aundriaamman

i had a good fill in december. went three weeks on protein drinks could not drink water at all always got stuck. still have a problem with water getting stuck. its so weird. i can drink juice, milk, tea anything but water. i dont think i am too tight because i can eat food. i can only have tiny sips of water. i guess the water is too thick. hahahahaha

i had my surgery in january 2009. i have more gas now than ever!!!!!! i am the biggest farter and burper i know. please someone tell me you are too!!! all the time i am just full of gas. eat a little burp and toot alot. i cant even make it thru a meal without burping. and their not like they used to be before the band nice quiet ones. they will only come out loud. omgosh

loved the blog. it is so nice to hear stories about the band that sound just like mine :thumbup:

i am like angie. i seem to be losing more inches than weight. i was banded jan 30 2009. i have lost 14 1/2 inches and 22 lbs. i am pretty sure i need a fill. this will be fill number 6.

girl i have been there done that. YEA for you!!!!

dont beat yourself up. you havent even had a fill yet. it took me 5 fills before i started feeling any restriction at all. before that i could eat anything. i still try to stick to easy and convenient during the day. make sure you eat protein. i buy the pre-made tuna w/crackers for lunch and even some of the lunchables are good. once you start getting fills you will be able to tell a difference, promise!

the sooner you start walking the sooner the gas will go away. i had my surgery in january and if i remember correctly everything is in two week intervals. two weeks liquids, two weeks puree then on to solids

wow this is great real people talking about the real deal with the band. i'm switching to this forum instead of the one i was using. just trying to figure out this site first :thumbup:

this will be a long story. i paid cash for my surgery. my insurance would not cover me. i went thru tlc edge. i picked dr carter out of their surgeons. i visited with him two days before my surgery. talked to him and his LB consultant and watched a video. i didnt have alot of questions because i had done seminars and research on the internet. i did ask him about pain medication after the surgery. he said dont worry i will give you Rx's after the surgery to get filled. i do not have a very high threshold for pain. surgery goes ok. they give me two morphein shots for pain before i leave the hospital because of the pain. we get home and my husband goes to get the Rx's filled. by 6pm that night i am in severe pain. i would say 12 on a scale of 1-10. my husband called the dr. to talk to him about the pain i was in. he gave me 10mg toradol. we called his service 3 times and he never returned our calls. so by 10pm we called our neighbor and he brought me over a hydrocodone. i mean i couldnt sit, stand or anything the pain was so bad.after the pain pill from the neighbor i finally felt relief from the pain. i slept very little thru the night . we called again the next morning. finally after the second call the nurse from the hopsital cal;led back and said he would NOT give me anything else and that i should just put ice on the pain. i was crying hysterically from the pain and just couldnt believe my ears. i called a family member who had just had surgery and she brought me some of her pain medication. i was finnally able to get up and down, walk, sit and everything. i felt so much better with some pain managemtn. she left me 5 pills. that was all i needed. i dont think that was too much to ask from him. so now i have a post op visit. (3 weeks later) i am glad because i really wanted to talk to him about the whole pain management. at my 3 weeks post op i dont even see him i see his LB coordinator. she doesnt look at my incisions or anything. just weighs me. then she tells me i should have lost more weight than 4 lbs. she said i should have lost at least 8-12. this may not seem like a big deal story to you but to me it was. i did find out the reason he wouldnt give me any other pain meds was because he is afraid it will make his patients sick becasue we are on liquid diets. i know everyone is different on their pain level. he was also recently fined by the state board you can read that info from the fort worth paper feb 10 issue. i'm not saying he is a bad surgeon because i dont know for sure. but i am not going back to him. i will be going elsewhere for my fills. i also have one incision that the suture is sticking out and his LB coordinator told me to snip it off with scissors. needless to say i tried that and it didnt go well. the suture is still poking me and i am afraid to call them back cause i dont know what they will say. i'm hoping it will just dissolve

find some one else!!

i will give you my lap band story. i had a choice of doctors to choose from. since he was closest to where i live i used dr carter. two days later i get a bad report from a friend of a friend. they just didnt like him. i think ok well i will wait and see. two days before my surgery i meet him. seems ok .. i asked him about pain medication. he told me not to worry about it he would send some home with me the day of the surgery. i came out of the surgery in so much pain. now granted i do not have a high threshold for pain. they give me two shots or morphein before i go home. my husband takes me home and goes to get my prescriptions filled. by 6 pm that night i am writhing in pain. i cant sit stand or anything else i am crying and in so much pain. my husband calls the doctor. his service answers needless to say we left 3 messages that night and he never returned my call. i was taking the 10 mg toradal he gave me and tylenol nothing was working. i couldnt relax i couldnt releive the pain it was so BAD. finally around 10 oclock that night my neighbor brought over a hydrocone. i took that and before midnight i could move i relaxed and the pain was relieved. i had a fitfull night and called the doctor again that morning....twice... he had a nurse from the hospital call me back and tell me he wasnt going to give me any other pain meds and to put an ice pack on it. i was crying uncontrollably to the nurse that i was in pain and she said i am so sorry. so i called family members and pooled our resources and got me 5 hydrocodone. i was finally able to get up walk and do things for myself. thank you family. thats not all. i go in for my post op visit. no doctor i see his assistant. i thought maybe someone might want to look at my incisions. nope they didnt. i have one incision that stll has a thread sticking out of it. she told me to cut it off myself. ok me and my husband tried this and were not successful. she also told me i had to wait 90 days for a fill and i should lose 30 lbs in 90 days. sheez if i could do that i would need the band. i also was told that i should have lost 12 lbs in my 3 weeks post op. i lost 4. dont use dr carter. he may be a fine surgeon but my experience has not been a good one and right now i wouldnt recommend lapband to anyone because of my experience with him