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Hi Doddy and MsRobby! Welcome! Wow, so many new people every week... I'm already lost from the last rush of new Canadians!

As of right now, I feel probably 99% better. What do you mean what was it?! Nothing crazy: I got sick, puked, irritated matters more, which lead to lovely nighttime water regurgitation, which led to choking/coughing and more irritation, and just made everything swell up, I imagine. That's all. If anyone asked me if I've had any complications, I wouldn't even call this one. So yes... much better! Its amazing how much hungrier you feel though. I *think* it might be because I CAN eat though. This morning, dudes, I'm going for BREAKFAST! It's scary, cause I haven't done breakfast in months! But I think I can, and I WILL! Dr. C said probably only 7-10 days defilled, but it's not like I'd be able to drive somewhere 3-4 hours away during the week, so I'll go 2 weekends from now, I think. Dan's birthday is that weekend also, so I think we'll make the trip that day... I don't think anything says happy birthday more than watching your girlfriend take a huge needle in the belly, right?

Come and talk to us in the Canadian area, you guys!

Just talked to Dr. C - he said probably a week to 10 days only (for the defill), then I can go back up to 1cc to start.

Hey guys, my goal for Feb was 178. Since I'm flyin' solo now, I'm glad I didn't get too ambitious when I made that goal!! *IF* I actually make that sometime soon, I'm holdin' on to it for dear life. I actually think now that it's like this, if I SEE a lower number on the scale, whether its my official weighin day or not, it's going in my 'records' and my ticker!

Thank you gals I was just browsing around, and found the most bizarre thing in the Australian area of LBT. go here : http://www.lapbandtalk.com/aussie-before-and-t29650p2.html to the 2nd page, very bottom.. the post with before/after pics by Sharyn P. The man in both pictures.... EXACTLY the same? Did she cut him out of the first and paste in the 2nd?! I want to ask what the heck is goin' on... but... I don't want to be rude. :omg:

ahhhh... sweet relief. It's amazing how quickly you feel better. I'm just home right now, snarfing down some yogurt, YES, yogurt! I was taking tiny sips all morning, cause I was soooo thirsty, and after the defill, I drank about half a litre of my bottled water. It's insane! Did it with the flouroscope... he was sure it wouldn't work, that it was kinked, and it did LOOK kinked at the end where the tubing comes out of the port. But after a couple tries and flipping me on my side, he saw that it didn't look like he was quite going in. He got a longer needle... a SPINAL tap needle, tried that, flipped me over to see if it looked like it was in the very center of the port, and it was. The second he reattached or tried to reattach the syringe, a bunch of saline spilled out, and then he pulled out about another .5cc... he said about 1cc spilled. I don't care, even if there is a tiny bit left in, I'll find out when I go for my fill, whenever that may be. They froze me, which was really nice, cause I was sore from all the prodding yesterday. Oh how nice it would be to be flouro-ed everytime. I almost asked if he wanted to do my fills, but thought that might be pushing my luck! Anyways, I gotta hurry and get to work. I was feeling dizzy when I woke up this morning, and think I almost passed out in the shower... better now. Full of yogurt and water! Mmmmmm... a big Tim Hortons soup for me for lunch, I think! Talk to you guys later! Mandi

Aww Wheezy, that really sucks. Did he enjoy the dinner at least ? hehe I really feel bad that it's not going smooth for you. Seeing you in the waiting room the morning of your surgery, I only had good things to say... and even now I wouldn't tell anyone not to get banded. What do they have to say about how you're doing? Do they suggest more of a fill... do you think you could take more of one? Good luck to you too. :hug: and thank you Maria and Mrs. Toes. Oh, Maria, you asked earlier... no, I haven't 'really' thrown up since Sunday. And by 'really', I mean really being physically nauseous and HAVING to throw up. Not 'pbing'... cause yeah, that's been happening alot still. Eating? What's that? Today I had high hopes when I started with tea in the morning... it wasn't sitting well, so I moved to just boiled water, had a bit of that, and then tried to sip a little cold water. That felt the best, so I stuck with it. Tiny tiny sips. Had another 'cup' of chick. noodle soup, minus most of the noodles, then a romantic ice cream dinner. I really can't wait for the defill. It's scary, but I am not enjoying this one bit. I'm just worried that for some reason they won't be able to get it out. The Dr. said that if they can't do it by flouro, the tubing must be kinked or something! Is it possible, could they possibly NOT be able to hit the port correctly with flouro? Oh I hope not! I'm going to sleep sitting up...as best I can, on the couch, tonight. Cause even stopping drinking 3 hours before bed last night, I still coughed up water all night = hell. I don't wanna make tomorrow even worse, so.. I'll opt for trying to sleep sitting up. Thank you again guys. I'm really lucky to have you all. :think

Ok, time for me to look at some positives in the form of measurements head - 23 to 22.75 neck - 16 to 13.75 chest - 55 to 42 waist - 48 to 35 hips - 54 to 42 around thighs - 43.5 to 39 around calves - 30 to 25 left arm - 18 to 15 right arm - 18.5 to 15 56.5 inches... that's good.

