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Hey everybody we have our own thread now. Let's keep everybody updated on how we do. May 06'ers ROCK!!!!!!! M

Well folks I had conversion March12th. Finally having success. Will update later. M

Well it's been a while and I thought I would update everybody. I had a fill at the end of 2007. Then our insurance changed and I was told we had to bariatric coverage. I was due to see my surgeon in November. So things rocked along for a while. Then I had another slip Now I am being worked up for RNY. My new doc told me that my continuous slipping was a mechanical failure and there was nothing I could have done to prevent or to make my band work correctly after slipping. BIG RELIEF to know that I was not a failure and I shouldn't have any problems getting a revision surgery. So cross your fingers and maybe things will get better. I hope everybody else is doing okay. M

WOOOWWWZER you look MMMAAARVELOOOOUS. Congrats on the weight loss and looking so good. Myra

Hope the May 06'ers and others have a happy and blessed 2008. M

How is everybody? M

Hope all the May 06'ers and others are enjoying a happy Thanksgiving this year. Myra

I forgot to update when I had the fill. Well in the middle of my fill the rubber part of the plunger somehow bends back on it self and shoots my saline Fluid out the back end of the syringe. So they got a new syringe, stuck me again, and did their best to estimate how much fluid was lost and then hopefully filled me up to five cc. The PA was very apologetic and of course had NEVER had this happen before. Being a nurse myself I saw the syringe and had never had that happen either in my career. I told her it was just my karma. Whatever can go wrong will with me that is my just the way my life runs.:faint: Myra

Alicia WOW can't wait to hear about the gender. Do you have a preference? I am once again on the losing side. I weighed this morning and had lost eight pounds. It has been a month since my fill and I haven't really been trying. I had made up my mind to start doing better last night. So I weighed for the first time this morning since I had my fill last month and was totally amazed to see that I had lost eight pounds. So hopefully things will pick up now that I actually feel like I might see some real results. Hope everyone else is doing good. Myra

Hey folks glad to see some of ya'll checking in. Alicia CONGRATULATIONS do you know when your due date is? SHARE, SHARE, SHARE girl!!!!!! lotsofkids when I had both slips I just knew something was wrong but I didn't really know what. I got really tight really slowly over time (and I mean weeks). I didn't do any throwing up like you hear with most slips. But I think that is because I went to be checked before it got that far. But I am sure it would have if I didn't go in when I did. Both were diagnosed with flouro. Both occured after vomiting. So it does happen. LindaV sounds like a really great year and summer for you. I know you are looking forward to skiing season coming up soon. Kim2bhealthy I am going tomorrow for another fill. I kinda feel like I am standing on the edge and just starting. I hope this one will be the beginning for me that ya'll have experienced this past year. I know I am kinda getting excited now. But if it doesn't work out then I will just go to plan B. So everybody cross their fingers and I will let ya'll know after my fill tomorrow how things go. You know I am always afraid that I will get in there and they will find another slip. Myra

Okay went for a fill a couple of weeks ago. I now have 3.8cc in my VG band. Of course I still have no restriction but everything looked good on my barium swallow. So I will try for another fill again in a couple of weeks. I figure that will put me at around 5cc. Had first slip at 6 so I don't really won't to go that far yet. Myra

Well folks, after many weeks of I don't give a darn, I have decided to try another fill. If I slip again it would make the third time and I am pretty sure it would mean removal. But as I was saying to my DH an unfilled band is useless anyway. So I am going to call tomorrow and make an appt for another fill. I will have to stop some of my meds that won't go through the band. But that is better than using them and gaining weight back. So wish me luck.:biggrin1: Myra

Well went to my PCP today and we agreed that I do need to seek a second opinion about my lapband journey. So I am supposed to see my surgeon in August and I think after that I will go see another bariatric surgeon. Now I finally got an answer to a puzzling two questions. About a year ago I had trouble being able to open my right hand in the mornings after I would sleep. Sometimes I couldn't get my middle finger to extend and would have to use my other hand to straighten my finger out. I found out today I have "trigger hand" and it apparently runs in families. Didn't know that. Secondly, my right shoulder has had soreness for years. Especially when I do moderate physical work. Now I am right handed and I just thought it was age and overworking that joint. Come to find out I probably have a rotator cuff tear. Wow after my PCP told me what he suspected I came home and researched it. The first information I ran across said it was a common injury for archers and painters. I shot competitive archery for years and have been working on opening my own painting business the last couple of years. Wow I am glad to know that there are logical explantions for these very annoying little things. I go to a decorative painting seminar in a couple of weeks and then after that I am probably going to go see an orthopedic specialist and decide what to do with my shoulder. Last week I put together an entertainment center and my shoulder has been real sore. Sore enough that it hurts to raise my arm and wave at someone. So wow, I just passed it off as age related. Things are so much clearer now. Why can't I just start over with a new body say like Lindsey Lohan. I mean is that too much to ask really?:faint: M

Hey everybody we have our own thread now under the monthly support groups. Let's keep in touch. Myra

