Jachut

My throat gurgles, the way the band works is a bit likea blocked plug, liquid kind of chugs up and down it, it doesnt smoothly move though

Im sitting in hospital day 2 (i get a four night stay) and can tell already Im goi g to be frustrated. Im a teacher too, school holidays start here today so i go back week 3 if i feel ok. I also had repair of tWo fairly major inguinal hernias which o some extent i have caused myself by NOT taking it easy, like running ten days after a six hour long bowel resection, o this time i am going to focus on walking and nothing else! It oesnt hurt as much as i expected, but i can do less than i expected if that mkes sense. Even adjusting the pillow is hard! Im also more than ready to lose the catheter and pumpy stocking things.

Mine is very visible. At a bmi of 20 its like a walnut under my skin. It doesnt really bother me, however im in hospital right now after a tummy tuck and its been replaced with a low profile one, i cant see anything yet as its all bandaged up.

I cant see anything, my whole tummy is dressed, or id take ome pics. My Ps said he got the scar as low as possible, but tht i was very tight, i really didnt have a lot of skin to work with and most of my laxity was in the upper belly. He said bikini worthy still, which is a relief, im thinking probably not ultra low string bikini, given Im nerly 45 I think the general public may appreciate that, lol.

Nearly seven years for me with no major problems - my pouch has stretched out a very little bit which my doctor says is a fairly natural adaptation over time, but that if i respect my band it will serve me gor a long time to come. The scars do fade well but my port has always been visible. I had my band unfilled for most of last year and it was hrd work maintaining my weight. I dont think i would become obese again (with work) but maintaining a bmi of 20 wouldnt be easy. I have no plans to unfill -but i dont need to be tight to maintain either. I run about an hour a day and thats key. Personally, i wouldnt swap a bmi of 20 to settle for 32 or even 25, i love having gotten truly "thin"

All done! Feeling pretty fine, pain pumps are wonderful things, lol. Worst part is just having to lie still on my back.

I think theres not enough recognition given that every person with. Bmi of 45 once had one of 27. You describe All the struggles of an obese person. Better to lose a small amount now than a large amount in future years. All Lellows points are very true though, aftercare is important, theres someone else on this board fro Dubai but i cant remember who, hopefully she sees this.

I know, that breastbone position seems so odd to me - I am so bony there, there's a scant fraction of a millimetre thickness of skin and no fat at all on my breastbone, cant see how in the world my port wouldnt look like an alien baby there- its obvious enough on my stomach. My TT is on Tuesday, I'm getting REALLY nervous. I'm having bilateral inguinal hernia repair and some reconstruction around where my ileostomy was and my docs were so nice to me - figured i'd been through so much in the last two years - that between them, they've cooked up a full tummy tuck nearly completely covered by our public health system (not that I have an awful lot to tuck) just so i end up with all my surgery scars gone, and lose the sad frowny belly button. I"m very excited - but equally about fixing those hernias which have been giving me all sorts of trouble. For me, my tummy looks very flat anyway, its just a bit 'loose' so it wont be a major shape changing sort of thing to me, but will make me feel really great in a bathing suit and eliminate that annoying little roll over the top of my jeans.

If they arent going to move it it wont be separated from the abdominal wall, but if the do, there's nothing particulaly complex about that. My ps has told me hell move it and in The process take the back off it, which reduces the pofile, and my lapband surgeon had no problem with that nor did he think it necessary to be unfilled.

I was wondering, since my surgeon said theres no need to unfill. Ive really struggled since a complete unfill fifteen months ago for major bowel surgeru, never really got my restriction back so i would welcome a few tight weeks, and to match my new tummy, four or five pounds off would be nice too, lol. But as we all know OVERTIGHT just doesnt get us anywhere. So do go see your doc if youre vomiting, etc

Mine's next week, eeeeek! But seeing your pic Im also really excited, also very much looking forward to having my huuuuge inguinal hernias fixed, they hurt!

I do a lot of smoothies too - freat way to get fruit and veg. I loathe Protein shakes, but i do actually like Optifast. I love the coffee flavour with a bit of extra espresso and walnuts blended just so the walnuts still have crunch. Mmmmmm. I also eat regular Cereal or toast, Im missing half my bowel and I really need a fairly high grain intake for the soluble fibre or Im in ten different kinds of trouble, but it has certainly not hurt weight loss or maintenance for me. I choose wholegrain varieties of course, not sugary kid cereal. I love untoasted muesli. Sometimes i just eat a good handful of trailmix.

Rumming, running, running!!!

