JRFAN88

I've really missed this thread too. I only get on here now when I get a notification that someone has posted something new. It is hard to believe this May will have been 3 years since I had my lapband. I'm only down maybe 25 pounds from when I had surgery. At my lowest I was down 55 or 60 pounds but I gained it back. I had a slip that fixed itself with an unfill. My story is a lot like tpagern's. Everytime I get a good fill & I'm losing weight, it gets to where I can't keep anything down & I have to get an unfill. Then I gain the weight back. I know this can't be good for my body to keep gaining & losing the same weight. What I just read about lo2us's allergy problems makes me wonder if that could be part of my problem too. It seems like the older I get that allergies are more of a problem for me. Thanks for posting! Maybe others will get on here & give us an update.

I'm kind of confused about why your doctor would have given you a fill in the first place when he said you had slipped. When my band slipped last summer, I was throwing everything up, I definitely didn't need a fill. They had to send me to the hospital to do a swallow test to verify the slip. Then after verifying there was a slipped band, they removed all my fluid. I quickly gained weight but my band went back into position on its on. There was nothing else required to fix it. It doesn't work on every slip, but mine was just a "minor" slip & removing the fluid was all it took. Just wondering if your doctor has tried that?

Gotta agree with the last poster in that I haven't liked Koli's attitude the last couple of weeks. I had really liked him up until then. So we voted to keep Darius. And on another note.... I'm so excited that the new Jillian show starts the week following Biggest Loser's finale! I hope it's good.

This week's show was one of the best this season, in my opinion. I agree with what other's have said about being glad that Sunshine's daddy went home. I was kind of sick of their relationship. Maybe with him gone, she will grow up a little. I also am glad that Michael & Darious made it to makeover week. I can't wait to see what they look like afterwards.

I really think somehow it had to be rigged for Melissa to come back. They wanted her back for the Drama effect. I watch the show for the weight loss, not the drama, so I was not happy about her coming back. Her facial expressions have almost been as bad as Tracy's. Almost as bad, but not quite as bad. And I wasn't sure what to think of the other drama this week with what's-her-name, where they say she had set up the weigh in before. I hadn't noticed any of that going on. I had really liked her, just thought she was more of a loner than some of the others. I think in these reality shows it pays to make friends.

Me too. I told my husband on the first night that I hoped he stayed long enough to make it to the makeover night cause he SURE needs it!

I think 4 cc from the beginning is definitely the difference. I had 2 cc & once the initial swelling went down after about 2 weeks out, I was starving. You may or may not neet a fill in 2.5 weeks. You may still be just right or you could even loosen up or tighten up somewhat by then. You'll just have to tell your doctor how you are feeling at that time. Good luck! It sounds like it is going great for you so far.

Lol..... But Jillian plays the bad guy role so well.... I love it... I would rather have her as my trainer. I love Bob too. Some people would work better under his style. I would need to have that fear that if I were underachieving that Jillian would go off on me too. I guess part of it is that I'm a "nice" girl, have always been and will probably always be. I am jealous of Jillian & ones like her that can go off on anybody. Lol...

I just got the GoWearFit this week which is supposed to be about the same thing as the BodyBugg. I do sleep with mine on because one of my reasons for getting it was to see how much sleep I'm getting. I'm supposed to be sleeping with a CPap machine for sleep apnea. I'm wondering if mine is overestimating my calories burned & my steps taken. This is my 3rd day with it. I have done no "exercise" yet just my daily job & home. I do take a lot of steps at work but it's been showing that I've taken nearly 5000 a day, hard to believe. I keep track of my calories with an app on my Droid phone. Then at night I just put my daily calories into the Activity Manager on the website.

My doctors advise that once you throw up to go on liquids for 24 hours. My problem that I was talking about was once I get tight, I can't keep anything down, even liquids. If you can get liquids to stay down I would definitely just try that before getting fluid removed. Mine has always been so bad that it requires an unfill. It doesn't get better on its on, only worse.

Welcome to my world... Lol... That has happened to me over the course of my LAP-BAND®. Everytime that I think I've finally arrived at the sweet spot & start finally losing weight, I get so tight that not even Water will go down & stay. I get dehydrated & have to go for an unfill. Then I'm right back where I was, not having enough restriction, gain back some weight & start the process over. It usually happens right at 6 weeks out for me. Sometimes I think it's my time of month that tightens me up, sometimes I think it's stress, & sometimes I just don't know. Once when it tightened up I was having night-time reflux & coughing my band slipped slightly. They removed all the Fluid that time & I put back on a lot of weight until I reached the sweet spot again. (My band went back into place on its on simply by removing the fluid). 6 weeks later I was in the ER getting fluid removed. Now I'm gaining weight again. My docs only fill every 6 weeks so I go too long without the help of my band. I said all that to say, yes, it can tighten up 2 months after a fill. You need to call or go see your doctor to see if a slight unfill will help. Keep us posted. I wish somebody could tell me how to stop it from happening.

I have always done my regular workout on fill days, including weights. My trainer, however, wouldn't allow any crunches. Not that I thought it would bother me. She was just afraid to mess anything up.

I'm one of the very slow losers you are referring to. At my 1 year bandiversary I had lost probably 40 pounds. 10 of that was on the pre-diet & 10 in the week following surgery. So leaving only about 20 over the course of the next year. I have yo-yo dieted since I was about 14. I've always been able to lose the first 20 very quickly. But then when I fall off the wagon I can gain 20 back in a week. My problems have not been because I haven't seen my doctor. I have went every 6 to 7 weeks as they have recommended since I was banded. I've never missed. I have only missed 1 monthly support group meeting since a couple of months before I was banded. I have also followed "the rules" of the LAP-BAND®. My problem has not been that I haven't exercised. I walked almost daily the first 6 months or so. Then I hired a personal trainer & worked out 4 days a week with her along with my walking for the past 10 months. My doctors are conservative with fills. They believe filling you too much at a time can cause spasms. So it took several months to get to my sweet spot. Everytime I have got to that spot & I think, oh, this is the way it's meant to be.... then WHAM I all of a sudden I tighten up. Not just so much that I can't eat solids but also that I can't keep any liquids down. Dehydration is a bitch! I've tried to tough it out but after a few days your whole body hurts, you are very grumpy, you can't function, you feel like you're going to die. This is the point that I have to go get some unfilled. Then I immediately feel alive again. I can eat & drink. But then I have no restriction. Back to square one. Gain weight back. Gradually start getting fills again. Last summer I got my usual tightness moment. This time it was manageable but it was accompanied by a night-time cough & reflux. Then it got to where I was throwing everything up & found out my band had slipped. Luckily it went back into place on its own after removing all Fluid. Then I had to start the slow process of replacing the fluid. My last fill was perfect. Things were great. Until 6 weeks after the fill. WHAM! I couldn't eat anything starting Christmas Eve that didn't come back up. Ended up in the ER about 4 days later getting 1 cc removed. I immediately was better but here I am wanting to eat everything in sight. I wish I could be stronger when I don't have restiction but if I had that kind of willpower I don't think I would have felt the need for the band in the first place. I'm trying to get some help for these times when I don't have that needed restriction. I have one of the BodyBugg like things ordered along with a new pair of workout shoes. Hoping that helps. It has been very discouraging. I'm still glad I had the LAP-BAND®. It's great when it's working for me.

Glad I found this new thread. I can't wait to watch tonight. I love this show!