Hey neenagh, since I am soon to be in your shoes, give me some words of wisdom! How's it going? Are you managing to not gain whilst unfilled? Oooh... or are you on that vacation you were talkin' about!?

Oh guys... the horror. Things weren't feeling any better this morning, so I finished typing my email to Dr. C, and CCed it to the nurses as well, in case one of the other got it first. Sue, a nurse got back to me right away, said that Dr. C was in surgery today but she'd have him talk to me ASAP. She ended up talking to him inbetween surgeries or something, and emailed me back that he said for me to get a defill, in case I have a slip. I replied saying "nooooooooo! a complete defill?!"... anyways, he called me on my cell. Told me that I needed a complete defill, in case it was a slip (and regardless to give my stomach a break). I asked if there wasn't a way I could get an xray here and if that would show if it was slipped.. and if maybe someone atthe hospital knew how to do a defill. He said yes, called the radiologist here, called me back, the radiologist would do an abdominal xray, and give a defill a try. I went to the ER, went to see this one Dr. who I was told would just be giving me the go-ahead to go for the xray. I got the xrays, saw the radiologist briefly, was told to go back to the ER and wait. Waited for SOOOOO long, to have the original Dr. say "Everything look's good. There's nothing in there." And I was like "Ummm... what?" He said nothing was stuck, it was all good. I asked wasn't the radio. gonna take the fluid out? He said they didn't need to. I said but I was throwing up, and I think everything's irritated, cause I can't eat or drink. He said that happens to everyone... it would be ok soon. :rolleyes I said that I was SURE Dr. Cobourn said I would have to get defilled regardless of what the xrays showed. He hesitatingly said he'd give Dr. C a call back. Came back into the room and said "oh yeah, you were right. He said you'd feel 100% better when you had it removed." Anyways, this guy gets all set up to try to remove the saline. He brought in a nurse who was very experienced with port-o-caths. They both seemed so confident that it was gonna be easy. Then after the 2nd poke, he called Dr. C back and said he couldn't get any fluid out...was he supposed to go in kind of sideways? Dr. C said no. So he tried it once more. Nothing. Actually, the first time he said there was maybe a couple drops? It felt like he was hitting the back of the port, and I heard the needle scratching the back (i think), but nothing!? I mentioned how the Dr. in Moncton does all his fills with flouro. He said, oh yeah, that would be an option.... gave the radiologist a call, told him about the problem, and they're going to call me tomorrow morning and hopefully bring me in tomorrow to have the radiologist do it under flouro. That should be pretty fool proof, I would think. The Dr. said that "If that doesn't work, maybe the tubing is kinked!" :mad: I didn't want to tell him that it took Marie longer the last time she did it, cause I didn't want him doing it anymore! I called Dr. C after wards and told him he couldn't remove it, and about the flouro. Dr. C asked if the Dr had told me that the xrays looked good, and how they were supposed to look (as Dr C told him over the phone what to look for) I said yeah. So, that's it. They don't think it's a slip, but I still need the damn defill. I'm worried from what I've heard about people trying to get back to where they were prior to a defill, but he's said he's never had problems.... it shoulb be fine. I'd get an initial 1cc fill again, then maybe another 0.5 the next time. I think I wouldn't get 0.5 though, because of my last fill... maybe 0.3. There it is guys. I was upset. It all happened so fast... I barely told Dan that I was leaving work. I guess I should just be happy that this is all it is... no slip. I'll have a little band-cation... maybe I'll have a sandwich? I just hope I don't gain. MAN... I don't wanna go back under the 100 mark!!!! I think it would only be a couple weeks (but then again, depending on when I can get to NS to have a fill). But how can I not be worried that this NS lady won't have a hard time with me too. I really don't like all the pushing on my port... ouch. I am gonna have a bruise tomorrow, I'm sure. Booooo hooo for me. :think

(oh yeah, mookie.. nope the jeans are still travellin'. That MUST be it... Dan couldn't fit them! {I used to not be able to fit his... by far!} And hope you guys are not having too many problems with all the snow... all you who got hit, or are gonna. It's on its way over here, this afternoon/evening... so... :phanvan )

