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Yay, LapBandit :clap2: I hope this is the right spot for you :eek:, I can never tlel for at least a week caues my swelling lasts forever after a fill, lol. Good job Babygrl :eek: wahoo, you are doing great! As for my buffet, heres how it went. I skipped the salad bar as I was feeling a little tight today, so I had my halibut and I had a tiny little thing of spinache quiche, and 2 tiny bites of stuffing (hehe, wanted to try it) and two bites of my DH meatloaf. I decided that since we were going out I was gonna have desert so I went for the no bake style cheesecake with a couple of cherries on top. All in all, I am in bounds for my calories and I got in all my protien. I still need a few more calories and my daily dose of Calcium so tonight I will have sf hot cocoa made with milk for a snack

I would say the gallstones, my sis had that several years ago and had hre gallbladder removed as her pain was so bad she could barely move. The doctor said that the gallbladder can be irritated by spicy foods, hope that helps and hope you feel better soon

You have been banded what 6 weeks? I don't think your sutures can come undone from eating. What are you eating? Are you eating slow enough? Are you chewing to goo? Tell us more so we can help you better. My first guess would be that maybe something is sticking slightly, not enough to slime or PB just be really uncomfortable.

Yeah I have one too somewhere, lol. We don't normally go outto eat let alone to buffet's and since it's agift certificate I am not gonna hunt it down Besides with my luck I'd spnd half the day looking for it and then they would be one of the places that doesn't honor it, lol. Believe me if it was our money I'd be finding my card and taking it and demanding that they give me the childs price.

Thanks everyone Today was a hard day, who am I kidding it was horrible. I am feeling better after sharing my feelings. I was able to get in all my protien today, yay, despite not really wanting to eat. Food has become a chore, who would have thunk it. Maybe one day I won't even need to track what I eat, I'll just know whereabouts I am at from severe repetition. Tomorrow my hubby says he is taking me out to Old Country Buffet (we have a g.c.) for dinner So knowing what they have I mapped out what I am going to eat ahead of time so I don't have to fret over the choices at the buffet line. I am choosing the baked halibut and a small salad without the needless calories of sunflower seeds, lol. I am gonna have the ranch dressing though . We are gonna pay what like $8 for me to eat $2 worth of food but oh well, it's a g.c. so who cares, lol.

Well originally our bandster class of April 2006 was so big I didn't chime in cause i was shy and didn't know how to jump in in the middle. So here I am now, and while I am not ready to take on such a hefty challenge for excersise, I do want to get to know all of you in my "class" For thoes who don't know me I was banded April 11, 2006 and have officilaly lost 68lbs. I have done this with zero excersise. I am biginning to see that those of you who have lost way more than me did so with hardcore excersise. My back and knees are just now ready to start walking a little bit to build up strength. I totally messed up my back several years ago and it has been a sorese of pain ever since. Pushing the vacuum was enough to have me crumpled on the floor in tears with major spasms before i got banded. Now almost a year later I can vacuum! It hurts a little, but not like it did before, now it just hurts becaues the muscles are week, not because they are spasming, so that is great progress in and of itself. I can now stand at the kitchen sink and do dishes without major pain! A couple of weeks ago I went to the zoo with the kids and walked around for 45minutes without sitting down! I used to have a hard time getting to the gate without crying cause it hurt so bad. My knee is another issue all together, it has had problems since elementary school, and I am always twisting it and making it worse. Sorry this post is so long but just trying to tell you all where I am at. Once upon a time I loved to run and would love to be there again, but I think I need to get used to walks first. I would love to hit goal by my second bandiversary but would settle for being able to excersise and get myself back in healthy shape. I finally have restriction as of last month yay and am back on track after a long plateau caused by not keeping track of what i was eating and cheating too often on goodies that are really bad for me. I am looking forward to getting to know all of you and hopefully being up to april's challenge as we pass the 1 yr mark. It is amazing to me that it has been that long. Where does the time go?

I agree that you are swollen and irritated from the PB's. Whether 2.8 is too much for you or not I'd say can't be determined yet, but for now you definitely need an unfill so that you can drink. Some people swell more than others, I swell and stay swollen for at least a week after a fill. And being as tight as you are the swelling may have been too much still to proceed to food. After you have healed up I would ask for smaller fills. I know it is a bummer to have to drive for 5hours for a fill but it is better than what you are going throu right now. Till you can get in try sipping hot liquids. Please let us know how you are doing.

