nicolekatz3

I got a super tight fill on Monday and have only been able to eat shakes and chicken broth and yogurt and some pureed veggie soup that i made. IAM GETTING HUNGRY FOR SOME MEAT!!!! anyone have any suggestions???

I cooked a little bit of ground pork in a pan and then added it to my soup concoction(cambells tomato soup, chicken broth, carrots, sweet potatoes, cabbage, potatoes, seasoning) then I pureed it all up again. It was actually very good and satisfying. It kinda tasted like stuffed cabbage rolls!!!! which I love. It took me about an hour to get down 1cup. I would take a few spoons and then have to wait a bit until it settled or whatever happens in there. But now feel full and satisfied and hopefully got some good nutrition down. Thanks!!

My story starts back in July 2005 when I was banded by Dr S at Cleveland Clinic Weston, FL. I did lose some weight initially but as I got used to feeling my band the weight loss stopped. I kep getting tight fills but always within two weeks was back to eating everything with no problem. I finally convinced my doc that I was leaking and not staying tight, so he checked and YES it was leaking and not holding a fill. Since I was self pay, I fought with them for months and finally got a brand new band installed in Feb 2007. After all that I was getiing billed for evrything and had to fight more to get the charges finally dropped. I was so disgusted with the whole thing and going through a lot of other crap, divorce, financial problems, etc... so I just put it on the back burner since I couldn't afford the $800 they had raised the cost of a fill to. About 2 months ago I decided to try fill center USA and went to a doc in miami(if you want to know who email me direct) and he could not access my port, I left a badly bruised pin cushion. Then went back 3 weeks later to try floro. Same thing, bruised pin cushion and he said my port was flipped and was impossible to get to.You could imaging how upset I was after all I had been through. Sooo, finally yesterday I went to my original surgeon at Clev Clin, he accessed it in 30 seconds!!!!!! and filled me up tight. I never felt this way before. Finally my band is tight and working!!!! I can only tolerate liquids, only Protein shakes, chicken broth, homemade veggie Soup pure and a few bites of yogurt so far. It takes me 2 hours at least to get down a shake. And I even had the yucky reflux last night when I went to lay down which I have heard so much about over the past 3 years. I never thought it would work for me. But now I am on my way!!!!! I am glad I found this site, its full of great info. Looking forward to getting to know some of you. Nicole