Hey guys! Well, I made it. I caught that evasive 100lbs. Something good HAS come from my not feeling good. Crazy how a few days ago I can weigh myself and I'm not sure that I'll even make it to 184 by today, and then today, I'm in the 181's. So, it's been exactly 46 weeks for me. I could say 48, technically, because of the pre-op diet. My one year anniversary's comin' up.... I should make a goal for that. I really shouldn't... I NEVER thought I would be at 100lbs lost in a YEAR, let alone 11 months (hehe, in my world, 11 months won't really be til the end of Feb, a month before my bandiversary!) I wrote notes to myself on my calendar, that even 52lbs by the end of the year would be awesome, because that would mean I made the 1-2lbs a week target. Anyways... gotta get ready for work. Since it's a big day, I'll take some pictures today... do my measurements...all that good stuff. Oh yeah... it's Valentine's Day! Dan made me a card, and gave me some loverly tulips! Later guys

da da da daaaaaaaaaah! check out my ticker... finally! :faint:

Hey, I flew from Toronto to Vancouver a couple days after surgery. It wasn't very fun, but Toronto to Edmonton would have been much more bearable! Get a non-stop flight, maybe some better seats... no biggie! Don't write Ontario off just because of that! But anyways, go through some of the older posts, there are prices and wait times in there somewhere. I can't remember which it was, but one of them was $13,500, I believe. Do a search for Woodhead or Leung ... that would help!

Welcome Donna! You're doing great, I'm sure you WILL make it to 125! Congrats! Mandi

Thank you guys. I don't think it's band related, but I'm like this because of the band... if that makes sense. Whatever I did has made the stomach gods very angry at me.. It's definitely not a flu or anything like that. It's just weird, irritated stomach-ness. Today DID seem a tad better. Dan said "We have to go out for dinner tomorrow night." and boy, did he get a dirty look. My idea of a romantic dinner doesn't include soup. GRR! Vomitting when I had something in my stomach was not that different... but it was all liquids, so, maybe I didn't notice it because of the uhh... spray! Then when I got to the point where I had nothing TO come up, some scary noises came out of my mouth! It sounded like a really deep man-burp. I gained control after 2 of those suckers! It didn't hurt, but it was not a good feeling. Of course now I'm all worried that I made it slip... but I'm sure I'm fine. I will say that the puking really irritated my already irritated stomach, and I just need to be careful for a while. I'm hoping it won't last too long. Last night I drank alot of water... which ended up with me going to bed FULL of water.... which ended up with me burping UP water, then continuing to do so in my sleep, which caused random 'fits' throughout the night! Not fun. I will make sure I'm empty way before bed. Never happened before. Maybe I'm not 'draining' well, and there's residual water staying in my pouch? I dunno. I have to weigh myself again tomorrow. I don't want to!

Thank you priscilla. I hope things get better soon, too. Definitely not too new of a fill.... my last one was in August!!

uggg... ok, I had some cheese for dinner. Seemed safe enough. It seems that everything (almost) is making me slime, at the very least.

Good luck you guys! Dotofoz: no teasing them, this particular Optifast torture allows no goodies like that!!

No I didn't find them.... I've given up. It's still creepy though. So.... I am misssserable. I have been since Friday. I was so uncomfortable on Friday, with what I guess I could only say felt like stomach cramps. I really didn't have any work to do, so I asked to go home early, and I did. Drank tons of milk, a bit of ice cream and napped all day. Next day I fely horrible, and vomitted several times. I hadn't even dared to eat... it was all milk and water. Then finally at night I managed a little bit of popcorn. Sunday was not horrible... better than Saturday. Then today, almost the same as friday! I didn't dare coffee this morning as I always do weekday mornings. Made some tea when I got to work, made me super uncomfortable, kind of stuck/PB-y... sipped water through the morning, nibbled on some pretzels, drank about a cup of chicken noodle at lunch, more water in the afternoon and at the gym, and now I don't know what to do for dinner. I've put myself on liquids for a while, but geesh... I don't know what to have. Liquids don't fill me up, and I'm hungry! (and they're not agreeing with me all that much either) I've had sooo much chicken noodle soup lately, but I probably *could* have it again tonight if I have to. I don't know what to do. I told myself today that if this keeps up all week I might just call that lady in NS and see if she can do a tiny unfill. But DAMN... I don't want to do that! Cross your fingers for me that I feel back to normal soon! I hate to say that it would almost be not so terrible if I was actually losing some lbs, but I'm not! I think I'll be lucky if I'm down 0.4 on weigh-in day. :confused:

If I'm only going to get on the treadmill once during my workout, is it better to do it before my weights/abs/etc or after I do those things? I was told that doing it after the 'other' stuff is better for weightloss, and before is better for toning. Anyone know for sure?

Wow... I think you need to post a couple of current pics in the thread with these ones. You don't need to take new ones, just the most recent... lets see!!

Here you go... I think this is what you were looking for: http://www.lapband.ca/Cityline-WM.wmv

The one I posted? Is Kathy the lady who was 'followed' on the Cityline story? If that's what you're talking about, I can find you the link, but I have no idea what became of her.... I wonder if Dr. C would update us.