Thanks, Because I have a hard time with confrontations my hubby is handling the telling her off part. We'd like to keep our doctor if possible as we have known him for years and he is brilliant. He figured out in the first visit what I had known for years but no other doctor would believe, and I didn't even have to say anything! He knew from a few outward symptoms that I had PCOS, something I had been diagnosed with before, and that most of my medical issues were tied to that. It seemed like a no brainer to me, he was also the only one to order a full blood workup and actually test my insulin levels as well as my glucose, and discovered that I had hyperinsulinism, which will hopefull be helped tremendously if not in full by weight loss. If not for him, I'd probably still not be banded be gaining weight and probably crosesd over to being diabetic. So you see, we'd like to keep him. I just don't want to see her unless she apologises and never treats me like that again, and even then i would never again consider her a friend.

I am so angry at my pharmacy. They have a policy that if you don't pick up an Rx in 7 days it goes back in the bin and you have to re-request it. We know this policy well. We called in all 4 of our Rx's between hubby and I on the same day. 2 days later he went to pick them up, they said that one of them needed refills confirmed from our doc's office and that our doc hadn't responded to their faxes, and that they had sent several. So I called our doc's nurse and left her a message explaining the situation. She looked into it and called me back. SHE YELLED AT ME! and treated me rudely, calling me a liar but not in those exact words. She said they never faxed her and that they told her they never faxed her, and that I still had 3 refills and why was I bothering her busy day! You don't mess around with someones anti-depressants that's for darned sure. My poor kids have gotten the bad end of the stick as I have not had my ususal level of patience and now I don't know if I ever want to go back to my doc's office if his nurse who I thought was a family friend of ours could treat me like that. Meanwhile I want to tear into that pharmacy for causing these problems. Thanks for listening anyone who read this to the end. I just felt I needed to get it out of my system somewhere. I can't vent to my hubby and I don't have my mom anymore. She would always let me vent to her till it was all out of my system. :think

Thanks everyone if you see my thread "I need to vent" all the answers are there. No it is not my thyroid it was going without a medication that my doc's nurse failed to refill on time causing a cascade of problems of all sorts. I didn't realize till today that the two were at all connected.

I figured out tonight they are related. I went off the handle at my husband multiple times today. We didn't have the money for the meds when the Rx thing finally got settled so my hubby is picking them up tomorrow. One is an anti depressant, I have that one, the other that got messed up is my mood stabilizer. I didn't realize that missing just one for a couple of weeks would be so traumatic but I guess it was. Normally I can go for short periods without one or the other and be fine (emphasise short) but with my mom's death I think it was just too much for me to deal with without all my medicine. I think it is causing my jumpiness, tiredness, crankiness, etc. thankfully tomorrow once that med is in me I will start feeling better within 24hrs. Within three days I should be fairly close to being normal again. It's amazing when you your are in the situation you can't always see what is happening till it reaches a breaking point. As for the nurse and any test results my doc takes care of those himself and I trust him completely. She on the other hand does all the refill stuff.

I like wendy's chili, another thing that tastes good and goes down easily but is very bad for us calorie and fat wise is Jack in the Box tacos. They are crispy and deep fried and taste wonderful. However they are 700 calories for a small one, eek. As for mcdonalds i can't eat anything there except the salad without any meat on it. Even then salad is hard for me :cry I just can't chew it well enough so a few bites is all i can do.

Good rule of thumb, the darker your urine the more dehydrated you are. That does not take into acount vitamins coloring your urine, so if you are taking something that changes the color then that won't work for you. Just try to get down 64oz every 24hrs. As for the swelling, everyone is different, I swell withing the first 2hrs and stay swollen for a week! Others are fine and have very little swelling at all. Just take it slow and get to know your body

The shoulder pain was probably diaphram irritation. Our diaphrams can't register pain in themselves but display irritation through pain in the left shoulder. And after a flu and being swollen from vomitting it would be expected that there may be some diaphram irritation or port pain from straining all the muscles in your abdominal area.

