Camel_Cracker

I called and Dr. Shayani charges a $500 program fee, then $130 fills after ;( Im only here in Illinois for another 4 weeks... I guess I'll wait until I get back to Texas to see my surgeon. :thumbdown:

I just called Synchrony for information. There is an ititial 500 transfer fee plus 95 for the adjustment. Subsequent adjustments are an additional 95 each. Hmm... If I were here to live and not just for 2 months I would consider it but that's a lot of money!! Will see what my other options are..... dont' want to spend more than 200-250.

I have never had any twinges of pain because my doctor gives me a shot of lydocane before filling me. I have also only had the fills/unfills with the barium and xray thing (the real name has totally escaped me)

This happened to me! Back in January I started having a little reflux, which by March turned into bad evening and nightly reflux (vomiting acid at night). When I went to my doctor, he saw that my band had actually tightened and I had too much restriction. My last fill had been more than 6 months before. When he unfilled me by 1cc, it made a huge difference for me, and after PBing pretty much everything I had eaten in the previous 2 months, I went nuts and enjoyed eating. I still had ok restriction until about 2 weeks ago, when I was "able" to comfortably eat almost normal sized portions and hadn't felt any urge to PB. I scheduled a fill with my doctor this weekend thinking I needed more restriction, but he saw on the fluroscopy that my pouch was dilated, so instead of getting a fill, I lost another 2cc. I'm lucky that I still have 4 left, but this experience has scared the bejesus out of me. He told me to come back in about a month, so I need to know more about what to eat now. I am going to try mostly liquids, but does it matter now much of the liquids I drink? I feel so overwhelmed and scared. I don't want to sabatoge my tool, and I REALLY don't want to gain more weight.

Look into the Gastric sleeve before you get a bypass!

I have pita bread from the arabic stores all the time... I eat about a half piece of a small one and have no trouble, but they are much thinner than the ones from the regular grocery stores. (They have a lot of stores in Richardson). Tuna makes me barf, donuts, french fries, soft breads. I can eat crunchy tacos, but flour tortillas are a no-go. I pretty much have to do liquid breakfasts because if I eat solids too early I throw up. I'm probably going down to Mexico for a slight unfill next weekend though.... maybe I'm too tight.

I was told only to expect 1-2 pounds of weight loss per week. You haven't hit a plateau if you're still losing.

Oh Jeez! Too bad about her divorce! My husband's name is Ahmad too :biggrin:)

I am half-assed following Weight Watchers along with my band. It's so hard to eat all of my points eating healthy, since I still get 31 per day, but throw in an ice cream and they're gone ) I feel a little guilty that I have my tool in place, but I don't tell people at my meetings. I divulged that I have a band this summer at an out of town meeting and I was treated like a leper. I stay on WW for the accountability, good tips and accurate weekly weigh ins. Plus... I look forward to getting my "Lifetime" membership for free.

Breakfast- 1 cup of skim milk Lunch- 1 chicken nugget that came back out Lunch round 2- Banana liquado (1/2 c skim milk, 1/2 banana, 1 tsp vanilla blended) Snack- Cheese Nachos Dinner- WW Recipe for Moroccan Meatballs 2(ground turkey, prunes, grated ginger, garlic etc) and 1/4 cup of coucous Snack- 1/4 cup of couscous with skim milk and 1T honey