judeloren

i have been told that i have alot of large nerves and it makes me very sensitive to things.. i can feel the band all the time too.. or where it is anyway. especially if i take a big drink of something cold you can feel it hit your stomach like twice once in the pouch and once after it goes though.. also if it is something hard like a pill, it forces its way though sometimes if i take it to early in the day and i can feel where it goes through, painful that one is.

yeah i can feel my port too. It sort of freaks me out to think about it. I am not sure why but when i think about it or feel it i don't like it at all seems foreign. part of me wants to scream get it out lol. SO i try not to think of it. It is helping me alot. It is hard to describe its almost like what you would imagine a baloon that is half water and half air feels like. If you held it in your hand and sloshed it around the way the water felt when it hit your hand that is what it was like. happens every time i rock her. very wierd. not necesarily unplesant just wierd.

my port and band do not move.. but the tube connecting them can... not enough to hurt anything but i noticed when rocking my daughter it was moving with every rock and it was freaking me out lol. Dr. says not to worry about it but it bugs me to have it moving around... only noticed while rocking so far thankfully

this is the hardest thing for me.. but at the suprot group they showed an example of what happens if you drink while eating... even a small amount of Water will basicaly wash out the pouch and make the food go on through.. making it posible to eat more and not loose as quickly. I didn't think it was a big deal till i saw that... now though if i try to drink and eat i usually throw it up lol yuck.

before my last fill.. i had 8 cc's in i could still eat whatevery i did before the surgery. the last fill put me up to 8.5 cc's and just now do i really feel like i am eating less i was freaking out too until i found this site and until my last fill i think i am finally getting there

i know how you feel. I was expecting more at first too but it wasn't until my last fill that is is moving a little quicker... it is a long slow process.. but at least it is moving in the right direction. We will get there! good luck

I was exactly here just 2 weeks ago... working out all the time and eating less ( though it seemed like it was just about what i was eating before) and then i finally hit a good spot. 8.5 cc's and i am a loosing machine all of a sudden... nothing all month and then 7 lbs in the past 2 weeks.. that was what i lost as a total for the last three months! loving the fill.. i didn't think i'd make it here but now that i am i am thrilled. it will happen. i didn't believe it but i do now.

I still get sholder pain, usually when i eat to much or to fast and air gets trapped. I asked my dr about it and she said because of the closeness of the band to the diaphram it can bump it and cause the pain just like after surgery... it is very anoying. I use it as a warning sometimes. mostly though it happens after i am done eating.

don't panic i had the same problem... and even now i can eat a whole lot of food before i get full. I have been loosing at the slow pace of 2 to 3 lbs a month... and sometimes i stall out and loose nothing.

trust me if it is slow it is very frustrating! lol. I'm to 8 cc's and not restricted... every fill i keep hoping but nothing yet really. most of my fills have been 1 cc so its filling pretty quickly. they can hold alot more my dr said my band could hold up to 14 cc's because i paniced that i was not going to get restriced not sure what size i am she said last fill that it is an 8 or 9 not sure which. maybe a 10 lol.

i have had no trouble at all. I have thrown up twice.. PB i guess they call it... and it was when i tried to eat bread right after a fill and the next morning when i had a tator tot... other than that i have not had a single problem other than a pain like i had a couple of times like i swallowed an ice cube whole. I am not properly restriced yet however. I have had about 5 fills. up to 8 cc in a 10 cc band. just depends on how your band fits and how restriced you are.