever have a temp around 98. if i do i have fever. i usually stay between 96 and 97, but when i'm having really bad cold spells it will be 95. i tend to also have the spells when a migraine is coming on, so it may be hormonal. i will "sweat it out" per say. i will freeze, turn my thermostat up to 75, wrap up in 5 blankets (literally), and lay on my leather sofa (which holds the heat), and within 3 hours i usually sweat it out. I used to never sweat it out, i only started doing this after surgery. so, for me, it is truly like i have a fever, but i don't. chills, teeth chattering, etc. ...now i don't do that everyday, but i am always cold. especially at work. i have windows in my office and i wish i didn't. i hate getting cold because it makes me ache.
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    Arkansas Bansters!!!

    well, i think it is absolutely wonderful that you are seeing improvement with the weight loss. my grandmother died from breast cancer and emphysema as the early age of 45. She was oxygen the entire time that i remember her from my childhood. she gained a lot of weight when her lungs got down. i'm not sure if it was Fluid, or what, but it sure did hinder her ability to do a lot of things. she never stopped smoking though, she would light up while the oxygen tubes were in her nose. i know she didn't have copd, but i believe some of the effects that it has on your lifestyle are the same.
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    Arkansas Bansters!!!

    dr. wellborn and his staff are great!! but they do have a lot of patients. he has performed over 1000 bands as of this year. i have heard good things about dr. baker also. dr. wellborn specializes in the band, he has only done 2 gastric bypasses in the last year. he prefers the band over bypass (although he used to be the opposite). the staff in his office (with the exception of the rn) have all been banded, and their experience has been the best help for me. i gained the weight back that i lost pre-fill, but i am on my way back down!!! CONGRATS ARKIE!!! AND SUESUE ON YOUR LOSS!! -ARKIE-i feel you on the lung thing, last year, i had pneumonia twice within a 6 month period (never got rid of it the first time). i still have nightmares about getting it again, and if i get a chest cold, i FREAK. it was hell, not being able to breathe has such a huge impact on the way you feel. congrats on getting stronger. do you have copd?
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    my first fill- 6.5 CC'S

    congrats on your weight loss. i'm not sure why i got the apl band. they may have been out of the aps. nurse at first thought i had the aps band, just by guessing. i'm a small frame and i'm only 5'2", of course, i'm large now, but i'm not large boned....i don't think it really matters, i see such a range on here. i was joking with the doc and said, "oh, so i have a large stomach and that is why i got the large band" well, they got a good laugh out of that one, so i guess that wasn't the reason.
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    my first fill- 6.5 CC'S

    PIZZA ROLLS-OMG THAT SOUND SOOOOO GOOOD!!!! yesterday they had a pizza party at work. i usually get an hour for lunch but lately have only been taking 30 minutes. but, yesterday i had a migraine and i didn't feel like driving anywhere, so i sat at the table with all of the pizza's and had gatorade (i just got the file...on liquids). i will admit that my 48 hours was due to be up in 2 hours, so i did sample some of the loose topping in the box. i ate probably 3 canadian bacon, one little piece of sausage, and some cheese (all clumped together, it had fallen off of a pizza), and i swear it filled me up. we'll see, though, i haven't been doing good so far today, i've only had fudgesicles (don't have anything good for Breakfast that is soft).
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    Bad skin...

    step three bleaches materials-the acne free or proactive. it's the bezoyl peroxide. i guess it has bleaching properties for the skin, too, which is probably a good thing if you are breaking out.
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    Water - how 8 glasses a day keeps fat away

