Nettie225

I feel no restriction and can easily eat a lot since my revision. I did try calling and going to see my doctor and the result was them making me feel like it was my fault. I left there in tears and won't go back.

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I'm so glad to hear I'm not alone. I have certainly felt like a failure since I woke up from this surgery too and have been incredibly depressed. I lost 20 pounds at first when I had my surgery because I was following the diet so strictly, but it was a huge struggle because I wasn't feeling full or even satisfied with the food I was eating and as time has gone on, it got too difficult to manage starting all the time. I have tried a few times over and over and still no help. Also, I inreased my exercise. When I explained all of this to my doctor's at my last visit, they just keep making me feel like it's my fault and that I must be eating the wrong foods and doing everything wrong. I have explained this to my primary care doctor and they are a lot more understanding and have seen my struggle. I have resorted to asking my primary care for an appetite suppressant to try to get some help. I'm hoping this will help and plan on working my butt off (literally) for it to be successful, but I feel in many ways that I am back to the whole roller coaster that got me to the point of having bariatric surgery in the first place and that is not a place I ever wanted to go back to. I loved my lap band and it was successful and was broken-hearted that the complications caused so much damage to my esophagus that they felt they had to remove it. I feel like this sleeve surgery was a complete failure and that my doctor doesn't care to listen to me.

Hi, my name is Annete and I was banded on September 25, 2008 by Dr. Howard Simon at University Hospital in Syracuse, NY. According to my calculations from my starting weight to present, I have lost about 25 pounds. :thumbup:I lost 5 pounds just before my surgery as instructed by my doctor and the rest after. I feel like most of that loss was due to the dietary restrictions in the beginning and tissue swelling in the area where the band was placed causing me to feel full. :confused_smile:The frustration is that I can't seem to lose any more than that and I am feeling like maybe that is going to be it. I feel hungry like I always did and the only indication that I have had sugery is the scars on my tummy and the occasional difficulty I have when I eat too fast or eat something sticky like rice (any variety) or french fries. Otherwise, I feel like I can pretty much eat the same portions I always did. I have had 1 fill, which they tried to do in the office, but it didn't work so well so I had to have it done in the radiology department under fluoroscopy. During that fill there was a malfunction in the catheter that caused saline to squirt all over the place so we don't really know how much actaully got into the band. The barium that I swallowed did show a sufficient enough delay that the doctor was certain he got enough saline into the band to function the way it is supposed to, but I don't seem to feel full when I eat any more than I did before the surgery. I only end up in a lot of pain and vomit if I have eaten too fast and my esophagus fill up with food, but otherwise, I feel no difference in the portion size that I can consume. Am I the only one going through this or is it common? What am I supposed to feel when I eat? I thought I was supposed to get full faster and on a smaller portion, but it just doesn't seem to happen.