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Youll be really tired at the end of your shift but at least its only four hours. If it was six or eight Id say youd never make it. You will prob need to take breaks and rest. Good luck and I hope you get lots of big tips!

Barbie, how much weight did you lose on your preop diet. Youve already alomost lost 50 pounds! Thats amazing! How long did you have to do a preop diet for?

Update, after the pitty party I just threw myself, my wonderful (and I must say VERY GOOD LOOKING) Dr's assistant came to my hotel room to check on me. I told him how nausiated and awful I felt, and the wonderful man had in his medical bag a shot of phentagram, or something that sounds like that. He simply gave me a shot right in the caboos. Within 20 min my nausia was so much better. He also switched my pain meds to something better. So a shot if this, a swig of that, and presto Im a new woman! I dont feel my best, but I feel a whole lot better with that nausia gone. That was just AWFUL! But much better now :smile:

My first NSV was being brave enough to travel to Mexico by myself to get this band put in. I say it counts as an NSV.:smile:

Woke up today in the dumps. I am nausious as hadies and Im so afraid that Im going to start puking my guts out. Deep breaths seem to help some. I feel worse than yesterday. I thought Id feel a little better everyday, but today Ive gone backwards. Please just hurry up and be tomorrow.

I wish I could go to sleep and wake up one week later. This sucks...:smile:

Hi Ma, welcome to bandland. I am three days post op. This site is great for support.

Are you still on liquid diet? Mine is only a week then on to mushies. Ohh thank god. Honestly the worst part about traveling is that I dont have a kitchen to cook myself some food in. I could handle this better if I could make my own home-made cream of potato soup watered down with skim milk and blend it, or some home-made chilli watered with tomato juice, or real chick broth made from a chicken I boil. This nasty prepackaged stuff is so gross to me. Fake canned soups and broth from cubes. Eww! I know Im a food snob but whatever. I just like home cooked stuff. I am used to home cooked meals and this just isnt cutting it for me. Im onto full liquids now so I can have anything I can suck threw a straw (but Im not supposed to suck it threw a straw literally. Straws are a no no). When I get home Im gonna start cooking. At least Im not very hungry yet. So Ill keep suffering threw the sugar free yogurts and precanned garbage they call soups. And I hope I never see another sugar-free protein drink again. I want to puke just thinking about forcing them down. As soon as Im onto mushies Im going to eat as much soft chicken as it takes so I dont have to gag on those sugar free protein drinks!:cursing:

I got the lap band because my Dr is in Mexico and so he doesnt use the realize band. The nutrionist said my band was 5cc's. I wanted the realize band because I had heard that food doesnt get stuck as much. But the down side to that of course is that the restriction isnt as strict so you might eat things that you shouldnt be eating. Im sure I will be happy with my allergin lapband. Its strictness will keep me honest!

I have to stay here until Sunday. Since my Doctor is in Mexico, they dont let their US patients leave for five days because if I needed aftercare it would be expensive for me to pay out of pocket to see a US doctor. So I stay here for five days so we are totally sure Im good to go. I do have a doc lined up in CA but still I dont want any emergency visits if I can avoid them. Saw my Doctor again a few min ago. He said my surgery hurt worse than other people's because I have a single insicsion surgery. So there is a lot more tugging and pulling to get all the surgery untinsels in that one little insision and get around the stomich and liver. It makes that insicion very tender and the muscle really sore from all that tugging. Also he said he has to use more gas because he has to inflate the entire abdominal cavity from the one insicion he places up top. Now I understand why it was more painful than I had expected. Well Im sure it will get better every day. Im not hungry for the first time in my life. I got scolded for not drinking my juice or yogart. Im just so sick of the sugar free, crappy tasting poo Ive been eating could cry. Uh oh. There are those emotions again. I really hope that I can just eat normal things and not all this diet crap. I dont really like sweets so I figure as long as things in moderation once I am back on solids Ill say good bye to all this sugar free stuff. Plus I really dont think sweetner is very good for our bodies. Its all processed chemicals. Sugar is more natural and if you have it in really small quantities I dont see anything wrong with it. In two weeks Ill say good ridence to this sugar free stuff and focus on healthy solid foods like chicken and veggies.

I have to say that for some reason I am emotional. When I woke up from surgery I was in a lot more pain then I had expected. I dont speak spanish and my Doctor was gone and none of the nurses spoke english. They gave me a lot of pain meds but the second the meds would wear off, the pain was almost unbearable. I finally started crying. It wasnt just the pain, but O think because I was frustrated and tired and also in pain. It was a combo of all of it. The nurses just thought it was all pain since I couldnt explain it to them in spanish so they dosed me up like I was a horse and I was so high I forgot about being emotional. (even though the nurses dont speak English they are so very nice and try very hard to be helpful). When the meds wore off I was sad again, but at the same time so happy that I finally have my band. Weird. Every emotion is just really intense right now. Its like really bad PMS but I just ended that less than a week ago. Anyways, thought Id put it out there in case someone else feels that way they know they arnt alone. Emotional wreck over here! :scared2:

LAXITIVES! I just had surgery yesterday and let me tell you owwie! My tummy! I cant go and it hurts. I didnt think I would have to go because I havent had anything but clear liquids for the last four days, but I was wrong. Dont forget to get this or you may be as sorry as I am. I just took some but its a day late a dollor short. If I could do it over again Id have started taking them right after surgery even though I didnt feel like going until the next day. It would have really helped.

I made it alive. I write more when less pain. I love my band...welcome band to ur new home

I got to Mexico this morning. Very tired. left at 11:45 pm, arrived here at 8:10am, and didnt sleep because the ride was full of so much turbulance I was scared to death. Drinks were coming off of the trays from the bumps. So I was tired when I got here. Slept for an hour and had to start with my preop apts. Saw the cardio first. Yay my heart is healthy. Then came back and laid down for thirty min. Then they woke me up to go to the psych consult and then to preop apt with the Dr who will be placing the band. I havent been allowed to eat in three days accept for S/F popcycles and jello and broth. So no sleep+no eating=cranky cranky. :wub:

My surgery is this Thursday July 16th

Hi Joe? write back when you can. I totally understand. Im exactly where you are. I leave for Mexico today and Im really scared and hoping that Im doing the right thing.:thumbdown:

BBK, are you going to put up new pics on makemeheal that youve had your revision? I only see your pics before your revision surgery where you were having problems. Id like to see how it turned out when he fixed them. Are you happy with everything now?

ok today marks my one week! I leave for Mexico on Tuesday night and have surgery on Thurday morning. I cant believe Im actually doing this! Im really scared and excited at the same time! Im also going threw the nesting stage of cleaning and prepping. I just started today. The realization of it happening has finally set in. I can relate to what every one else is saying on this post. Ill keep you guys updated when I get to Mexico. I am traveling alone so Im sure Ill be posting on here looking for company and support. =)

Good luck girls! Im still a week away and practically having anxiety attacks so I can only imagine how ya'lls nerves are! Deep breaths! Cant wait to hear from everyone

So did the restriction stick with you? Or did it go away as suddenly as it came?