unitygal

My banding date was 3/10 and it sounds like I wrote your message. I am so glad I found this site again, I forgot all about signing up on LAPBANDTALK.COM before my surgery and was feeling miserable and uninformed and worried if I was "normal" for eating regular food etc. I don't even see my surgeon until 5/9 for first fill, see nutritionist on 4/18 so I can get some answers but it is good to read about real people with the same questions and concerns as me. Thanks, everyone. Mary Ellen

This site is so informative, I was really getting worried that I had made a mistake with this surgery since all my info was also about gastric bypass as well, my DR. just started to do lap-band a few months before my surgery and I read all the books, like Before and After, which are all about gastric bypass, so I was very surprised when I could eat normal things like Soups and chicken, even steak, and not have them pureed. No one had told me that was possible but I knew I was HUNGRY and the cream of wheat was just not cutting it. I do get fuller sooner but can still eat more than the half a cup I was told I could hold. I still have to stop and think when I eat to slow down and chew, a real problem for me since I feel perfectly normal, like nothing had even happened to me. I did have one bad episode in a restaurant when my husband took me out to eat and a piece of meat was stuck and I had to throw-up alittle but felt better after that. I will say that my sugars have really dropped and have gone off one type of insulin already and am taking half the doseage of my Lantas than I was taking before banding, which was the main reason for banding in the first place, to get healthy. You will know when you have had enough to eat, that's about all I can say about that:wink2:.

I was banded 3/10 and stayed with the soft, semi liquid food for about three weks when I tried solid food and have had no problems since except that I am not losing like I was prior to my surgery, I have lost 45 lbs from May '07 until today but only 11lbs since surgery, six of those in the first six days. I don't get adjusted till 5/9 and am disappointed that I became so hungry on the semi-liquid diet that I am now eating"real food" and not losing:sad:. Hang in there and good luck. Hope you feel better soon. Banded Elliott Hospital, Manchester, NH 3/10/08

Hi, Just looking thru this site on recommendation from nutritionist. I expect to have surgery beginning of March and was asked why I wanted to have the surgery at age 62!!!!! I want to feel better, get rid of my diabetes and lower back pain, and live longer. I live in central New Hampshire and must travel to Manchester, about 90 miles each way for meetings and surgery etc. I started this whole process in May of 2007 and know that this is going to be a lifetime commiment I wanted to talk to someone who is also getting ready for the surgery or just had it. Not too computer savy either sooooo. Thanks