    i usually have to doctor my Water. but i have found that if i just tough it out after a week, i really prefer my water by itself. i think all that crystal light i am drinking is toxic anyways. thanks!!
  20. let me know what you find out please. i am also o+.
  21. salsa, i only asked because some children fold with that kind of pressure and begin to resent the sibling that they are forced to take care of. it sounds to me like you were forced to be a very mature 7 year old and handled it well. your brother is probably more greatful to you than you will ever know. i think that is awesome!! i think a lot of things happen for a reason, and becuase of your mother's own issues, you now have an incredible relationship with your sibling, and it is also quite a coincidence that you would be his only family left. fate has a funny way of showing it's meaning through time. i didn't put on here my own problem, because it is very multidimensional, i cannot pinpoint any one problem. 1. i hate to cook, my mother was an alcoholic and i had to do the housekeeping and the sibling keeping and i didn't take it too well. i never wanted to learn to cook because i knew that i would have to do it every day. in our house for a period of time, cleaning came before homework. at the same time, i was under tremendous pressure to be perfect by my mother and i developed anorexia. i never finished therapy, but almost died from it. one night my mom force fed me. i do not remember it, but my younger brother does vividly. i apparantly threw up for about 12 hours while my mom force fed me (i had gotten to the point that nothing stayed down). you can imagine my horror when they retold this story to me several years later. all this time i thought i just decided to eat..ha my mother and i are now extremely close. she had made some bad decisions, but was a very strong woman and pulled herself through (abusive relationships, alcohalism, etc.) 2. i never had a trusting relationship with any man. the man that i called dad beat my mom to the point of no recognition on a regular basis (i used to run down the street daily to call the cops, and there was only one cop in town and they never answered the phone, when they did come, they wouldn't do anything). the same person that i called dad held me at gun point one day and said that if he couldn't have my mom, then no one could and he was going to kill us all. then add to that, the absence of my real father, who later i built a very shaky relationship with-still working through that one, to the point that i truly convinced myself he had died. add to that not two, but 3 molestations, and my first sexual experience being a rape by my best friends older brother when i was twelve. the rape's continued for over a year and when my friends found out, they didn't believe me. my dh and i dated at the same time some of the rapes were going on, and i made my dh wait 8 whole months before we had sex (i was proud, it wasn't like i had anything to hold on to), i was 13 at the time, and the guy raped me the same night that i had my first real sexual experience with the man that is now my husband. i cried and begged him to stop doing that to me..and he did. people do not understand why i still went to my friends house, but at that time, she was the only person i had. my "dad" was very verbally abusive, my mom was avoiding her own household by going to a diner every night with friends. my friend's house was just as bad, so we had each other, and we were inseperable. ok, now, there are SEVERAL other instances that have been added to this, but i started a horrible relationship with food as a means of control. first by deprivation and then it was my enemy. i later found it to be my best friend and confident, and became very comfortable with the shell of fat that i carry which, in my own demented mind, shield me from being a target of rape, or just plain abuse, or just being abused. i have a problem with men. i like where i work because there is only one man. if i go to the store, i will not go through a line with a man who is checking if i can help it. i do not like for strange me to look at me at all. i live in fear of being broken in on, or a victim of a serial killer stalker...and somehow i think that fat protects me. so, that is a VERY VERY BRIEF description and only skims the surface. i think that is why this has been sooooo hard. my fat has deep roots, and although i know i have to get rid of it for my health, i haven't adjusted to well to the emotions that go along with it.
  22. i don't have an answer, but i want to know one. so i'm posting so i can subscribe.
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    Migraines? who suffers like me?

    thank you...and the panty hose thing is really tempting. i always tell dh that i feel like if he would pick my up by my head i would feel better. i only live 2 miles from work, so i'll make it..but thank you .
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    Migraines? who suffers like me?

    actually, it is really ironic that you say that. i started having migraines at the ripe age of 12-that's how the discovered i was anorexic.....went to the doctor for headache, left with a year full of scheduled counseling, individual and group, had to get stuck once a week..blah blah. i was so pissed at my mom for telling them that i didn't eat..ha..now i have the opposite problem. anyways, i have always had a habit of hitting my head when i have headaches. i once told a doctor of it, and with my particular migraines, my brain swells, i used to take verapamil for it, but i hear that is bad, so i don't know. well, when i would smack myself on the right side of my head (always on the right), pretty hard more than a few times, it would make me feel a little dizzy but it would get rid of my headaches. i still have a habit of doing that..dh HATES it. drives him batty. i can't do it at work, they will refer me to anger management or something. the maxalt has helped my head, now if i can get rid of this radiating pain from the part of my spine joins my neck..... oh dear god, i'm going home to day, lying on a heating pad and saying to hell with dh and ds..they can fend for themselves. darvocet here i come (hope it doesn't get stuck).
  25. bandster_1007

    Migraines? who suffers like me?

    I just took another one. it's not helping. my boss said i should go get caffiene (we all have them around here)...i can't get awy from my computer. it's hurting. i have a feeling this may become a fill routine. i don't do well when i can't have food. not to mention the liquid diet for me tends to have WAY more sugar. next time, i'm buying muscle mile. screw this gatorade crap. damn, damn, damn. i'm hurting. i would think the mentholatum stuff is a distraction. i've been wanting to try the head on stuff, but i haven't yet. anyone tried it? topamax did nothing for me. except give me side effects.

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