I am not sure how many cc's a 10cm band can relly hold but I do know that I was told by my fill nurse that a 10cc band can be filled to triple capacity before it will actually burst (not that anyone would need that much), I would assume that then a 10cm/4cc band can probably hold a lot more than you currently have should you be one of the rare people who need it with that much fill. Everyone is different, but if you don't have restriction and your surgeon won't fill you anymore than seek a second opinion!

I have to drink slow in the morning or if it's a cold beverage. If it's room temperature and later in the day to evening I can drink fairly quickly, but I cannot chug anymore.

I am so glad to hear that they cought it in time to do something! What a blessing. I wish you all the best in recovery.

I am not short but I am short waisted, so short waisted that the surgeon was concerned about port placement. He favors below the ribs above the waist but for me those to are pretty well combined. Where my ribs end my waist starts! It no longer affects my clothing choices but it did for a long time. For the first 6months I wore stretchy waisted pants to avoid irritating the port. I also have fairly regular diaphram irritation from my band which belive is due to the shortwaistedness of my torso. Almost a year out from surgery and still if I slouch I get the shoulder ache, and I often get the hiccups now (really annoying since I can't gulp water fast enough to get rid of them)

Well I successfully made it well into the 80's for my mom's birthday today. This will be a difficult day for me and for my whole family. I take comfort in knowing that something she sacrificed greatly for me to have is working and I am working it. She would have been 63 today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM I LOVE YOU! Name..........................Starting…...…..Current….…..Goal…....To Go Juliegeraci......................238............... ...... 238.................228.............10 Lapbandit.......................231............... ......225………….199.............26 Waterlily........................300......................286.................264.............22 Roiansmom....................299......................299.................270.............29 Libra...............................248.....................241.................228.............13 JulieNYC........................212.....................202.................185.............17 Elisabethsew...................282.....................276.................264.............12 PeaCeJ............................338....................338.................318.............20 RidinMyHDDream.........297......................290 ................281...............9 Babygirl1234..................260.....................253.................240.............13 Leecelove70....................228.....................228.................200.............28 Josette.............................351.....................351.................335.............16

Well if I was too tight I wouldn't be able to eat and I can eat just fine, I simply have no desire to. I have no symptoms of being too tight, no reflux, no PB's except the first one (was still swollen from the fill). I can eat between 1/2 cup and a cup at a time depending on the time of day, and I seem to have hit the spot where I am losing about 2lbs a week. Everything seems perfect with the band. Maybe I am just mental. CALL IN THE SHRINKS! lol

I just thought I'd update you all. So, before I called her she finally responded to a fax from the pharm. When I called her she had already responded and they had the Rx waiting for me. Bottom line is that the Pharm was telling the truth and she wasn't! We checked with the pharm and they told us the links that made it all fit. They stated all their faxes to the doc's office and the day and time and they told us what they told her, which is not what she said that they said (if that makes any sense). I was too upset and emotional to call her myself especially since she is one of my DH's clients with his business. So my DH called and left her a message stating what the call was for and surprise surprise it's been almost a week and she hasn't called us back! I really hope she is squirming and feeling sorry for the way she treated me that *#@%!

Well considereing my husband has been snipped for some time now and I have PCOS I doubt very much there is a chance in hades I could be pregnant, I wish :girl_hug: I forced down some protien and ended the day at my minimum my surgeon wants me to have. But I didn't want to, and sadly I am still tired and very cold. I must be coming down with something and with my luck it will mean a trip to the doctor and having to remind him to prescribe small pills or liquid. And dealing with that nurse!

No fever or pain yet, just fatigue so far. But with 5 kids to bring stuff home to you it could be anything. As long as it doesn't involve puking I'll survive. I have had a bad headache for a few days, a sinus headache. Maybe I'm getting my yearly sinus infection.

yes they have a lower profile port that people sometimes switch to when they have plastic surgery after reaching goal. I felt a woman's port who was at goaland she was really thin. Her's was center right below the sternum. It did stick out a tiny bit but not enough that anyone would notice unless they were looking for it, and hers was not the low profile one. As for where mine is, it is my right side between my rib cage and my waist.

I am not sure but I think it might have been tuna fish. But I remember my one baby PB was on chicken and my my one really horrible PB was on chicken. Needless to say to all those who want chicken for their first meal, be careful and go slow, lol. I've heard that chicken can be an iffy venture for a lot of bandsters.