Both of my slips started with vomiting. My first was actually a night of the worst dry heaves of my life. The second was when I was put on a new medication and it would get stuck in my stoma. The last time I took it I stood at the kitchen sink for two hours trying to vomit it out. I could count on one hand the times in my life I have puked. Apparently I have a really STRONG reverse peristalsis when I get sick. So for now I am at about 3cc Fluid in my band and I am just waiting to see what happens. But I continue to have heartburn so I don't think the slip is resolving. I am supposed to go see my surgeon in August. I guess we will decide then what to do. But I do have the flipped port that has to be fixed. So I feel like they might recommend rny conversion due to my continued complications. I mean good grief I have had most everything but an erosion. I still believe in the band I just think I am in the very tiny percentage that is isn't going to work for. What good is a band if you can't get proper restriction because you keep slipping. We'll see and I will keep ya'll updated. Who do you think we need to talk too about getting a thread in the monthly section? MARCI YOU LOOK FABULOUS. You ran that weight off playing with that handsome man in the picture with you. I would have done the same thing. Myra

Hey do ya'll think we should start a thread under the monthly support section. That way our May 06'rs won't have to search through pages of threads trying to find us. Anyway ya'll probably know I am currently dealing with slip #2 and I am considering a revision to RNY. I am seeing my PCP tomorrow for my annual pap smear (there is a joy to behold). I think I will talk to him about it then. I don't know what my insurance will do. But I know I have been told that once you slip you are always prone to it again. I feel depressed.:think M

I popped a stitch and almost completely flipped my port by bending over and picking a weed out of my flower bed. It happens so don't beat yourself up about it. Myra

What handsome men those guys are. My DD is almost 17 and I can't wait for her to be old enough to have some grandbabies for me. I have already put my order in for six boys and six girls. But one for each knee would be just great too. DL glad to hear the knee is improving. Those type injuries seem to take so long to heal. Well I went to the surgeon and we are just going to leave things alone for now. I weighed this morning and I still haven't gained any and actually lost just a tiny bit. :clap2: Myra

Went to the surgeon Friday and we are just going to let things stay the same for now. I will go back in a couple of months and then we might start putting some Fluid back into my band. I promised him I wouldn't gain any weight before then. So I am really going to have to watch what I eat. But that's okay because I can at least take my medicine and not worry about it getting stuck. Alicia hoping things go quickly for ya. DL Glad to hear the knee is doing better. Hope you can get on those skates pretty soon. Hope the other 2006 Maysters are doing well. Myra

pb productive burp Cynthia my first self-corrected. I was only diagnosed two weeks ago with the second. I see my surgeon today and I expect to have a barium swallow probably next week. I was told that 90% of slips will self correct with the removal of the fill and a diet of liquids/mushies for a couple of weeks. It worked for me the first time and I think it will this time also. Myra

I can only tell you what I personally experienced. Slip #1 followed an all night episode of dry heaving. I can't stay that I instantly knew I had slipped. It was more a gradual tightening of my restriction over several weeks without the benefit of a fill. I finally got to the point that after about four bites of food I could feel it stacking up in my esophagus. I also could feel the food "pop" through my stoma/band. So I made and appointment for a fill knowing that I would have a barium swallow during my appointment. Of course the slip was diagnosed after the BS. Slip #2 followed when I had medication get "stuck" in my stoma. I couldn't pass anything up or down but my body tried to move the blockage with the dry heaves/vomiting. Again I had that gradual tightening feel except this time I started experiencing mild heart burn. I knew I had another slip so again I made an appointment for a fill knowing that I would get the barium swallow that would either confirm or deny the slip. Yep I had slipped again but not as severely as the first time. I am told that the number one reason for slipping is vomiting. I have to say I have a cast Iron stomach and can count on one hand the times in my adult life that I have vomited/dry heaved. Unfortunately, two of those times have caused my band to slip. Myra

Well I'm a checkin in and a reporting. Today I walked 45 minutes around my neighborhood at a fairly fast pace. I couldn't hardly walk 4 blocks a year ago. So I haven't had the fastest weightloss but what I have lost has really impacted what I am able to do now. Looking forward to losing more. How is everyone????????????????? Myra

Heather congrats on keeping your band. I am also fighting slip #2 from vomiting/dry heaving. Hope things go well for you. Myra

wabb let me clarify. I take the extended release Glucophage that typically can stay intact throughout the GI tract. I had a difficult time with it sticking in my pouch no matter how late I would take it at night. I would take it sometimes as late as 9 at night and it would still be in the pouch as late as 2 the next afternoon. I could actually feel it "pop" through the stoma. So everything I ate typically didn't go through until then and drinking could be dicey. Being an insulin-dependent diabetic I just can't wait to the middle of the afternoon to start eating and drinking. My second slip started when a Glucophage got stuck, and I spent a couple of hours trying to puke it out. Within a few days I started feeling heartburn and knew I had slipped again. My first slip was also due to vomiting. I guess I am just real sensitive to reverse peristalsis.:confused: Oh well. We'll see what happens from here. Myra

Marci CONGRATULATIONS on being a grandma. Are these your first grandbabies? I loooooooovvvvvveeeeee those names. How did they come about choosing them? Fingers crossed for ya that everything goes well. Myra