teckla

Some of you here talk about losing 2 dress sizes or more with 30 pounds of loss. I have lost 60 pounds and only one size of clothes. Is this on account that I am so hard and firm? I am really big boned and wondered if this is why? Please answer Teckla:confused::confused:

Hi all again from Hamle Indiana, I had my lap band on Nov. 15 and have lost 60 pounds already. Hamlet is 30 miles west of Valporasio, had my surgery in Michigan City Indiana. Have had some touble with the port needed to have it re worked. Would take so many times to put the needle into it. Sometimes over 20. It seems to be working ok now. Lets go Indiana, be the state that loses the most pounds,. Hannateckla:lol:

I would keep my lap band but gee, does it have to be so hard. I was so sick for 4 weeks after it was put in I never ate or drank anything almost. Felt as if nothing would go down. Then the first fill took 25 or more times which was no picnic when looking up the needle is similar to looking up a garden hose. But I had no trouble with the first fill after that. My second fill, went in easier, only 5 attempts before filling, I am now up to 7 I think. Not sure about that, the doctor says I have 2, and that I started with 5 in the tube. Does that add up to 7 or two? With this second fill which has been 9 days now, I can not eat, even ice cream or Mac and Cheese, not even able to drink my tea in the morning. Soup is so slippery it slips right back up and of course I toss it, just like I did for the 4 weeks after the surgery. Question could I just swell more than most so that being along with swelling lasts longer on me and that is the problem? Oh and the best part is when I turn over at night clear thick liquid flows out of my nose. My husband may start diapering my nose, of course it seems like I am a model t engine with the burps, little cranky ones one right after another. I have Barretts desease, so I always have trouble with acid reflux but I am sure this constant throwing up is not helping. So gang, am I having a similar problem to when I first had the band in? It will go away in a few more weeks? Is what I am doing considered different after the surgery. When I had the surgery, the doctor did not believe me when I told him I was not able to swallow anything, not even my own salivia for those weeks, I would rather come here for the answer, I hope my story is not so long and complicated you are still able to follow it. Teckla:confused::thumbup::confused:

Thanks everyone for the answers, when the doctor tried to do a unfill he was not able to hit the port, I had surgery and a unfill now if feel better but taking that quarter of CC out makes me feel like I can eat anything Hannateckla

In the three times that a fill was attempted I was stuck a total of 42 times. With not even being able to hit the port the last time. I had been so sick and not able to keep from throwing up for 4 weeks. I mean this means I threw up everything. Then he decided the port slipped a needed to re attach it. I refused to be put to sleep so they did it with a local not a fun thing but not that bad. I have not had the need to take pain pills and this is day 2. But he took out 1 quarter cc and now I can eat everything again, No restriction, nope no restriction. Does anyone know of something that may be going on beside what I have just wrote. I cannot believe it is suppose to be this difficult. Becoming bullimic would of been so much easier. My surgery was November 13, lost 35 pounds in three weeks cause I was so sick and then with this latest thing I lost 15, The lap band itself is not doing it, just the fact that I get so sick when anything is done. Thanks for any help I am just about ready to turn it into scrap.. Teckla

lolly, I would really think carefully about it if your wanting to do it on your own. Go ahead and start trying again for a month, make a date for the surgery a month in the future from the 20th of June, like July 20th. Please be sure if your going to be happy with your decision. Its not a cake walk to be in surgery or this operation. The only thing I can see the operation does is take your appetite away from you. The eating thing is really difficult and some what boring. Just be sure it is what you want.

Sorry I do not know Dr Sloan, I think I was thinking he may be up by Goshen, teckla

I should of posted this in the first post I did. I had extreme breathing trouble with the first surgery I had, Gallbladder which was just 3 months before the lap band. They never did figure out what caused it. I could not even keep a oxygen level up high enough. The doctor gave me a anit boitic for maybe lung infection with in weeks I was better. The pain you say you feel could be the air. When I was younger I had my fallopion tubes blew out. You feel much pain like your describing there in your post. Some doctors are more careless than others about getting the gas out of your cavity after surgery. Teckla

Where is Dr Sloan located? I am not sure, which hospital I know that I have heard the name. Teckla PS Your right about one thing, Indiana is a corn field.

:confused:I did not have any of the pain any of you speak of, My port did feel like a bee bite for a few days, Of couse the insisions hurt some but not bad, just like a cut on the finger. I did not even need pain meds after the first time they gave it to me in the hospital. Bought a bottle for home and still have not used it since November 2007. Only trouble I had was I could eat or drink nothing for 4 weeks. That was really rough, considering I was throwing up so much I do not know where the moisture in my body was coming from. God took care of me there, Lost 40 pounds the first month. Not nearly enough since.

I had mine done in Michigan City, Hannateckla

My doctor took about if not over 26 sticks to find my port the first time. Now I am able to eat about as much of any thing I want, but it with some food hurts like mad until I throw up. Any idea what is happening? Teckla

I am having some trouble with diet. First I have no idea what my band fill is as I have had it only filled once. That time he put in 1cc. I did here talk about him asperating 6 first? Does that mean there are already six cc in their? I have not lost my apetitite at all and want to eat. I lost 35 pounds in the first 3 weeks of lap band as I was not able to eat anything then that just stopped I became ravenous. The first fill was two weeks ago. Just what is a restriction? Exactly how does it feel? I think maybe I am not chewing food well enough and I have to throw everything back up which leaves me with ice cream for food. Now this I know is not good. What is the proper amount of food to be consuming at one time or do you count calories? If anyone please can tell me any of this information Thanks Teckla

These people are overpaid for nothing. I also flunked my psych evaluation for exactly the same reasons. My Psych doctor even tried to call him and change his mind saying there was no reason for him no allowing me to have the surgery. My family doctor of 16 years also tried to get him to change his mind. Frankly I think these councilors took the job talking to us fat people cause they have a problem with fat people or they are to lazy to get a job that they have to really do something. I just looked for a new surgeon, one that would take the Psych doctors evaluation. After one hour, these guys know more about you than doctors do after years? Some one needs to evaluate them

I just could not do it. I told my doctor I do not think he was happy, but I was so sick I could not even look at the stuff I was suppose to drink. Even looking at Jello made me sick. I ate way to much

Was just wondering how many times do they usually try to hit the port before hitting it? I had a really hard time with my first and was jabbed about 24 times? Does it usually take this many? Also what is the usual amount of fills and amounts does it seem to take, Thanks

You know I feel the same way when I eat something like you discribe with the potato. I am pretty sure lettuce and other things do that feeling to when I take my pills I feel like I am turning bingo numbers.

Oh do they usually numb you? I had no numbing meds is this unusual Thanks

:drool: I remember when I had mine done, my port entry was burning like a bee sting for a few days, it has done it once since for a half day. I think it has something to do with the weather, would not be too worried just yet. Teckla

I threw up stomach acid and anything else I was able to eat or drink for 4 weeks. I would even wake up and throw up with no warning before I could get out of bed. But it did go away.