If you have a look at my pictures http://www.lapbandtalk.com/gallery/member/204951-jachut/, I'd say I had a pretty darn lucky outcome for a 120lbish weight loss. Now, I'm having a tummy tuck next week. But do I *need* it - absolutely not. I'm having it because I got an opportunity - I have some large inguinal hernias which need to be fixed fairly urgently, I've had huge surgeries for bowel cancer and between my colorectal surgeon and the plastic surgeon he sent me too, I think they've been nice to me and offered to go ahead with a full tummy tuck to remove all the scarring etc (not that there's that much) for a bargain basement price. Both highly respected and well credentialed surgeons, so I'm extremely lucky. I would never have gone looking for a tummy tuck just because, I have certainly bemoaned my loose stomach and wished I had a six pack, like most people but for me, no way woudl that justify the expense of such major surgery. In fact if I were to have some money for PS, a tummy tuck probably wouldnt even have been the first thing on my list of wants. I'm slightly concerned that its going to be like renovating a room in your house, and highlight how shabby everything else is. I'm 44, I've had 3 babies, and I've never been really firm or tight (nor have I ever had perky breasts) but I exercised, lost pretty slowly and I think I'm just damn lucky. I didnt have stretchmarks from my pregnancy or anything, so I must just have resilient skin. Not that there's NO signs that I've been overweight, I mean I've got enough skin there to remove and put me back together, but nobody that only sees me clothed is even going to know I've had a tummy tuck, its not going to make that much of a difference to my size and profile.

It is always a bit embarrassing but you know, they wont even look. At any rate whilst your anaesthetised and go under, gown removed and drped up to hide it all, th surgeon (who is the one you have to look in the eye afterward) probably wont even be there yet. They come in at the last minute. All hell probably see is a mound of green sheets with a tummy. In the middle

Too tight.

Im having a tummy tuck/ inguinal hernia repair/scar revision in gwo weeks and my surgeon said theres generally no need to unfill, so im not. I did unfill for my bowel resection and my band has not been quite right since.

No, maybe later. For me its a sometimes I can, sometimes I cant thing. But they arent mushies!

I've done about five of them during the last two years and its always been fine. Its hard to get the liquid down quiuckly, unfortunatly you have to sip and taste it, but its doable

I'm anm opriginal lapband patient, not a Realise patient and I'm 6 and a half years out. No real problems - I did have to unfill my band totally for a major surgery fifteen months ago and upon refilling, it was never quite the same again, just couldnt get the same restriction. It seems that from unfilling, it has moved ever so slightly, causing a slightly enlarged pouch.. But I stress that that is not a major problem, doctor is happy to leave it and I do still have pretty good restriction, just not what I would previously have had with an almost full 4cc band. What happens to me now is that the larger pouch allows me3 to eat a tiny bit more - hardly perceptible - and then I'm a bit prone to suddenly realising I ate too much. My weight tends to swing a little more, but only by a pound or two, whereas bbefore it never ever moved. My feeling on this is that my band is fine for now, but I have in the back of my mind it might need replacing within the next few years. Fine by me. I never thought this would be absolutely forever, and was never led to believe that. I'd do it again in a heartbeat. The bigger problem with long term banding is that you get so used to the slight discomforts and difficulties with eating that you start to miss the signals or ignore them and you do gradually begin to overeat again. Not overeat like you used to but you do eat more, the stringent carb counting or calorie counting sort of loses its shine, life takes over and you do get the occasional scale reminder that it is VITAL to always be thinking about your eating and your health. There really is no such thing as getting banded, losing weight and never thinking about food. It takes time and effort to stay on the straight and narrow. I still run for an hour three times a week and go to about four RPM classes.

I keep hitting repeat on halfway gone by lifehouse and wherever you will go (hmmm, jan wain?) - oh and i've revisited underneath the radar too, all songs that got in my head at rpm!

Well, for starters i think that sometimes, even when theres more fat you techmically *could* lose, you may look better stopping earlier and fixing tjose trouble zones with ps. I know for me, i got really thin with a bmi of just 19 and i was STILL bothered by my very flat but loose tummy and my thighs STILL had small saddle bags but you could count every rib in my chest and every vertebrae in my spine. For me ther is mo weight at which those things disappear. Ive gotten back to a bmi of 21 and my face and chest look much better but my problem areas have grown too! I think personally getting to a normal bmi of 25 or so is probably a good balance between health, attractive levels of body fat and the point where things are not going to get a lot better for the majority of people. If your bmi is say 28 then you can still choose ps of course but there would definitely be fat you could lose

Golly, the thought of vinegar when you have heartburn isnt pleasant, one would think it would burn really badly!